Bbc iron range tourism bureau
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The Iron Range Tourism Bureau proposes 6 projects in its Strut Your Stuff Report including an internet access survey, local pride campaign, mini technology grants for historical societies, an arts and culture webpage and interactive map, a talent attraction website, and a virtual reality mine tour, with total budgets of $2000, $15,000, $13,000, $16,000, $15,000, and $39,000 respectively.
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- 1. Iron Range Tourism Bureau Blandin Broadband Grant Strut Your Stuff Report June 2, 2020
- 2. Project 1: Internet Access Survey Budget $,2000
- 3. Project 2: Local Pride Campaign Budget $15,000 REAL RANGER This is Where Our Story Begins
- 4. Project 3: Mini Techology Grants Budget $13,000
- 5. Technology mini-grants Examples Eveleth Heritage Society partnership with Minnesota Historical Society to scan 1,332 pages of the Eveleth Mining News. Iron Range Historical Society connect Instagram and Facebook, add newsletters to website, add Online Donation button with new PayPal account Hibbing Historical Society new website Embarrass Township Printer, website improvements, Facebook account addition Virginia Area Historical Society digital photo frame, printer/copier, light table, scanner Camp Vermilion office laptops Lyric Center for the Arts desktop and laptop SISU Heritage laptop and internet access
- 6. Project 4: Arts and Culture Webpage and Interactive Map Budget $16,000 Iron Range Arts and Culture
- 7. Project 5: Talent Attraction Website Budget $15,000 Hello Iron Range
- 8. Project 6: Virtual Reality Mine Tour Budget $39,000
Editor's Notes
- This project was taken on by area chambers and the budget reallocated to other IRTB projects
- This project aims to highlight the good work happening around us, and to focus on positive stories. We created a Facebook page, Instagram account and a web page to showcase some of these stories, and employed local writers to dig them up and write about them. In the short time since we launched, we have just under 500 followers and are reaching around 10,000. We plan to put some ad dollars behind this campaign, both on Facebook and in the form of a couple billboards in the area to encourage a sense of pride and recognition for those who are doing good works in our communities.
- Through this grant, we were able to work with 12 area nonprofits (Club Mesabi, Embarrass Township/Finnish Homestead Tours, Eveleth Heritage Society, Hibbing Historical Society Museum, Hibbing Tourist Center, Iron Range Historical Society, Camp Vermilion, the Lyric Center for the Arts, Minnesota Museum of Mining, Minnesota Discovery Center, SISU Heritage/Nelimark Museum, and Virginia Area Historical Society) who rely on the visitor economy to survive and address such issues as scanning needs (Historical Societies), website and social media assistance (IronRange Historical Society, Hibbing Area Historical Society, Mesabi Trail, Hull Rust Mine View), to new computers (Viginia Area Historical Society) and updated software (Lyric Center for the Arts).
- Several participants still need to spend down their grants at this time. Delays were largely due to COVID
- This project was developed to highlight regional artists through an interactive map and computer tablet stations at the rural arts summit. The stations are being shared with other cultural institutions in the region. The map and webpage live on IronRAnge.org. The next phase is to open the artist listing up to other ‘makers’ who live in the area and whose work can be viewed and purchased online.
- This project was identified by area businesses as a need to help with their recruiting efforts. Through meetings with Delta, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Essentia Health, L&M Radiator, DEED and others, the top pieces of information needed in recruiting were identified and woven into a website. The site is still in progress. Final steps are to secure partners and finalize the content with input from partners.
- This project did not happen, due to the challenging of working with mining companies, and now the fact that many are closed. We have morphed this project into one that will provide high quality video in a variety of formats (Facebook, Adwords, longer videos) and feature a variety of activities and locations in the region, as well as possible virtual tours of other experiences in the area. This monthly series began in May. We are also dedicating some of the budget for this project to explore what music means on the Mesabi, and to feature the talents and variety of music being made in the region.