A Flood of FamilySearch Blog Posts

For a long time, FamilySearch.org seemed to treat blogging as the last thing on their mind. When FamilySearch blog posts would come out, they came out every couple of weeks in bursts of three or four. Over time FamilySearch blogging became more regular and predictable. Well, presently, it seems like they have become entirely consumed with blog posts. Just as an example, I thought I would go back about seven days and give a list of posts I have received. Hmm. When I started to go back I cut the number of days to three. Yes, folks, this is the last three days of posts from FamilySearch. Now, there are a very few that are very specifically targeted at a very small audience that I have excluded, but here are most of the blog posts:

• More RootsTech: Family Discovery Day and Hosting a Family Discovery Day
• Laura Bush and Daughter Jenna to Keynote RootsTech 2015
• FamilySearch + YouTube + Imagination = A Sweet Love Story
• Family History Center Director’s Webinar
• Roots Tech Director’s Track
• Elder Andersen’s Youth Challenge: I Believe!
• Living Family History and Indexing
• Discovery Corner: Blessing the Lives of New Converts and Returning Members
• How to Submit Names to the Temple through Ancestry.com
• Family History Center Directors Inspire Others to Find, Take, and Teach
• Establishing family Christmas traditions
• Food is Family History
• Laura Bush and Daughter Jenna to Keynote RootsTech 2015
• Temple Snowflakes
• Make Your Own Ancestor Ornament
• National Genealogical Society’s 37th Annual Family History Conference

Mind you, I am not complaining. It is really about time FamilySearch started communicating at this level. The problem I see is that most of these blogs are "trapped" in the obscure link to the blog on the very bottom of the FamilySearch.org startup page. Here is a screenshot with an arrow pointing to the link:

Putting out that much information is not valuable if it is not getting to the target audience. I have no illusions about blog posting. I have been at this for about 8 years now and have written 3540 posts. But guess what? I can count the number of people in my own Ward that even know I write a blog on one hand, much less actually read it. I still know a lot of people who have no idea that blogs even exist. But it is comforting to know that FamilySearch is now putting forth the effort.