Tag Archive
06 January 2013 – Adina Langer 1
Happy New Year all you historians out in cyberspace! Tomorrow, Monday, January 7, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time will mark our third monthly NCPH Consultants TweetChat. This month, we will discuss the ins and outs of crafting a solid project proposal. Read More
02 December 2012 – Adina Langer 1
Can you believe it’s been a whole month since our inaugural consultants’ TweetChat? Our second session is scheduled for this Monday, December 3, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This month, we will focus on that ever-elusive goal of the self-employed: time management! Read More
31 October 2012 – Adina Langer
03 October 2012 – editors 10
digital media, projects, public engagement, publicity, scholarship, training, social media, graduate students
~ Annie Cullen and Rachel Boyle, graduate students in Public History at Loyola University Chicago, are the creators of Public History Ryan Gosling, a blog that pairs the popular “Hey Girl” meme with public history theory. The project has reached over 60,000 people and stimulated meaningful conversation in various corners of the Internet. Read More
21 August 2012 – Vanessa Macias 1
digital media, preservation, projects, methods, public engagement, digital history, media, memory, publicity, archives, social media
Earlier this summer, as temperatures soared above 100 degrees in El Paso, I was tucked away in a cool room inside the University of Texas El Paso Library’s Special Collection department. I was working with the Casasola Photograph Collection, which holds prints and negatives from the popular Casasola Studio that was located in Downtown El Paso, Texas. Read More
18 June 2012 – Melissa Mannon 1
In my previous post I discussed the value of using social networking platforms for networking. In this post, I will discuss how to use social media for marketing by focusing on building an awareness of your “brand.” Social media provides an opportunity to present yourself and your business to diverse audiences in diverse ways. Read More
30 April 2012 – Cathy Stanton
From our colleagues at the History News Network comes this roundup of the public and digital history components of last week’s conference in Milwaukee. Noting the synergy between the realms of public and digital history, HNN’s David Walsh points out that the center of gravity in the conference blog- and tweet-ospheres was clearly with historians working in those realms, constituting “a monopoly of coverage…so complete it could warrant an anti-trust investigation,” he writes (we think that’s a good thing). Read More
27 March 2012 – Melissa Mannon 2
The Internet gives consultants the opportunity to showcase our expertise for a broad audience while also allowing us to define our niche. We once relied on a web page to represent us online, but people are now turning to social media to find reliable “experts.” Read More
19 December 2011 – Will Walker 4
The Smithsonian is, of course, not the only institution associated with the federal government that maintains an archive about its own history. The National Park Service, for example, has made a substantial investment in documenting the histories of its parks. Read More
22 September 2011 – Suzanne Fischer
Hey, handsome stranger
Saw your pic in the archives
Too bad you’re dead now
Rebecca Goldman, winner, Archival Haiku 2011