Eighth monthly Consultants' Corner TweetChat
02 June 2013 – Adina Langer
It’s graduation season, also known as commencement. What better time to commence reflecting on the roles we want to play as historical consultants! Tomorrow, Monday, June 3rd, will bring you our eighth monthly Consultants’ Corner Tweetchat. The chat will be held at 4:00 p.m. EST and the topic will be “consulting and advocacy.” We will discuss the roles consultants should or shouldn’t play as advocates for historic preservation, public access, multiple points of view and other key issues we encounter regularly in the field. We hope you can join us!
To participate in this and future TweetChats, you will need to sign up for a Twitter account by going to www.twitter.com. When it’s time for the chat, go to http://tweetchat.com/ and enter #phconchat as the chat hashtag. Alternatively, you can work with a special Twitter browser like TweetDeck. Let us know if you have any questions in advance of the chat, and we hope to see you there on Monday!
~ The Consultants’ Corner Editorial Team (@NCPHconsultants)
Dear readers,
Due to a twitter outage that lasted approximately 15 minutes, the Consultants’ Committee co-chairs are opting to repeat this topic next month. In the meantime, here are a few prompts to get you started thinking about the topic:
@NCPHconsultants:
So, when you think of the term “advocate” in the context of historical consulting, what comes to mind? #phconchat
@AlderLLC: To me, consulting historians are often, if not always, advocates for good historical practice #phconchat
@AlderLLC: We can also serve as advocates by encouraging clients to preserve history, beyond the scope of a project. #phconchat
@AlderLLC: Ex. I have stumbled across historical materials while working for clients and facilitated donations to archives. #phconchat