Audio Podcast: Jennifer Souers Chevraux on the role of museums on the social web
Coming up on this edition of the Voices of the Past podcast, we'll explore the role of museums on the social web. Intro: And welcome to Voices of the Past. The podcast that helps you use the web to advocate for the preservation of cultural heritage. I'm Jeff Guin and today we're going to join Bethany Frank as she interviews Jennifer Souers Chevraux of the blog MuseoBlogger. Now Jennifer helps museums and cultural organizations engage their audiences by developing compelling experiences and using new media to cultivate a new generation of patrons. Here's that interview. Click to play // Frank: Hey Jennifer, thanks ...
Promote the Heritage of Your Community with Interactive Google Maps Tours
For me, appreciating the heritage of a site is being able to understand the context of its location and where it fits in with its history. It makes you want to experience that site and imagine yourself a part of history. A good guidebook strives for this kind of understanding. You can do the same pretty easily online mapping programs like Google Maps, with a lot more functionality. I'll show you how using a Google Map I recently created for the Cane River region of Louisiana, where I grew up. Admittedly, this is a lot of fun to create but you'll ...
Who will advocate for the next generation of heritage professionals? A cautionary tale for university preservation programs
Losing a historic structure is a sad thing. Losing generations of folks to expertly protect cultural heritage is much, much worse. This past week, Louisiana's Board of Supervisors for higher education rubber-stamped a proposal from Northwestern State University of Louisiana to eliminate the university's bachelor's and master's degrees in heritage resources just as these groundbreaking interdisciplinary programs were hitting their strides. The Master of Arts in Heritage Resources (MAHR) was on track triple its number of graduates in the next year. In full disclosure, this is a highly personal story for me. My wife ElizaBeth (tenured, and just promoted to full professor) ...
Meet the Blogger: Kurt Thomas Hunt on putting the sexy back in archaeology
Kurt Thomas Hunt and "his crew" are redefining archaeology, and collaborating to bring excitement to this old-school profession. Hunt promotes his blog and his brand, Sexy Archaeology, through a variety of social media tools, including Flickr, Twitter and Facebook. He even does a little e-commerce on the side... Could you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you developed an interest in archaeology? My interest in archaeology started when I was a child. Being a product of the early 1980s, it goes without saying that the Indiana Jones films had a massive influence on me. I was enthralled by thoughts ...
Meet the Blogger: Lynne Thomas of “Confessions of a Curator”
Lynne Thomas is the Head of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University, a teaching and research collection with a special emphasis on American popular culture materials from the 19th and 20th centuries. At Confessions of a Curator, she blogs about collections and the social web. She is the co-author with Beth M. Whittaker of Special Collections 2.0, which examines Web 2.0 tech for cultural heritage collections, from Libraries Unlimited. How was Confessions of a Curator "born"? I launched the blog in August 2007 as an attempt to do departmental outreach and promotion. ...
Video Netcast: Kaitlin O’Shea blogs the preservation world in pink
In this edition of the Voices of the Past Netcast, we meet Kaitlin O'Shea. Kaitlin is the creator of the Preservation in Pink blog and newsletter. She will explain how the iconic pink flamingo, and a group of bloggy friends, have helped her find her voice to take the conversation about historic preservation to a wider audience. Also features posts: Exploring Archaeology on the Social Web and Shawn Graham of the Electric Archaeology blog.
Social Media Planning for Heritage Organizations: Differentiating Goals, Objectives & Tactics
A lot has changed for heritage organizations since the advent of social media. What has remained pretty constant are the elements of a good strategic communications plan. Social media provides strong tactics for strategic planning, and will probably even change the way you think about communicating. But social media shouldn't be set apart from the normal strategic communications process. The key is taking your good ideas and intentions with social media and developing them into more defined goals, objectives and tactics that can be measured for results. Most organizations start with general goal statements that contain ...
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Audio Podcast: Jennifer Souers Chevraux on the role of museums on the social web
Coming up on this edition of the Voices of the Past podcast, we’ll explore...
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Who will advocate for the next generation of heritage professionals? A cautionary tale for university preservation programs
Losing a historic structure is a sad thing. Losing generations of folks to expertly protect cultural heritage is much, much worse. This past week, Louisiana’s Board of Supervisors for higher education rubber-stamped a proposal from Northwestern State University of Louisiana to eliminate the university’s bachelor’s and master’s... [Read more...]
The 3Cs of discussing heritage online: caring, context, curation
There are few yearnings that span the human race, across cultures, political beliefs and past history more than the compulsion to understand our identity. Part of that is understanding where we come from. This understanding grounds us and gives meaning to our accomplishments. But ironically, it’s also easily lost in our present mileu of constant... [Read more...]
Exploring Archaeology on the Social Web
Guest post by David Connolly and Maggie Struckmeier of Past Horizons & BAJR Federation With the increase in social networking and interactive web-based systems over the past few years, archaeology has in general been slow on the uptake, however, there were those there at the start and those that are catching on to the potential, with more appearing... [Read more...]
Learning the relevance in heritage values
“A baptism by fire.” That’s the phrase I often use to describe my experience as a new intern in the heritage preservation field. But the more bloggers I meet and with each news article that crosses my screen, I realize the ignorance behind the statement. I was convinced preservation and heritage values were for the elitists. They... [Read more...]
Finding your online voice to advocate for heritage resources
Heritage: It’s about context–the people, places and things that define you. From the grassroots standpoint, it’s about developing the openness to expand your personal view of what heritage is and to advocate for those resources that may not have a direct bearing on your own experience. Social media is giving birth to the next evolution... [Read more...]
Meet the Blogger: Electric Archaeology’s Shawn Graham on Simulating Ancient Social Networks
As a Registered Professional Archaeologist in North America a Member of the Institute for Archaeologists in the U.K., Shawn Graham knows the finer points of working in the field. But these days, he’s taking the world of archaeology — and ancient civilizations — into the digital realm with simulations called Agent-Based Models (ABMs).... [Read more...]
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