By Marcus J Wilson, Pooka.Pro It is forecast that mobile web access will overtake web access by traditional computers within the next three years. That is – users of the Internet will be more likely to want to view your website on a handheld mobile device than from a desktop or laptop computer. But how [...]
In October 2006, I was away on a business trip when a freak 150-year flood event destroyed the contents of my family’s rural home. Facing an oncoming five-foot wall of water, my wife had little time to consider our possessions. For all the things we lost that day, I still feel a tremendous sense of [...]
By Steve Ward The Earth Pyramid project was started nearly three years ago with the aim of creating a monument that will get the world looking at the future of our planet and create a platform for discussing the many global issues this generation will be facing. This new pyramid will hold contributions from every [...]
First off, I want to thank Jeff for inviting me to share a guest post on this blog. Although I appreciate the medium, I find that between parenthood, endless grant writing and reviewing, and working on Open Context, I’ve got less time than I’d like for blogging. By background, I’m an archaeologist with a PhD [...]
While technically not “open” yet, the Google Plus social network has made a splash, to the tune of an estimated 10 million users. It’s Google’s biggest hit in a while and I have to say that as an early invitee, I’m a fan. One of the things that’s been missing in social media is an [...]
For a while now I’ve used Alltop to keep up with the thought leadership in the online world. I never imagined that Voices of the Past would be added to it. But there we are! On the Social Media page with folks like Mashable, Chris Brogan, Liz Strauss and a host of other greats. That alone [...]
Cahokia Mounds State Historic and World Heritage Site has entered the 2011 This Place Matters Community Challenge sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Community Challenge offers historic sites the opportunity to win a cash prize of up to $25,000 to help protect their site. Why does Cahokia Mounds Matter? Cahokia Mounds was [...]
The City of Stone’s iconic kullë houses have a new ally in GlobalGiving, an online fundraising site that is harnessing the power of social media to raise funds for charitable projects around the world. Adventures in Preservation’s restoration of a kullë house in Gjirokastra, Albania, is one of the projects competing in GlobalGiving’s Open Challenge [...]
As I mentioned in my first post for Voices of the Past, the Paisley’s Past Project is a community archaeology project that I am in the process of organising. The focus will be on the town centre of Paisley, Scotland’s largest town. It is planned that this project will highlight the importance of the town [...]
In late 2009, I first asked you how heritage advocates and professionals used the web. The results were very interesting. In that very short span of time, the number of people connecting around heritage issues online seems to have grown quite a bit. But what is the true influence of social media in this field? [...]
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