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Talking Pyramids’ Vincent Brown on Managing News Content with Social Tools

June 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Have you ever wanted to learn hieroglyphics? What if a podcast could help you with that? There is one out there and it’s produced by this episode’s guest. His name is Vincent Brown. Vincent is kind of a new media renaissance man, with a focus on Egyptology and the pyramids. In addition to the podcast he created, he also maintains blogs and a very active Twitter community. That’s one of the things he’s going to talk about is optimizing your Twitter participation for creating a community: crafting relevant tweets and how to optimize those with hashtags as well

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Interested in heritage podcasting? Here are resources I use that can help get you started

June 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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I’ve recorded more than 100 hours of interviews in the last year alone. Most of these were heritage related and shared on the web. I’ve learned a few things about recording media (mostly from trial and error) and thought I’d share a few of my recommendations for equipment that will help you record a high-quality product that is suitable to archive

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Mike O’Laughlin of the Irish Roots Cafe talks about discovering shared family history through new media

January 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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“Who are you?” A simple question, but one that could take someone on the adventure of a lifetime. For Mike O’Laughlin of Irish Roots Cafe, it took him on a trip to discover his Irish roots and began his journey to help others find theirs using his books, blog, podcast and personal tours of Ireland. [...]

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Marion Jensen on putting history into context with Twitter

November 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Marion Jensen is something of a social scientist because he experiments with social services like Twitter to help put history into context. He is the founder of TwHistory, a collaborative Twitter project in which participants retweet historical events using original source documents in real time as they happened in history. He also has an all-time [...]

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NCPTT: The Preservation Technology Podcast

September 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is where I cut my podcasting teeth, as part of my work at the National Center for Preservation Technology & Training. It’s interesting (and sometimes horrifying) to listen back on those early episodes. We’ve steadily made progress in recording equipment and editing skills. It’s turned out to be one of our  flagship social media [...]

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Audio Podcast: Kaitlin O’Shea on collaboration, platforms, and the role of historic preservation in the blogosphere

May 3, 2010 By 2 Comments
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In this edition of the Voices of the Past audio podcast, we’ll 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.

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Podcast: Dale Jarvis on the art of storytelling on the World Wide Web

August 10, 2009 By 1 Comment
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Dale Jarvis is a member of a diminishing class: the storyteller. Yet, he is finding ways to share his art with whole new generation by reaching out to “use the media that they are using.” Whether it’s a podcast of traditional stories told by school children or telling stories 140 characters at a time on Twitter, Jarvis explores the web to find new ways to connect folks to their heritage. In episode of Voices of the Past, we talk to Dale about the online tools he uses and what kind of impact the Web will have on the preservation of cultural heritage.

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Podcast: Nina Simon on museum participation and curating a second life in the social space

July 1, 2009 By 1 Comment
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Nina Simon, the blogger behind the popular Museum 2.0 site, talks about why she believes social media is the key to helping museums and heritage groups connect their constituents with their content. Among the topics covered our the time investment required for social media as well as how to use social media philosophies to better visitor experiences without necessarily using the web tools.

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Maggie Struckmeier of Past Horizons on volunteer archaeology and online media

March 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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Maggie Struckmeier of Past Horizons talks about inspiring regular people to volunteer with archaeological excavations using a variety of online media.

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