Social media for a cause: How "Invisible Children" can serve as a model for the heritage field

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On April 25th, thousands of people abducted themselves in solidarity in partnership with a San Diego based non-profit organization called Invisible Children. The event was organized through social media to make a statement. Has the time come for similar measures for the cause of heritage?

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Livestream to bring awareness of heritage resources to the world

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by Dylan Staley

Qik and USTREAM, both live video blogging sites, allow users to connect their internet-enabled devices (be it computers or camera-enabled cellphones) to their servers and upload a live video feed, directly to the website. No longer do you need to wait until the event is over, on until your upload finishes, or until the website host finishes encoding your video. Viewers can watch what is happening right now, right now.

Video Blog: Chris “Bulb Hunter” Wiesinger

This is from the video blog I helped produce for Chris Wiesinger. Chris has created quite a niche for himself, traveling the South and “hunting” heirloom flower bulbs that thrive in warm climates. He takes them back to his farm in East Texas where he farms and sells them for his company. Chris is a [...]

John Leeke V-log: Steam Paint Removal

In this installment of his Voices of the Past V-log, John Leeke demonstrates using steam to remove heavy paint build up from wood surfaces. Steam paint removal softens the paint film so it can be more easily scraped away. It works well with the heavy paint buildup commonly found on the exterior of older buildings during house restoration and historic preservation projects.

Beneath the Bricks Heritage Education Event

The Beneath the Bricks committee of Natchitoches holds a heritage education day on the riverfront to talk about what archaeologist do and about the archaeology going on in concert with the Front St. restoration project.