Monthly Archives: March 2009
Some more cool wikis…
A couple of wiki recommendations came our way: The Greene Farm Archaeology Project The Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia at Monticello The Greene Farm project is a good example of how scholars can use wikis to document and share their work. It … Continue reading
50 Plug-Ins for Multimedia
A great list of 50 WordPress Plug-Ins for adding multimedia like photographs, video and audio files, and podcasts to your site. This list comes from Mashable: The Social Media Guide, which features all sorts of useful lists, tools, and advice … Continue reading
2009 Best Museum Websites Nominees
Check out the list of nominees for best museum websites and digital initiatives at the website for the Museums and the Web conference happening in Indianapolis, April 15-18. The nominees run the gamut from small to large, highly technical to … Continue reading
Ten Twitter Tips for Nonprofit Organizations
Gold, all gold: ten very important things to think about when deciding whether to and how to set up a Twitter feed for your nonprofit organization.
Placeography Wiki
From the Minnesota Historical Society comes Placeography, a wiki that features “any place anywhere that any one can edit.” Folks can contribute the story of a particular house, farm, street, school, business, historic structure, etc. There are also several tours/architectural … Continue reading
Plug-ins for Scholars and Educators
Our favorite digital humanities folks at George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media have developed several ingenious tools to help scholars and educators create better classroom websites. Check everything out at ScholarPress, the “hub for developing WordPress plug-ins … Continue reading
NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities Announces Start-up Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced 13 new grants for start-up digital humanities initiatives. Read through for inspiring examples of scholars and institutions exploring the use of digital projects to aid research and education in the humanities.
Welcome
We hope you find these tools helpful as your cultural heritage organization explores the best way to engage its community online. This site is currently under construction. We invite you to poke around, but we imagine it will be more … Continue reading
