Week 11: Public History and Social Media

April 4

Read and Discuss:

• “How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive,” Library of Congress Blog, April 14, 2010
• Andrew McGill, “Can  Twitter Fit in the Library of Congress?” The Atlantic August 4, 2016
• Update on Library of Congress Twitter archive
• Christopher Beam, “#Posterity: How future historians will use the Twitter archives,” Slate, April 20, 2010
• Marshall Kirkpatrick, “What a Tweet Can Tell You,” ReadWrite, November 16, 2011
• Jennifer Polean, To Instagram or not to Instragram

• What is Pinterest and why should museums care?
• Top ten museums on Pinterest
• On Twitter, Students Bring WWI Back to Life

 

 

Meeting Tweeting, AHA Blog

Twitter Accounts for History Buffs

Pinterest for Public History

Online

Blog post: Compare your digital persona to that of the bloggers and twitterstorians you have been following since the beginning of the semester.  How do you present yourself online?  How would you attract attention to your digital products? How can you harness the power of Web 2.0 to engage with and use your audience?