2022
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Digital Heritage Pros Share Top Tips for Developing Strategy
Digital strategy starts less with choosing technology than with getting clear about purpose, audiences, evidence, and actual institutional needs. Drawing on advice from practitioners across the cultural sector, this piece considers visual storytelling, CRM, testing, platforms,…
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Developing a Community of Digital History Makers with a GLAM Cyber Café
The GLAM Café model was designed to give museum, library, archive, and heritage practitioners a regular place to experiment, learn, and build relationships around digital work. Drawing on models such as Wiki Salons, THATCamp, Code for…
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A tech guy adopts e-ink thinking and decimates his home electronics … here’s what manifested.
After two decades working with technology, Jeff Guin experiments with reducing it at home. “E-ink thinking” becomes a way to ask a different digital-strategy question: not what else technology can do, but what is the minimum…
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Timelapse for Cultural Sites: 9 Ideas + Tools
Timelapse photography can make slow change visible, whether the subject is a blooming plant, a conservation treatment, a construction project, or a changing cultural landscape. This toolkit offers practical use cases and equipment ideas for heritage…
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Dark times and leaps of faith
Looking back on a difficult period of professional and personal dislocation, Jeff Guin revisits a 2014 road trip that became a turning point. Returning to Louisiana provided enough distance to reconsider what he wanted, what he…
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Yours Truly: An Interactive Archives Project
Yours Truly transformed thousands of pieces of Vizcaya correspondence into an interactive storytelling experience built around human-centered design. Rather than simply digitizing archival material, the project asked visitors to explore James Deering’s personality and choices through…