A brief Wolfsonian-FIU chapter, reconstructed through surviving video work, showing early experiments in participatory storytelling, curator-led interpretation, installation documentation, and the institutional conditions that shaped what came next.
Preservation Technology Podcast: Interviewing the Field as It Changed
What remains is the belief that relationships beyond the walls matter, that cross-disciplinary curiosity matters, and that experimentation matters. Technology can extend the imagination and connect people in ways that allow a shared vision to advance further than any one person or institution could take it alone.
A Modern Stoa: Can Cultural Institutions Make Room for Collective Adaptation?
A visit to the remains of Athens’ Painted Stoa becomes the starting point for a contemporary institutional question: where do cultural organizations create space for people to think together? Workflow Studio is presented as an experiment in collective adaptation—bringing people across roles and disciplines together around real problems, testing assumptions, and building shared understanding. The essay ends as a call to action: make room for this kind of practice, because institutions cannot outsource the understanding required to navigate change.
Before I Knew to Call It Heritage: My First Corporate Communications Job
My first job out of college began with a newsletter internship at a paper mill and grew into a regional communications role I largely invented for myself. Looking back at the portfolio now, I can see how much of my later work was already taking shape there: an interest in people, place, storytelling, design, and the connective tissue between them. Decades later, a bronze marker from that period was still standing along a rural roadside, quietly doing the work we created it to do.
Greg Baldwin Oral History: Memory and Activism in the AIDS Era
A two-day oral history with Greg Baldwin became a layered digital presentation of Miami LGBTQ+ history — video, full audio, transcript, context, and a public-knowledge afterlife. This is the story, the presentation, and the toolkit behind it.
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, content, and the difference between what organizations want and what their audiences need. Together, the contributions make a larger argument: strategy is the discipline of connecting technology decisions to meaningful outcomes rather than accumulating disconnected digital projects.
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 America, and local maker communities, this toolkit explains how to create a low-barrier peer gathering where knowledge moves horizontally. The larger goal is not another conference, but an ongoing community capable of learning and making together.
My Heritage Twitter Lists, Developed Over a Decade
After more than a decade of using Twitter, Jeff Guin explains how curated lists became more useful to him than the general feed. Organized around fields such as archaeology, archives, built heritage, conservation, and digital humanities, the lists function as a lightweight professional listening system. The post is less about Twitter itself than about deliberate information architecture: creating focused channels that help practitioners find useful people, conversations, and ideas amid the noise of social media.
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 needed to support attention, reading, writing, and everyday life. The experiment strips away devices and notifications to test whether a quieter technological environment can create more space for deliberate thought instead of constant digital stimulus.
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 organizations interested in experimenting with the format. Its interpretive strength lies in compression: moments separated by hours, months, or years can be brought together to reveal processes that visitors would otherwise never be able to perceive.