Matt Thompson describes building The Archaeological Box as a bilingual, media-rich online resource for archaeologists using Drupal, maps, podcasts, professional accounts, and other community features. What began as a way for a small group to share scattered resources grew into a larger experiment in digital infrastructure. The conversation examines membership models, content management, and social media as support for a substantive knowledge platform rather than an end in itself.
Tag Archives: Multimedia
Marion Jensen on putting history into context with Twitter
Marion Jensen’s TwHistory project used Twitter, original source documents, and real-time reenactment to make historical events feel present. In this 2010 conversation, he explains how experiments with Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, the Cuban Missile Crisis, geolocation, and living-history interpretation pointed toward a larger idea: digital tools could connect people directly with historical sources, places, and stories in ways traditional publishing and interpretation handled differently.
A conversation with John Leeke, the “original heritage video blogger” (audio podcast)
John Leeke was using online video to teach historic-building preservation years before YouTube existed. His “campfire chats” connected preservation tradespeople and homeowners across distance, extending the informal knowledge-sharing traditions of the trades into digital space. In this conversation, Leeke discusses early videoblogging, online communities, evolving social platforms, and a philosophy in which preservation knowledge ultimately matters because it helps people care for places and one another.
Voices TV: Featuring the Library of Congress’ Flickr Strategy
This Voices TV episode examines the Library of Congress’s pioneering use of Flickr to open historic photographic collections to public participation. Interviews with Michelle Springer and Helena Zinkham explore one of the earliest large-scale social-media experiments by a U.S. federal cultural institution and the possibilities created when collections move into spaces where audiences can discover, comment on, share, and contribute knowledge about them.
The Preservation Technology Podcast: The longest continually produced show on historic preservation
This post looks back on the Preservation Technology Podcast as both a media experiment and a practical knowledge system for the preservation field. Developed through Jeff Guin’s work at NCPTT, the show connected practitioners with conversations about materials, conservation, sustainability, research, and field practice. It also documents the learning curve behind institutional podcasting: improving production skills over time while building a durable channel for specialized professional knowledge.
Audio Podcast: Library of Congress on partnering with Flickr and finding its voice in social media
Welcome to Voices of the Past, The podcast that helps you advocate for cultural heritage through the web, I’m Jeff Guin. Today we have kind of a special show for you. Traditionally we try to promote independent bloggers who are talking about heritage online but…
Video Netcast: Jennifer Souers Chevraux on making museums relevant in the digital age
Jennifer Souers Chevraux argues that museums can remain relevant by thinking beyond their buildings and cultivating meaningful relationships with audiences through both experience design and new media. This short video introduces her broader approach to engaging a new generation of patrons and reflects an early moment when museums were beginning to treat digital participation not simply as promotion but as part of the visitor relationship itself.
Audio Podcast: Jennifer Souers Chevraux on the role of museums on the social web
Jennifer Souers Chevraux discusses how museums and cultural organizations can use new media to deepen audience relationships rather than simply advertise programs. The conversation considers relevance, participation, experience design, and the changing expectations of a generation increasingly accustomed to interacting with organizations online. Her argument anticipates a broader shift from treating digital media as a communications add-on to seeing it as part of how institutions cultivate communities.
Video Netcast: Kaitlin O’Shea blogs the preservation world in pink
Kaitlin O’Shea used Preservation in Pink, an unmistakable pink-flamingo identity, and an online network of preservation colleagues to bring historic preservation into a more conversational public space. This video introduces the personality and community behind the project and shows how a distinctive voice, informal collaboration, and emerging social platforms could make a professional field feel more accessible without abandoning its seriousness.
Audio Podcast: Kaitlin O’Shea on collaboration, platforms, and the role of historic preservation in the blogosphere
Kaitlin O’Shea discusses how Preservation in Pink grew from an individual blog into part of a wider network of preservation voices online. The conversation explores collaboration, professional identity, blogging platforms, and the value of making historic preservation feel approachable to people outside established organizations. It also captures an early moment when practitioners were discovering that the blogosphere could function as an informal professional community as well as a publishing medium.