MythShow creator Greg Lemon considers podcasting as a contemporary extension of oral storytelling rather than a break from tradition. The conversation connects myths, performance, web publishing, and the practical work of building a quality digital presence. It also addresses a problem that became increasingly familiar in the social-media era: how to use new communication tools enthusiastically without allowing constant production and participation to overwhelm larger personal priorities.
Tag Archives: Multimedia
Video Netcast: Folklorist Dale Jarvis talks about storytelling on the social web
Folklorist and storyteller Dale Jarvis experiments with podcasts, Twitter, Facebook, Second Life, and other digital spaces to carry traditional storytelling into new environments. This video explores what changes—and what does not—when oral tradition moves online. At its center is a question that remains central to digital heritage: can technology transmit a strong sense of story and place without severing the cultural relationships that give them meaning?
Podcast: Lisa Louise Cooke on podcasting genealogy and the importance of audience
Genealogy Gems founder Lisa Louise Cooke discusses how podcasting can transform a specialized interest into an ongoing relationship with an audience. The conversation looks at genealogy, media production, consistency, and the work required to grow a recognizable digital platform. Her experience demonstrates that successful online heritage work depends not only on good information, but on understanding who the audience is and giving people reasons to return.
Voices of the Past Video Netcast: Genealogy Gems’ Lisa Louise Cooke on establishing roots in the social web
Lisa Louise Cooke explains how Genealogy Gems grew into a major online genealogy platform through experimentation with podcasting and other social media. This video focuses on the learning curve behind that growth and on the importance of using digital tools to create genuine connection with an audience. It captures genealogy at a moment when family-history communities were rapidly moving from individual research toward networked sharing and media production.
Voices of the Past Video Netcast: Featuring Dave Moyer, teenage new media producer and historic preservation activist
Teenage preservation advocate Dave Moyer demonstrates how digital tools could give young people a public role in historic preservation long before institutions routinely talked about youth digital engagement. The conversation brings together preservation advocacy, entrepreneurship, media production, and generational change. Its lasting value lies in showing that emerging platforms did not merely help institutions reach younger audiences; they also gave younger practitioners tools to lead and speak for themselves.
Podcast: Michael Phillips on creating Sense of Place with video “iGuidez”
Michael Phillips created iGuidez around a deceptively ambitious idea: use online video to convey a sense of place to people who may never physically visit it. In this conversation, he discusses building a heritage website around place-based video just as cameras were becoming ubiquitous in phones and consumer devices. The project anticipated later forms of digital tourism and mobile interpretation while revealing the practical challenges of sustaining an independent heritage platform.
Audio Podcast: Rachel Penniman on giving voice to emerging conservators
Rachel Penniman discusses the Emerging Conservation Professionals Network and its effort to connect students, newcomers, and early-career conservators through the social web. The conversation shows digital media being used not simply for public outreach but to strengthen a professional community from within—creating peer networks, sharing knowledge, and giving newer practitioners greater visibility and voice in a field built around the long-term care of cultural resources.
Podcast: Dale Jarvis on the art of storytelling on the World Wide Web
Storyteller and folklorist Dale Jarvis explores how traditional storytelling might survive—and find new audiences—through podcasts, Twitter, and other emerging online media. Rather than treating technology as a replacement for oral tradition, he experiments with meeting younger audiences in the spaces they already inhabit. The conversation asks an enduring question for digital heritage: how can new forms of transmission expand access while preserving the power of story, place, and human connection?
Nina Simon on museum participation and curating a second life in the social space
Museum 2.0 founder Nina Simon argues that the most important lesson of social media for museums is not necessarily the technology itself, but the participatory philosophy behind it. This conversation examines audience involvement, the time required to sustain online engagement, and ways museums can redesign visitor experiences around contribution and interaction even without a digital tool. It captures an early articulation of participation as an institutional practice rather than a social-media campaign.
Preservation Today Netcast – May 2009
The World Digital Library debuts; the Museums and the Web conference addresses the social, cultural and technological issues of heritage online; The National Trust for Historic Preservation is bring back its popular This Place Matters social media campaign; The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training is planning a nationwide cemetery preservation summit in Nashville (interview with Jason Church)