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.
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Historical work involving Twitter as a platform for public engagement, storytelling, networking, and cultural-heritage communication.
Talking Pyramids’ Vincent Brown on Managing News Content with Social Tools
Egyptology enthusiast Vincent Brown discusses using podcasts, blogs, Twitter, and other social tools to build an online community around ancient Egypt and the pyramids. The conversation moves beyond simply publishing content to questions of curation: how to find relevant material, shape useful updates, use hashtags effectively, and create a recognizable digital presence around a specialized field of knowledge.
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.
Folklorist Dale Jarvis on 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?
Twitter and Microblogging: Instant Communication with Your Community
"What are you up to?" It's how we greet friends and strangers alike everyday. It's also the question behind one of the web's most popular social networking sites: Twitter. Voices of the Past posts links to its news, along with other community announcements, at http://www.twitter.com/ptnews. So what is microblogging, and what can you gain from it?