Beth's Blog

• hotHow To Get Started Thinking About Online Peer Learning Communities for Nonprofit Professionals
  Note from Beth: This one of my favorite photos of a workshop I designed and facilitated at SXSW called “Peer Learning Session for Nonprofit Social Media Managers.”    The idea was to get folks who do social media for nonprofits sharing best p…
  - 6 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 1:07pm -
• Can Social Media Give the Gift of Life?
  Note from Beth: Two years ago on this blog,  Porter Gale published a guest post asking “Can Social Media Save Lives?” and described how Amit Gupta was leveraging his network and social media to find a bone marrow match.  … Read More
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jun 13, 2:34pm -
• Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013
  Note from Beth: If I could wave a magic wand, and ask for a wish related to my work to come true, it would be this:  I’d like to spend a year to attend conferences where I don’t know a lot of the content or people and learn and network and blo…
  - 5 days ago, 13 Jun 13, 1:44pm -
• The Science Behind Going Viral
  Note from Beth: I’m thrilled to participate in the LinkedIn Influencer Program where I get to write regular posts about leadership, failure, analytics, big data, presenting, and training from a nonprofit perspective.   But even better,  I’ve…
  - 6 days ago, 12 Jun 13, 1:57pm -
• Giving 2.0 ProjectU
  Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy.   The author of the book, Giving 2.0, has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library.  T…
  - 7 days ago, 11 Jun 13, 2:22pm -

Social Media and Cultural Communication

• Migrating content to Museum3.org
  For the past 4 years I’ve used this blog to explore shifts in communication practices in cultural organisations. During that time we established Museum3 as a social network and as that has grown, it has become clear to me that this blog is now more…
  - 19 Nov 10, 7:58pm -
• Crowdfunding for creatives
  Funbreak is a new crowdsoucing platform for professionals. How does it work?
  - 16 Aug 10, 1:00am -
• Allsorts Online – exploring connections between broadcasters and museums
  As the gap between collecting organisations and broadcasters becomes smaller, some of our top broadcast professionals discuss the potential for future collaborations in the sector.
  - 8 Dec 09, 10:57pm -
• The Business of Design @ the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
  How can design be used to implement creativity and sustainability in business? Here at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum's National Design Week, leading thinkers give us their thoughts!
  - 20 Oct 09, 10:56pm -
• Crowdsourcing and museum futures update!
  It's been a busy week for crowdsourcing design and museum futures...
  - 9 Sep 09, 1:14am -

BEYONDbones

• hotWhat do Egyptologist Ron Harvey and Parks & Rec director Ron Swanson have in common? More than mustaches
  Meet HMNS consulting conservator Ron Harvey: mummy-restorer, mustache-haver and 33-year veteran of antiquities conservation. From the moment we met him, he reminded us a lot of another Ron — Ron Swanson, Director of the (fictional) Pawnee Parks and…
  - 36 mins ago, 18 Jun 13, 6:09pm -
• Whip your brain into shape this summer at HMNS’ Aramco Science Fair Boot Camp
  Are you tired of scrambling at the last minute to complete your science fair project? Is your kitchen a mess annually due to thrown-together experiments and faux lava gone rogue? Now’s your chance to fare better at the Science Fair, … Continue re…
  - 6 days ago, 12 Jun 13, 8:49pm -
• Distinguished Lecture: Merge art and science in an exclusive Giant Screen showing of Chasing Ice
  The Extreme Ice Survey merges art and science to give a “visual voice” to Earth’s changing ecosystems. Extreme Ice Survey imagery preserves a visual legacy, providing a unique baseline — useful in years, decades and even centuries to come —…
  - 7 days ago, 11 Jun 13, 9:01pm -
• The road to self-sufficiency: How cities are transitioning to renewable energy — and how Houston can, too
  What would it take to go all renewable? What would it take to use exclusively renewable energy resources? What would you have to add to or take away from your home? How would your life change? For most of my … Continue reading →
  - 8 days ago, 10 Jun 13, 9:00pm -

Electric Archaeology

• Where Roman Roads and Topic Models Intersect
  Previously, I ended up with a map of UK districts, coloured by the five groups that Gephi’s modularity routine suggested were present, in the network of districts to districts based on shared patterns in the underlying topics (the topic model gener…
  - 11 days ago, 7 Jun 13, 5:25pm -
• github.com/shawngraham
  I’ve got a Github account. My first repository may be viewed at  https://github.com/shawngraham/historicalfriction . Took a bit of tinkering, but I think I’ve got the idea. Other humanities github type projects can be found via a simple search.
  - 12 days ago, 6 Jun 13, 6:07pm -
• Reading Inscriptions Algorithmically
  Inscriptions are complicated beasts. Frequently quite small and incomplete, epigraphers are able to extract an enormous amount of information from inscriptions – especially when they have other inscriptions with which to contrast and compare. Let u…
  - 13 days ago, 5 Jun 13, 5:31pm -
• Topic modeling the things that fell out of pockets
  Topic modeling is very popular at the moment in the digital humanities. Ian, Scott and I described them as tools for extracting topics or injecting semantic meaning into vocabularies: “Topic models represent a family of computer programs that extra…
  - 19 days ago, 30 May 13, 4:27pm -
• Graeworks – my tenure and promotion online portfolio
  My online tenure & promotion portfolio may be viewed at graeworks.net It is a work in progress, so I would welcome comments and suggestions. I will be applying for t&p this coming autumn. The department is currently in the midst of setting its own di…
  - 22 days ago, 28 May 13, 12:50am -

Digitization 101

• #SLA2013 - Dennie Heye, Why come to SLA?
  Dennie Heye, a member of SLA Europe Chapter, was named an SLA Fellow this year.  He's an active member, who has been able to attend the conference, although not yearly.  I asked him about why attending the conference is important and this is his an…
  - 7 days ago, 12 Jun 13, 5:43am -
• #SLA2013 - The Digital Preservation Network, James Hilton
  Http://www.dpn.orgHe is the chief evangelist for the DPN, which is indeed a large network of institutions and people."Everything that ever mattered in the world was more complicated" than was stipulated.Problem: the scholarship that is being produced…
  - 8 days ago, 11 Jun 13, 12:20am -
• #SLA2013 - Sam Wiggins - Why come to SLA?
  Sam Wiggins (@LibWig) attended the SLA Annual Conference in Philadelphia two years ago as one of the winners of the Europe Early Career Conference Award. He is back this year for this conference. Why come to SLA? Here is Sam's answer (1 min. 15 sec.)…
  - 8 days ago, 10 Jun 13, 9:12pm -
• #SLA2013 - Maya Kucij - Why attend SLA?
  Maya is the president-elect for SLA's Education Division and the division's conference planner for 2014 in Vancouver, BC. Why should someone attend the conference?  Here's her answer (1 min.)listen to ‘#SLA2013 - Maya Kucij - Why attend SLA?’ on…
  - 8 days ago, 10 Jun 13, 8:42pm -
• #SLA2013 - Big Data. Big Challenges.
  This is an SLA Spotlight session.Amy Affelt - Compass LexiconKnow 'em when you see 'em: Big opportunities in big data Cool big data applications* Healthcare*** Microsoft readmission manager - surfaced some red flags that cause readmission*** Stanfor…
  - 8 days ago, 10 Jun 13, 8:29pm -

Media/Anthropology

• hotMedia anthropology and the anthropology of mediation
  By Dominic Boyer via Rice University Anthropology Media Anthropology and the Anthropology of Mediation. In The ASA Handbook of Social Anthropology, R Fardon (ed.) Sage, forthcoming. When one speaks of media and mediation in social-cultural anthropolo…
  - 18 hours ago, 18 Jun 13, 12:31am -
• Mobile ensembles: The uses of mobile phones for social protest by Spain’s indignados
  To cite: Monterde, A. and J. Postill forthcoming 2013. Mobile ensembles: The uses of mobile phones for social protest by Spain’s indignados. In G. Goggin and L. Hjorth (eds.) Routledge Companion to Mobile Media. Abstract During the 2011 wave of pro…
  - 17 days ago, 2 Jun 13, 3:58am -
• Mobile phones and actual changes in the global South
  Presentation notes from Postill, J. 2013. Mobile phones and actual changes (big and small) in the global South: a preliminary exploration. Keynote address to the Mobile Telephony in the Developing World Conference, University of Jyväskylä, Finland,…
  - 22 days ago, 28 May 13, 12:08am -
• Jonathan Donner on the mobile internet and its limitations
  I’m on the train back from an excellent doctoral workshop and conference on mobile telephony in the developing world organised by Laura Stark and colleagues at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) this 23-25 May 2013. My own contribution was a k…
  - 23 days ago, 26 May 13, 1:20pm -
• The diffusion of protests (2)
  Excerpts from the paper “Diffusion Models of Cycles of Protest as a Theory of Social Movements” n.d. by Pamela E. Oliver (University of Wisconsin) and Daniel J. Myers (University of Notre Dame), www.nd.edu/~dmyers/cbsm/vol3/olmy.pdf This paper d…
  - 49 days ago, 1 May 13, 12:36am -

Matt's Sci/Tech Blog

• First woman in space - 50 years ago
  A belated salute to Valentina Tereshkova, who 50 years ago became the first woman in space. On the one hand, it was a political stunt. Her 48 orbits in a Vostok capsule (call sign: Seagull) were a demonstration of the supposed equality of women under…
  - 2 days ago, 17 Jun 13, 3:49am -
• Cougar - the cat's coming back
  My dad (a folksinger now living in Seattle) used to play us a tune with the refrain:"Very next day the cat came backThought he was a goner but the cat came back'Cause he couldn't stay away"Klandagi, Lord of the Forest (as the Cherokee called it) use…
  - 5 days ago, 13 Jun 13, 7:14pm -
• Bonanza of Bird Species
  Brazil has a lot of birds. It has, in fact, a lot more than we knew of just five years ago.  In that short time, no fewer than fifteen new species have been described.  One of the most interesting is the crooked-beaked woodcreeper, known locally a…
  - 9 days ago, 9 Jun 13, 10:24pm -
• Writings of the Sea
  I’m browsing a book from 1968 called Under The Sea: A Treasury of Great Writing about the Ocean Depths, edited by Gardner Soule.  I used it as a source on marine life when writing my previous books.  In it I find photocopies from another book and…
  - 13 days ago, 6 Jun 13, 4:42am -
• The Dusky Seaside Sparrow; Anniversary of Extinction
  It will soon be June 17, a sad anniversary in conservation. It was on that day in 1987 that the last dusky seaside sparrow died. If God truly sees the sparrow fall, then that day must have broken His heart. Several American birds have come to an igno…
  - 13 days ago, 5 Jun 13, 10:29pm -

NCTimes.com Blogs

Agogified

• Top 10 Digital Preservation Presentations of 2012
  Any list obviously reflects the interests of the compiler, as well as the source and scope of the information considered.  In this case, I turned to Slideshare and searched on “digital preservation.” Filtering by “this year,” yields the fol…
  - 26 Dec 12, 8:46pm -
• Can a Video Game Ever Fully Depict Reality?
  Thinking about digital recreation of reality has an inevitable association with the “whoa, dude, are we in a video game?” line of reasoning. This is good in some ways because it puts the issue into a context that’s easier to ponder for most of…
  - 17 Dec 12, 6:06pm -
• Digital Preservation: A Role for Public Libraries
  This post is based on remarks I presented during a Digital Dialog at the University of Maryland, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, on 9/25/2012. I believe that libraries, archives and museums share a common need to aggressively pro…
  - 2 Oct 12, 12:55pm -
• The Year of Blogging Vigorously: Digital Preservation and Social Media Outreach
  This post consists of edited remarks I gave to the 17th Brazilian Conference of Archival Science/XVII Congresso Brasileiro de Arquivologia held in Rio de Janeiro in June of this year.  These remarks will be published in Portuguese as part of the con…
  - 5 Sep 12, 2:33pm -
• Digital Preservation, Digital Curation, Digital Whatever: What’s the Right Term?
  There is a polite but persistent disagreement among librarians, archivists and other normally peaceful souls who care about keeping digital information accessible into the future.  The conflict is low key, as one might expect: no one is occupying re…
  - 30 Oct 11, 6:24pm -

Idea.org

• What is fan fiction?
  Who owns art and culture? Does it belong to the artist? The legal property owner? Or the society that loves and appreciates it? Traditionally, old art is considered public, and new art is copyrighted. Anyone can write a new twist on Romeo and Juliet…
  - 13 days ago, 5 Jun 13, 6:11pm -
• Lessons to be learned from MOOCs, 2 years out
  Online courses with very large enrollments have rapidly matured in the last two years, led largely by experiments outside mainstream academia by Coursera, Udacity and edX. Ambitious educators, technologists, and funders have created courses on di…
  - 57 days ago, 22 Apr 13, 6:55pm -
• What is Crowdsourcing? And how does it apply to outreach?
  Crowdsourcing means involving a lot of people in small pieces of a project. In educational and nonprofit outreach, crowdsourcing is a form of engagement, such as participating in an online course, collecting photos of butterflies for a citizen-scien…
  - 19 Feb 13, 3:21pm -
• Cars, trikes, and more create Google Street View
  The Grand Canyon is yet another place that Google brings to your digital screens, from their Street View family of content. Google has been collecting street-level views of our world at a vast scale possible only because of it’s deep pockets and te…
  - 31 Jan 13, 6:39pm -
• Math and Science iOS apps for young children
  In the era of tablets and smart phones, parents of small children may consider educational apps. Recently, the “Slashdot” online community discussed apps and kids. Nerdy parents chimed in with suggestions. This tech-savvy community is often relu…
  - 5 Dec 12, 12:42am -

Chemical Heritage Foundation

• Transitions
  Chemistry is all about transitions. Starting in November, a new CHF blog will amplify, expand, and build upon on the many types of content we already generate, from public programs, podcasts, Chemical Heritage magazine, scholarly publication, and ou…
  - 6 Sep 12, 5:00am -
• The Geography of the Semiconductor: Lessons from Herman Fialkov
  The story of Herman Fialkov, who died earlier this year, provides an exemplary lesson on semiconductor electronics and venture capital on both the East and West coasts.
  - 28 Aug 12, 5:00am -
• First Person: Hidden Stories
  First Person mainly deals with the subjects of oral histories at CHF, but I thought it might be an interesting change of pace to take you behind the scenes of the oral history process. Today I’ll be highlighting the people and processes that make t…
  - 21 Aug 12, 5:00am -
• What is Chemistry’s Version of the Higgs Boson?
  What would be the chemistry equivalent of the Higgs boson? What would attract such widespread media froth and public exhilaration?
  - 16 Aug 12, 5:00am -
• Collective Voice: More Martian Science!
  Did you know the analytical instruments contained within Curiosity have a direct link to the historical instruments in the collection here at CHF?
  - 14 Aug 12, 5:00am -