Janet Asteroff


   


"The vested interests of acquired knowledge and conventional wisdom have always been bypassed and engulfed by new media" -- Marshall McLuhan (1963)

Diaries of John Quincy Adams on Twitter

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The Massachusetts Historical Society has done a great job in posting the Diaries of John Quincy Adams on Twitter (http://www.masshist.org/adams/jqa.php and http://www.masshist.org/blog/54). They are showing early on what can be done with social media and historical documents and other archival materials. But now they need to build it out and make it more functional and show how archivists can make the media effective for students and researchers. Facebook be also be a great tool for making archival material available for teaching and research.

October 1st, 2009

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