MacGyver-ing History: building online community history with only the tools available

Posted by: Candace Nast
On: Thursday, January 14th, 2010

I’d like to to talk about building an online local history collection of audio and video interviews, photos, written narratives, recipes, records, etc. What is doable when there’s lots of interest but no budget or time, tech resources and skills are limited, and people are geographically dispersed?

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2 comments on “MacGyver-ing History: building online community history with only the tools available”


  1. Marjorie McLellan
    January 14th, 2010
    11:55 AM

    This sounds similar to Dennie Eagleson’s project and building local history and culture resources with the tools available is of great interest to me. There seems to be at least one strong thread forming around place and new media.


  2. How do we share our knowledge of historic places? | THATcamp Columbus
    January 14th, 2010
    4:26 PM

    [...] questions further, but I’m especially curious how my questions relate to those presented by Candace Nast, Marjorie McLellan, Andrea Odiorne, Justin Hons, Stephen Titchenal, Doug Lambert, and Phil Sager. [...]

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