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How Can We Use Social Media (and Digital/Public History) to Advance the Short- and Long-Term Aims of CHAAMP?

Scot A. French Associate Professor, Digital & Public History University of Central Florida

+ My Background

 2000: Ph.D. in History, University of Virginia  1994-2006: Assoc. Dir., Carter G. Woodson Institute for

African American and African Studies

 2007-2009: UVA in Ghana Program Director  2006-2010: Director, Virginia Center for Digital History  2011-Present: Associate Professor of Digital and Public History at

the University of Central Florida

+ Cape Coast ‘Zongo’ District – Heritage

Conservation & Oral History Project (2009)

+ What is Digital History?

Here’s a good working definition from historians Douglas Seefeldt and William G. Thomas at the University of Nebraska @ Lincoln:

Digital history might be understood broadly as an approach to examining and representing the past that works with the new communication technologies of the computer, the internet network, and software systems. Digital history invites readers to investigate and form interpretive associations of their own. This might be the defining characteristic of this genre. Readers are not presented with an exhibit, or an article with many appendices, or any other analog form simply reprocessed into a web-deliverable format. Instead, they are presented with a suite of interpretive elements, ways to gain leverage on the problem under investigation.”

+ CHAAMP focuses on the History of African Americans in the Medical Professions Q: What does the “C” Stand For?

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+ Today I’d like to talk about using Social Media and Digital/Public History to …

 Brand and Promote the CHAAMP Conference  Identify and Build the CHAAMP Community  Enhance and Expand the CHAAMP Collection  Enable Collaboration Within and Across the

CHAAMP Consortium

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 Freelance web designer Lindsey Leemis designed a dynamic,

visually attractive website with essential conference program info: speakers, agenda, hotel info, etc. The website incorporated visual elements (logo, font, color palette) carefully chosen by

• Dr. P. Preston Reynolds, J.D. Talasek, & other design consultants.
• 1. Using Social Media to Brand &

Promote the CHAAMP Conference

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CHAAMPconference.com ... Not to be confused with CHAAMP.org

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• 2. Using Social Media to Identify

and Build the CHAAMP Community

Christine Madrid French, an historian, blogger, and social media specialist, created a Facebook account (CHAAMP: History of African Americans in the Medical Professions) to promote the conference and initiate a long-term network-building process.

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Chris also created a Twitter account (@CHAAMP2013), imported contact info for conferees, and “followed” a number of groups (including @CPNAS and other CHAAMP conference sponsors) with either a general or specialized interest in the history of African Americans in the health professions.

+ Using Social Media to Identify

& Build the CHAAMP Community

 Finally, using email addresses gleaned from conference registration

and a free, third-party email marketing program, Chris created a CHAAMP-branded “newsletter” to communicate with conferees before, during, and after the event. CHAAMP Conferees (you!!!) are urged to Friend on Facebook, Follow on Twitter, or Forward to a Friend.

+ CHAAMP “C” is for Collection

+ 3. How Can We Use Social Media and to Enhance & Expand the CHAAMP Collection?

+ Collecting ‘The People’s History’ via Facebook Open Group Sites

I grew up in Sanford, Florida, and am not ashamed to admit it An Open Group 2,450 members “A place we can share memories of growing up in Sanford”

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+ Collecting ‘The People’s History’ through

Community-Based History Harvests

+ Engaging Students in Local Research:

Medical History as Community History

Dynamic timeline visualization based on research by Kendra Grinnage (U.Va. undergrad) and Nena Patterson (U.Va.grad)

+ Local Legend: Dr. J.A. Jackson of Charlottesville, Virginia, 1888-1956

• 1888-1906: Born in Petersburg, Va.;

graduates from Peabody High School

• 1913: Graduates from Howard University,

Doctor of Dentistry

• 1914: Purchases home in Charlottesville’s

Vinegar Hill/Starr Hill neighborhood (Commerce/4th St. NW)

• 1922: Establishes Crescent Drug Co. at 283

W . Main St.; business later moved to his Commerce Street property

• 1924: National Dental Association founded;

Jackson first Sec/Treasurer

• 1937: Opens NDA headquarters on his

Commerce St. property

• 1950: President of John A. Andrew Hospital

Clinical Society at Tuskegee

+ Vinegar Hill: A MemoryScape Virtual/Walking Tours

Left: Dr. Jackson’s former home/office

• n Commerce St. today

Right: A visualization of the Vinegar Hill residential neighborhood and business district, ca. 1965, based on historical data, images, oral histories VinegarHillProject.org

+ 5. Using Social Media to Enable Collaboration Within and Across the CHAAMP Consortium

+ Tapping into CHAAMP Sponsor Twitter Feeds/Social Networks

+ Using Google Hangouts for Virtual Brainstorming / Breakout Groups

• Up to 9

participants in video chat;

• thers may

view/tweet by invitation

• Conversation

can be recorded and archived on YouTube (CHAAMP Channel)

+ Help us build an active CHAAMP community of users!

Ideas? Share them with us! Let’s chat during the workshop and stay connected via Facebook, Twitter, and other social media