I am a recent graduate of the public history graduate program at Rutgers University. I currently serve as the digital media coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, where I wrangle bloggers and tackle our social media platforms.
In the last two years I've created an oral history database using StoriesMatter for the Salem County Historical Society, collected data on school group attendance for the education department at Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and I've digitized the Balch Institute Ethnic Images in Advertising Collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. I volunteer at the Alice Paul Institute in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey and the Digital Center at HSP.
In my spare time I am often silly and irreverent.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Museums and Smart Cities
This one is a personal interest of mine, as my dad is our hometown’s City Planner. He and I talk a lot about how to make our town healthier (physically and economically) and how to build on what is already a strong but unfocused cultural awareness. Isn’t it lovely that museums can be a part of that answer!
As interesting as I find this, I am curious about a few things. Technology is not as democratically distributed as we are lead to believe or hope. How will technology be made accessible by everyone in a city so that every neighborhood can report its needs/progress/ideas. It could be that I’m missing the point, and these issues are being taken into consideration. Too often advances in technology serve only to widen the gap between the haves and have-nots.
Not to be a naysayer or party-pooper.
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