Emma, Take a look at the work that the Center for History & New Media has done, esp. the 9/11 Archive and the Hurricane Digital Memory Project. Both of these are examples of what Richard Smith suggested.
They also produced Digital history: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving and Presenting the Past on the Web. http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/ Richard On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:55 PM, Emma Jones wrote: > At the Australian War Memorial, we have been dabbling in blogs, > facebook, Flickr etc but we have an exhibition coming up where we > would like to engage the community beyond the historians, experts on > 16 pound shells and military history enthusiasts. As the working > title is "Love and War", this exhibition will be moving beyond some > of our more traditional themes and we are looking for ways to allow > people to tell us their stories, related to war or overseas service. > Has anyone else done this and if so, what did you find worked well > (or not). Let me know. > Emma Jones > > ********************************************************************************************* > > AWM DISCLAIMER: > > This message may contain confidential information and is intended > only for its recipient(s). If you have received this email by error, > please delete this e-mail from your system and notify the sender > immediately. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure. > E-mail information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, > arrive late, be incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore > does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the > contents of this message. > > ********************************************************************************************* > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum > Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
