04
Nov
The long haul: Why do academics take so long to hire?
I got in a little bit of a friendly dust up yesterday on Twitter when I asked, "As I
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Tom Scheinfeldt
Tom is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut. He writes about history, technology, digital humanities, design, higher education, and (sometimes) politics.
03
Nov
Briefly Noted for November 3, 2010
@sramsay goes on record — Steve Ramsay argues against anonymity online, asking faculty “to consider whether it’s appropriate for someone
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03
Nov
Digital rocking the public history job market
Things are looking up for digitally minded public historians. At least six new media focused tenure-track academic public history positions
02
Sep
Alt-Conference Venues
A discussion today on Twitter about the rising costs of conference space, even on campuses, which in many cases charge
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01
Sep
Omeka and Its Peers
As an open source, not-for-profit, warm-and-fuzzy, community service oriented project, we don't normally like to talk about market
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17
Aug
One Week | One Tool: Interim Report
As promised on Twitter, I'm sharing the report (with a few minor copyedits and corrections) I submitted this
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03
Aug
Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Part 3, Serendipity
Over the past few months, several people—including several participants themselves—have asked me how we chose the One Week
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02
Aug
Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Part 2, Use
For all the emphasis on the tool itself, the primary aim of One Week | One Tool is not tool building,
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28
Jul
Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Part 1, Project Management
Three days into One Week | One Tool, I’m beginning to see that one of the nice things about running
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16
Jun
OAH, AHA, NCPH Approve Recommendations on Evaluating Public History for Tenure and Promotion
The boards of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the National Council on Public History have
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