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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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27
May

New Wine in Old Skins: Why the CV needs hacking

Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine
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26
May
Why Digital Humanities is “Nice”

Why Digital Humanities is “Nice”

One of the things that people often notice when they enter the field of digital humanities is how nice everybody
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24
May
THATCamp Groundrules

THATCamp Groundrules

After giving my "groundrules" speech for a third THATCamp on Saturday, I realized I hadn't published
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21
May

One Week, One Book: Hacking the Academy

Dan Cohen and I have been brewing a proposal for an edited book entitled Hacking the Academy. Let's
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13
May

Briefly Noted for May 13, 2010

Yet more evidence big associations have lost the plot: watch nine sessions of AAM online for only ... $300?!? — The American
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