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sikarskie commented on the blog post Mapping, Social Networking and the Classroom
Ooh, really glad to hear about a session on mapping. The project I work for, the Quilt Index, has images and metadata online for 50,000 quilts made across the US and around the world. Mapping, and especially the educational impact of mapping, is one of the future…
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sikarskie commented on the blog post WMS 200 in SL or Gender in the Metaverse
How interesting! One of my dissertation chapters is on quilts and quilting in SL. I’m also very interested in real life museums’ presences in Second Life. Really looking forward to your session!
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sikarskie commented on the blog post Preserving Digital Humanities Projects
Yay I’m so glad you’re doing this session! The project I work for, the Quilt Index, has made a commitment to exist and be accessible online in perpetuity. So we’ve had conversations and planning for short and long-term sustainability and preservation for various…
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sikarskie commented on the blog post Social Networking and Digital Humanities Projects
I’m so glad that you’re interested in analytics. Using various analytics apps has really helped me convince others that our social media campaign is effective, and we’ve even gotten a little bit of fodder for future grants out of the data generated by analytics…
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sikarskie wrote a new blog post: Social Networking and Digital Humanities Projects
How can digital humanities projects use social networking to expand their audience base and excite new audiences about content? Hi, my name is Amanda Sikarskie, and I work in project development on the Quilt Index, http://www.quiltindex.org. The QI is an online…