Last class a man who works on communication for the college of Ursinus talked to us. He talked about how social media can be used to help promote a humanities project. Social media is a great tool to use but it is also a great responsibility to have to make sure that your posts are Perfectly examined. In each picture you post you need permission to post it from each person.
Instagram is a great platform to use to connect with your readers. they can see pictures of the archives themselves or maybe just a picture of your day to day life. Pictures that are more personal will help your readers gain a connection with you. Make sure that your pictures are not too personal.
Twitter is also a great platform for many different things. twitter can be used for crowd sourcing ideas, connecting with readers, and finding other people working on the same types of projects as you. Twitter is a very unique platform, because it lets you send out a paragraph or even a short blurb very unprofessionally but extremely fast and efficient. Twitter Can be used to “retweet” thing and the way that works is you take someone else tweet and send it out to all the people that follows you. The tweet see two groups of followers. Twitter is very expansive and your work can be seen by millions of people on twitter. I Defiantly will use twitter to promote my project. When I actually start the project I hope to post pictures of cool documents I find in the archives. the man that talked to the class also talked about Bear Make History groups doing a take over of the Ursinus Instagram. That would entail taking a bunch of picture and almost doing a day in the life of a Ursinus Bears Make History student.
Bears makes history 