The Twitter stream from the 2017 annual Australian Historical Association conference at the University of Newcastle last week broke the records. The conference’s #OzHA2017 Twitter stream had more tweets and more participants than in the previous five years. During the five days of this year’s conference at the University of Newcastle sent over four thousand tweets. This online … [Read more...] about Australian History Conference Generates Record Twitter Stream
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Blogging the 2016 Australian Historical Association Conference
Social media has transformed conferences. No longer are conferences a private experience which might be shared months or years later when some papers are published. Live reporting of conferences on Twitter has gone a long way to enlarging the audience of a conference to interested people around the world. Where conference attendees are particularly engaged on Twitter the … [Read more...] about Blogging the 2016 Australian Historical Association Conference
Tweeting the 2016 Australian Historical Association Conference
Last week there was a flurry of Australian history tweeting emanating from Ballarat in Victoria. The 2016 annual conference of the Australian Historical Association was held in the old gold city and over three hundred presenters from universities, galleries, libraries, archives, museums and small businesses talked all things history. I have attended the last four conferences, … [Read more...] about Tweeting the 2016 Australian Historical Association Conference
Heritage Leads First Day of #OzHA2016 Conference Papers
It is on again! One of the largest annual history conferences in Australia is being held all this week in Ballarat at Federation University of Australia. Over three hundred historians and associated professionals from galleries, libraries, archives, museums (GLAM) sector will present papers about the ‘Boom and Bust’ of history. I have attended the last four conferences but not … [Read more...] about Heritage Leads First Day of #OzHA2016 Conference Papers
The Loud Sounds of Many Fingers Typing
This series of posts has largely celebrated the tweeting of this year’s Australian Historical Association Conference. Overall we did well at sharing the news of the conference online. But while we should celebrate our achievements, we should at the same time keep a sense of proportion on all this. Twitter is not everything and neither is social media. The vast majority of … [Read more...] about The Loud Sounds of Many Fingers Typing