Hello there!
First, a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gskPiUfHv7s&feature=youtu.be
I would like to take a moment to extend another giant thank you to everyone who helped us get to the AHA and who helped us make the most of the experience there!
To give you an idea of raw numbers--around 200 people watched our speech, ~30 live (which is about average for a major panel on the first day of a conference) and ~170 on our Periscope, which includes many of you here, and many of our twitter followers. Additionally, we organized to attend receptions every single night we were there-- Twitterstorians, Public Historians, the Farewell Breakfast and the World History Association Receptions.
During those receptions, and over the course of the conference, we gave away lots of business cards and made quite a lot of contacts between the seven of us that were present. We also got to meet a few flairs in person, so hello to each and every one of you!
In addition, we received great advice on how to expand and edit our podcast, how to reach a wider audience, and other great advice we will take to heart to improve your experience here. Speaking of the podcast... I took a recording of the speeches, as well as the questions. The audio file will make its way to /u/400-rabbits for an extra-special edition of our podcast!
As promised, we have rough transcripts of the five speeches that we gave at the AHA.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1orBlhqfBd_Bk-_sIf1zTYdsd82HTPyFBWunokXopEfc/edit?usp=sharing
(/u/Celebreth uploaded his paper with the edits we made in our critique sessions--there is a link in there, or you can click here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9nqQulCLkiZMXlzV3lkX044V3c/view?usp=sharing)
Let me or any of the other attendees know if you have questions!
Thanks for the time and effort that all of you put into the AHA, and thank you so much for posting transcripts. :)
This was amazing, and I loved getting to meet you all. I had a fantastic time getting to know you all, and thank you for encouraging me to get back into answering questions here!
Again, it was a great panel. I attended a few of the digital history panels and I felt that your work was not only informative but also truly part of a community hoping to pull the rest of the academy into a new era.
I know this runs completely counter to /r/askhistorians and we should probably wait 20 years for the studies to come out, but we want personal anecdotes!!
What was fun? What was unexpected? What did they serve at the receptions? All of it!!
ALSO: artefacts! can we get a pic of your business cards?
Congrats guys, sounds like it was really well received!
Thanks a lot for uploading the transcript. A very interesting read that I'm sure made for an equally interesting panel!
Hi all,
thanks for attending on our behalf, and thanks for sharing your papers - all interesting!
I'm wondering (since I haven't heard the audio): did you take questions at the end of each speaker, or at the end of the group? Were there many questions while you had the floor? Did many people approach you later? Were any other people interested in starting an online presence for their own institutions, expanding what they already have, or getting involved in ours?
Basically , I'm wondering how much interest there was in this type of project, and what kinds of questions people were asking you. (Also whether that content would be in the recording, so we can hear it on the pod).
Thx!
That's a great read—and something I'll bookmark to share. It sounds like you made a splash and got the best out of the AHA. Thanks for all your hard work on the sub and for representing AH so well!
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ever thought of using the extra sticky for stuff like this on a rotating basis? (extra sticky when a meta post like this isn't current)