Digital Resources for Advocacy 
Gathered here is a stockpile of resources to aid in the creation, presentation, and circulation of effective advocacy—including recommendations for online platforms and digital tools, site designs, royalty-free graphics and images, customizable newsfeeds or other dynamic materials, and so on.
Initially, “Resources for Advocacy” will be a collection of posts about digital resources. Later, it will present a more structured guide to how digital technologies can assist in advocating the humanities–for example:
- A changing “top five” recommendation list of resources to consider in each of the following areas: content management systems (CMS) or exhibition platforms (WordPress, Drupal, OMEKA, etc.), templates for such systems, embeddable news feeds, permission-free or Creative Commons licensed image and audio resources, etc.
- A set of “best practices” recommendations accompanied by “recipes” (on the model of the “recipes” on the TAPoR text-analysis portal site) for combining tools and resources for specific goals.
- A contact list of volunteers from the digital humanities community willing to consult with people who want to use digital resources to create effective advocacy. (This could be by rota–i.e., one might volunteer for a month out of each year to serve as a 4Humanities consultant.)
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Digital Humanities Video Showcase
Below is a small set of videos showcasing some research happening in the Digital Humanities. The videos were initially compiled to provide a sampling of Digital Humanities work – they were shown during the CHCI/centerNET meeting in June 2011. We would be delighted to add more videos to this collection. Please contact us if you’re [...]
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Omeka Collection Management System
Omeka is a free, open-source web publishing system for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Omeka makes it easy for academics and cultural professionals to design and publish their own collections-based research and online exhibitions, a task [...]
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Staying Up-to-Date
Keeping up with numerous news items, blog posts, and tweets on the state of the humanities can be challenging, but fortunately several free tools help you to stay informed. In this post, we profile several approaches: Read relevant blogs and websites. Several blogs and web sites—including 4humanities, Defend the Arts and Humanities, National Campaign Against [...]
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WordPress Blog Platform and Content Management System
WordPress is one of the most widespread software solutions today for individuals and organizations to publish on the Web, especially if interaction with the public or multiple-contributor participation is desired. It is well-suited to advocacy sites because it is adapted to the Web 2.0 era of collaborative authoring and user involvement; it is also [...]
