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Lisa Grimm wrote a new post, Crowdsourcing – The Session, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009 right now

Being a semi-liveblog of our first session of the day – please annotate as you see fit (and apologies if I left anything or anyone out).

Attendees: Andy Ashton, Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, Tim Brixius, Tad Suiter, Susan […]

Lisa Grimm commented on the post, Museum & University: Creating Content Together, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009 right now

I’m also quite interested in this – and I just discovered yesterday we might have been ‘volunteered’ for a statewide project exactly along these lines. Hearing some other perspectives will be very helpful as we […]

Lisa Grimm commented on the post, Travel practicalities?, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009 right now

I’m at the Hampton Inn Fairfax City, which seems to be reasonably close by (within about 2 miles of the campus). I know there are at least a few others there as well. Good idea about the campus map!

Lisa Grimm wrote a new post, Travel practicalities?, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009 right now

I know there’s been a bit of dicussion back and forth about the best ways to get to and from GMU, but I thought I’d try to get it all together in a central location. I’m told by the folks at the Hampton Inn […]

Lisa Grimm commented on the post, Context and connections, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009 right now

We have similar challenges (on a smaller scale) with our Paracelsus collection (not yet digitized or even on the road there yet, but is ‘on the list’) – we’d love to eventually have a site where scholars could […]

Lisa Grimm wrote a new post, Crowdsourcing & outreach, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009 right now

I mentioned briefly in my original post that we have a good deal of 19th-century textual material in what are now fairly obscure German dialects; we have scanned the originals and had parts translated, but we have […]

Lisa Grimm commented on the post, Campfire Plans, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009 right now

I’m getting in Friday evening – I would be very much up for heading to Rustico on Friday or Saturday night if anyone wants to make the trek. They have an outstanding beer list and great food; I consider it an […]

Lisa Grimm commented on the post, From History Student to Webmaster?, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009 right now

I’ve been on every side of this; I fell into a webmaster job while finishing my MA in archaeology and stayed in the field for over 10 years. Even in the corporate/dot-com world, most of my colleagues were people […]