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I did not want to use a PowerPoint or even a Prezi or Google Presentation for this session. I played with a stack in Delicious (a social bookmarking tool) but ultimately decided to use another social bookmarking tool, Diigo, because of its Webslides feature. (I also created a board on Pinterest (Genealogy and Family History, under Amanda Pape) for another presentation on that topic).
I did not want to use a PowerPoint or even a Prezi or Google Presentation for this session. I played with a stack in Delicious (a social bookmarking tool) but ultimately decided to use another social bookmarking tool, Diigo, because of its Webslides feature. I also created a board on Pinterest (Genealogy and Family History, under Amanda Pape).
This article interviews a number of genealogists who use social media tools in their work. "Amy Lenertz Coffin, [my librarian friend] whose blog We Tree, http://wetree.blogspot.com/, includes her own thoughts on genealogy as well as a calendar of Texas genealogical events, had this to say about social networking:
"I use my blog to highlight my research focus and maintain a dialogue about events in the genealogy world. This is a great, search-engine friendly platform that reaches a wide audience. Facebook provides me with an introduction to other family historians, in turn leading to many friendships and an increase in readers of my blog. Twitter provides the avenue for real-time genealogy news and at conferences and blog update announcements.
The use of Blogger, Facebook and Twitter together has greatly benefited my family history pursuit, genealogy social circle and research experience. I consider each of these sites essential to my online genealogy toolbox."
Today I'm going to talk about some of the items in my genealogy social media toolbox, focusing on blogging, photo sharing sites and sources for images you can reuse in your blog, and mapping with Google Maps.
The article also quotes Thomas MacEntee of Geneabloggers, www.geneabloggers.com, a WONDERFUL resource for genealogy and family history bloggers and social media users - lots of tutorials, ideas for writing, genealogy news, and links to other blogs. I highly recommend that you subscribe to Thomas' site - if you can read only one blog a day, read his, as he will connect you to everything else you need. See the next slide for more from Thomas.
This article interviews a number of genealogists who use social media tools in their work. In particular, take a look at what Amy Lenertz Coffin (my librarian friend who blogs at We Tree, http://wetree.blogspot.com/), has to say.
"The use of Blogger, Facebook and Twitter together has greatly benefited my family history pursuit, genealogy social circle and research experience. I consider each of these sites essential to my online genealogy toolbox."
Today I'm going to talk about some of the items in my genealogy social media toolbox, focusing on blogging, photo sharing sites and sources for images you can reuse in your blog, and mapping with Google Maps.
The article also quotes Thomas MacEntee of Geneabloggers, www.geneabloggers.com, a WONDERFUL resource for genealogy and family history bloggers and social media users - lots of tutorials, ideas for writing, genealogy news, and links to other blogs. I highly recommend that you subscribe to Thomas' site - if you can read only one blog a day, read his, as he will connect you to everything else you need. See the next slide for more from Thomas.
Amy Lenertz Coffin
Amy Lenertz Coffin whose blog We Tree, http://wetree.blogspot.com/, includes her own thoughts on genealogy as well as a calendar of Texas genealogical events, had this to say about social networking.
I use my blog to highlight my research focus and maintain a dialogue about events in the genealogy world. This is a great, search-engine friendly platform that reaches a wide audience. Facebook provides me with an introduction to other family historians, in turn leading to many friendships and an increase in readers of my blog. Twitter provides the avenue for real-time genealogy news and at conferences and blog update announcements.
The use of Blogger, Facebook and Twitter together has greatly benefitted my family history pursuit, genealogy social circle and research experience. I consider each of these sites essential to my online genealogy toolbox
Blogging (both writing one and reading many) is my primary social media tool in my genealogy and family history work.
I took Thomas' reasons and put them in my priority order. Here's why I have a genealogy blog:
- research
- sharing with family (and friends)
- connecting with family
- writing (I'm a frustrated author)
- blogging as a creative outlet
- connecting with genealogists
- giving back to the community
- marketing (I'm not a professional genealogist, so this is a low priority for me).
My genealogy blog is ABT UNK, at http://abt-unk.blogspot.com. ABT and UNK are abbreviations commonly used in genealogy. Blogspot, or Blogger, is a common blogging platform that is easy to use. Other good platforms are Wordpress (which is harder to use, but can give you more flexibility) and Tumblr (which is great if your blog is primarily photographs).
A plus for me with Blogger is that it falls under the Google umbrella and I don't need another user name and password. Also, I have found my blog posts often come up high in the results in Google searches.
I took Thomas' reasons and put them in my priority order. Here's why I have a genealogy blog:
- research
- sharing with family (and friends)
- connecting with family
- writing (I'm a frustrated author)
- blogging as a creative outlet
- connecting with genealogists
- giving back to the community
- marketing (I'm not a professional genealogist, so this is a low priority for me).
My genealogy blog is ABT UNK, at http://abt-unk.blogspot.com. ABT and UNK are abbreviations commonly used in genealogy. Blogspot, or Blogger, is a common blogging platform that is easy to use. Other good platforms are Wordpress (which is harder to use, but can give you more flexibility) and Tumblr (which is great if your blog is primarily photographs).
A plus for me with Blogger is that it falls under the Google umbrella and I don't need another user name and password. Also, I have found my blog posts often come up high in the results in Google searches.
Here's an example from my blog of how blogging can help with your research and with connecting with family. Someone named Emma Pape Childs provided the photo in this post of my great great grandparents to my great aunt. This post led to a descendant of Emma finding me - see the comment at the end of the blog post.
Here's an example from my blog of how blogging can help with your research and with connecting with family. Someone named Emma Pape Childs provided the photo in this post of my great great grandparents to my great aunt. This post led to a descendant of Emma finding me - see the comment at the end of the blog post.
This photo was sent to me by my third-cousin-once-removed Carole, who saw my blog post about our common ancestors and later provided this photo. Carole and I are now friends on Facebook.
This photo was sent to me by my third-cousin-once-removed Carole, who saw my blog post about our common ancestors and later provided this photo. Carole and I are now friends on Facebook.
This post led to obtaining many more family photos, two of which I've posted about so far on my blog.
There's also an example here of using Google Maps to find an address (the one on the back of the Christmas card) and figuring out what city it was in AND that the home on Google Maps Street View is the same home pictured on the card! I'll talk more about using Google Maps in this presentation.
The photograph of Ewald is one of the pictures sent to me by my third cousin Mary Kay, after she saw my earlier post on Ewald Pape and e-mailed me. Her sister googled "Ewald Pape" and my earlier post about the Christmas card from Oregon was the result.
Note that the photographs of the buildings Ewald designed in this post are images available for use with attribution from Wikimedia Commons. I'll talk more later about photo sharing sites as a source for images you can use in your blog as well as a way to share your own images.
The photograph of Ewald is one of the pictures sent to me by my third cousin Mary Kay, after she saw my earlier post on Ewald Pape and e-mailed me. Her sister googled "Ewald Pape" and my earlier post about the Christmas card from Oregon was the result.
Note that the photographs of the buildings Ewald designed in this post are images available for use with attribution from Wikimedia Commons. I'll talk more later about photo sharing sites as a source for images you can use in your blog as well as a way to share your own images.
This is one of the reasons I have a genealogy blog! My third cousin Mary Kay sent me this picture, too. This is a photograph of my paternal grandfather with his siblings and one family of cousins that I'd never seen before - and Mary Kay had the photo but didn't know who half the people were.
This is one of the reasons I have a genealogy blog! My third cousin Mary Kay sent me this picture, too. This is a photograph of my paternal grandfather with his siblings and one family of cousins that I'd never seen before - and Mary Kay had the photo but didn't know who half the people were.
My blog post with some tips on setting up your blog - essentials, and "bling" that you might not really need, and that could be a distraction.
My blog post with some tips on setting up your blog - essentials, and "bling" that you might not really need, and that could be a distraction.
Buy Amy's book! The Big Genealogy Blog Book, by my friend and fellow librarian, Amy Coffin, has lots of great tips for genealogy blogging! IT"S ONLY $2.99 and available in a variety of formats! Amy Coffin is a librarian and genealogist, and blogs at We Tree: http://wetree.blogspot.com
Buy Amy's book! The Big Genealogy Blog Book, by my friend and fellow librarian, Amy Coffin, has lots of great tips for genealogy blogging! IT"S ONLY $2.99 and available in a variety of formats! Amy Coffin is a librarian and genealogist, and blogs at We Tree: http://wetree.blogspot.com
Some of the photo sharing tools I use in my genealogy work, for storing and sharing my photos and documents as well as for finding photos and documents I can legally use in my blog posts, are Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, and SmugMug. I also use flickrCC to search Flickr for Creative Commons licensed images, and Wikimedia Commons to find such images as well.
This is an example of my using Flickr to find an image I could use in my blog. I needed a photo of Kitirik for this post. I searched Flickr for an image using the advanced search at http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced and checking the box to "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content."
Another way to search Flickr for such content - use FlickrCC: http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/flickrCC/index.php
Don't forget to put the photo attributions in your blog posts! Click on the link in the caption of the Kitirik photo in the blog post, and it takes you to the original photo on Flickr.
This is an example of my using Flickr to find an image I could use in my blog. I needed a photo of Kitirik for this post. I searched Flickr for an image using the advanced search at http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced and checking the box to "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content."
Another way to search Flickr for such content - use FlickrCC: http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/flickrCC/index.php
Don't forget to put the photo attributions in your blog posts! Click on the link in the caption of the Kitirik photo in the blog post, and it takes you to the original photo on Flickr.
Another source you can use to find photos with Creative Commons licenses is flickrCC:
http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/flickrCC/index.php
I did a search for "Kitirik" here as well.
Another source you can use to find photos with Creative Commons licenses is flickrCC:
http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/flickrCC/index.php
I did a search for "Kitirik" here as well.
Here's another example of using an advanced search for Creative Commons licensed content on Flickr - the latter-day photo of the 1905 building still on the campus of Incarnate Word Academy in Houston, Texas, my mother's high school. I used this photo in this blog post. Once again, click on the link in the attribution caption under the photo, and it takes you to the photograph in Flickr.
Here's another example of using an advanced search for Creative Commons licensed content on Flickr - the latter-day photo of the 1905 building still on the campus of Incarnate Word Academy in Houston, Texas, my mother's high school. I used this photo in this blog post. Once again, click on the link in the attribution caption under the photo, and it takes you to the photograph in Flickr.
Yet another example of finding photos I needed for my blog post, and could use, on Flickr with a Creative Commons search.
Yet another example of finding photos I needed for my blog post, and could use, on Flickr with a Creative Commons search.
You never know how people are going to find your blog. This is my all-time top post, with three times as many page views as #2 on the list, and it "has nothing to do with genealogy"! Since I'm using Blogger, a Google platform, I think this page is a top result when people do searches on "rainbow eucalyptus," "eucalyptus," or "eucalyptus tree."
This also makes for a nice segue into another good (and free!) site for storing photos: Photobucket
You never know how people are going to find your blog. This is my all-time top post, with three times as many page views as #2 on the list, and it "has nothing to do with genealogy"! Since I'm using Blogger, a Google platform, I think this page is a top result when people do searches on "rainbow eucalyptus," "eucalyptus," or "eucalyptus tree."
This also makes for a nice segue into another good (and free!) site for storing photos: Photobucket
This is the photo referred to in the blog post in the previous slide. I put all my photos from a Hawaii cruise in Photobucket as that was the easiest way to share them with family and friends, but I hate the ads on this site.
This is the photo referred to in the blog post in the previous slide. I put all my photos from a Hawaii cruise in Photobucket as that was the easiest way to share them with family and friends, but I hate the ads on this site.
SmugMug is another way to share family photos and documents. My second cousin Bill posted over 500 photos and scanned documents here that were among his grandmother's (my great aunt's) collection. This site is not free, but it's beautiful, and enables you to store high-quality images and easily make them available for others to purchase prints in different sizes.
SmugMug is another way to share family photos and documents. My second cousin Bill posted over 500 photos and scanned documents here that were among his grandmother's (my great aunt's) collection. This site is not free, but it's beautiful, and enables you to store high-quality images and easily make them available for others to purchase prints in different sizes.
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This presentation was created by Amanda Pape for the Texas Social Media Research Institute's first Social Media Conference on December 2, 2011, at Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas.
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