Resources for history organizations and professionals

 

Conferences, seminars, and workshops

• The largest list of conferences and courses for history, heritage, and preservation professionals

Newsletters

• Including statewide event lists, conferences and courses, marketing tips, and more 

Promoting your organization or event

• Marketing and communications tools for historical societies and other history organizations
• Promoting your organization's history events with a statewide newsletter
• How to add an entire year's worth of events to The History List in about 30 minutes and quick start guide download
• Use The History List to manage the list of events on your website so you only have to enter them in one place
• Attract more visitors to your historic site, historical society, history museum, or other history organization with The History List
• How The History List is designed to meet the specific needs of history organizations
• How to write an event description that draws the right crowd
• Promoting your summer camp or program
• Promoting your holiday event
• What families want in a holiday event and what you should include in your ad, web listing, or press release to attract them to your event
• Marketing gift memberships at the holidays, including #MembershipMonday 
• Promoting historic tours with daily video clips (from the Freedom Trail Foundation)
• Creating an automated event calendar with events from several organizations
• Creating an automated event calendar with events from several organizations using tags
• Using Twitter hashtags to promote your event

Income ideas

• Making a book out of your organization's articles and posts
• An imprint on something useful—and unusual
• A more creative approach to t-shirts and mugs
• Turning an artifact into jewelry
• Creating jewelry from reclaimed historic material
• Marketing your site as an event space
• Marketing gift memberships at the holidays, including #MembershipMonday 

Getting hired as an intern or full-time employee and building your career

• Getting an internship working in a museum or archives
• Getting a job as an interpreter at a historic site: What to include on your resume and why
• My life as a guide and interpreter at a historic site—and what to know before you apply for a job
• Jobs for history lovers: Panel discussion at History Camp Cambridge (2014) [video]
• Conferences, seminars, and online courses for history professionals

Social media

• 88 social media examples from historical societies, historic sites, history museums, and other history organizations
• Using Twitter hashtags to promote your event

Promoting your own appearances

• How history authors, experts, and costumed interpreters can promote their appearances with The History List

Research

• What families want in a holiday event and what you should include in your ad, web listing, or press release to attract them to your event

Case studies and museum and site visits

• Visiting the State Historical Museum of Iowa: Five ideas you can use at your site or in your museum
• Visiting the Connecticut Historical Society: Six ideas that almost any organization can adapt
• A statewide traveling exhibit program (from the Indiana Historical Society)
• Collaboration for non-profits: Case studies and guidelines
• Creating a regional network of historical societies for joint marketing
• 87 Award-winning local history projects
• A statewide history expo stimulates interest in local history and leads to the creation of new local historical societies (from the Vermont Historical Society)
• Promoting historic tours with daily video clips (from the Freedom Trail Foundation)
• An online game, iPad app, and 120 lesson plans teach life aboard USS Constitution (from the USS Constitution Museum)

Working with schools

• The National History Club and their local chapters

Website management

• Using The History List to create and manage the list of events on your site
• Creating an automated event calendar with events from one organization or several organizations
• Creating an automated event calendar with events from several organizations using tags

Mobile

• Using QR codes at historic sites and other ways to meet the needs of mobile visitors—Note that this post advocates responsive design, not QR codes.

Identity and graphic design

• The logos for 66 local historical societies
• The logos for the 50 state historical societies
• Holiday campaign graphics: "Make this holiday historic!"
• Visualizing historical information: The Mayflower passengers on the first Thanksgiving and the second

 

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