Third video of the workshop and mine. I actually managed to edit this video with out watching it. It was not my best presentation and I was all over the place not really articulating my message as well as I could have. The work I cite in the video can be found here at the Where is IT going 2 wiki, check it out. See all the other, much better, presentations and audience reactions here- http://storify.com/lornarichardson/workshop-on-barriers-to-participation-with-archaeo or here.
Doug Rocks-Macqueen
University of Edinburgh, Open Access Archaeology
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of Archaeology and Social Media
Why isn’t you organization (insert “on Facebook”, “Tweeting”, “Blogging”, etc.)?”, a now very common question in the world of archaeology. There is a lot of peer pressure on archaeologists and their organizations to be involved in social media. However, very few of us, archaeologists, understand the time commitments involved or what this even means. Moreover, very few people know how individuals interact with social media, an aspect that is too often over simplified, and how that can affect an archaeologists or their organization. This presentation looks at a series of surveys, of both archaeologists and non-archaeologists,and several case studies, such as archaeologists getting fired for blogging, to illustrate the problems holding back archaeologists and archaeology organizations from fully embracing social media.
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Jennifer Palmer
May 27, 2012
I liked your presentation. Good info! As far as archaeologyfieldwork.com goes, once I started reaching out through social media, our numbers shot up. I thought that every possible archy must have known about the site since it was up for years, but that was not the case, and we brought in lots of new folks through Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. No doubt there can be a significant time investment in the process of branding a site through social media, even though some portion of it can be semi-automated.
On a related note, I wanted to mention that I encountered a similar situation to Chris’. In my case, my website (rather than blog) apparently prevented me from getting a job in archaeology. The prospective employer told me that they were reluctant to hire me because I had a large audience on the internet through the website, and they were afraid I might use it to slam the company if I had a bad experience working there (this was especially upsetting since I have had a long-standing policy of preventing others of doing the same on the site). I also had a second experience working for a CRM firm where I was verbally disciplined because I had mentioned something in a message (in only a vague sense) about a project we were working on. Like Chris’ situation, the information I posted was nothing new or sensitive, and was already available to the public.
Doug Rocks-Macqueen
May 27, 2012
Thanks for sharing Jennifer. This paper is actually in the second version. If you don’t mind, can I include your story in the next version of it?
Jennifer Palmer
May 27, 2012
Sure! Of course I can’t reveal the company names to protect the guilty. ;>
Doug Rocks-Macqueen
May 27, 2012
Of course, Chris also never said the name of his employer. I of course wouldn’t either as I may one day need a job with whoever it is, except I have this blog …… 🙂