There are numerous topics that I’m interested in discussing at THATCampSoCal. Here are a few:
- Rapid digital tool-building experiments. I can share insights from my work on CHNM’s One Week | One Tool team.
- Using WordPress’ CMS features for building an online CV/portfolio. Recently I used WP3.0 as a platform for Chapman University’s Faculty Promotion & Tenure ePortfolios, and can share my work on that project as well as suggest possibilities for future plugin/widget development that would streamline this process.
- Strategies for building local DH communities, via sites like DHSoCal, and also through creating & hosting a California-based DH summer institute that’s loosely-modeled on the work done by University of Victoria’s DHSI.
- The impact of social media on the terrain of humanities scholarship. I can contribute my experience based on promoting and podcasting Yale’s “Past’s Digital Presence” conference.
I second Sukey’s enthusiasm! I would love to talk about that as well.
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Hey, I’d love a session devoted to using WordPress to build portfoloios. I’m a year and a half into a three year tenure process at my college, and we are required to create a portfolio to submit. Right now, the administration requires a physical notebook, literally a three-ring binder, but there is a movement among some of us to allow an electronic portfolio, and I’m one of those trying to create this alternative format. I just set up a site at www.ychumanities.net to experiment with WordPress for this, but I haven’t done anything with it yet.