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Have tours you want to transfer to a digital platform? Looking for ways to engage guests at your site or in your historic corridors? Looking to add ADA compliance to your facilities? Looking to enhance your static signs and exhibits? Want to see how Next Exit History can work for you? Now you can!
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We have worked with our Partners at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History and Culture to curate the experience of A World-Wide Story in the Next Exit History App. This project takes items from their collection, some on display and some in storage, and puts them back on the map. Showcasing the stories that connect places and people- a shared history showcased in map form. Connecting stories of hardship and hard work, exclusion and inclusion, slavery and freedom, famous figures and common men and women. These stories come from all over the globe and yet belong to each person too.
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Social Media in the Age of #Resistance: Jimmy Grant, HRA
Cultural institutions have long recognized the value of a robust social media
presence. Whether using it as a tool to keep supporters updated on special events,
or as technology to bridge geographic divides, social media provides an efficient
platform to get a message out there for the world. In 2017, cultural institutions
demonstrated another important role of social media: advocacy.
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One of the great adventures of working with technology is finding what uses lie beneath the original intended purposes. Besides getting to know the technologies and functions it posses, there are hours spent creating new and different ways to bring that technology to new groups to meet needs and serve groups of people potentially left out previously.
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It took Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery two years, four months, and ten days to reach the Pacific Ocean after leaving their winter camp in St. Louis. Along the way, the group mapped and surveyed thousands of landmarks; made countless zoological and botanical discoveries; met with members from dozens of Native American tribes; and proved plausible the Jeffersonian ideal that the United States could one day stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
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It seems like only yesterday (January of 2007 to be exact) that Steve Jobs stepped onto the stage of the Macworld Conference & Expo to announce to the world that Apple was releasing its most revolutionary product yet; the iPhone.