Due date: self-scheduled
Category: oas plan
Outreach
The outreach part of your plan maps out how you are going to cultivate a network (or networks) to assist in and share out your research. Use the networking exercise we did in class to identify class members, college community members, community members, and wider audiences that are part of your plan.
Community Resources
Your plan should identify a minimum of 5 individuals/groups.
Identify who you are going to reach out to in our local community (Davidson College, Davidson, UNC). Specify the resources you are seeking, and/or whether you would like to share your project with these people and why. Be specific about how you will connect with them and what you want/need from them.
Social Media
Your plan should address the following questions.
How will you contact different parts of your possible network? You may be able to email a Davidson professor or staff member, but what about a scholar or resource at another institution or a journalist? How can you use social media to connect with existing networks related to your topic?
- How will you establish a legitimate / trustworthy identity from which to communicate and on which platforms?
- What signals are you using to establish your identity?
- Your bio – Davidson student, listing relevant interests/knowledge, links to work you’ve done, links to your main website, hashtags that are associated with your topic.
- What you share and say matters. What can you do to join relevant conversations?
- What signals are you using to establish your identity?
- How will you find relevant communities and networks on social media? Try and find one or two active, relevant groups. Start with specific accounts that you know of and look up who they are following and with whom they’re interacting. Are they using any relevant hashtags? If you cannot find any active groups related to your topic, use active DH groups/accounts.
Sustainability
The sustainability part of your plan speaks to what is going to happen to your site/project after the class ends.
Your plan should address the following questions.
- Whose account did you build the site on? How long can it stay there (what year does this person graduate)? Do you all want a record of this work for your own portfolio?
- Sites that meet the following criteria can apply to be moved onto digitalprojects.davidson.edu. (Indicate if this is part of your plan.)
- need to be moved off individual student and faculty domains
- that have a possible collective or public audiences
- that have a longer life than one semester or year
- that have a point person on staff at Davidson willing to maintain the site or project
- Sites that meet the following criteria can apply to be moved onto digitalprojects.davidson.edu. (Indicate if this is part of your plan.)
- How long do you want the site to remain live? You can set a date to reassess.
- Consider whether you intend for the site to be a resource to a community or communities.
- Do you plan to continue actively using / updating the site or is it static at the end of the semester?
- Do you have any plans for interactivity that require you to respond? How will you keep this going after the class has ended?