I’ve become very curious and excited recently about how corporations, nonprofits, and others are using social media, in particular different social media sites, for marketing a specific part of a product or project. I’m curious if anyone is interested in examining how from its inception an oral history project can use various social media websites to do pre-marketing, real time marketing, and post marketing to keep up interest in a project. So for example, creating a Facebook page that syncs with a Twitter feed to give instant updates about the design and plan for an oral history project, while Soundcloud, Timblr, and Pinterest could each have different parts of a digital oral history project linked to each other. So for example a wav or mp3 file could be put on soundcloud, a blog with photographs could be on Tumblr, while unique pinboards could be created on Pinterest.
Do this sound interesting to anybody?
This is an interesting approach to curating collections in multiple channels. I am trying to do that with Toledo’s Attic but couldn’t get these channels to sync. I will be interested in Soundcloud as well.