Where do I begin? Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and now TikTok are all platforms that can be utilized to tell history in novel ways. These are just some social media ways to draw attention to an account you know and want to tell. You cannot leave out audio platforms like SoundCloud for oral histories and podcast hosting sites like Spotify. Public historians should familiarize themselves with as many of these platforms as possible to increase the visibility and knowledge of the story they want to educate their audience on. Museums that have developed their web apps and intensive builds allow the museum-goer to get an interactive experience while visiting the museum.
Technologies that have influenced my own work and have been imperative to my learning in digital humanities, include google products like Google Timeline, N-Gram Viewer, and Google Scholar. The word mapping analysis, making interactive maps, and other more technical tools of digital humanities has had a steeper learning curve to learn. My personal social media preferences are twitter and Instagram. I feel that is due to my limited time to interact overall. The most effective history on these social media sites have been either stories in small snippets, or Instagram pictures of museum exhibits as a virtual tour. In the time of Covid, virtual tours, virtual 3D exhibits, and even online lectures from museum curators/historians have been the most effective.
