They've achieved liftoff! I mean the twenty history organizations who are learning the ways and means of digital recording, oral history interviews, and podcasting. I'm so impressed! First, look at the map that shows the location of each site in the network. When you hover your mouse over any site, you see its name. Click on the site and up pops a description of the place with contact information. Click on Stories and you go to an index of all the podcasts the network has produced in the last couple of months.
Here is one that I think is a great example of how quickly this network creates know-how. Click on the podcast about "Sarah Osborne, Civil War Soldier." The announcer on this podcast is Candace Walker, Education Director at the John Wornall House Museum in Kansas City. A week before she made this podcast with Melva Hargett, Candace didn't know what a podcast was and hadn't been to a meeting of the Border War Network. I told Candace about the podcasting project and she made a bee-line to Harrisonville for some training. Yikes! Look at how fast things turn around when a group of people form a win-win project for themselves!
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