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PhillyHistory’s Decision: The Wagner Free Institute of Science

As promised, the semester-long crypto-experiment conducted by graduate courses at Temple University's Center for Public History and Temple's MLA Program has concluded

Semester Summary: The Most Talked About Posts

As we boasted last time, the @phillyhistory project was brought to life by 15 students who, along with @phillyhistory, published 297 posts in 15 weeks drawing 872

Planting A Tree Online To Green Desert

How and where would you dispense $10,000; $100,000; $1,000,000: $10,000,000 to have maximum impact? This is a hard question. What is maximum impact you want to get

When My Institute Win The Lottery...

If there were a huge amount of money waiting for you to dispense in urban community development, what would you do? It’s always more exited to imagine assumption

End of Semester, Not End of Experiment

This semester provided us the opportunity to be a part of a great experiment. This experiment mixed history, blogging, cryptocurrency, and charity into a complex

How and where would you dispense $10,000; $100,000; $1,000,000: $10,000,000 to have maximum impact?

This is a platitude question that I usually asked my cousins. They have different answers but the same goal. For example, one planned to recharge the King's Glory

Semester Summary at “Steemit U”– What Have We Accomplished?

What has the @phillyhistory collective, the 15 students in this 15-week, crypto-experiment in higher education and the nonprofit sector done since mid January? Quite

A Contingency Plan

Plan-b by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images The denouement upon us This week ends our crypto-experiment in nonprofit fundraising and adminstration. You’ll

After-Action Review for @phillyhistory Project

As the semester is coming to an end, all of us on the @phillyhistory project are considering what we have and have not accomplished and evaluating our Steemit

What would you fund?

As we end the semester, @kenfinkel has posed us a biiiiiiig question. This is in addition to the lingering question of where exactly we want our grant to go, but

A Public History Training Center for $1-10 million

As one of our final posts, the members of the @phillyhistory project are discussing what we would do with $10k, $100k, $1 million, and $10 million to have maximum

Funding Failure

For nearly four months the @Phillyhistory team has consistently published content on this innovative platform in hopes of raising funds to support different Philly-based

I am not qualified to distribute large sums of money but let's just pretend!

This week--our final week!--we're engaging with the thought experiment of how and where we would dispense $10,000, $100,000, $1,000,000, and $10,000,000 to have

Collaboration and Education: Funding Philly Public History

We are coming to a close on #philly5151's class project for the 2018 semester (to read more about the details of our class and program, head here!), and this week

Making it Rain: How Various Sums of Money Could Positively Impact Cultural Nonprofits

Privyet Steemrades! This week, those of us working on the @phillyhistory project have been tasked with considering how we would use various sums of money to make

So... Now What?

What a semester it's been! Over the past three months, my class has explored the possibilities of how steemit can support non-profit ventures. We attempted to award

Review of Steemit Process This Semester

Fifteen weeks ago, I walked into a course I knew little about. We all looked at each other confused, as Professor Finkel explained the concept of the course. I left

Steemit: Between Social Media and Professional Content Platform

Picture from Earning money by posting content online is not merely the privilege of professional writers thanks to blockchain technology. With the use of decentralised

Blogging Experience And Some Immature Suggestions for Steemit

Philly History Blogging experience This semester is quite different from others because I get to know a quite innovative platform to post my blogs. Here I'd like

Blogging + Cryptocurrencies + Academia = Fishbowl Echo Chamber

Gif by Alex Boya AbstractAn assessment of a thought experiment exploring public history blogging on a cryptocurrency platform. Participants included graduate school