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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

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

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

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

Will Steemit Overturn Traditional Media?

Steemit proposes an innovative incentive model in the field of content output, which is a kind of incentive mode that has never been used before and cannot be used

Too Many Things To Be Repaired, But Too Few People Can Repair Them

"Thousands of years of civilization, there are too many things to be repaired, but too few people can repair them," said Jiang Daoyin, a master of ancient

Giant Steps Toward the Digital Age: Interactive and Collaborative Music History

Interacting with the Inter-web Good evening, Steemians! In just a few days, I will be defending my thesis, and my brain has been focused exclusively on Philadelphia’s

Eco-ways to "Cater" to Audience

Picture from Obviously, traditional institutions like museums and art institutes are catering to audience in this era. Different from old time that there were limited

1918: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Last month we lost one of our most lovely physicist Stephen William Hawking. Mr. Hawking is a splendid and interesting physicist. He had some guest appearances in

Expending Dimensions: Augmented Reality Use in Museum

Picture from: Museum usually leaves people an impression of rigidity and detachment, which impedes the thorough access of publics to the knowledge. However, knowledge

A Transformative Pitch: "Shipping" Institutions

Shipping /SHipiNG/ noun: the act of wanting and supporting two individuals involved in a romantic relationship. DISCLAIMER: This picture in no way indicates my support

Changing Mission: The Reformation of Historical Society of Pennsylvania

As one of the oldest historical societies, HSP owns a big materials collection including books, manuscripts, family histories and artifacts from different times.

The Row Home Museum: Letter of Intent

Yesterday, I wrote about the gaps I see in Philadelphia's history system. Today I give you, the funders, a mock Letter of Intent for a project that could meet some

Building Investment Momentum

This post is part of the Philadelphia History Initiative (@phillyhistory). This week our class took stock of the experiment so far and continued posing questions

Yinan's Debut!

Hi there! My name is Yinan Zhou 周怡南, from Shanghai China. I’m a graduate student in Temple Master of Liberal Arts program. Self-introduction is always a tough job

Hello Steemit! - Public Historian in the City of Brotherly Love

Hi folks! My name is Ted Maust and I'm getting an M.A. in public history from Temple University. On the water with classmates from Studies in American Material Culture,

Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Breintnall and the problem of excess genius

An 18th-century leaf-printing project as it relates to counterfeit-resistant currency, discussed here by @voronoi, features the printer’s partner, the go-to Founding