Category «Margins»

Introduction to Project Management in Digital Humanities

Here is the outline for my workshop this morning on project management at THATCamp New England. Conceptualizing the project Collaboration — reach out to others in the field; know the field Writing the Grant: Necessary fictions Follow the guidelines Select the staff Create the workplan Key Deliverables Estimating work Budgeting: personnel, materials, travel, indirect Office …

CHNM is hiring a Web Designer

Are you a talented designer who is interested in building highly usable, interactive websites for the digital humanities? Are you interested in working with a team of innovative programmers using open source technologies? Well, then the Center for History and New Media might have a job for you. In addition to the wed developer opening …

Jesuits, Wildmans, and Mattinglys

For a few more hours, today is Father’s Day, and tomorrow marks the fourth anniversary of my own father’s death. Donald Leon was not an easy man to get to know–not much of a talker and extremely focused on his work. For the past few years I’ve struggled with how to mark his passing, especially …

Book Meme

I’ve been tagged — by Sheila. 1. Grab the book closest to you. Got it. 2. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence. Okay. 3. Post the text of next 3 sentences on your blog: He is looking for someone or something that no one will discuss, that he has only inferred, …

Laptops for Libya

Nicholas Negroponte’s dream to bring cheap laptops to the children of the world will begin with Libya.  Imagine what the world would be like if every child had a wireless connection…..