Hi all,

It's long been my belief that anthropologists can increase their public visibility and engagement by working together, especially cross-promoting each other's work. The PopAnth website has been using social media (TwitterFacebook, Google Plus, LinkedIn) to bring attention to articles written by anthropologists in newspapers, on blogs, in books, and so on. 

Recently, I've had conversations with Tricia Wang (Ethnography Matters), Matt Thompson (Savage Minds / DANG) and Ryan Anderson (Anthropologies Project / DANG) about furthering collaboration. We agreed that it would be a great idea!

DANG are already bringing together all kinds of people who are interested in open access, digital anthropology, blogging, and so on. For this reason, I suggested that the DANG website might be a good place to put information that can help anthropologists in their public engagement: stuff on open access, guides to writing for the public, ideas on how to get published in newspapers, and so on.

But that's just one idea. My question is: how do we best coordinate? 

Erin

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Sorry for taking a bit to comment here Erin. 

First off, I think it might be good to re-post this one on the main OAC page (maybe in the forum) to make it a bit more visible?

Second, I think there are three issues here: 1) how do we all find a way to coordinate with one another and bring all of our various projects and conversations together?; 2) the need to create an organized, central resource that anthropologists can use to look into open access, how to write for the public, ideas about getting published, etc; and 2) the creation of a site/project/media outlet that targets a wider audience (not anthros).

I am going to post something on Savage Minds to see if that helps spread the discussion.

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