This year the annual school in Norwich included a great deal of digital discussion, with Tweets, videos, blogs, Facebook posts and photographs spreading the word of the annual school and the tours, topics and information discussed under the theme ‘cultural connections’.
IHBC Director Seán O’Reilly said: ‘It’s great to be able to extend our reach into the wider membership and public with our own members and delegates taking advantage of our social media infrastructure to reach out and break down the barriers to heritage learning. Of course with a School theme linked to diversity, it’s especially appropriate that support and encouragement from Historic England has helped us develop this dimension to our educational services’.
IHBC’s social media consultant Alison McCandlish said: ‘The hashtag #ihbcnorwich (adopted as the main keyword for the annual school) had 596 tweets and over the following weeks we will create ‘digital archives’ in the form of Storify summaries which show highlights of all the virtual posts, accessible to everyone as no accounts for these services are needed.’
‘The picture linked to the NewsBlog shows a visual representation of all the chats in the ‘twittersphere’; thank you to everyone who joined in here, on Facebook, LinkedIn and elsewhere (and of course, in person!).’
IHBC Norwich Annual School pages
