Radio show about the Comparte tu Rollo project in Columbia, teaching basic tech skillls by digitizing history of rural libraries.
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BfB Labs Trial Summary
An evaluation report describing the results of the five trials of Shift’s emotionally responsive biofeedback video game, conducted to investigate …
The Wartime Films Project: Narrowing the Focus of our User-Centered Design Pilot
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Taking a User-Centered Design Approach with the US National Archives
Historypin began working with the US National Archives in 2014 to take a user-centered design approach to cultural heritage and …
5 Lessons in Developing Social Tech Ventures
Digital technology plays a powerful role in the response to social problems. Its doesn’t provide the answers to everything and, by …
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Playing with emotions
An evaluation report describing the results of a test of BfB’s biofeedback video game with two primary schools in Hackney, …
The Question That Tech-for-Good Funding Should Care Most About
Grant funding has a vital role to play in social technology innovation. It can support the higher costs and …
Death by Social Media
Jon Voss runs Shift’s US operations, with a major focus on Historypin. Our deep intergenerational work has pulled us recently …
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IMLS Focus: The National Digital Platform
On April 28, 2015, the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) convened library, archive, and museum professionals to, in the …
Ten best uses of Buttons, our new digital inclusion tool
In February we launched Buttons, our new and improved digital inclusion tool, which helps you make lists of websites you …
Historypin & LODLAM at EuropeanaTech 2015
This talk at the National Library of France from February 2015 highlights some of the ways Historypin is being leveraged to increase access to cultural heritage content and strengthen local communities. I also take a quick look at the growing culture around Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums and how data sharing may soon be the new norm for cultural heritage.
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From Crowdsourcing to Knowledge Communities: Creating Meaningful Scholarship Through Digital Collaboration
In this paper, we share some of the findings of our Mellon-funded crowdsourcing research with Stanford University, with a focus …
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Harnessing the power of games to improve wellbeing
An evaluation report describing the results of the first test of Shift’s biofeedback video game, which uses the player’s heart …
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Historypin in the Community: 2013/2014
In the last couple of years, we’ve seen Historypin used to connect generations in Japan, to draw in rich life stories …
A brand new version of our digital inclusion product, Buttons
We’re really excited to be relaunching our digital inclusion product, Buttons, this week, which represents a big step in the …
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Leading in the Digital World: Opportunities for Canada’s Memory Institutions
Jon: “I was fortunate to be a reviewer on this important publication examining the future of Canada’s memory institutions, though the …
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Encouraging Reuse of NARA Wartime Moving Image Archives: Steps Toward Meaningful Engagement
The First World War Centenary on Historypin
A home for local community First World War projects. Today we’re excited to launch the First World War Centenary hub on Historypin, a home for local community groups running First World War commemorative activities.
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Historypin: bringing communities together though local history
“I’m besotted with it. They’re calling it a “digital time machine” and, this being the age of Wikiality, anyone can …
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Mobile game helping children manage their emotions
“We need healthy, creative and resilient children who know how to maintain wellbeing and can manage stress, judge risks and …
Why the world needs video games for good mental health
Over the last 18 months, with support from the Nominet Trust, we’ve been researching and developing the first version of …
The 3 strands of value vital to social tech ventures
This article has been written by Nick Stanhope, CEO of We Are What We Do, and Dan Sutch, Head of …
Three values
On the surface, the language and practices of Silicon Valley and other tech investors have brought the social sector a greater focus on ventures, accelerators, fast-growth innovations, of startups, incubators and investment…
A closer look at NT100 2013 project, Historypin
Historypin was launched in 2011, after two years of R&D and beta testing, with a mission to help bring people together, from across different generations and cultures, to share and explore the history of their communities…
4 Major Efforts to Share European Cultural Heritage
This winter has seen a flurry of activity around a number of projects related to Europeana content, and the incredible work of partners across Europe helping to increase the discovery and reuse of European cultural heritage.
Can video games use biofeedback to improve wellbeing?
We have partnered with Playlab London, Complete Coherence and 2CV to design and make a video game for young people that builds habits which increase their long term wellbeing …
Video games + behaviour change
Video games don’t normally get a good rap when it comes to the health of young people. Instinctively, replacing hours …
Can One Story Change the World?
Jon Voss of Historypin.org presents “Can One Story Change the World?” at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia.
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Buttons User Testing
Summary of the user testing of the latest prototype of Buttons carried out by the Tinder Foundation with 17 UK …
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Citizen Science and Mobile Phone Cameras as Tools for Monitoring World Heritage
Early research on a proposed project to combine citizen science techniques and photo gathering to examine and monitor the aging …
Historypin share their top tips
Historypin is a suite of online tools designed to help museums, libraries and community groups share their collections of archived materials (e.g. historic photos) with as wide an audience as possible…
Research from Libraries, Archives & Museums on Historypin
We’re fortunate to work with many cultural heritage partners who are putting a lot of thought and research into the ways they can share their collections with the world, from physical exhibitions to digital engagement strategies, and everything in between…
Society of American Archivists Keynote
Jon Voss, Strategic Partnerships Director at Historypin, during opening plenary of the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, August 9, 2012. This is audio of the talk together with slides.
Before it’s too late
There is always someone in the family that knows everything, who recognises every face in every old picture, who could tell you where they were taken and what the occasion was, who could narrate an old family film to within an inch of its life…
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LODLAM State of Affairs
Article on the community evolving around Linked Open Data in libraries, archives and museums. Jon Voss
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Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the Web
This paper examines how a cultural, technological, and legal environment is enabling a growing ecosystem of open historical data. Published …
Digital inclusion is ideal for an incidental approach
In the middle of three new launches of our Internet Buttons project into Ireland, Poland and Holland, we’ve been struck, again, …
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Pinning Reading’s History: Evaluation Report
Analysis of the social impact of Pinning Reading’s History, a project in Reading, UK, with data and analysis from the …
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Impact Infographic
Depiction of the social impact of Pinning Reading’s History, a project in Reading, UK, with data and analysis from the …
The nudge potential of mobile payments
Starbucks Corp CEO, Howard Schultz, described the arrival of mobile payments as part of a “seismic change” in consumer behaviour. For …
Facebook “built to accomplish a social mission”
Mark Zuckerberg’s recent letter to shareholders illustrated once again that, while the world is obsessed with the wealth generated by …
Playing social change
Despite being interested from a distance for some time, we have only just started to explore the potential of gaming …
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Isn’t everybody using the internet?
Infographic showing digital exclusion figures across Europe, plus affected audience groups and barriers. Tori Flower and Kate Ferrier
Mapping in the 4th dimension TEDxNHH
Nick talks atTEDx NHH, hosted by the Historypin Norwegian School of Economics, in Bergen.
Funding Historypin
Sincethe launch of Historypin in New York July this year, we’ve been blown away by people’s response to it…
Smithsonian Institution talk on Linked Open Data
Jon Voss addresses the Smithsonian Institute and explores the fundamental elements of Linked Open Data and discover how rapidly growing access to metadata within the world’s libraries, archives and museums is opening exciting new possibilities for understanding our past, and may help in predicting our future.