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Derek Engle

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Historian, PAARNG Officer

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Derek Engle
@engledd Apr 25, 2018, 3:44 PM UTC

After-Action Review for @phillyhistory Project

As the semester is coming to an end, all of us on the @phillyhistory project are considering what we have and have not accomplished and evaluating our Steemit experiment. Although the experiment will…

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Derek Engle
@engledd Apr 25, 2018, 2:40 PM UTC

A Public History Training Center for $1-10 million

As one of our final posts, the members of the @phillyhistory project are discussing what we would do with $10k, $100k, $1 million, and $10 million to have maximum impact in public history. Having onl…

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Derek Engle
@engledd Apr 11, 2018, 4:19 PM UTC

A Museum Without Collections

We’ve been talking a lot about the financial difficulties many museums have to face. One of the biggest expenses for museums is collections management and storage. Collections take up lots of space,…

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Derek Engle
@engledd Apr 4, 2018, 4:21 PM UTC

Subscription Service for Museums

So I was going to write a post about jet packs and how society might be different if the US Army had pursued them further in the 1960s instead of abandoning the project and pivoting to helicopters, a…

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Derek Engle
@engledd Apr 4, 2018, 2:39 PM UTC

Musings on Deaccessioning

This week, my colleagues in the Philly History Project are discussing deaccessioning, which is the process of removing objects from a museum/archival collection. We did several readings about it, inc…

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Derek Engle
@engledd Mar 28, 2018, 2:57 PM UTC

Selling a History Degree

As I’m close to graduating, I’ve been doing a lot of job searching lately. But as my colleague @johnesmithiii pointed out, there are very few (basically no) full-time entry-level jobs at history inst…

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Derek Engle
@engledd Mar 21, 2018, 7:48 PM UTC

Another Solution for the Philadelphia History Museum?

The Philadelphia History Museum (PHM) is struggling. They are considering merging with Temple University, which could be very beneficial. @jfeagan has discussed some ways this could restructure the m…

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Derek Engle
@engledd Mar 13, 2018, 10:34 PM UTC

Snags at the (Historical) Society

Our class is finally coming to the point where we will be making some decisions on what projects to undertake with our SBD. As we continue to consider what’s broken in the Philadelphia cultural secto…

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Derek Engle
@engledd Feb 27, 2018, 11:28 PM UTC

A Tour Through the Past

I’ve talked before about how our class has been discussing problems in the nonprofit sector. This week we are proposing ideas to address specific needs. My first idea arose out of last year’s PubComm…

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Derek Engle
@engledd Feb 21, 2018, 3:53 PM UTC

What do Greek Hoplites, M1 Abrams tanks, and large museums have in common?

### Hint: Only two of them dominate front line combat. *** One of our challenges this week is to consider the pros and cons of large, medium, and small museums. To start, I wrote some bulletpoints fo…

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