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Best Practices for Conducting Oral History Interviews Remotely
In an era of physical and social distancing, what are some of the best practices for conducting oral history interviews remotely? From insights, talking to oral historians and transcribing their interviews (if you’d like us to transcribe your oral history interviews for you, get in touch) in the past year, we’ll coalesce our recommendations around…
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Top Four Benefits of Video Conferencing
Before 2020, meet ups either socially or work related were not something you had to really think about. Just plan with whoever you’re meeting up with, time and place and showing up was all you had to do, have a good time or discuss serious issues or conduct interviews and that was that. But since…
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Three Tips for Conducting Oral History Interviews Via Zoom
Thanks to technology, Zoom allows people to stay connected wherever they are. It allows users to start or join a secure meeting with flawless video and audio, instant screen sharing, and cross-platform instant messaging from one user to another. This cloud-based communications app has made it easier, especially during this period of the COVID-19, for…
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Legalities and Ethics surrounding Oral History
This blog is for people who record oral history interviews and organizations and individuals who keep collections of oral history data. In a previous blog we looked at the oral history consent form, today we’re going to be looking at the legal and ethical issues that oral historians should look out for. Legal Issues Copyright…
