Presentation about the global Twitter Initiatves @FollowAnArchive and @AskArchives, founded by Charlotte Jensen and Anneke van Waarden-Koets, to promote archives and their collections world wide. The presentation was held in Stuttgart,at the conference 'Archive 1.0', on April 4, 2014.

1. Programm: Offene Archive 2.1
Social media im deutschen Sprachraum und im internationalen Kontext
4. April 2014
Anneke van Waarden-Koets :
@FollowAnArchive & @AskArchivists – Events on Twitter to promote archives worldwide.

4. Follow A Museum Day, February 1, 2010
Great success.
Basic concept of Follow A Museum Day:
To focus all (twitter) eyes on museums
and their exhibitions.
February 1st = #followamuseum Day

5. What if…
Wouldn’t it be nice…
@charlotteshj
@ZeeuwsArchiefED
(now @Archiefeducatie)

12. 1. Write blogposts
2. Do (video) interviews
3. Promote on social media
4. Make lists of archives on Twitter
5. Design QR-code, banner, sticker,
poster
6. Make a movie
7. Create a Twitter fountain
8. Start archiving tool
9. Give suggestions about subjects
to tweet about
10. Start a Facebook Page

14. @BradHeadland: The records we hold tell the story of
who we are, where we came from and how we got here
How did #followanarchive Day work out?

17. Last blogpost about #followanarchive Day 2010:
#askanarchivist day or #askarchivists day 2011
Together with several other people we are thinking about the possibility of
organizing an #askanarchivist day or #askarchivists day. We think about June 9,
when it is International Archives Day. How do you think about this proposition?

21. Promotion
video’s
#askarchivists
Day 2011

22. @elmissey: Check out our Happy #AskArchivists cake!!
That was on Thursday and was tasty!
How did #askarchivists work out?
- Lot of questions were asked about digitization,
digital born archives and preservation of
digital records.
- There were very specific questions asked
directly to archives and archivists about their
collections and how to search and find in the
archives and on the web. Also about their
most oldest, valuable or precious document or
most weird object in their collections.
- A question about the oldest archive in the
world, produced during the day various
answers about the oldest archival collection or
document as well as the oldest archives
building whether especialy built for archives
or just an old building.

27. Survey: Let´s do it again!
We have also conducted a little survey (which is now closed), and 100
participants from 21 countries answered. The message of the survey is clear,
since a large majority was interested in doing #AskArchivists again next year –
same day.

28. http://www.pinterest.com/
karentoittoit/loveheritage/
Stadtarchiv Speyer Zeeuws Archief Middelburg

33. Archives doodles , created by Charlotte Jensen,
Bradley Headland and Thomas Wolf, June 2013

35. #WW1archives

36. Archival documents, records, newspapers, pictures, drawings,
postcards, paintings, etc. about:
• Soldiers
• Families and loved ones of soldiers
• Battlefields
• Refugees
• Aid / Support
• Governments
• Weapons
• Mobilisation
• Diseases
• War cemeteries
• History before, during, after, all related to the Great War
Refugees from
Belgium in
Middelburg, The
Nether-lands,
cooking their
meal, 1914.
Zeeuws Archief,
KZGW, cat.nr. ZI-
P-03695

37. Stretcher bearers recovering wounded during the
Battle of Thiepval Ridge, Sept.1916.Photo by E. Brooks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thiepval_Ridge
Diary of Gallipoli: 25th April 1915.
https://www.gov.uk/government/t
opical-events/first-world-war-
centenary
#WW1archives