Pinterest offers a unique way to display and interrelate digital assets with a wider world of interconnected materials and activity. Learn how UK-based research group, Architecture_MPS promotes its journal articles, conferences and online resources by exposing it’s relationships with other research, exhibitions, and imagery. As part of our engagement with scholarly communication AMPS provides current listings supported by additional materials relevant to both academics and discipline information professionals. Since 2014, we have used Pinterest for curating collections of images and articles on topics related to our published journal articles. The boards function as a resource guide or reference to current books, films, exhibits, conferences, lectures and competitions related to the AMPS remit. Location: METRO, 57 East 11th Street, 4th Floor Training Room

1. DH Week
February 10, 2016
Noreen Whysel
Architecture_MPS
Pinterest as Exhibition

2. Goals
• Overview of Pinterest as a Platform
• Example: Pinterest at Architecture_MPS
• Creating a Pinterest Exhibition
• Your Turn: Setting Up an Account
• Final Thoughts

3. Overview of Pinterest as a Platform

8. Example: Pinterest at Architecture_MPS

9. Who Are Architecture_MPS?
• a research organization led by academics,
architects and information professionals
• a scholarly online open-access journal of the
same name published through University
College London Press
(ISSN 2050-9006)
http://architecturemps.com/

10. Participating Institutions
• University College London Press
• Adelphi University, NY, US
• University of Liverpool, UK
• Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
• Liverpool John Moores University, UK
• Woodbury University, CA, US
• Ravensbourne University College, UK
• University of Cyprus
• and others

11. Three Main Drives
1. to promote the articles and resources of AMPS
1. to promote the events and conferences hosted by AMPS
1. to add to the wider conversation on architecture and media,
politics and society

12. What’s in our Digital Archive?

13. Archived Assets
Journal Articles Conference Papers

14. Archived Assets cont’d
Current Listings
Webliography and
Resource Guides

15. Archived Assets cont’d
Images

16. Special Projects
• #MediatedCity
• #AmpsHCF
• Architecture as Political Image
• Google Open Gallery
• Pinterest as Resource Repository

17. #MediatedCity
• Conferences:
– April 1-3, 2016 Bristol, UK
– October 2014 Los Angeles
• Publications
– Book Series: Digital-Cultural
Ecology and the Mid-Sized
City
– Journal Issues
• Vol.5, no 2: Hazing Iran:
Satellite Imagery, Human
Rights, and City as Camp
• Vol.5, no 4: Framing the Real
• Vol.6, no 1: Porocity:
Networking Cities for Climate
Change

18. #AmpsHCF
• Conferences
– Dec 14-15, 2015 Seville
– Apr 8-9, 2015 Liverpool
– 2016 Nicosia, Cyprus
Melbourne, and Bristol
• Design projects
• Book series
• Special journal issues
• Publications
• Film/media/art events

19. Pinterest as Exhibition
Highlighting Your Collection

20. Amps Pinterest Boards

21. Journal Issues on Pinterest (1)

22. Journal Issues on Pinterest (2)

23. Amps Conferences on Pinterest (1)

24. Amps Conferences on Pinterest (2)

25. Amps Conferences on Pinterest (3)

26. Pinterest Demo
How to set up an account to
showcase a collection

27. Final Thoughts
Opportunities and Challenges

28. General Challenges
• Striking a balance between citation and curiosity
• Initiating a conversation; engaging and growing followers
• Tie-in from Amps content to current events isn’t always
obvious
• Character limits, need to be economical
• Tracking specific links, not just specific pins

29. Suggestions
• Big-picture approach: use materials that will relate to AMPS
content in a broader way
• Paired content: external link and relevant AMPS content
• Five external posts for each internal one

30. Opportunities
• Engaging followers
• Utilizing available resources, analytics
• New platforms for engagement

31. Rewards to Our Team
• Broader and growing understanding of the topics at the
heart of AMPS
• Learning how social media works as a tool of promotion for
an organization has been valuable
• Adopting the tone and eye for content fitting the mandate of
AMPS has been a good learning experience
• Finding something that compliments our materials nicely is a
good feeling

32. Rewards to Your Archive
• Broader and growing community dedicated to the topics at
the heart of your archive
• Broader discovery of your digital content, your events and
your works
• Fulfilling your mandate to preserve, promote and engage
the greater public with your materials
• An interested, engaged community brings good feelings to
all of your archives patrons, staff and the larger world

33. Thank You!
Noreen Whysel
Social Media Manager
Architecture_MPS
nwhysel@gmail.com
@nwhysel
Rachel Isaac-Menard
Head of Research Support
Architecture_MPS
ris@architecturemps.com
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