NHN Professional Development Program:

A Future in Historical Consulting: Is It for You?

A Panel Discussion 
Wednesday, June 20, 6:00-8:00 PM
Architectural Heritage Center
701 SE Grand Avenue

Portland, OR 97214


Register by using this form.

Join us for a panel discussion and workshop for historians interested in historical consulting work. The four panelists will participate in lively discourse about working in the consulting field, share their insights, business recommendations, and missteps to avoid for those new to consulting or those considering it as a career choice.

  • Networking and marketing yourself as a consulting historian.

  • Pricing and valuing your services as a consultant.

  • The business side of consulting.

  • The positives and negatives of a career as a consulting historian.

A panel discussion will be followed by a Q & A session with the participants, as well as individual sessions with the panelists. Light refreshments will be served.

Admission is free to current NHN Associates, $10 for non-associates*, $5 for students with ID (collected at the door). Space is limited and registration is required. We hope you can join us!

*If you are not an associate, join at the event and we will waive the registration fee. NHN memberships are $25 for professional associates, $15 for student associates, or work-trade for five hours.

Featuring

Richard Engeman, Principal, Oregon Rediviva, LLC

Donna Sinclair, Independent Historian
William Willingham, Consulting Historian
Morgen Young, Consulting Historian and Owner, Alder, LLC


For more information, e-mail info@northwesthistory.org. 

Coalcas Pillar near New Era
Getting published–or otherwise getting history “out there” to those who want it–will be the discussion topic at the Northwest History Network’s first social night of 2012. We’ll be gathering from 5:30 PM on Tuesday, February 28, at the the Horse Brass Pub, 4532 SE Belmont Street in Portland. 

See http://www.horsebrass.com for more information.

N.B.: this is change of date for the event that was previously announced for February 21. 

The NHN’s core mission includes bringing Associates together for professional development programs — such as we had last Tuesday — and to provide a network of support for our various projects — such as the Century of Action.

Another of the benefits of NHN membership is in being listed in our online directory.

After months of hard work, we have launched the NHN Associates Directory, and now seek your information so that we can add it to the site.

The purpose of the directory is to connect people to the the expertise of our diverse Associates. It serves as the only centralized Internet location where historians, archivists, and librarians in the Pacific Northwest are listed. Why might this be significant?

Perhaps someone is looking to hire a contract historian, or to get guidance on archiving a collection, or to manage an oral history project — with the Associates Directory online, this information is much more readily accessible.

Or, perhaps another Associate gets approached by a community member seeking expertise on a topic. If the Associate him or herself does not have the expertise, he or she can direct the questioner to the NHN Associates Directory to find someone who does have the expertise.

Also, Associates with listings in the directory can copy-&-paste the URL to their listing for insertion in emails, websites, etc. — it’s another way to increase one’s visibility, in some ways like an online business card.

Please see below for the kind of information we would like to receive from you all for inclusion in the directory. When you send this information to me, you can also include an image of yourself. The NHN Directory Committee will take care of the HTML formatting, but if you provide hyperlinks (to your own blog or website, for example), that will make it much easier to get your directory listing posted.

For examples of completed directory listings with photos, peruse the NHN Associates Directory, or navigate to the following pages:

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Professional Credentials:
[Degrees, certifications, etc.]

Personal Statement:
[A brief statement of up to about 150 words or so]

Areas of Specialization:
[See start from the list below, and if you have any additional areas of specialization, include those as well]

Professional Associations:
[Notable associations — OHA, OMA, NCPH, etc., with hyperlinks]

Selected Projects and Publications:
[Titles, citations, etc., with hyperlinks, where applicable]

Contact Information:
[Email, phone number, website, Twitter, Linkedin, etc.]

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Areas of Specialization:

American Indians / architecture / archives management / biography / business history / environmental history / exhibits development / food history /  gender in history / genealogy / grant development / historic preservation / historical research / historical writing / labor history / librarianship / media / oral history / Oregon / Pacific Northwest / photography / Portland / project management / public programs / radicalism / sports history / teaching / tours / transportation / urban history / working class