Social Media @ BHIC: How we achieve our goals by using Social Media

Tweet Last evening Christian van der Ven captivated an audience of students and professionals during a Webinar as part of the MARA Guest Lecture Series in the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University.

His presentation described how archivists at the Brabant Historical Information Center (BHIC) in the Netherlands use social media to highlight the archives' collections, keep in touch with patrons, for crowdsourcing and more.

Christian van der Ven is a Coördinator of Reference Services at the Brabant Historical Information Center (BHIC) in the Netherlands. At the BHIC he is also responsible for the Web 2.0 and Social Media projects. Among Dutch archivists he is a world-famous blogger, and community manager of the online Dutch Archives 2.0 network.

Among the tools in the BHIC's Web 2.0 toolbox that are used to interact with the public are: the BHIC Website in general, Forums and Webcare, Chat, Blogs, Flickr, Twitter, Wikipedia and Facebook.

To learn more about Christian, read his profile on the Archivists: The Social Network for Archivists at http://archives20.ning.com/profile/ChristianvanderVen