anarchaeologist – Anarchaeologist

Hello Friends and enemies,

we are almost at the close of our year and it has certainly been quite a year at that – I have been working for the Archaeology Podcast Network on new projects as well as having some of my first work now published as a digital review – which you can check out here. The main project for the APN has been this years celebration of heritage, history and archaeology by creating a daily podcast! There have, of course, been challenges and difficulties but in many ways the success has been down to Chris Webster our lord and master, who has toiled away creating these episodes. Guests and contributors have also helped make this monumental task somewhat easier by helping us create content, and this, dear reader is where you can also assist us.

If you have any kind of media bone in your body or want to try something, then we have a challenge for you – record a short piece for us to release as part of the 365 days of Archaeology!

See this page on our APN site for full details

In other news – i am working on content still – more to be revealed soon

EAA Glasgow 2015 Round Up

UPDATE : I managed to get both of the wonderful EAA Glasgow social teams’ names wrong – I apologise profusely. Thank you to everyone for your interest!

The return journey from Glasgow to Fife was a lonely, empty one; I tried to keep up on twitter but the hastag #EAAGla was all but silent. The same hashtag that had been alive and well for the last four days was now showing the last few dribbles of conversations –the thank yous and see you agains. It felt very much as if the energy had been sapped away; but how did Twitter become so all-encompassing, how did it gain so much energy in the first place?

The first interactions with the social media team for EAA Glagsow 2015 primed the entire conference, from the start, there was a sense of authentic, earnest communication, often considered a rarity among “official accounts” of large organizations. Instead the amazing team of Kimm Curran and Christina Gilfedder set the cogs in motion for an engaged audience. I blame their insistence on my session having cake on the fact I went out to buy cake instead of preparing for my session (let me preface this, I did promise cake). On my first night in Glasgow I felt myself being led away by archaeologists for a pint, walking and chatting, I didn’t notice two figures across the road looking at me going into ‘the wrong pub’. After securing a drink I turn around and there stand before me are two women kitted out with social media hoodies, saying “Mr. Boyle, there you are” – oh dear, I’ve been in Glasgow 2 hours, how can I already be infamous? It soon came to light who stood before me – I was amazed that they had found and recognized me, that was something special.