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River Street Digital History Project gallery

I’ve been busting my hump this whole week working on the website that will eventually contribute to my PhD dissertation project at the University of Arizona. It has been a long haul, but the River Street Digital History Project has almost come to a close. The River Street Neighborhood in […]

Another view of the Pioneer Pathway, former Lover's Lane

Harness social media to further your personal brand as an archaeologist

Personal Branding for Archaeologists, Part VII: Crafting a Social Media Campaign

“Nobody ever said success was going to be easy. If success was easy, everybody’d be doing it.” Anonymous I never cared about personal branding, online networking, or any of the stuff I’ve been writing about until the last time I was laid off from a cultural resource management archaeology job. […]


Personal Branding for Archaeology, Part VI: Using Videos and Pictures

Social media and the whole of the internet is being winnowed down to the truest essence of human experience— we know the world based on what we’ve seen. We are visual beings. Our eyes are essential to the way we learn. This is something archaeologists have long understood; however, the […]

Videos are the future of personal branding

Build your audience through guest blogging

Personal Branding for Archaeologists, Part V: Blogging your way to Infamy

(This is the fifth segment in a multi-post series dedicated to personal branding for archaeologists. In case you missed ‘em: Part I discussed the many reasons why you should care about developing your personal brand, Part II covered creating a killer LinkedIn profile, Part III talked about using Twitter to […]


Personal Branding for Archaeologists, Part IV: Build your Own Website

(This is the fourth post in a multi-part series on personal branding for archaeologists. In case you missed it, Part I covered some reasons why it’s important to control your online professional persona and Part II discussed how you can use LinkedIn to demonstrate your skills, abilities, and experience as […]

Personal branding for archaeologists: build your own website

How to use Twitter for archaeology personal branding

Personal Branding for Archaeologists, Part III: Twitter

(This is the third post in a multi-part series on personal branding for archaeologists. In case you missed it, Part I covered some reasons why it’s important to control your online professional persona and Part II discussed how you can use LinkedIn to demonstrate your skills, abilities, and experience as […]


Personal Branding for Archaeologists, Part II: LinkedIn 2

(This is the second post in a multi-part series on personal branding for archaeologist. In case you missed it, check out Part I to see why it’s important to control your online professional persona) Part II: LinkedIn I hear this a lot whenever I talk with other archaeologists about LinkedIn: […]

How to leverage LinkedIn for archaeologists

What are you doing to manage your personal brand as an archaeologist?

Personal branding for archaeologists, Part I

When I first started blogging, I Googled myself just to see what type of information about me was floating around the internet. My name is extremely generic. There are probably over a million William White’s in the United States. This country has always had a lot of Bill White’s. There […]


How to get more minorities involved in archaeology

I’m writing this blog post from the Denver International Airport, en route back to Tucson after spending a fruitful July working on archaeological excavations in Glacier National Park. This project came close on the heels of a fruitful dissertation research trip to Boise, Idaho. Needless to say, this summer has […]

Paychecks will do much to increase minorities in archaeology

What do cultural resource management archaeologists have in common with homeless people?

9 things cultural resource management archaeologists and the homeless have in common

Lots. When we first met, my wife was appalled by my lifestyle as a weekend-warrior archaeological technician and graduate student. I worked Friday through Sunday as a tech for the state transportation department and Monday through Thursday as a TA for the University of Idaho. I used to carpool with […]