Profile profile for McOwenD
Role in Museum:
I provide technical expertise and support for the Museum's various websites, assist with online communications (website, blog, monthly e-mail newsletter, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube), and design, implement & maintain exhibition/visitor kiosks. In addition, as a member of the New Media Program, I work with staff in all areas to best use web and other digital media to accomplish the goals of the Museum.
Projects:
Websites
- Within These Walls (2017)
- Family of Voices
- Artifact Walls - Science Under Glass
- Inventing in America
- Artifact Walls - The Early Sixties: American Culture
- Artifact Walls - The Early Sixties: American Science
- Smithsonian Jazz
- Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963
- Artifact Walls - Invention and the Patent Model
- Artifact Walls - Puppetry in America
- Souvenir Nation: Relics, Keepsakes and Curios
- September 11: Remembrance and Reflection
- HIV and AIDS 30 Years Ago
- Civil War 150
- Civil War DC
Albert H. Small Documents Gallery
- Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II
- The Norie Atlas and the Guano Trade
- Hear My Voice: Alexander Graham Bell and the Origins of Recorded Sound
- Making a Modern Museum: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Museum of American History
- Camilla's Purse
- Little Golden Books
- Have You Heard the One About…? The Phyllis Diller Gag File
- Not Lost in Translation: The Life of Clotilde Arias
- Jefferson’s Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
- “So Much Need of Service” – The Diary of a Civil War Nurse
- A Gateway to the 19th Century: The William Steinway Diary, 1861–1896
Apps
- Remembering WWI
Smithsonian lead for HistoryPin app in partnership with National Archives, Library of Congress, and others
Exhibition Teams
- American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
- Many Voices, One Nation
- Snapshots of African American Communities
- Pause and Play Activity Lounge
- American Stories
Video
Email Newsletter
- Monthly newsletter editor from 2012-2017
Blog Posts
Objects from the Wild Blue Yonder
September 18, 2016
An aspiring Top Chef talks about "The French Chef"
February 20, 2013
