Stormingwomen: Week Two #3, #4

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Week Two #3, #4

I was hoping for some comments on my blog, but so far I am talking to myself!

I think this blog program is very usable once I figured (with lots of help from Christine) how to create a new user profile. I am considering creating a blog for special collections, and I would be interested in finding out from others what they think about a historical blog.

Here is good example that I might follow.

http://ohsu-hca.blogspot.com/

I at least succeeded in creating my blog and it is registered too!

Danelle

2 comments:

Virtual Services Team said...: We're happy to hear that you are considering creating a blog for Special Collections. Here are some sites to visit (google search "special collections" blogs). Would like to see greater use of photos.

http://specialcollections.blogspot.com/

http://bsuarchives.blogspot.com/

http://weblogs.lib.uh.edu/weblogs/speccol/

http://spsuarchive.blogspot.com/; January 17, 2007 at 10:04 AM
Virtual Services Team said...: You may wish to remove your photos and include them in actual blog entries. That may help with the layout. You can also change your template. Look at this CARL IT blog to see how they placed their photos in their blog entries.

http://carlnit.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html; January 18, 2007 at 9:33 AM

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Why Storming Women, one might ask?

In naming this blog, I was thinking in context to one of my current research projects documenting the "Feminist Capital" through oral history. I presented a paper “Storming Politics: San Jose Women and the “Feminist Capital” 1974-2007” at the Social Science Historical Association in Minneapolis this past fall. This paper was based on several oral history interviews I conducted this past year. To date, I have interviewed Janet Gray Hayes, the first female mayor of San Jose, and the first women to be elected in a large city. I also interviewed, Susanne Wilson, who served on the City Council during this same time period, and went on to serve as a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. Santa Clara County became known as the "Feminist Capital" of world as result of the success of women in elected office and in key administrative posts. Susie Wilson, Zoe Lofgren, Dianne McKenna, and to some degree Sally Reed created their own female majority on the Board. I plan to write an article on this research in the near future.