{"id":194,"date":"2025-01-20T18:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T23:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/applied-history-mcmaster\/?p=194"},"modified":"2025-01-20T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T23:01:19","slug":"week-1-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/applied-history-mcmaster\/2025\/01\/20\/week-1-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When checking my online presence with the Salt Social Profile Checker, the only things that come up about me have to do with my academic career, which show when searching my name as well as alongside McMaster University. The first result that pops up is my LinkedIn profile, including for some reason posts by my connections which I have liked and commented on. I guess I should dedicate more of my effort on the site to posting more of my accomplishments as well as complimenting others for theirs. The other thing that comes up is my work as a Research Assistant. The first is my work for the Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice, where my designs for their newsletter are shown, as well as my work on transcribing an interview conducted by members of the centre which got published. The other result of my work is my role as editor and team member of Participedia\u2019s Just Participation podcast. So that at least is nice to see that my work is out there on the internet. The biggest thing that is missing is my social media presence, as I deliberately do not have my last name shown on any of my social media accounts. In that, I much prefer my privacy and keeping my work and social life separate, not that I have anything to hide really, other than really adorable pictures of my nephews and I. Still, I want to keep improving my digital footprint with these following actions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Post just as much, if not more, about my accomplishments on LinkedIn as I do in praising my colleagues for theirs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Continue my work as a Research Assistant and find even more work to get my name on projects, especially ones that have positive impacts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Get my own work out there, such as my MRP or other works pertaining to my research in order to begin establishing myself in my field of history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cHeritage affirms faith in a certain picture of the past, which sustains a certain image of the present and tends to elicit a single emotional response\u2014and that\u2019s worth emphasizing because the important thing about critical history is that it shouldn\u2019t have closure in that way. I think heritage often does.\u201d \u2013 Yerxa, Donald A. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/avenue.cllmcmaster.ca\/d2l\/le\/content\/670102\/viewContent\/5005444\/View\">Why History Matters: An Interview with John Tosh<\/a>\u201d <em>Historically <\/em>Speaking, Volume 10, Number 5, November 2009, pp. 25-27<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/applied-history-mcmaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/183\/2025\/01\/Elijah_Lebanon_18th_Century.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/applied-history-mcmaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/183\/2025\/01\/Elijah_Lebanon_18th_Century.jpg 640w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/applied-history-mcmaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/183\/2025\/01\/Elijah_Lebanon_18th_Century-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Prophet Elijah Icon, Beirut, 18<sup>th<\/sup> Century. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Elijah_(Lebanon)_18th_Century.jpg\">Source: Ic\u00f4nes arabes: art chr\u00e9tien du Levant<\/a>, Photographer: Michel Bakni<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fruit Salad Yummy Yummy - The Wiggles \ud83c\udf4e\ud83c\udf4c\ud83c\udf47\ud83c\udf49\ud83c\udf4f Songs &amp; Nursery Rhymes for Kids #OGWiggles\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LYYGD56CxTw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When checking my online presence with the Salt Social Profile Checker, the only things that come up about me have to do with my academic career, which show when searching my name as well as alongside McMaster University. 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