Thank you The Portland Press Herald Herald for sharing about our work to #savehistory! It's our mission to make stories accessible now and in the future to help create meaningful connections. Just like the one Sandra Newsom of Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity shared with the Press Herald: “A young man found his grandfather in a set of minutes,” Newsom said. “We just get such great feedback, and it’s so much fun to watch them be excited. We’ve had people come to tears.” We're proud to call Maine home as we develop these experiences for our partners across the country. Read the story: https://bit.ly/4fgCj1m
About us
HistoryIT delivers both software and comprehensive services that empower you to create, utilize, and draw value from your historical collections. Our philosophy is to strategize, digitize, and share. Wherever you are, we start first with strategy. What have you done to date? What do you want to create? What are your potential audiences? What technologies and software are you utilizing? What is your capacity to develop and sustain a robust digital presence? Answering these questions will help us build strategies that allow you reach your intended audiences – both internal and public – and identify sources for project funding. Digitization involves far more than scanning. Your strategic plan must consider the underlying discoverability of your collections. How will you connect the content in your collections to the audiences you wish to engage? HistoryIT will work with you to digitize your materials, or work with already digitized materials, to develop the necessary metadata and cross references that will bring your collections to a whole new level of importance, accessibility, and searchability. We can bolster your capacity with our skilled metadata teams and advanced software solution, allowing you to host very large collections in a very short time period. Once we ingest your digital collections on our cutting edge digital platform environment, you are able to connect the content within your collections to your intended audiences. This might be an entirely – or partially – restricted collection, or fully public and Google friendly. Once your materials are available to those who would benefit from finding them, we continue to help you find value. We will design innovative and dynamic ways for digital historical materials to be shared with a far more expansive and diverse audience than ever before, whether through interactive online or on-site experiences or through social media plans.
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http://historyit.com
External link for HistoryIT
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- South Portland, ME
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2012
- Specialties
- Digital Archives, Archive Software, Digital Manuscript Collections, Digital History, Making Historical Collections Searchable, Digital Strategy, and metadata
Locations
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202 Gannett Dr.
South Portland, ME 04106, US
Employees at HistoryIT
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Larry Brunt
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Katie Clark
PR & Communications Pro | Efficiency Finder | Chaos Wrangler | Systems Creator | Consistency Evangelist | Championing the voice of the customer…
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Donny L.
Chief Technology Officer at HistoryIT, #savehistory
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Sheila Brennan Nee
Strategic Director at Maine Sports Commission
Updates
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Congratulations to Tri Delta! For the past 25 years, they've championed and supported the incredible work of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Learn more about their incredible impact on childhood cancer research in their digital museum: bit.ly/4cG0uUL #savehistory
Since 1999, Tri Delta has been raising funds for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Tonight, we reached a record-breaking milestone—$100 million raised to help St. Jude find cures and save children! Tri Delta is the fifth-ever organization to raise this substantial sum. Please join us in celebrating and sharing this wonderful accomplishment, completed by the hard work of our dedicated and passionate members, who send letters, flip pancakes and do whatever it takes to for St. Jude.
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Our digital imaging specialists have been attending Sigma Kappa Sorority's 150th Celebration Tour events to preserve history brought in by SK sisters themselves! We love these opportunities to help save and share truly unique stories. See you next month at Convention! #savehistory #SigmaKappaSorority #SKConvention24
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HistoryIT is conducting a survey to assess the state of composites on campuses nationwide: bit.ly/3wgKZDf Composites are priceless storytelling tools often at risk of being damaged or forgotten. Participation will help create an understanding of what threats endanger composites the most and will assist in the development of preservation practices and strategies. #savehistory
HistoryIT Composite Risk Assessment
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Here’s a standout moment from our “Digital Preservation Strategy” #webinar that shares how to approach managing momentum. Watch the complete recording for more: bit.ly/4cCiRKX #savehistory
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As remote & hybrid work rises, safeguard your organization's heritage amidst office changes. Discover strategies to merge relocation and preservation efforts, foster office culture, and embrace innovative tech. Join us on May 22 at 1:00pm ET for a #webinar presented by HistoryIT’s COO Katie Clark. Register now: bit.ly/3xSNj3F #savehistory #OfficeDownsizing #Preservation
Webinar: Handling Your History When Downsizing Offices
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Our Founder & CEO Kristen Gwinn-Becker, PhD appeared on Pursuant - An Allegiance Group Company’s #GoBeyondFundraising where she discussed the opportunities within digital archives! Listen here: bit.ly/3K1nlh8 Dive deeper this week with renowned experts Alicia Lifrak, CFRE from Allegiance Group + Pursuant, Kristen Gwinn-Becker, CEO of HistoryIT, and Beth Burkes, CDO of Tri Delta as they discuss how your organization can unlock the power of digital storytelling, elevate donor engagement, and revolutionize your fundraising tactics in this partner webinar. Register your spot today: bit.ly/3y7B3MR #savehistory #GoBeyondFundraising
Connecting with Faces from the Past: Leveraging Digital Archives for Non-Profit Storytelling and Engagement
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Our Founder & CEO, Kristen Gwinn-Becker, was on yesterday’s edition of Maine Calling to share about how HistoryIT got its start! Listen here: bit.ly/3yeZDeU #savehistory
Start-Ups in Maine
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Be sure to catch our Founder & CEO Kristen Gwinn-Becker, PhD on Pursuant - An Allegiance Group Company’s #LinkedInLive where she will be discussing the opportunities within digital archives! Tune in tomorrow at 3:00pm ET. Dive deeper next week with renowned experts Alicia Lifrak, CFRE from Allegiance Group + Pursuant, Kristen Gwinn-Becker, CEO of HistoryIT, and Beth Burkes, CDO of Tri Delta as they discuss how your organization can unlock the power of digital storytelling, elevate donor engagement, and revolutionize your fundraising tactics in this partner webinar. Register your spot today: bit.ly/3y7B3MR #savehistory #GoBeyondFundraising
Does your organization have a rich history that your donors love? The magic of digital archiving is that it makes historical artifacts available to anyone, anywhere. However, not everyone has the know-how or the technology to properly preserve their physical media for future generations or how to leverage it in fundraising communications. In this episode of Fundraising Today, we'll sit down with Kristen Gwinn-Becker, PhD from HistoryIT, to explore digital archives' challenges, opportunities, and future, emphasizing the power of storytelling and engagement. Tune in this Thursday at 2 PM central!
How Digital Archiving can Fuel Your Fundraising with HistoryIT
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Thank you to Mainebiz for showcasing our Founder & CEO’s recent inclusion in Inc. Magazine's 2024 #FemaleFounders250 and further putting a spotlight on our mission to #savehistory! "With this acknowledgment, [Inc.] is saying that digital preservation has an impact on our society. It's really, really important to get that right." We look forward to doing just that.
The founder and CEO of South Portland-based HistoryIT has been named to Inc. magazine's Female Founders 250 list. https://ow.ly/3g6T50RvS1z
Inc. names Maine historian-CEO among celebrity entrepreneurs in 'Female Founders 250'
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