AHA Today Blog Relaunch
Summary
In June 2013, I lead relaunch of the American Historical Association's blog AHA Today. We moved the platform from a decentralized FTP publishing system to Wordpress. Along with the change in platform, we gave AHA Today a new look and feel, including a responsive design that allows historians to read and interact with our content easily on whatever device they prefer.
In addition, we made the following enhancements:
- Related tags. Find topics related to the article you are reading.
- Shortened URLs. Generate a bit.ly link and share an article without leaving the page.
- Social media streaming in the comments. See what readers are saying about the article you are reading in the comments, either in the comments section or by using the @AHAHistorians twitter handle in your corresponding tweet.
- Follow an AHA Today blogger with a new author RSS feed and biography pages.
We also added the tagline “News, Community, and Historical Thinking.” The tagline underscores how the AHA Today blog fit into the rapidly growing history blogosphere. We wanted the AHA Today blog to be a community space for historians and history lovers to connect, discuss issues raised on the blog, and demonstrate the centrality of historical thinking in today’s world.