“Place” | New Members’ Corner Theme for August & September 2024
DEADLINE Aug 31: To celebrate the “All About That Place” series, Projectkin will combine our Members’ Corner cohorts for August and September and add the theme of ”Place.” Join us?
The Projectkin Members’ Corner has become a wonderfully easy way to get your family history stories published for a larger audience. In the six months since our launch at RootsTech 2024, we’ve published 27 of our members’ written and recorded stories for a list that now includes over 600 supportive family historians and genealogists across the Anglophone world.
Today, we’re celebrating our reach by announcing a new theme — and a larger cohort combining August and September:
Up to 12 Projectkin members are invited to submit posts focused on a theme of “Place.”
This time, the stories and recordings of our Members’ Corner will focus on places related to our family history and genealogies. This theme picks up on the remarkable “All About That Place” event hosted by the Society of Genealogists in collaboration with the Society for One-Place Studies, the British Association for Local History, and various generous sponsors. As you may have heard, Projectkin is sponsoring the Pacific Edition of All About That Place.
The combination of cohorts for August and September pushes the deadline out just a bit, too. Submissions aren’t due until midnight on August 31, North American Pacific time.
Theme: Place
Our definition for this Members’ Corner theme will be as generous as those for our speakers. Programming for both has been mapped to these eight Place-based topics:
⦿ Health and Medicine
⦿ Military and War
⦿ Leisure and Entertainment
⦿ Town and Country
⦿ Innovation
⦿ Politics and Rights
⦿ Collections and Archives
⦿ Tools
How the Members’ Corner Works
Since its launch, the Members’ Corner has celebrated the work of our members and given them the flexibility to submit work for publication without the fuss of formatting and configuring a website, blog, or Substack newsletter. We take care of that for you. More about the base program here:
All you do is submit either a:
Written pieces of between 500 and 2000 words with illustrations or photographs (Word, Gdoc, or similar formatted file and image files). OR
Recordings of up to 60 minutes (either standards-based video or audio files). Please include relevant illustrations, reference links, and other resources for any recording, plus background copy/show notes.
[See the Members’ Corner for examples.]
Once we publish your piece on the Members’ Corner, you can cross-post your written or recorded post to your publication or reference it on your website or blog.1
This exposes you to the growing Projectkin community, many of whom may never have seen your work. All members contributing to the Members’ Corner also become Projectkin “guest writers” with a “forever-comp” account and are treated as insiders with special updates and collaboration opportunities.
Publishing Dates
Members’ Corner posts for this All About that Place cohort will be published individually beginning in early September and collected in a special newsletter combining them with recordings of live “Pacific Edition” programs. They will also be posted to a centralized Projectkin.org/AATP24 section for added visibility to program participants from 🌍 London, across the 🌎 Americas, to the 🌏 South Pacific.
Limits and Requirements:
We do have a few limitations. You will be asked to validate that …:
The work is original, and you are the author.
You can accept our light edits for your work. (If we disagree over edits, we won’t publish your work. You’re welcome to publish elsewhere.)
You can accept our invitation to be a guest writer on Substack.
The piece has not previously been published on the web. (Have questions, let’s discuss. This avoids the search penalty for duplicate content.)
You understand that we can only accept up to a dozen posts for this special edition of the Members’ Corner.
Note: If we’re oversubscribed, we may offer the option to hold your work for inclusion in the October or a later edition of the Members’ Corner.
Projectkin’s LIVE Pacific Edition of the AATP Programs
Projectkin is also a sponsor of the Pacific Edition of the All About That Place program. The programs will be held live over Zoom at 4 PM PT, 7 PM ET, and the next day at 7-9 AM in Australia and 11 AM in New Zealand on September 27, 28, and October 1, 3, and 5.
Each speaker will speak for 10, 20, or 40 minutes, followed by discussions. All recordings and transcripts will be available within a few hours of each program’s conclusion and shared as new posts to…
newsletter subscribers.
Learn more:
Please note: We are already almost oversubscribed for live speakers now but welcome recorded programs in the Members’ Corner.2 The final schedule detailing who will speak on which days will be released after the submission deadline of August 15.3
Learn more about the “Pacific Edition” of All About That Place in this announcement article from July 2024:
If you repurpose the content on your blog or website, kindly designate the Projectkin.Substack.com-based URL with the “canonical tag.” This routine technique ensures that search engines don’t penalize us both for duplicate content. This step is unnecessary if you cross-post from within Substack. Learn more about canonical tags from Semrush blog. Here’s how to use the cross-post feature on Substack.
Because these recorded programs will be distributed through our Members’ Corner, they will not be distributed with the Society of Genealogists’ AATP24 materials through YouTube and Facebook. However, links to the Pacific Edition will cover all materials. Have questions or concerns? Just ask.
If we are over-subscribed, some speakers may be asked to submit their talks as recordings for the Members’ Corner.
I am "on the move" during AATP this year, hoping to catch several of the features when I can later in October. I think it is great that you are doing a "Pacific Edition".
I am involved in the UK All About That Place and am very excited about the Pacific Edition