Blogging: The National Archives

The National Archives hosts several blogs. The most fascinating one is Prologue. This particular blog is very user friendly and encourages its users to contribute. For example, on Thursdays the blog has a "Put a caption with this photo" contest. The Archives posts a funny or interesting photo from their collection on the blog and encourages the users to come up with funny and creative captions for the photo. Another interesting trend on the site is Facial Hair Fridays. Apparently facial is extremely popular (for those of you in Dr. Herringer's class- remember the article about the beard movement?) and the blog has taken advantage of this trend. Every Friday the Archives will post a photo of a historical figure with very interesting facial hair and details the history of that person and his impact on history. The person with the best caption wins a prize from the online gift shop.