Greenhouse Studios is excited to announce NetWorkLab, a new professional development opportunity for project managers in the digital humanities and allied fields aimed at improving remote collaboration and facilitation skills. The program is funded in part by a $249,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’s Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program.

Drawing on the experience of Greenhouse Studios in leading diverse teams of collaborators in online environments, NetWorkLab will bring together a cohort of 24 participants to learn a suite of proven remote project management skills and methods. Starting in Fall 2023, participants will embark on a year-long, completely online program of learning and doing under the instruction and individual coaching of Greenhouse Studios staff. Lessons will include: building a cohesive team of remote colleagues; facilitating more inclusive and equitable participation in the online environment; designing more productive online experiences; hosting more engaging virtual meetings and events; matching remote collaboration tools and modes of interaction to project aims; balancing synchronous and asynchronous communication; encouraging positive participation from remote team members (as well as how to negotiate difficulties and address counterproductive behaviors); and sustaining participation over time. The program will also foster connections amongst the participants through hands-on learning and peer-to-peer mentorship, and will encourage participants to spread the program materials and techniques to their colleagues.

A more detailed schedule and curriculum will be released in early December, along with a Call for Participants. We encourage participants from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply, including: graduate students; post-docs; designers; developers; public historians; museum, library, and archives professionals; and anyone else interested in improving their remote project management and collaboration skills. Please stay tuned for more!