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Sharing Your Life – Unlike Your Grandparents

by Ian on Wednesday, 1 September, 2010 · 0 comments

in Conversation,Life Story,Motivation,Philosophy,Sharing to Others

Imagine Discovering your Grandparents Life.

Imagine finding a neglected box of old 78 rpm records covered in dust sitting in the attic. Imagine wiping them off and placing them on a gramophone. Then as you play those records you hear your grandparents voice speaking to you, across the decades, telling you of their life, their hopes and dreams.

A Lifetime of Stories

Imagine what they would tell you, of what they went through in their life. How would you feel?

Now imagine how your grandchildren will feel when they finally discover and know of your life. What would that mean to them? What would that mean to you? But only if you record your Life Story, unlike your grandparents, unless you do have those 78 rpm records.

Now you can record your Life Story

Just like your grandparents, you’ve had dreams and experiences, adventures and loves but unlike your grandparents you have an easy way of telling your grandchildren how your life has been.

Sure, they may only seem slightly interested when you get together now, but when you were young, how interested were you in your grandparents story? How interested are you in your heritage now? How interested are your grandchildren going to be when they are in your seat?

Create Your Life Story is all about giving you the tools to produce that Life Story. The free e-book is a great place to start. Additionally, on this site is free content to help you with what you need [click to continue…]

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Episode 16 : Posting Audio on Your Web Site

by Ian on Tuesday, 31 August, 2010 · 0 comments

in Audio,Design,Life Story,Technology

Playing Audio on Your WordPress.com site

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We have our audio and we have our website, now in this Episode 16 of Create Your Life Story we bring them together in one place for the world to be able to easily access and listen to your Life Story.

The great thing about having a WordPress.com site is that it’s completely free and fully maintained. There are no issues with having to deal with the “back end” of the site as an ongoing concern. However as with all things there is no such thing as a free lunch and with a WordPress.com site there are some restrictions on the way you can use the site. WordPress.com do this to ensure that those who are using the WordPress.com sites don’t bring malicious code that can damage things for everyone and in the case of today’s subject so that people don’t abuse the free nature and use up too many of the resources of WordPress.com by hosting large media files such as audio and video.

It’s easy to play video files through your WordPress.com site that are hosted on sites such as YourTube, Vimeo and Viddler by using the embed code available from the hosting sites.

Audio like video also needs to be hosted on a service to then be linked back to your site at WordPress.com. There are paid services such as Amazon S3 and Libsyn but like having your own hosted WordPress.org site there are costs and maintenance issues and it’s important that once you have completed your Life Story project, it remains permanently, without fear of disappearing because you forgot to maintain the fees or there is now no one left to care for it.

Archive.org the Perfect Place for Your Audio Files

The Internet Archive (Archive.org) is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission: “universal access to all knowledge.” It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitised materials, including websites, music, moving images, and books. [click to continue…]

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