Digital Technology to Capture and Publish Your Life Story

Utilising digital technologies to record, edit and publish audio, video and text life stories we are now able to share our memories with family and the world as our biography of our history

Your Digital Footprints are How You’ll be Remembered

9 August 2011

What are you going to leave behind? As happens I was following Derek K Miller, the science and technology journalist mentioned on this video and thought about many of the points that are mentioned here by Adam during Derek’s illness. It got me thinking about all the digital data that we’re now producing, that can [...]

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Hindenburg Audio Editor Overview for Your Life Story

30 June 2011
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This is how to edit your Life Story audio in Hindenburg. Your Life Story biography should be all about getting the wonderful stories recorded and shared with family and the world. Everything else should get out the way of that result. For that reason I suggest you use the Zoom H1 Handy Recorder with Giant [...]

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Episode 51 : The Simplest & Best Audio Editor for Your Life Story

29 June 2011
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The best, easiest and simplest audio editor for conversations. Life Stories need little technology to edit but until recently there hasn’t been anything available that did the job to make the spoken word more interesting and engaging. What do you need? Most editing systems aren’t designed for the simplicity that we need for editing Life [...]

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What You Want for Your Life Story

17 June 2011

What do you want…? Amongst these pages is much of the content you want, but what else do you need? I have a limited understanding of your desires based on my knowledge but it’s important that I know from YOU what you want to ensure that I give you what you need. This short survey [...]

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Episode 46 : Why You Can’t Afford to Not Use a Blog

16 May 2011
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A life story for your family and the world So you want to produce a life story of someone… Maybe your own story, maybe someone else. And you want to record this life story because there is some information that you feel is worth capturing for posterity. Maybe they were involved in some interesting events [...]

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Episode 45 : A Biography is not a Book

10 May 2011
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Your Life Story can be anything you want. Your auto/biography is only relevant if it’s captured and if it’s consumed by others. So the best system is the one that people are most comfortable with using to create and share your Life Story. A biography is an account of someones life written by someone else. [...]

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Episode 44 : Say More with Nothing

4 May 2011
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Pause to create the space and rhythm of a conversation One of the things that always comes up when you decide to Create Your Life Story is how to deal with the breaks in conversation or the pauses. Sometimes pauses get in the way but often they can scream loud. Do you wait or interrupt, [...]

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I Screwed Up Despite Best Efforts

1 May 2011

…But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often askew, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy! I Screwed Up Create Your Life Story is all about the importance of communicating to each other, to share opinions [...]

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Episode 40 : Saving Your Life – Story

5 April 2011
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Loose it and your story ceases to exist What if you were to loose all those recordings that you’ve worked so hard to produce? All those hours of conversation… gone! As far as future generations are concerned you’d cease to exist. Maybe it’s best to have systems in place so that it doesn’t happen. Recording [...]

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Episode 38 : The Wonders of Editing

25 March 2011
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Audio editing is easier than you think! Unfortunately there is some fear of editing, especially when you first see editing software but it needn’t be so. In this episode of Create Your Life Story we’ll look at some of simple things that you can do to make your recording amazing. Basic editing with an 80% [...]

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Episode 34 : Publishing Your Life Story as Multimedia

22 February 2011
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Share all of Your Life Story in One System A life is not one event or experience. We all have multiple events throughout our lives often recorded on various pieces of memorabilia along with our personal memories. To share all those events with others we can tell the stories, which is what Create Your Life [...]

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Better Ways to Use a Mouse

11 February 2011

Doing the Obvious – Differently We often do new things without thinking. If I throw you a ball, a shovel or a pillow you would instantly act with a catch or block as an automatic reaction depending on the situation. If you were start a new task, especially something that you haven’t done before, how [...]

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How Private do You Want to Keep Your Life Story?

9 February 2011

What level of privacy do you want when you share your Life Story? We’re all different in the level of privacy that we feel is necessary in sharing a life story. Sure we know the recorder is on capturing the conversation and we can censor our comments. Even after that we can edit out some [...]

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How to Get Your Life Story Blog at WordPress.com

9 January 2011
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Get your WordPress.com blog with this helpful video The greatest thing about WordPress.com is how easy it is to sign up for an account and have your own Internet publishing tool (similar to a site like this one) in just a few minutes. You will be able to publish and start developing the skills that [...]

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Episode 30 : How do I Write My Story? – Get a Blog!

5 January 2011
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Get a Blog to Learn How to Creating a Life Story Biography It takes time to produce a Life Story. Along the way there are many distractions. Some are from outside influences of your life, while some are due to the issues with actually creating the content that will become the Life Story. A blog [...]

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Episode 24 : Zoom H1 a Perfect Personal Life Story Recorder

17 November 2010
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Add Giant Squid Lapel microphones and the Zoom H1 is just the recorder for all Your Life Story needs. Click to share on Twitter The Zoom H1 Handy Portable Digital Recorder from Samson is the ideal recorder for our application of recording personal audio Life Stories. Recently I mentioned about the pending sale of the [...]

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