iPhone 5 Wish List

28 September 2011

All I want for Christmas is an iPhone 5 Today we seem to be getting the news that at long last we have the imminent release of the, not to be called iPhone 5. One thing that has been confirmed is that it won’t be called the iPhone 5 Australia’s major telco Telstra has tactically released a, “so called” [...]

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National Oral History Conference

27 September 2011

Are you coming to the Oral History Association of Australia Conference? This years theme is Communities of Memory as seen but the some of the topics to be considered. Memory and Catastrophe Memory Work for Human Rights Indigenous Memory Place Community, Memory Communities of Identity

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Live Question & Answer Show

17 September 2011

Come and join us on our first live Q&A on Ustream.   Everyone is welcome to join the First live broadcast of Create Your Life Story with host Ian Kath. Live broadcast by Ustream I mentioned the graphic with links on the images that could be used to generate a linkable PDF. This is the [...]

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Episode 59 : Smash and Mash Your Life Story

13 September 2011
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Make your Life Story more than the sum of the parts Once you start digging into it, your live can seem like an archaeological expedition. There are just so many things that you can start to bring to surface to help remind you of your life story. Just some of them are: Photos. Documents. Journals [...]

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Stunning Memorial to a Fragile Life

8 September 2011

You just have to listen to this! Sometimes it’s not about someone telling their story – but of us telling the story, of what they meant to us. Sometimes we just need to get our thoughts out there and in doing so we manage to capture an essence of who they are/were. Kevin Farkas from the Social [...]

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Episode 58 : Oral History View of Life Stories

6 September 2011
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Oral History shows the professional methods to a Life Story Creating your own personal family history, Life Story will utilise some the methods of various different techniques of human communication. In the past we talked about the skills of Storytelling and how to get across the story with the emotional impact that we want. The other discipline [...]

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More Hindenburg Audio Editing Tips for Your LifeStory

2 September 2011

Go a little deeper with Hindenburg without getting in the way of the story. Hindenburg is, I feel the best and simpiest audio editing software specifically for voice for us that is available. You can try free trial version for 30 days but after that it’s no longer free unlike other editors such as Audacity [...]

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Questions, Answers and Topics Discussed on Live WebCast

31 August 2011

Coming soon to an internet connection near you 17/18 September 2011 In the latest podcast episode, Storyboard to See Your Whole Life Story, I mentioned that we’ll be having our first opportunity to get together live, to answer questions and discuss aspects of creating a Life Story. Too often we just wonder about things and never consider specific topics. [...]

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Episode 57 : Storyboard to See Your Whole Life Story

29 August 2011
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A simple tool to discover the topics of your Life Story and a different way to share the whole of your life in one view! Today’s episode of Create Your Life Story is full of listener feedback about how their individual projects are developing including a conversation with Paul Harbath about his personal Life Story project and [...]

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Your Grandmother the Nazi Killing War Hero.

19 August 2011

Contradiction creates the interest in a great story. The Australian heroine and most decorated servicewomen of WWII, Nancy Wake, recently  died at he age of 98 in London. This diminutive old lady, once a beautiful young woman, was the Gestapo’s most wanted person with a 5-million-franc price on her head and thought nothing of killing Nazis to aid [...]

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Episode 56 : The Secret – They’ll Telling You Everything

15 August 2011
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Your infatuation will cause them to open up Great storytellers can draw you into their world of interests but most people need someone to be a provocateur to help them express themselves. That’s your role! It’s never an interview but a directed conversation where you keep the conversation on track through engagement. But how to [...]

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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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Ian’s Podcasting Interview

4 August 2011

Some of Ian’s back story on Podcast² Podcast review site Podcast² is all about letting you know what is out there in the world of podcasting and winnowing out the wheat from the charf. Recently I was interviewed but Andrew about how I got started in podcasting and a bit of the back end story [...]

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5 Ways to Listen Better

4 August 2011

Your number 1 skill to hone – Listening! Sitting and recording someone’s Life Story in a directed conversation has never been an interrogation, that’s more akin to an interview where you question and collect data. To really get to know someone and to connect, the most important thing, is to Listen. Listening is where it [...]

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Episode 55 : 3 Steps to the Stories of Your Philosophy on Life

3 August 2011
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One sentence to sum up your philosophy on life Push, pull… Fight, kick and scratch or just let it be and do as you like, or not! How do you do this thing called your life? If you’ve had the good fortune to raise children you’ll sometimes find yourself sharing your beliefs on life. What [...]

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Life Stories for Genealogists.

30 July 2011

Interview on GeneaBloggers Blog Talk Radio Today I had the opportunity to share with some of the genealogy community on GeneaBloggers BlogTalk Radio the advantages of recording a life story and how that will become part of the history for future generation. If you want to listen to the show I’m on from about 5:00 [...]

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