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Start Your Story. Then Discover What You Know

14 April 2011

While producing the last podcast episode I again had a wondrous experience, but this time it was the strongest that I’ve ever had. As you know the last episode is all about the importance of listening, a topic I’m quite passionate about and one that I think I have some natural ability with but not [...]

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 [...]

Say Hello via Audio

5 April 2011

Don’t be shy… Say G’Day I know, you feel a little shy and you may not be totally comfortable on the microphone yet but what better way to move forward than to tell your story to someone who understands. I’ve recently installed a SoundCloud easy audio uploader so you can drop me a comment or [...]

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% [...]

Episode 25 : Prompting Your Conversation

24 November 2010

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The prompts of your Life Story are around you. Prompts, ideas or any of the conversational topics are one of the first things that people seem to struggle with when it comes to recording their biography. What will I mention? I don’t have anything to say… Or maybe, I have so many things to say [...]

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 [...]

Life Story Presentation for Seniors

7 November 2010

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Introduction to Create Your Life Story at Tamborine Mt U3A. The University of the Third Age is an international organisation of individual chapters where seniors can share their lifetime of knowledge with each other about anything of their choosing. It’s all about open sharing of skills that helps to keep seniors active and motivated in [...]

Episode 16 : Posting Audio on Your Web Site

31 August 2010

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Playing Audio on Your WordPress.com site Click to share on Twitter 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 [...]

In Praise of Audio

24 August 2010

I’ve been mentioning the advantages of audio for some time. We all know how good audio is but we’re transfixed by the bright flashing lights of video, movies and television. Audio is us, communicating in that most profoundly human manner of language. Stories around the campfire or bar for all time. Here is a comment [...]

Episode 14 : Importance of Music

17 August 2010

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Set the scene, create the mood and make a point with music. Click to share on Twitter Music can have profound effects on the mood of an audio Life Story and in Episode 14 of Create Your Life Story we are going to dig in and see how to use it for our benefit. When [...]

Episode 13 : Audio Editing of a Life Story

10 August 2010

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The Recording is completed, now to make it a listening pleasure! Click to share on Twitter You have the audio recorded so now tt’s time to look how you will edit your Life Story and what style we use. To date you’ve been concerned with everything you need to generate the audio recording. The emotional, physical [...]

Episode 11 : Choosing and Creating the Best Recording Location

27 July 2010

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Setting the Location for a Great Audio Recording Click to share on Twitter Noise, noise, noise! The number one bane of my existence in recording audio is finding environments that are suitably relaxing and quiet. Pleasant environments like cafés are inevitable noisy with coffee grinders and espresso machines, crashing plates and ruckus conversations. Often with [...]

Video and Audio Life Stories Comparisons

30 June 2010

Last night I was at The Hive, a group of local innovative thinkers here in Brisbane where we get together once a month to connect and listen to a guest speaker. After the speaker I was chatting to a few people and mentioned Create Your Life Story and what we are doing here. I spun [...]

Episode 7 : What to talk about – Prompts

29 June 2010

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Nine Aspects of Life and the Prompts to Start Your Story! Click to share on Twitter Welcome To Episode Seven of Create Your Life Story. So you want to talk to someone or you want to record yourself, but what are you going to talk about? Sure it’s a conversation and we have conversations all [...]

Episode 6 : Start Recording a Life Story

22 June 2010

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Start Small, Just Record Click to share on Twitter With any new project, like recording a Your Life Story, it’s important to start! Filling your life with the preparation is often a form of procrastination. For that reason it’s important to get underway and seeing results as quickly as possible and here is a simply way [...]

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