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It Started with Bill, Now for Him it’s Over

22 April 2012

Today my favourite uncle passed away. It started with Bill, …this site I’m talking about. It was after sitting with him for a week recording his humble but (for his family), interesting Life Story that motivated me to want to share these techniques with you. What his six hours of audio has given my family [...]

How to Tell Your Story – It doesn’t have to be a Book

18 December 2011

Tell your Life Story in any way you choose. Biographies are normally thought of as being books but that’s wrong. Biographies are stories nothing else and the technology of telling those stories is your decision, maybe a book, maybe something else. Look at all the digital systems that are now available to you and choose [...]

WRONG – You’ll Never Guess the Surprises from a Life Story

9 December 2011

Go try and guess, I’ll bet you’ll be wrong! There are many things that you can prepare for a Life Story. The questions, location, additional information like photos but one thing you can be guaranteed of is, there will be surprises that will astound you. These surprises could be in just hearing the stories that [...]

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 [...]

Episode 54 : You’ll Never Guess the Surprises from a Life Story

28 July 2011

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What I got from creating a Life Story for my family! In 2010 I originally record the Life Story of my uncle for entirely selfish reasons only to discover that I could do so much more for others and myself than I could have every imagined. In 2007 when I started Your Story I decided that [...]

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 [...]

Ghosts of the Past are Here

27 June 2011

Use the images of the past and put them in modern context. With nearly a hundred years of popular photography and photojournalism we now have some amazing historical images from the past that we can compare with today. And I’ve recently found this photo manipulation method of explaining how things have changed over the years.

Episode 50 : 5 Historical Timelines of Your Life Story

20 June 2011

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No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.→ You don’t live alone. You live with people in your family, community, culture, country and world. From each of these groups you’ve been impacted by all the events that occur in them. Obviously family occasions [...]

Episode 49 : Discover the Missing People of Your Autobiography

9 June 2011

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Don’t forget the important insignificant people Too often we look to the things of our life to talk about. The places, adventures, heartache, career even the family but we don’t take the time to consider all the people of our Life Story. A story is not just cold information. As we look into the themes [...]

The Power of Voice

11 May 2011

The voice screams of emotion, text only whimpers. A biography is always more powerful when heard directly using the voice, rather than just the printed words when telling a story of your life. This is particularly important when it comes to events that are significant and poignant. Maybe it is possible for a skilled author [...]

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. [...]

Episode 42 : Unexpected Surprises from Creating a Life Story

26 April 2011

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You’ll never know what surprises there are until you Create Your Life Story! Here on Create Your Life Story I’m constantly wanting to motivate you to start on your personal Life Story project but I know that there can be several issues with getting underway and we’re all working to resolves those points. What you [...]

Episode 37 : Two Systems to Help You Unravel Your Life Story

15 March 2011

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Chase a Theme or Flow with the Times We know a Life Story is about an individual’s life and we want to include certain key points but how do we go about tying all the other elements together, to flush out this life, to understand the points that need to be made? Primarily a Life [...]

The Selfish Reason You’re Recording a Life Story

14 March 2011

Kick Your Motivation to Record Your Life Story If I was to ask you why you want to recording a Life Story, what would be your response? That response is the motivation that helps you to get on with completing a biography but it’s worth taking the time to really consider it and not just [...]

Episode 35 : Why You Won’t Record Your Life Story

4 March 2011

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A Life Story – For most it’s only, a Great Idea! Everyone I tell about Create Your Life Story say what a great idea it is, then something like, ” I wish I had have recorded my Gran, she had so many wonderful experiences in her life.” Then depending on who they are, something about… [...]

1000′s of Images but What is Vivian Maier Story?

14 February 2011

Vivian Maier, Street Photographer and Nanny Scratching around amongst people’s cast off junk at an auction house in 2007, John Maloof, a real estate agent in Chicago, discovered the boxes of unloved negatives repossessed from a storage unit. His initial stash of negatives from the life of Vivian Maier, that he paid $400 for, has [...]

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