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Episode 66 : Digital Journals, Time-travel & Surprises from a Life Story

25 January 2012

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Your Life Story is far more important than you realise.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been travelling through Europe, spending time with family in Megève in the French Alps where you can see a short video I produced at my other podcast at Your Story.

This video and the other content that I’m producing as …

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Episode 65 : Talking to Family and Really Hearing their Stories

24 December 2011

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Christmas and a time to connect with family

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Christmas and the holiday time that we have at this time of year, is often about family, catching up and talking about what has been happening over the past year. In this episode of Create Your Life Story I want to urge you …

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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 one …

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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 you …

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Episode 63 : Help with Your Life Story

28 November 2011

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There is help nearby for your Life Story

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Your great idea of recording a Life Story requires one major achievement. You to actually do it! That’s obvious and with all the content available here on Create Your Life Story you can get the knowledge to start and complete a project but …

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Interviewing and Story Telling with Ira Glass and Richard Fidler

10 November 2011

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What we can learn from the professionals.
I was listening to this episode of Richard Fidler’s wonderful Conversations, interview programme on the ABC and thinking how much of it is relevant to what we’re doing with Life Stories.

From Richard’s recent trip to the US we have this interview with Ira Glass, host of the hugely …

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Free Quick Start Mini-Guide to Your Life Story

5 November 2011

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Find something simple to start today.

The huge amount of content here on Create Your Life Story has created an issue of overwhelm for some people. I know that feeling from personal experience of starting on these projects and I want to help you.
Where do I start?
To help you cut to the chase, I’ve created this Free …

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Recording Your Life Story for all History

26 October 2011

The everyday stories of human history are being recorded today.
One of the greatest history shows I know of, be it television, radio, text or new media is the extraordinary Dan Carlin’s Hard Core History.

If you want to go deep, not just into the facts but start thinking of some of the other issues of history, …

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Episode 61 : Difference of Life Story and Oral History

20 October 2011

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What we can learn from Oral History and how we travel our own path.

Oral history and storytelling bookend what we’re doing here at Create Your Life Story with our family Life Stories. Oral history is academic and storytelling is theatric.We’re not exactly in either camp but we can learn a great deal from these disciplines and this episode …

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Reporting Your Family Story

19 October 2011

Look at your life, like a journalist would.
Have you thought about approaching your own life and therefore, your families story as a journalist would?

In a recent post on CNN Mark Whitaker suggested some great ideas to help you dig deeper into your family, using some of the skills that he’s gained in 35 years …

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Episode 60 : Remember the Stories of Community

5 October 2011

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Remember the groups of people and the stories of shared lives.

We all live in different communities that change over time. Some we leave some change but all are filled with the people who we share our lives with, forming the stories of our lives. What are the stories of your communities through your life?

Look …

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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 Linkable PDF that …

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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 & diaries.
Films & …

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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 the …

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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 be …