History

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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Digitally Saving on a Grand Scale

13 November 2011

Saving the physical world around us.
With personal stories we can record a voice or maybe some video. We can scan the photos or create images of the more tangible things in life but how do you remember something that is big. Like a house or a pyramid or Mount Rushmore?

Here is another great TED …

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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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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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Manhatta – Time Travel to 90 Years Ago

3 October 2011

Mundane life today is the fascinating story for tomorrow
Now, after a significant period of time, (in this case more than one lifetime), we have the chance to see people, long gone in daily activities that they took for granted. We have the chance to look through a portal back in time.

As is always the case, new …

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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 Squid …

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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.

If …

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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 tend to be very …

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A Life Story is about experiences – Nothing else

19 November 2010

Your Life is Experiences.
“History is one damn thing after another” – Winston Churchill.
The life of everyone is a continuous stream of experiences. Some exciting, some dull and many simply mundane.

For the greater community it’s the exciting experiences that capture us. These events take us to new places and show us new ways of living. …

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Record a Life Stories before it Fades

8 October 2010

Today is the best day to record a Life Story
I often say that today is the best day to record a life story but could it already be too late to record this biography even when they are still here?

When I started my other podcast Your Story I had an initial list of people …

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Episode 10 : Conversational Interview Technique – Let’s Have a Chat

21 July 2010

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Directed Conversations – What we do when we’re interested in others.

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It’s easy when we’re fascinated with what they have to say.
Are you prepared with all the questions that you’re going to ask and do you have a good expectation of what answers you’re going to get? Are you there with …

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A Trillion Hours, What Are We Doing with Them?

8 July 2010

Today while listening to the BBC Digital Planet interview with Clay Shirky I realised something that is about what we are doing here.

Clay Shirky in his book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age states that there is globally one trillion hours of spare time per year that in …

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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!

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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 the time …