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Your images will be look on with wonder one day

22 March 2012

Capture today to surprise people tomorrow. Like Ninety-six-year-old Rebecca Lepkoff who’s been taking pictures of one New York neighborhood her entire life you too have images that you’ve been capturing that will one day be looked on in wonder. As you watch this video realise that future generations will see what we’re all creating today [...]

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Your Story Tips – Helping You Tell Your Story

20 March 2012

Quick tips for helping you with you storytelling. Now that we have so much content here at Create Your Life Story it’s easy to be overwhelmed when really it should be simple and easy. I’ve started a series of short form tips to help you record your life, one small story at a time using [...]

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Sometimes we have the only ‘One’ Left in the world.

23 February 2012

Are you throwing out history? You’ve heard the story, haven’t you…? You know the one. The story of someone going to a garage sale or similar and buying some old painting only to discover it’s a Boldini or whatever that’s eventually sold for €2.1 Million. Do you have something in your life that could be [...]

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Episode 64 : It’s About Your Story – Hindenburg Editing Software

9 December 2011

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 35:51 — 33.5MB)

Hindenburg makes editing your Life Story simple so you can concentrate on the Story Click to share on Twitter I know the feeling of getting bogged down on the details of Creating a Life Story. There are so many things that can take you attention away from what a project is all about… The Story. One [...]

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Episode 62 : Fear of Your Life Story

2 November 2011

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Are you fearful of telling your story, or just a little shy? In this episode of Create Your Life Story I want to open a conversation about the reasons for people not wanting to tell their stories, particularly when they say that they are interested. In recording conversations for Your Story, I’ve noticed several, sometimes contradictory reasons why people avoid [...]

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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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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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:33 — 48.7MB)

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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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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70 Year Journey Back in Time

7 July 2011

Your own personal Time Machine Imagine for a moment stepping through a door, back in time to the dark days of WWII. What would you see if you could travel in that time machine? How many little things would be the same and how many would have changed? Recently a woman who owned a flat [...]

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7 Ways to Screw Up an Interview

20 May 2011

Don’t screw up and you’ll be better than most You’ve been there haven’t you? Maybe it’s a formal or a general conversation where everything starts well. Everyone is getting on just fine and then somehow it starts to unravel because you drop the bundle. You went in with the best of intentions but you did [...]

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Episode 46 : Why You Can’t Afford to Not Use a Blog

16 May 2011

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A life story for your family and the world So you want to produce a life story of someone… Maybe your own story, maybe someone else. And you want to record this life story because there is some information that you feel is worth capturing for posterity. Maybe they were involved in some interesting events [...]

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Episode 39 : The Reason They Don’t Listen to Your Life Lessons

31 March 2011

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History is philosophy taught by example. How many things have you done and lessons learnt that you could share with others. The challenge is in helping them understand the lesson without them having the same experiences. A wiser way for them to learn is from others rather than make the same mistakes in life as [...]