Skills

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

9 December 2011

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Hindenburg makes editing your Life Story simple so you can concentrate on the Story

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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 of the …

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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 58 : Oral History View of Life Stories

6 September 2011

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Oral History shows the professional methods to a Life Story

Creating your own personal family history, Life Story will utilise some the methods of various different techniques of human communication. In the past we talked about the skills of Storytelling and how to get across the story with the emotional impact that we want. The other discipline …

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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 minutes …

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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 I …

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Episode 53 : Silence – Nothing Helps Your Story

13 July 2011

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What is a vase? The container or the space within?

Silence is like empty space, it doesn’t seem to be anything. But in actual fact, without the silence, the void, or the margins, the space around things is needed to make sense of the thing.

Imagine for a moment walking up to your home, putting the …

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Episode 47 : Overcoming the Underwhelm

24 May 2011

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The excuses driven by underwhelmed motivation

You know that capturing a Life Story in some form is a great idea and maybe even occasionally at 2:30am you have had a little panic attack knowing that you need to get underway, NOW!
…But then the moment passes and, well, you just feel a little underwhelmed again. There’s …

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Tell a Story as a Marketing Tool

18 April 2011

We all have something to sell, even if it’s only our opinion on a topic or attention from someone in our life.

Maybe we have some product or concept that we need to get across. Here is a radically new product and if you look at the video of the new home brewing technology product …

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Episode 41 : Listen and They’ll Tell You Everything

13 April 2011

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Genuine listening is the key to their confidence

It’s not what they say but the way you listen, that helps people to share the deepest parts of themselves.

We often think we listen… but do we?
Are we really listening or are we just taking turns to speak?

In a recorded conversation we’re away from the distractions of …

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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 …

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Interviewing as if they were Your Lover

29 March 2011

Hanging on every word…
Remember when you first meet that special person? When everything was bliss and you couldn’t bare to be apart? It didn’t matter what you did, as long as you were together, talking, laughing and loving each other. You would talk for hours wouldn’t you? And listen so intently, hanging on every …

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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% in …

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Better Ways to Use a Mouse

11 February 2011

Doing the Obvious – Differently
We often do new things without thinking. If I throw you a ball, a shovel or a pillow you would instantly act with a catch or block as an automatic reaction depending on the situation.

If you were start a new task, especially something that you haven’t done before, how would …

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Episode 30 : How do I Write My Story? – Get a Blog!

5 January 2011

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Get a Blog to Learn How to Creating a Life Story Biography
It takes time to produce a Life Story. Along the way there are many distractions. Some are from outside influences of your life, while some are due to the issues with actually creating the content that will become the Life Story. A blog …

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Episode 28 : You Can’t Make Someone Tell Their Story

14 December 2010

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How to help someone talk about things they don’t want to

It’s an oft asked question. How do I get someone to talk and reveal something that they just refuse to talk about?

This is not just for us and our desire for the stories of someone’s life but it’s also the same for finding out …

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6 Ways to Relate to Others

8 September 2010

Update – This was 5, but is now the 6 ways to relate to others due to a new understanding.
How we relate to others is paramount for us to achieve what we desire as an outcome especially as we are when we are recording a Life Story.

I avoid the term ‘Interview’, as it creates …