The Houston Oral History Project- Houston Voices Its Past
Posted on September 30, 2009 - Filed Under Business History, Personal History, Preserving Memories, Social Responsibility | Leave a Comment
Yesterday Mayor Bill White and Dr. Rhea Brown Lawson, director of the Houston Public Library, launched the Houston Oral History Project (HOHP), a web-based archive that celebrates the many voices of Houston’s past. Last summer Mayor White commissioned 100 initial interviews through the Houston Public Library. Well known civic, political and business leaders as well [...]
Read More..>>How Much Should You Pay A Personal Historian?
Posted on July 13, 2009 - Filed Under Business History, Family Memories, Personal History, Preserving Memories | 2 Comments
Dan Curtis, my friend and fellow Personal Historian in Victoria, BC, recently penned this excellent blog posting on determining the costs of a personal history. This article tackles head-on, the perceived discrepancies of pricing when shopping for a historian. From the buyer’s point of view, it can often be difficult shopping for this service as [...]
Read More..>>The Importance of Acknowledging Your Employees
Posted on June 29, 2009 - Filed Under Business History, Personal History, Preserving Memories, Video Tributes | 1 Comment
Flickr photo: akanesio Paying tribute to the people who have made your company what it is today can pay great dividends in several ways. This article, in an edited format, was written for the Houston Business Journal and ran in it’s “Best Places to Work” issue in July of 2008. I am sharing this as [...]
Read More..>>The Symbolism of Passing Something from One Generation to Another
Posted on April 29, 2009 - Filed Under Business History, Family Memories, Geneaology, Personal History, Preserving Memories, Video Tributes | Leave a Comment
flickr photo: shamitsnaps If any of you are into collecting watches, you know that watch prices can run from a few dollars for a drugstore watch that serves merely as a timekeeper to hundreds of thousands for jewel and precious metal combinations valued for their craftsmanship and aesthetic appeal. While purchasing and collecting watches is [...]
Read More..>>Legacy Multimedia Wins Crystal ICON Award
Posted on August 11, 2008 - Filed Under Business History | 1 Comment
Last week Isabelle and I won our very first award. It is the Crystal ICON award and it was awarded to us by the Houston Chapter of the International Society of Event Planners. We won the award for a video piece we did for the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft on the artwork of Cindy [...]
Read More..>>Legacy Multimedia in the Houston Chronicle!
Posted on July 20, 2008 - Filed Under Business History, Networking, Personal History | 3 Comments
Today is a pretty exciting day around here. My company, Legacy Multimedia, received a feature profile in the Houston Chronicle business section. I was on my vacation two weeks ago (which is why I’ve posted so infrequently over the past couple of weeks), when I got the call that they wanted to write the story. [...]
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