The Three Dynamics of Personal Histories
Posted on October 7, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Geneaology, Networking, Personal History, Photography and Snapshots, Social Media, Social Responsibility, Video Tributes | Leave a Comment
Flickr photo: Kingsnake
Since October is Family History Month, I was already thinking about this subject for a new blog article when a Canadian writer and film producer named Robb Lucy asked that I make a contribution to his new book. Scheduled for publication in the Spring of 2009, it is tentatively titled “Legacies [...]
Read More..>>Family Photo Album
Posted on June 24, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Personal History, Video Tributes | Leave a Comment
Flickr photo:AhmBeaux
I met this guy at a party the other night and when I told him that I was a personal historian and biographer, he became really, really excited. He said to me, “I have to show you this album I did with my son for his 5th grade class project. [...]
Read More..>>You’re Gonna Be In Pictures…
Posted on June 2, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Personal History, Video Tributes | Leave a Comment
Flickr photo:kedziers
Last week NPR ran a segment on their show, Marketplace, entitled “Coming Soon, The Cash Peters Story” which was a look into the world of video biographies spotlighting one Los Angeles firm, Legacy Flicks, that charges $20,000 to put your name on the marquee for 30 minutes.
The segment was humorous [...]
What Makes a Good Biography or Autobiography?
Posted on May 2, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Geneaology, Personal History, Video Tributes | Leave a Comment
Flickr photo:Kelloriffic
May is Personal History Awareness Month with May 16th identified as the International Day for Sharing Life Stories. I know lots of people who plan on writing their autobiography ’some day’ so this month just might be as good a time as any to get started on that.
It would be fair to [...]
Every Memory of Your Life Stored Forever - MyLifeBits Project
Posted on April 4, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Media Archiving, Personal History, Video Tributes | 2 Comments
Gordon Bell
What would it look like if you had a computer with every single memory stored on it forever? You would be able to access every webpage you’ve ever looked at, every email you’ve read, every photo you’ve taken or been in, videos of your public speeches, records of conversations. Everything that you [...]
Read More..>>Old Letters and New History
Posted on March 24, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Geneaology, Personal History, Video Tributes | Leave a Comment
For a good part of my life, i had a tin cracker box filled with old letters. Most of these were letters sent to me by old boyfriends, away at college or otherwise separated from me and declaring their affections. There were also some letters from friends off on a big adventure somewhere and I [...]
Read More..>>PBS’s AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Launches “Campaign ‘08″ Multimedia Website for THE PRESIDENTS Biography Collection
Posted on March 4, 2008 - Filed Under Media Archiving, Personal History, Social Responsibility, Video Tributes | Leave a Comment
BOSTON, MARCH 3 — PBS’ AMERICAN EXPERIENCE today launched http://www.pbs.org/presidents/2008, the online component of an unprecedented public television initiative that, for the first time, will make available more than 25 hours of presidential programming online, on TV, and on the go. The project comes at a critical moment in American politics. This year, American voters [...]
Read More..>>Trusting Your Film & Photos to a Service Provider
Posted on February 28, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Media Archiving, Personal History, Photo Restoration, Video Tributes | 1 Comment
I was at a networking event a couple nights ago and had a great conversation with two gentlemen about a variety of issues; personal, domestic and global. At some point, we began talking about our services and what specifically we do at Legacy Multimedia.
One of them was quite excited to hear about our services and [...]
Effective Interviewing Techniques for Video Histories
Posted on January 10, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Geneaology, Personal History, Video Tributes | 1 Comment
Flickr Photo: Walter Grubmuller
While every interviewee is unique in his or her own way, there are several things you can do in advance to help make the process go more smoothly to yield better results. There are also some proven techniques that can be applied during interview sessions to ensure that you [...]
Read More..>>A Triple Header Video Interview
Posted on January 3, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Personal History, Video Tributes | Leave a Comment
Over the holiday week between Christmas and New Year, my family spent a week skiing in Utah.
We stayed at the home of some good friends who live outside of Salt Lake City and another family from California was there as well. We have known the parents of these families for almost 25 years, [...]
