Voice (messages) from the past

Do you remember the tape-based phone message systems that were popular twenty years ago.
Maybe you still have one. If so the voice quality has likely degraded. Do you save voice messages from special people?

I read a story in the Wall Street journal (April 7, 2010) about James Alan Bouton, the author of "Ball Four" a best selling book on baseball published in 1970. The author created a controversy with antedotes about the infamous exploits of famous players of the 60's. Several players were upset along with the commissioner. It was believed that Mickey Mantel took the accusations personally but before his death in 1995, Mickey called the author and left a personal message. The author states in the article that he is "saving the tape for his grandchildren".

But tapes don't "save", they decay. And worse the devices that "play" tapes are disappearing.
Unless he takes steps to digitize the tape, his grandchildren would only have static to listen to.

More about the solution in another post.

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Digital Privacy

Privacy means different things to different people, and the definition is constantly changing. Your friends on Facebook are private if you are concerned about spammers abusing them with misrepresentations of your preferences. Once you place content on Facebook, it ceases to belong to you and can be accessed by many. Anecdotes abound about homes being robbed while the family is on a made-public-on Facebook vacation. Many people worry about online identity theft, although the vast majority of ID theft is the result of someone "literally" getting their hands on your credit card. If you had a place to capture personal private stories, what would you share with family members, select friends or your heirs in the future?

1. Embarrassing episodes that (you think) would damage your reputation or career or friendships if made public today.
2. Painful episodes that gain some measure of release by recounting. Gut wrenching stories of incest, alcoholism, and rape are popular topics for memoir-as-therapy. Book royalties and the establishment of your status as an author or celebrity, are additional motivations behind the popularity of this genre. But few of us want to share those stories, and fewer of us are capable of writing a book around them.
3. Confessions - sins or crimes committed that violated laws or morals.
4. Retrospection - Turns on the road of life that changed your life or the lives of others. Painful lessons learned, actions you would undo if you could, or decisions that were not understood for their greater good.
5. Simple stories or feelings about past events; the re-telling of personal family stories that would not seem pertinent to the outside world, but to your family, have meaning.
6. Life's do's and dont's.

Anyone who has lived through several decades will likely have several stories that fit into one or more of these categories. Can you recall them? Can you capture and refine them to reach some understanding about yourself? Can you preserve and share them with select people?
Online-Legacy gives you the ability to share these stories, anecdotes, rants, life’s lessons, etc, with only those you choose.< Your purchase of a digital safe on Permasite.net gives your memories the privacy you want. You can give out visitor codes so those you want to share your legacy with can view it, but no one else. Privacy is Online-Legacy's most attractive feature and gives people the ability to create digitally with a sense of security. Posted via email from Online Legacy

Christmas Stories

The Christmas season is here. Whether you are Christian, Jewish or other, this time of year is special. The birth of Christ, the re-dedication of the holy temple, or the return of lengthening days after the Solstice, are reasons to celebrate with family. And all families have stories.

What stories make Christmas special for you and your family? Do you remember when you believed in Santa Claus? Do you remember when you discovered he was really just your parents? Did you go caroling? Did you ever hear real sleigh bells in the snow? Did you ever spend Christmas in a strange or exotic place? Did your mother have special holiday recipes - cookies, candies, Christmas goose?

Do you know how your parents or grandparents celebrated when they were children?

If you are fortunate this season to spend holiday time with family, take time to ask, to listen, and remember holiday season stories. Then capture and preserve them.




Easy to postpone, but too important to forget.

Happy Holidays

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Online Legacy Makes Privacy Easy in 5 ways

Create and save a story as Private and No One can see or edit your story but you. The public stories under Explore are tutorials and examples created by the staff and users who wish to share their legacy stories.

You can share a Private story by emailing a secret link. The recipient does not need to be registered at Online Legacy to receive and view a secret story.

You can change your story status from private to public to private at any time. (You can also revise or delete your story).

When you purchase a Permanent Archive, all of your public and private stories can be viewed by whomever you share your access code with. (You can change your access code at any time).

Online Legacy is a Facebook App. You can choose to share Public stories on your "wall". Private stories are never shared with Facebook. Period.

What happens to your memories when you die?

Everyone has a story to tell. And capturing the story in a way that makes it easily accessible to your decedents is now easier than ever with OnLine-Legacy.Com. OnLine-Legacy.Com is a service to help baby-boomers create and capture the memories and photos that illuminate their lives and then store those memories so that future generations can get to know about you.

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