Social media has become a part of daily life. It is family history in the making. Ben Bennett and Cydni Tetro had a idea: What if someone could stream information from these sites by importing it to a preservation site and create a story?
Cyndi Tetro works for Disney in the Imagineering department and she knows stories. She has learned that an individual must understand the background to understand the story. She explained that in her current assignment with Disney she has to know everything about Star Wars. This background understanding helps to create an experience for the visitors to the theme park. She commented that when families step into a story it becomes a magical place to make memories! She asked the question, “What does a story mean to you?” She showed a tree containing the icons and trademarks of many social media sites and the many ways in which stories are shared today.
She said, “Storytelling is a timeless human tradition.” Stories are memorable, help us to travel further, and inspire us to action. The ones who know a lot about their families tend to do better when they face challenges, yet “we are creating stories every day that are not being captured.” She asked, “how do we remember?” Her answer was that we collect family stories in journals, audio, and video files. We are using social media yet the stories are being lost. The social content is posted at a pace that a person could get lost in the moment. For example, individuals upload photos to Facebook at a rate of 350 billion a day, YouTube has 100 hours of video uploaded every minute, and Vine has 5 tweets per second.
Ben Bennett and Cydni Tetro wanted social media accounts to come together. They wanted to build an experience to preserve stories. So Cydni set to work during this past month to create #MyToday. #MyToday will help individuals share and keep stories from their social media accounts by saving them to the FamilySearch website. She said that the challenge was to make it as easy as possible with as little friction as possible.
She showed us its potential through importing her own Facebook content to create a story. Cydni asked all of us to try it for ourselves at www.mytoday.co or come see them in the Expo Hall. You will have an opportunity to create an experience through your own Facebook account. Information from your Facebook account is imported and you will create the story through content integration. Content integration is achieved by looking at the stream and choosing to keep or ignore it based on the story being told. #MyToday is in the early stages of beta, so the information will not be saved or imported to the FamilySearch website. #MyToday welcomes your feedback.
Stories happen everyday. #MyToday is a tool to capture the memories and stories of all who are connected to social media. #MyToday will allow individuals to connect their social worlds and preserve them forever.
Este artículo me ha llevado a la reflexión sobre lo hermoso que es preservar nuestras historias, porque pasan los años, y muchas cosas ahora no las recuerdo.Mas interesante que sea por medio de Facebook, y se archive en Family Search.
I tried the link in the storBlog. It brought me to a page to log in with Facebook. That link brought up a facebook dialog box that said Your popup is too small to display this page. Please enlarge it to proceed. In the background, shaded out, but still readable, I could see a notice about what MyToday would receive from my facebook account.
The mytoday link Worked today with no popup dialog from facebook
I can’t lose my suspicion that our descendents will with nothing so much that we had not tweeted quite so much or posted so many photos. They are going to be up to their noses in the minutiae of our daily lives.
They will probably wish we had tagged our blog posts a little more precisely. 🙂
I see these blogs every day. I am so pleased with this blog. Before I came on my family search I was thinking about this very thing. I am having problems with my computer because I am not cleaning it up. I have family how have said that there can be too many icons and files on our Computers. So where can we put some of them? Some can be deleted off, some I want to keep Its a guessing game but I think it is worth the effort and time it takes to clean up our computers, even the cash. I have just gotten My Heritage. That is really over whelming but I think I need to start cleaning some where and yes so much is going down the drain. My Internet Explorer has shut down. There are all these files in my favorites that seem to be gone. How do I retrieve them now that things have gone the way they have? I am still working Roots Tech over. OH! MY! that’s an over load. Bless Joshua Taylor, We really need something like this new program. Thank You so very much.
I think I have solved my Favorites problems. It’s called Fire fox. It is a new Browser.
Every single DAY the population of this planet create 2,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of new information, and every few years you can add another zero to that. I don’t believe that any but the tiniest fraction of that will still be accessible in 100 years from now.
Will stories from facebook posted to familysearch be privacy protected for living individuals?
When Cydni Tetro spoke at the Innovator Summit, #MyToday was in the earliest stages of beta. The demonstration Cydni provided was an attempt to illustrate that technology, like #MyToday, can bring together stories told through social media and ultimately preserved them on the FamilySearch site. The issue of privacy for living individuals was not discussed, but it is a critical issue to address in any future Terms of Service.
what’s the best program to write our stories in/ for recording shall we use the Dragon and talk our histories also?
Marilyn, there are many programs I could recommend depending on what format you want for your final product. Do you want a hard or soft-bound book published? Do you want it preserved in digital format? Do you want it on-line with public or private access? The most important part of writing your story is getting started. If you use Dragon, it will help you get all of your thoughts in a word processing program without typing and the company claims a high accuracy rate. If you want to do more with your story, you will be able to do so. Remember: the most important part of writing your story is getting started. If you have additional questions contact me at thesingleleaf.wordpress.com.
I too want to know more, thank you.
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tried the link in the storBlog. It brought me to a page to log in with Facebook. That link brought up a facebook dialog box that said Your popup is too small to display this page. Please enlarge it to proceed. In the background, shaded out, but still readable, I could see a notice about what MyToday would receive from my facebook account.