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Piecing together the life of Sweet Phil, a father she hardly knew, Phyllis Fletcher traveled the country to discover her story that you can see and hear at Transom.org.

Fletcher collected anecdotes from family members and then intertwined them with excerpts from the letters her father sent her from prison.

Why not turn the next holiday (whatever it is) into an opportunity to celebrate those you love in your own words and pictures, as Fletcher and others are discovering. Forego passive media such as TV and movies.

Create your personal media coverage.

At Transom.org you can create
and contribute your story and discover others' stories.

Alternatively, create a podcast of your story:

Podcasts www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting are being treated as the new tech versions of radio shows,
books-on-tape, seminars, and more. For this holiday, you can also use them to cover a family gathering, an honorary celebration, or family stories around the table -- to share with others in your tribe. Many places will help you
produce a podcast, including Transom

Our Media the "global home for grassroots media" also promises to provide free online storage for your videos, photos, audio files.

"Forever. No catch."

On the more commercial side, see Podshow and Odeo where, for example, grandparents share bedtime stories withgrandchildren who live in another state:

100,000 groups are sharing their videos, photos, music, and art with their circle of friends over at Grouper.com,
and so can you, at no cost. In fact, they have a contest on right now:

Or create a digital family album as my friend Janine Warner did after writing two books to show you how: *Creating Family Web Sites for Dummies* and, out this January, *Digital Family Album Basics*.Janine also explains how to share photos, create a slide show as a screen saver, and more.

Read here:

# posted by KareAnderson @ 11:18 AM