I’m in the midst of rebuilding the web site for the Orange County Heritage Coordinating Council, a non-profit local history organization on which I serve. I wanted to include a calendar of HCC events, as well as all Orange County local history events… but I didn’t want to have to compile and enter this all […]
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Societies & Organizations TechnologyLeland Meitzler posted a press announcement on his blog yesterday about FamilyInHistory, a new collaborative platform that allows members to import, publish, host, and share their family histories online. Unlike free hosting services like Ancestry, FamilySearch, Genealogy.com, and RootsWeb, FamilyInHistory provides each subscribing member with a full-blown content management system that houses personal history pages
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TechnologyNeed to collaborate with colleagues on an slide show presentation? Yesterday, Google officially launched its free, web-based alternative to Microsoft’s PowerPoint, Google Presentations. The software is available as part of Google Docs, which is still in beta mode, and allows users to collaborate on slide show presentations.
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TechnologyThe Associated Press reports today that The New York Times will begin offering free access to portions of its online archives beginning this Wednesday, September 19th. Effective midnight on Tuesday, NYT will do away with if fee-based subscription program and allow free access to NYT articles from the last 20 years (1987 – present), as
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