Colleen Robledo Greene

NARA and Ancestry digitization partnership

May 21, 2008

The U.S. National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) announced yesterday a 5-year partnership with The Generations Network (TGN), parent company of Ancestry.com, to digitize selected NARA records. TGN will provide the staff, hardware, and software, and will make the digitized records available online to Ancestry subscribers. Access to those records will be available for free, […]

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Posting calendar events on your web sites

October 16, 2007

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 Technologywebsites

Family history collaborative content management system

September 20, 2007

Leland 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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Technologywebsites

Google Presentations

September 18, 2007

Need 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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TechnologyGoogle, Google Docs