http://memorypress.blogs.familylearn.com Official blog for MemoryPress, everything you need to turn your photos and memories into a beautiful hardbound book. Fri, 02 May 2008 19:07:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I can't decide if it's Spring or not (it snowed yesterday morning in Idaho). We realize how irregular we've become on our blog when Amy reminded us to post our latest press releases here. :) We've been working with a great company out of New York City on a partnership that materialized ... http://memorypress.blogs.familylearn.com/2008/05/02/partnership-in-time-for-memorial-day-great-movie/ Great news from Flickr and the Library of Congress. They are offering 3,000 public domain photos to the web as creative commons. This means that most of these photos can be added to books or websites without copyright restrictions. MemoryPress currently allows you to add your own photos from Flickr. ... http://memorypress.blogs.familylearn.com/2008/01/28/library-of-congress-photos-on-flickr/ Listen to the Pyxlin audio introduction: [audio:http://pyxlin.jeffreyharmon.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/finalpyxlinoneminute.mp3] We thought our MemoryPress users would like to hear that we have just launched our Online Journaling Program called Pyxlin. Pyxlin is the smart way to journal. It was created so that people can keep their daily journal online in an ... http://memorypress.blogs.familylearn.com/2008/01/23/familylearns-online-private-journaling-program-is-called-pyxlin/ Neal and Amy will both be presenters at the annual Association of Personal Historians conference in Nashville, Tennessee, November 8-12, 2007. Neal will speak on "Smart Publishing" and Amy will give two presentations: "Mining the Web for Personal History Gold" and "From Shoeboxes to Books: Writing Great Personal Histories". FamilyLearn is ... http://memorypress.blogs.familylearn.com/2007/10/24/nashville-association-of-personal-historians/ Thank you to Mary Slawson and Jackie McKay for a great interview..you asked great questions (Mary, I was impressed by the depth of your research) and it was fun to speak with you, Jackie, between the breaks. For any readers who weren't tuned into Relatively Speaking on KSL Newsradio, you ... http://memorypress.blogs.familylearn.com/2007/10/01/ksl-newsradio-interview-about-memorypress/ So in case you didn't notice, we haven't posted an update in quite some time. Things have been really busy around here. We've had lots of changes, and they've all contributed to great things. I wanted to tell everyone about a really cool new feature we've implemented. Before now, ... http://memorypress.blogs.familylearn.com/2007/09/28/new-feature-allows-contributors-to-see-the-real-book/ A number of bloggers have thoughtfully reviewed MemoryPress and we want to thank them for getting the word out. Buzzy Diz Biz [english] Dhyan Atkinson (I met Dhyan back in 2004 and she's a wonderful teacher of sales and marketing skills) Duane Johnson (Brilliant engineer who always comes to work with a smile...he ... http://memorypress.blogs.familylearn.com/2007/08/21/thanks-for-the-reviews-on-memorypress/ Thanks to Cheryl at Blooking Central for helping to clarify the mashable article. Check Blooking Central out... Says Cheryl, I intend for Blooking Central to be "Everything (eventually) that you could want to know about blooks: how to blog with an eye on getting published, software for converting your blog, and ... http://memorypress.blogs.familylearn.com/2007/08/15/blooking-central/ We're happy to launch a browse and search interface to FamilyLearn, the world's most enjoyed family story library. We're in the process of migrating thousands of photos and books from the previous system and so not all the content is showing up in searches at this time. It will soon. Two notes ... http://memorypress.blogs.familylearn.com/2007/08/09/familylearn-library-available/ Today we finally added another book to the MemoryPress home page. Self-Publish Your Family History We hope that we will soon win out the keyword "family history publishing" in searches on Google, Yahoo, Live, and Ask. This is the new URL: http://memorypress.familylearn.com/family-history-publishing We will be adding more types of books as time moves ... http://memorypress.blogs.familylearn.com/2007/07/25/new-book-option-self-publish-your-family-history/