This E Commerce site for an award winning author highlighted his new book “Questions and Answers on Life Insurance.” Features include:

Optimized for mobile devices
E-Commerce shopping cart
Online Glossary of terms
Comments linked to authors Facebook page
Search Engine Optimized
Site search optimized
PDF enabled pages enabling easy user downloads
Social Media Integration
Mobile phone custom
Custom Podcasts
Custom Slidecasts
Custom Life Insurance Needs Calculators
Blog

This website is an online exhibit and was developed in conjunction with the Banned & Recovered: Artists Intervention traveling museum exhibition. We incorporated their images and artist interviews into a website, a series of podcasts, a Flickr page featuring the artists work including stories behind each piece. Features include:

Social Media Integration
Educational Flickr site
Custom 3D Gallery on site
Custom Podcasts
Optimized for mobile devices

Set during Alaska’s gold rush, this short story describes the family life of miners in the town of Hope. Relying on their dog, Old Bruce, during a winter storm, a young mother travels 5 miles to town by dog sled, to get medicine for her husband.

Tom and Judy celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversary surrounded by family at the annual reunion. It was a joy putting together this video montage for such a remarkable couple.

Erna Torney, a Red Cross girl who served on a B-24 Air Force base in England during WWII. Erna’s story is part of the Marin History Museum’s oral history program.

The Great Depression impacted American lives for over a decade – an impact that for many became a permanent part of their personal values, customs, and expectations. While the Great Depression looms as a monolithic benchmark on our history’s timeline, the resulting generalization can take away from the significance of individual experiences. These are the stories that oral historians seek to document so that we can develop a deeper, more satisfying understanding of history.

The relevance of this historic time has become strikingly apparent as we face the challenges of overcoming today’s Great Recession, and make personal decisions during a time of tremendous difficulty.  I am grateful for my grandmother’s willingness to share her personal history with me, which has given me a new perspective on the Great Depression. During an oral history interview with her, I wondered whether my personal choices will lead to a better life down the road. She reminded me of the simple things that sustain and inspire us, and the importance of not giving up hope.

Daily life around the kitchen table is the focus in this oral history interview excerpt.

For More on this topic, please visit the Storycatcher at Large Blog.

The Great Depression impacted American lives for over a decade – an impact that for many became a permanent part of their personal values, customs, and expectations. While the Great Depression looms as a monolithic benchmark on our history’s timeline, the resulting generalization can take away from the significance of individual experiences. These are the stories that oral historians seek to document so that we can develop a deeper, more satisfying understanding of history.

The relevance of this historic time has become strikingly apparent as we face the challenges of overcoming today’s Great Recession, and make personal decisions during a time of tremendous difficulty.  I am grateful for my grandmother’s willingness to share her personal history with me, which has given me a new perspective on the Great Depression. During an oral history interview with her, I wondered whether my personal choices will lead to a better life down the road. She reminded me of the simple things that sustain and inspire us, and the importance of not giving up hope.

In this excerpt of an oral history interview, the role of folk song and music as family entertainment is explored.

I was part of an all-day workshop sponsored by CERA, California Exhibition Resource Alliance, as part of the 2010 CAM conference for California museums. This free workshop offered information on technology and the visitor experience within exhibitions, how to create podcasts that inform the public about your museum, and mobile technologies that enable visitors to access information about your exhibits from their mobile phones. My presentation focused on collaborative projects that create digital media for You Tube, Flickr and museum websites that are designed to bring the untold stories of small museums to life. Here is the SlideShare presentation I’ve uploaded that includes examples of two projects on You Tube and my presenters notes. My hope is this short presentation will inspire small museums to reach big audiences with thoughtful digital media projects created with a team of museum professionals and students from a local university or school. Designed to inspire collaborative digital media projects with schools and museums.

Presentation designed and given by Kelly Sturgeon, Principal at My Storycatcher productions.

This interview with MICKEY THOMAS explores the important role cooking and food plays in his busy life as a rock musician with STARSHIP. He and his wife Rachel share their kitchen and stories around what they consider “home plate.”

MICKEY THOMAS is the owner of the soaring voice that propelled STARSHIP through the decades of the 80s and 90s. Mickey made his mark in 1976 as lead vocalist on the mega-hit FOOLED AROUND AND FELL IN LOVE with The ELVIN BISHOP Band. In 1979, Mickey joined the JEFFERSON STARSHIP as lead vocalist. Every STARSHIP album released since  has gone Gold, Platinum, or Multi-Platinum.

Backed by the power of MICKEY’S vocals, JEFFERSON STARSHIP immediately scored a number 1 hit with “NOTHING GONNA STOP US NOW” from the movie Mannequin. Other top hits included “FIND YOUR WAY BACK,” “STRANGER,” “LAYING IT ON THE LINE, ” WE BUILT THIS CITY,”  “SARA,”  “JANE,” and “ITS NOT OVER TILL ITS OVER” that became the Major League’s Baseball theme for both the American and National Leagues in 1987.