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How to Tell the Ten Best Stories of Your Life

March 2, 2015 Alison Taylor
How to Tell the Ten Best Stories of Your Life

How to Tell the Ten Best Stories of Your Life

What are your "ten best" stories? In this presentation you'll see a step-by-step method to make the process of writing or recording a personal history easier and more fun.

Because I've had so many requests, I've decided to post a link to a presentation I gave at the Rootstech conference in Salt Lake City. (Deep breath -- sigh. It's always hard to watch oneself on video, don't you think?) But it was a great session with some great questions at the end; we had a blast being there! I hope it will be helpful to those of you who are thinking about telling your stories. 

Click on the photo to start the video.

Click on the photo to start the video.

There are so many great classes on the site at Rootstech.org! I can't wait to watch some of them that I missed at the conference. You can also download syllabi for all the classes from the whole conference from the site.

You can also download the syllabus of the class here.

And although it wasn't recorded, Tom gave a terrific workshop at Rootstech entitled "60 Ideas in 60 Minutes." You can download the syllabus here.

Please comment if you have any additional questions that I didn't answer for you in the presentation!

 

 

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