About six weeks ago I wrote this post, Where Ever the Road Leads, prompted to do so having read an article in the newspaper about the book shown here.
I was therefore interested to come across a podcast of the author being interviewed, which I have embedded here.
Very interesting and thought provoking.
Yesterday I shared a post about using Evernote for email storage. Today I am going to share something that I learnt over the weekend, and I was simply delighted!
I typically use Evernote for the purposes I described yesterday from my laptop. You can read that post HERE.
Over the weekend I opened the Evernote application on my iPhone and which immediately alerted me that as an O2 (UK mobile phoned company) customer I could upgrade my Evernote account to Premium for a year, completely free of charge.
I did ponder if it was a hoax, but I was logged in to Evernote and my phoned must somehow of spotted that the carrier was 02, although I was connected via WiFi. I can not explain how my phone and Evernote knew, but they did!
I hit the upgrade button and within a few moments received a verification text message and I was indeed upgraded to a premium account with the expiry of 14 Nov 2014. I was so delighted that I tweeted o2 & Evernote because I think we live in a culture where we declare bad service and rarely comment on the good and genuine.
A quick look at the O2 website has this banner – if you click the link (above) you can read all about the offer. There is details about Evernote and this is a genuine and useful offer from a UK mobile provider. It does not say on the page how long this offer is available for.(Edited 21st Nov – according to the O2 Priority Moments application the Evernote offer has 3 months left)
As I said yesterday, I was more than happy with the free account and now with this free upgrade I can explore the extra opportunities of Premium Evernote. The cost of Premium is not prohibitive to me, £35 a year (or £4 a month which can be used for a few months if you are working on a specific project that might involve you over running the free data limits).
If you are an O2 customer and you have been undecided on the benefits of the Evernote premium account for the cost of zero you can upgrade. Absolutely free of charge. There is no additional lock in to O2 beyond any original contracts – I think this even is available for O2 pay as you go customers. It is so rare for any business to provide not just a valuable and useful offer, but one that lasts a full year.
I have not been compensated for this post by either O2 or Evernote. I am simply a happy and delighted customer.
There are some great Evernote resources out there….
Evernote Website
+Evernote (Google Community)
+Evernote (Unofficial Google Community)
+Evernote in Genealogy (Google Community)
Evernote on YouTube
A few weeks ago I shared that I am a One-Note girl – you can read that post HERE. In that post, I mentioned that until I had upgraded my laptop I had used a mixture of OneNote and Evernote.
Now, having upgraded my laptop and migrated to Office 365 I went full time to OneNote…bliss!, I transferred the notes from Evernote and then created a folder in Evernote called Archive and slid those notes into that folder. I did that because I often recall things via event.
I then had pretty much a free Evernote account vacant for use. The one thing that I do like about Evernote is that I can forward emails to my account.
I should mention that I have been using a Yahoo facility. About 10 years ago I created a private Yahoo group that allowed access only to me. It was a hidden group and should anyone on the off chance stumble across it they had to be approved by the moderator for entry, which of course was not going to happen!
That has, up until now worked well, but I have become increasingly concerned as to the security of such a site. I therefore made the decision that I would transfer all those archived emails across to my Evernote account. Thus giving me a bit more control.
How to find your email address for your Evernote account
I have one of the free accounts. I do not believe that I will use more than my allowance of 60MB in a calendar month, and whilst I am archiving material from the Yahoo site, I will work in blocks to ensure I do not use over the allowance, if I think I might I could pay to upgrade, as the cost is not prohibitive.
Now I am sure someone is thinking, why not simply archive emails in Gmail? Well, I don’t because in the past I have been to enthusiastic at deleting emails and thus deleted many that I thought were safe!
I guess I am a belt and braces kind of girl!
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| Screenshot of how my Evernote is laid out |
A week or so ago, I came across this article, in which the author, Eric Muller explained that he was trying to discover the exact fate of his late Uncle, Leo Muller, in Europe during the Holocaust.
Apart from feeling dreadfully sad at the article, not in terms of Eric writing it, but sadness of the fate that his Uncle suffered and then the further, morally wrong issue that arose when someone contacted Eric when he made a video explaining what he was seeking and why.
I will share the video here, because with the power of social media I do hope that Eric receives what I desires and thus his family can have a degree of closure.
The video is in German, but if you visit this link and click on transcript you can read in English what Eric is asking.
I am not connected in any way to Eric, although I did drop him an email. I simply wanted to share the video and article with my readership.
Over the last two weeks I have shared fourteen photographs, one each day of someone who I thought should be acknowledged for the contribution they made in respect of King (and Queen) and Country.
We started out at the beginning with these two collage pictures, which I have merged into one collage – a collage within a collage!
I have been to Canberra and the Canberra War Memorial several time. I last visited in October 2012 and you can read about that HERE
This is a photograph of the wall of rememberance. The N.L. Ludlow is of interest. He is the brother to my Cousin’s maternal Grandmother.
Whilst there is no family connection between me and Norman Lachlan Ludlow, over the time I have spent in Australia I have got to know my Cousin’s grandmother, known as Grandma, although I have always called her by her Christian name. As she is still living she I shall refer to her as F.
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| Image taken from Norman’s Service Record at The National Archives of Australia |
As luck would have it, Norman’s service record is on line at the National Archives of Australia. Norman was 21years old when he enlisted in 1940 in New South Wales. Sadly, Norman did not make it home, he died, a Prisoner of War in Thailand of disease recorded as Dysentery or Malaria in July 1943.
This is somewhat interesting, given that I spent quite a while in the section of the Museum relating to the service personnel who were Prisoners of War of the Japanese during this period.
Even though many years have passed. His details were shared with his Great neice and his great great niece and his sister still has a photograph on display.
A few days ago someone commented to me via a blog post that by upgrading Blogger profiles to Google profiles it meant that some people who had chosen no to do that could not leave comments on blogs. Judy Webster very kindly checked for me and she was right. I was a little irritated as I do not want to stop people who choose not to alter their Blogger profile from leaving comments. I value those comments & the friendships that have been formed from blogging.
I need to dig around a bit more and find a way around this issue, if there is a way, but in the meantime, I have opened up my blog commenting to everyone including anonymous and switched on moderate comments. It is not perfect, but does sort the problem in the immediate future.
Meanwhile, I came across this, initially shared by
http://www.plusyourbusiness.com/beginners-guide-google-plus/
It caused me to ponder, is Google really as scary as people think? And do the benefits outweigh the negative issues? It strikes me that Google want to have users embracing interaction and collaboration, yet are in some ways being short sighted.
I can only talk from my perspective. I like Google and their products, I like the way they are attempting to really push collaboration, interaction, engagement and development, because in this age of technology there really is no excuse to not be informed, involved and part of something our ancestors could not have, and probably didn’t comprehend.
I am going to be really general here – people got on boats, either as free migrants and maybe they waved to friends and family as the boat/ship started to leave the waters of the homeland. Perhaps those people got on the boat wearing shackles and was terrified at what was to happen to them.
Either way, they got on a boat and sailed off to a new life, miles from their homeland. Knowing, in the main that communicating with their family and friends was no longer (or probably not) going to be possible. There was no email, phones, letters perhaps if they could write, then it took months to arrive. If it arrived, perhaps someone had to be found who could read the letter to them, someone had to help compose of a response. You get the picture.
I have just taken part in the monthly hangout for the Guild of One Name Studies (www.one-name.org) the on line meeting was free (apart from our time) and was represented by members from USA, Canada, England, Spain. All possible with the technology of Mr (or Mrs) Google.
The initial thread is located HERE at Genealogy Leftovers – If people do want to merge the accounts, you can un-merge them, as long as you do it within the specified time limited – from memory 60 or 90 days, but Google does tell you at the point of merging!
Final points.
We are naturally programmed to interact with people we know, either we have met them in real life or we have interacted with them either via blogging or mailing lists. We have a whole set of memories (probably) being told “do not talk to strangers”.
Google+ focuses on the people we DO NOT know, but we might benefit from knowing based upon our common interest(s). The people that we have a common interest with, such as genealogy are placed into circles. I am not sure if that is obvious or not, but thought it worth mentioning. Thus I share my genealogical data, comments, interesting posts and so forth with my genealogy circle and my Guild of One Name Studies circle, pharmacy with the pharmacy circle, books with the book circle. I have at least four people in all three of those circles! So people in more than one circle is okay too!
I am not an expert, but I learnt and embraced Google based upon hints and tips from another Google girl (+Tessa Keough) so by way of paying forward if someone want assistance of has a question drop me a message, email or leave a comment.
Today is week 12 of what is going to be a 15 month project. Each Saturday, at around 12.30am UK time I will release the prompt for that week’s Book of Me, Written by You.
If you are new here, welcome! The details, background flyer and Face Book link to the Book of Me can be found HERE.
The Anglers Rest blog first went online at Blogger in 2002. At the time of transfer, the counter was at 349,463.
It was moved to this site on 18th December 2015 when the counter was reset -:(
Julie Goucher ~ Anglers Rest 