Free App for Making Videos

I recently learned about a free app that is designed to help you make marketing videos.  Directr for Business has built-in storyboard templates that guide you and make it easier to figure out what you want to say and how to deliver that message.  Templates exist for several kinds of marketing messages, but you could certainly use it for other types of videos also.  You can upload your new video quickly to Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.  It's made for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch and is super easy to use.  I was able to use it to create a short video to let people know about my genealogy research business.  So check out my video and then think about the ways you can use Directr to help promote your own business!  (Or even outreach for your genealogy research?)  And did I mention that it's free?!

One Minute Every Day

It is often said that genealogists can spend so much time researching the past that they forget to save the present.  Someone recently told me the simple but brilliant (to me, at least!) way he has been preserving memories of his children growing up.  Every day since they were born, he has filmed them for one minute.  During that minute they could be doing anything -- sleeping, eating, singing, playing, whatever.  But he films them every day for one minute.  Can you imagine the incredible archive he has?  He and his family can look back over the years of videos and watch the day-to-day changes as his children have grown older.

And it's so easy to do!  Just one minute, every day.  Hardly any time at all.  You don't need to set up anything elaborate.  And you don't even have to have a video camera.  Most mobile phones nowadays can record video.  (But you will need to download regularly.)

So what's stopping you?  Start creating memories for tomorrow!