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Do you have printed photos that need to be scanned, but you haven't had time?  Check out this Bulk Scanning Event!

	Bulk Scanning Event
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Every Picture Tells A Story .. Every Story Brings a Picture to Mind

How many times have you heard a family story about your parents or grandparents, but there is no actual picture to validate that story?  A simple story can put us right into the picture even if there is no picture of the actual event.

For example there is a story in my family that we can call “Baby under the cherry tree”.  When you think about that in your mind we see a baby in a stroller sitting under the cherry tree. 

• ·        So what else can we add to this to make it more appealing?  The baby is crying!  Is it hungry, unhappy, sleepy or any number of other issues.
• ·        Grandparent comes over to the house and sees and hears grandchild crying under the cherry tree alone.  The parent is in the house.  Why?  Can you see the grandmother questioning this scene?

Going back to the story above, this takes place in a small Midwestern town close to the Mississippi river back in the late 1940’s.  The child’s father and uncle had purchased a coffee shop in town and it just so happened that the river overflowed its banks a week after the purchase.  The streets flooded all around it and the brothers had to sandbag the doors and around the building.  You could say they were not off to a good start! 

Due to the flooding of the town and the newly acquired coffee shop, the brothers had their wives doing the baking of pies, cakes and cookies for their coffee shop at home.  The baby was crying and would not stop so her mom put her outside under the cherry tree so they could get the baking finished.  In the meantime, grandma stopped by to see them and to also see what the high water was doing to the town.  She was really upset that ‘baby’ was outside crying all alone, but the mother and aunt told her that they just needed to get the baking done for the coffee shop and were watching her out the window!

Now, can you just “picture” that whole scene in your mind and how those snapshots would look like?  There are so many “pictures” that come to mind when we don’t have an actual photo of the event.  I am sure that you have heard stories from a family member about something funny or dramatic that happened to them or another family member, but there is no photo of the event.

These are the reasons we 1) take photos of everything, 2) we put those photos and stories into memory books for future generations to read and reminisce for years to come.

Photo Organizing Solutions can help you put those stories in writing with a memory book that includes photos and stories of events even if you don’t have a photo of a particular event.  

Let me help you.  Contact me at www.photoorganizingsolutions.net, or email sue@memoriesbysue.net for more information about this service.

Radio Interview March 31st

The Off Beat Radio Show

Photo Organizing Solutions will be interviewed on The Off Beat Business Show on March 31st @ 12:00 pm - 12:20 pm and then again at 8:00 pm.I will be talking about saving your family photos and WHY you need to do this.  

Susan Hamilton is very good at letting people know there are all types of "Off Beat" businesses are out there that you need to know about.

Don't forget, tune in Wednesday, March 31, 2015 at http://offbeatbusiness.com/the-show/

Help! My Photos Are Everywhere!

Historian

Seems I get this statement each time I talk to a new prospect!  My photos are everywhere and I don't know how to tame the jungle!  

This program, Historian, is one way to tame that jungle and make sure you can find all your photos by year, month, day, person, event or even by favorites (rated with a star rating system).  It is easy to work with, and makes finding things so easy!

When you first install this program it will open a Memory Vault that you will name with your own tag.  Every time you download that camera SD card, it will go into your own memory vault.  Then you can go through and tag or name each photo right then and add them to the correct file.

The memory vault is divided up into categories: family, events, and key words.  This is just the beginning of making those categories your own.  You can go further under family and made a file for each family member, or grandparent, etc.  You can take the event file and add holidays, birthdays, trips, sport activities, or anything that applies to your family.

This software is easy to use and has lots of special upgrades to help you be more productive when searching for all those pictures.

Contact Sue Thornton at www.photoorganizingsolutions.net for more information or to be added to our newsletter list.  We don't share your name with any other lists.

Back-Up Your Computer

It is so important to back-up your computer on a regular basis. If you have ever had your hard drive crash, then you know what is involved in trying to reconstruct all the data and most importantly the family pictures. So frustrating!!
Wikipedia defines back-up as follows:
In information technology, a backup, or the process of backing up, refers to the copying and archiving of computer data so it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is to back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup.^[1]

Backups have two distinct purposes. The primary purpose is to recover data after its loss, be it by data deletion or corruption. Data loss can be a common experience of computer users. A 2008 survey found that 66% of respondents had lost files on their home PC.^[2] The secondary purpose of backups is to recover data from an earlier time, according to a user-defined data retention policy, typically configured within a backup application for how long copies of data are required. Though backups popularly represent a simple form of disaster recovery, and should be part of a disaster recovery plan, by themselves, backups should not alone be considered disaster recovery.^[3] One reason for this is that not all backup systems or backup applications are able to reconstitute a computer system or other complex configurations such as a computer cluster, active directory servers, or a database server, by restoring only data from a backup.
It is also suggested that you can use an external hard drive for back up of all of your personal photos. Many of my clients will back up all their photos to the EHD just in case. Of course there are other places that you can use for back up of your computer. There are various Google applications, (Google Pictures, Documents) where you can put those important items. As a certified photo organizer it is suggested that you have at least 3 places to back up your items. How many EHD's do you have laying around that are full? Make sure that you check them out periodically to make sure they still work correctly. I call it a "test drive" just to check them out to make sure they work. Some of the early EHD's were pretty small, and now that we all take so many digital photos we keep getting larger and larger EHD's.


There are several brands in the market place. I won't recommend one over the other, but you can do your research and get the one that works for you.
The cloud is also a place that you can use for computer back up. There are several companies that have good products. The prices seem to be pretty consistent across the industry. One that I recommend is called BackBlaze. 

 I currently have several 3-month FREE trials through BackBlaze that I am giving away. If you will contact me, I can give you the information for this special offer. First come first serve!

Check out my website at www.photoorganizingsolutions.net for more information about us.

When was the last time you......

When was the last time you transferred the photos on your smart device (phone or pad) to your computer?

These are things that everyone needs to do at least once a month!  We take so many photos with our phone, iPad, Android tablets and phones we really do forget how many we actually have on those devices.  If they crash will you be able to retrieve them?  Everyone always says they can get them from the cloud, or DropBox or some other service, but first you need to make sure those services are the best for your type of use or business.  

Does your file structure sort of look like this?  Those photos are there on your computer, but can you find the specific one you want?  A file system is a must when tagging and filing all those photos.

When was the last time you backed up your computer?

There are several good cloud backup companies out there.  One you might want to check out this month is called BackBlaze.  If you want to try it out, I can give you FREE access for 90 days, but you need to act fast!  I have 3 FREE coupons left and when those are gone I can't get any more!  BackBlaze will backup your documents and photos continuously!  You don't need to remember to schedule because it takes care of that for you.  I love it!

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