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The Importance of and Opportunities for Community Archiving on Permanent

Permanent supports community archiving through our Byte4Byte granting program, which allows our grantees and partners to secure 100GB of cloud storage and intern support for their unique projects and efforts…
March 11, 2024
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Gathering & Transferring Your Digital Materials in One Place

Transferring digital materials from external devices to a central location is an important step in getting your materials ready to add to your Permanent archive.  Here’s a step-by-step guide and…
February 28, 2024
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Tips for Preserving Your Physical Materials

Even if you preserve your digital materials on Permanent.org, there’s still something undeniably special about physical archives. Whether it’s a collection of family photographs, historical documents, or cherished memorabilia, these…
February 28, 2024
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How to Build an Archive, One Story at a Time.

Why are stories important? Since the dawn of human civilization, stories have been created to help us make sense of the world around us. These stories captured anything from explanations…
February 5, 2024
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Archive in the Moment with the Share to Permanent Mobile Feature

It can be a challenge to find the time to preserve the files that make up your digital legacy. Now, ensuring that those memories are preserved only takes a few…
October 19, 2022
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Story Gathering: The Coming Together of Shared Memories

Which comes first, the photo or the memory?…
June 28, 2022
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The Letter

Take an old letter, add some photographs, and create a place for family to share stories.…
May 26, 2022
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FamilyHistory with Permanent.org Part 2 of 4: Preparing Your Family History Documents for Digitization

Describing Your Documents the Archivist Way I hope you enjoyed the first blog in this series, because we are now moving to the next step of your digitizing journey.  So…
June 16, 2021
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Everyone’s an Archivist: Creating Coherent Collections

This is a guest post by Nina Tarnawsky, a graduate student at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin with a focus in archival work. Nina has worked…
September 12, 2019
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Everyone’s an Archivist: Organizing Your Files for the Future.

This is a guest post by Nina Tarnawsky, a graduate student at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin with a focus in archival work. Nina has worked…
August 14, 2019