Earlier this year, Permanent embarked on an exciting experiment. Would it be possible to seamlessly integrate a collaborative text editor into Permanent.org? We’re excited to announce that yes, it absolutely …
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 …
From Permanent.org to the Internet Archive in Just One Click
At Permanent, we enjoy making it easy for you to share your archives. Sometimes that sharing is private. It might mean making sure everybody in your family can enjoy the …
Upgrades to Uploads
Over the past few months the Permanent engineering team has been hard at work making fundamental improvements to the way people upload data to their archives. A lot of these changes work behind …
Why we’ve chosen to suspend our Facebook integration.
The Permanent team has been working on finding a way to allow our users to import their Facebook photos and videos since even before I joined the team three years …
The Oral Tradition is Permanent
This is a guest post by Zack Ellis, founder & CEO of TheirStory announcing an exciting new partnership with the Permanent Legacy Foundation. I am thrilled to announce a truly …
When Disaster Strikes Part 3: Preparing Your Family Treasures for the Worst
In part 1 and part 2 of this miniseries, we’ve run through the emotional logistics needed in order to prepare our mindset for handling a disaster, it’s time for us …
When Disaster Strikes Part 2: Navigating Grief and Data Loss
In Part 1 of the When Disaster Strikes miniseries, I opened with a personal account of what my family experienced during the recent West Coast fires. While (thankfully) everything turned …
When Disaster Strikes Part 1: The Importance of Preparation
We’ve all seen it. The shocking images of debris in the background while an exhausted human with a thousand-yard stare gestures to where their house used to be. It’s easy …
Welcome Cecilia Krum, Our New Director of Engineering
This is a co-authored piece by Robert Friedman, Executive Director, and Cecilia Krum, the new Director of Engineering at Permanent. She will be responsible for the technical requirements that ensure …