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 …
Preparing for Digitization: Organizing the Archivist Way
Tia Stenson is a guest blogger for Permanent. Tia is an emerging archivist and a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, with a Masters in Library and Information Science, …
Introducing Our Partnership With Open Tech Strategies
We’re excited to share that we’re working with Open Tech Strategies (OTS) on a six month co-development partnership through the end of 2020. Permanent had been searching for development partners …