The marketing guys were looking for a way to get the word out about the new I Remember Facebook application, so they opened the Marketing Playbook and found the chapter entitled “Give Stuff Away” and decided it was worth a try. You can get all the details here, but the short of it is, Use…
The Washington Times ran this story today about the Interactive Vietnam Wall in preparation for Memorial Day.Things have changed a little with The Interactive Wall since we released it last year. Contributions to someone on the Wall are now automatically added to a Footnote Person Page for that person,and those pages are also available in…
Last week we unveiled the I Remember application for Facebook. Because I Remember pages are linked to Footnote Pages, contributions made on either site will show up in both places. For those of you who use Facebook, I Remember makes it easy to share information about people from your family, people you are researching or…
Today we’re launching I Remember, an application on Facebook that combines the power of Footnote People Pages with the Facebook community. With I Remember you can preserve, honor and share the memories of anyone who influenced your life – your family, friends, classmates, teachers and celebrities. I Remember includes millions of pages already created from public…
Today as I was looking around Footnote, I came across some images, uploaded by UCHS1960, that are wonderful examples of the power of photographs. Nothing points out the similarities and differences between the past and the present the way a photo can. UCHS1960 has uploaded so many great images it’s hard to choose just a…
We’ve been working hard here at Footnote headquarters and last week we made several updates to the site that we hope will make it easier for you to find what you are looking for and use what you find. We hope to post more detail about some of the changes later, but here’s an overview…
We were honored today to hear that Footnote has received the ThinkGenealogy Innovator Award. We’d like to thank Footnote Members, the Academy, everyone at … (music begins to play softly in the background). Mark Tucker, a mild mannered software architect by day, becomes a family historian and blogger in his free time. At ThinkGenealogy he…
