Monday’s Link Roundup.

Another week and another eclectic mix of links. Be sure to check out 101 Useful Resources for Online Entrepreneurs and Communicating Life Stories. There’s a wealth of information on both sites. One of my favorite links is Days With My Father. It’s an achingly tender photo story of a father by his son.

101 Useful Resources for Online Entrepreneurs. “Every day more and more entrepreneurs are building successful businesses using the internet. There is an abundance of opportunity online and depending on the venture, there is often less cost and risk involved when compared with traditional businesses. There is also a wealth of resources available to help the online entrepreneur to run a business more effectively and more profitably, and we list many of those resources here.”

Journal Gives Eye Witness Account of Slavery. “An important eye witness account of the conditions on the slave ships that plied between Africa and North America has been unearthed in Scotland by a Canadian-born historian.”

Days With My Father. A tender photo tribute of his father by Philip Toledano. Here’s an excerpt. “My Mum died suddenly on September 4th, 2006. After she died, I realized how much she’d been shielding me from my father’s mental state. He doesn’t have alzheimer’s, but he has no short term memory, and is often lost. This is a journal. An ongoing record of my father, and our relationship.” [Thanks to Larry Lehmer at Passing It On for alerting me to this item.]

Evoca expands global phone recording service to capture family stories. “Using 21st century Internet and phone technologies Evoca launched “Every Day of Listening” to enable family members who are getting together at Grandma’s house or even live across oceans from each other to record using any phone, Skype, and a Browser Mic. With the new shared Evoca Express account feature, creating a family audio memory album is possible whether family members can get together in person or not. Any phone becomes the family’s microphone for recording without any technical expertise necessary.”

Communicating Life Stories – Digital Storytelling Oral History. “While there were certainly challenges around the capture of the history, there’s an even greater issue around what to do with it once you’ve captured all the stories…This discussion is targeted to those creating a new oral history program…The mission should be to present stories using rich media that presents itself to the broadest audience possible.”

Mosque One: Oral Histories of Toronto’s First Mosque. “Mosqueone.com is the first-ever oral history project of Muslims in Canada. It is a window into Toronto’s first mosque, which was an old shop, purchased in 1961, at 3047 Dundas Street West…This website is a virtual museum of the Dundas St mosque. It is a powerful resource for researchers wanting to learn more about the history of Muslims in Canada, as it compiles relevant photographic, textual, legal and scholarly documents that relate to the mosque.”

Greenspace Genealogy. [pdf file] “There are individuals all across the United States who donate their private property to be enjoyed as a public greenspace. Some donations are ambitious projects consisting of thousands of acres that become recreational areas. Others are corner lots, usually referred to as tot lots. There are the conservation and preservation areas, city parks, and county parks. Greenspace Genealogy is their story.”

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