I was excited to attend the American Library Association (ALA) 2021 Conference on behalf of the Permanent Legacy Foundation last week!  At this online conference, I learned Permanent Legacy Foundation,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…