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What is iforem?

Check out this site for more info on how to keep things beyond Death. Lots of good links.

I came across this article today by By Suzanne Choney.  The best part for me was reading why iForem was created. 

“Storage expert Thomas Coughlin likens it to drowning in a sea of content “if we don’t create ways to organize and find stuff,” as well as to protect it by backing it up”…”Increasingly, it’s becoming digital content from cradle to grave. That has its own challenges, which include how do you preserve and protect digital content for the future?

“We have more of the personal experience that we’re conserving (digitally) for the next generation than ever before, but in a sense, in a more potentially fragile package than has ever existed in the history of mankind,” he said.

“Almost everybody is doing storage of one sort or another. How well they’re handling it, how well they’re backing up, and will stuff that they keep be available later? That’s a whole other problem.”

iForem is really the only viable solution.  We created the financial and technological solution to address this exact problem.  With new products on the way to answer format and presentation issues for years to come, we are building the future today.  Come see how iForem answers this statement.

We get this question all the time, how secure is your service?  The answer is simple - as good or better than an online bank…but that is NOT where theft happens.  Check out this article on why your less safe in the “good old days” than you are with a service like iForem.

The CIMIP used the Secret Service data to examine several facets of identity
theft that aren’t often studied, such as the demogr?phics of thieves and what
methods they used to carry out their crimes. It found that, by and large,
much of today’s identity theft is still carried out using old-school methods,
such as mail theft and dumpster diving. Thieves also used information from
public records to piece together an individual identity, and many stole information
from retail outlets like stores and gas stations.

Read more here - and think about just how safe you THINK you are - then come back and buy iForem.

This is a great part of a larger piece from Jill Fallon,

Some things ARE priceless. The sound of a loved one’s voice, the smile of your first dog, your
grandfather’s stories, your daughter’s graduation, your mother’s peanut brittle, your greatest triumphs,
your biggest regret, what you love, who you love, who you are.   If you fail to capture them in a way
that they can be given away or passed on, they lose their value.   Worse, you’ll probably forget them and
no one will ever know.   One of the most haunting quotes I’ve ever read is by Joan Didion,  “We forget all
too soon the things we thought we could never forget; we forget what we whispered and what we dreamed; we
forget who we were”    
 
That’s why I think it’s so important to make a legacy plan. Yes, it’s for your family, your children and
grandchildren yet unborn; but, it’s also for yourself.  It’s how you keep in touch with your former selves
- who you were at 20 and who you were when your first child was born, and after you lost your father,
what you learned and what you thought was most important.  So the sooner you can start on your
legacy plan, the better and richer it will be.  It’s how you’ll see how far you’ve come.

“Jill Fallon is a lawyer, a personal historian and the founder of Estate Legacy Vaults”

We’re drowning in the sea of papers, snapshots, receipts, recipes, legal agreements, contracts, and other documents we’ve inherited and accumulated, but have rarely organized and prioritized. Some of these documents are invaluable and irreplaceable - and the only way to keep these vital records safe, secure and accessible is to make digital copies impervious to fire, flood or other catastrophe.

You might think that relying on USB drives and free (or almost free) online storage is the answer - but it’s not. How many USB drives and tiny memory cards can you keep track of? What happens when (not if) they’re lost or stolen? Even if you somehow manage to hang on to all of them, they’ll be obsolete or useless a few years! When your “free” online storage services folds or your online storage fee doesn’t get paid, your data disappears.

Finally - and most importantly - how will your descendents find a specific document exactly when it’s needed if it’s stored somewhere in those USB drives, portable hard disks, online storage bins, and other digital dumping grounds?

We all have memories and life-defining documents that need to be permanently preserved and available - even they’re needed decades from now.

And that’s why your iForem Digital Legacy is not a luxury, but an absolute necessity.
Now and Forever

iForem is built to avoid just this kind of problem…

Fourteen years after she found 68 yellowed, tattered pictures squirreled away in her Oakland house, Gailen Runge finally got to hand them to their rightful owner this week - and to learn the answers to the secrets they had held for so long, so frustratingly, as she peered at the images for clues.

Link Here for full story

Great topic we should all think about.

Then sign up for iForem to keep it!

There are so many great ways to do this.  But all of them require you to save it somewhere.  We all know what a time capsule is.  Think of iForem as your own personal time capsule.  But if you want to publish a book, after you saved your data for life with iForem, check out this company Modern Memoirs, inc.

They make a great point about why books are so good - but they have not seen iForem yet :-)  Lets see if this pages changes after our call today.

Videos & CD-ROMs (How long do things last?)

500 years vs. 20 years

We admit the following: We strongly favor the book over electronic and magnetic media. There are many reasons for this, but the basic one is the book’s astonishing longevity, quality, and accessibility (it’s user-friendly).

On a deeper level, we believe that paper and ink have a singular place in the world because of their beauty and simplicity. The subtle effects of holding and reading a book contribute to a different state of mind — the “reading state”, it is now called. It is a place of creative contemplation that we aim to support.

Now, on to specifics: According to a report from the Council on Library and Information Resources, the following statistics can be compared to the fact that non-acidic buffered paper lasts up to 500 years:

– videotapes are unlikely to last 20 years, even under ideal storage conditions

– videotapes can become archivally unreliable after 5 years

– CD-ROMs are reliable for 10 years or less

– the hardware and software needed to use CD-ROMs become obsolete within 5 years

Having said that, we also want to appreciate the way professionally prepared videos can show speech patterns, body language, and ambience. CD-ROMs? Well, they seem to store about as much information as a medium-size book with 30 photographs, but they do offer the service of allowing the viewer to access links to the web.

However, according to a September 1, 2003 report in PC-Active, a Dutch magazine, recent Dutch tests suggest that although some CD manufacturers claim that their CDs will last up to a century, “the CD-R is the wrong medium to store data files, music, or photos for posterity.” The tests found that a significant number of CD-ROMs degraded even under normal conditions (room temperature, no sunlight) within months and projected that even better quality CDs will degrade sooner than manufacturers’ projections.

Thus, with at least a modicum of confidence in the test of time, we believe that offset-printed books on acid-free paper are the only sure medium other than carved stone, metal, or space-age ceramics. Videos and CDs are a wonderful and appropriate accompaniment, however, and we are pleased to work with selected peers to provide clients with videos or CDs at competitive prices if they request it.

Or we think iForem is also pretty darn good. and you don’t have to pay for reprints