Lisa Louise Cooke to bring multimedia talents and genealogical expertise to Conference 2010
Posted by conference on November 13, 2009 under Blog: New Postings, Essentials Stream, Innovations Stream, Speakers and Program | 
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Lisa Louise Cooke will share her multimedia expertise at OGS Conference 2010.
It’s not every day you get a chance to meet a podcaster and blogger with no electricity or running water. You’ll have that opportunity when Lisa Louise Cooke speaks at the Ontario Genealogical Society Conference 2010.
OK, we exaggerate, slightly, about the electricity and running water.
In 2006, motivated by her lifelong passion for history, Lisa starred in the PBS eight-hour history miniseries, Texas Ranch House. She had the opportunity to live in West Texas with her family for three months on a 400,000-acre cattle ranch with no electricity or running water, as in 1867. Lisa says, “It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to not only see what is was like for my great great grandparents who lived in Texas in 1867, but also a unique opportunity to bring my own 21st-century sensibilities to the same environment and find a way to survive.”
Usually Lisa can be found in the San Francisco Bay area producing and hosting both the Genealogy Gems Podcast and the Family History: Genealogy Made Easy podcast, two “online genealogy radio shows” available through her web site www.genealogygems.TV and iTunes. Her podcasts and website strive to help listeners make the most of their family history research time by providing innovative ideas and fascinating interviews with genealogy experts. Needless to say, genealogical podcasting is one of Lisa’s lecture topics at Conference 2010.
Lisa also inspires her audience to creatively share their findings with their families through creative projects and motivational stories. In her book Genealogy Gems: Ultimate Research Strategies, she offers how-to instructions for all of the gems featured in the first season of the show. And she provides daily doses of genealogy news and fun to readers with her Genealogy Gems News Blog.
As if this weren’t enough for the average dynamo, Lisa also writes for Family Tree Magazine, hosts the magazine’s podcast and produces videocasts for Family History Expos.
Lisa will deliver three lectures on Saturday at Conference 2010. We guarantee there will be plenty of electricity in the room (but hopefully no running water).