PORTLAND, Maine: HistoryIT announced today that it has acquired LifeWeb 360 and launched MemoryPort, expanding how organizations preserve and use history. The announcement coincides with HistoryIT’s 15th anniversary, marking a milestone in the company’s long-term commitment to trusted digital preservation.

MemoryPort is a digital commemoration and engagement platform designed for people-centered organizations, including nonprofits, alumni associations, professional associations and faith-based organizations. The platform enables organizations to invite members and alumni to share memories and upload photos through a branded, searchable Commemoration Site, while keeping communities informed through timely, opt-in updates. This community-generated content preserves the lives and legacies that shape organizational identity.

For 15 years, HistoryIT has helped organizations preserve historical materials and make them accessible in ways that transform history into a usable asset. With MemoryPort, that same philosophy now applies to history happening in the present, ensuring contemporary stories are captured as they are shared and organized in a structured, searchable and brand-aligned system.

“As demand grows for trusted, usable digital history, we’re intentionally expanding how organizations can preserve not just their past, but the stories unfolding today,” said Kristen Gwinn-Becker, PhD, Founder and CEO of HistoryIT. “MemoryPort creates a way for communities themselves to participate in that preservation, while ensuring organizations can steward those stories responsibly over time.”

The acquisition of LifeWeb 360 represents a strategic investment in HistoryIT’s broader offerings, extending the company’s ability to preserve and activate organizational history beyond traditional archives.

MemoryPort complements HistoryIT’s existing digital preservation services and integrates with Odyssey Preservation, the company’s proprietary digital preservation software, ensuring that stories, photos and tributes contributed by members and alumni are preserved to professional standards for future generations.

Through MemoryPort, organizations can keep communities informed through centralized, subscriber-based updates; enable respectful tribute and memorial storytelling; replace manual, ad-hoc processes with a sustainable system that includes moderation, analytics and ongoing data enrichment support; and connect moments of remembrance to existing giving workflows.

“LifeWeb 360 was created to help grieving communities connect and celebrate a loved one through the stories they leave behind, reminding us not that they died, but how they lived,” said Ali Briggs, Founder of LifeWeb 360. “Through HistoryIT’s acquisition, these stories are preserved within the broader legacy of the communities that shaped them - ensuring moments of reflection, meaning, and belonging endure when they matter most.”

LifeWeb 360 was originally developed in Chicago, aligning with HistoryIT’s own founding in Chicago in 2011, before the company established its headquarters in Portland, Maine.

About HistoryIT

HistoryIT gives history a future. Since 2011, HistoryIT has helped organizations protect their history - and put it to work - by transforming scattered and fragile archives into accessible institutional memory. Through a single, end-to-end digital preservation approach that combines expert services with purpose-built software, HistoryIT ensures history is preserved to a standard future generations can trust. The result is a digital archive that strengthens connection, advances fundraising and ensures long-term organizational continuity.

Fonte: Business Wire