Storytelling Meets Social Media: Part 3

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heekya2.jpg It has been awhile (March) since Part 2 of this series. The convergence of social media and storytelling is hugely fascinating to me, but something prevents me from blogging more about it. Maybe I just want to do it justice.

Although myriad examples of storytelling in social media can be found out there, Heekya is the first one I’ve seen that blatantly states its connection to storytelling. It calls itself a social storytelling platform and claims it will “change the way you create, share, and discover stories.”

Heekya wants to be known as the Wikipedia for stories.

Kristen Nicole of Mashable writes of Heekya:

Currently in private beta, a new service called Heekya is joining this larger development trend [the trend of approaching social media’s potential] with a story creation tool that doesn’t require direct social interaction but taps into the web community as a whole for the rendering of a given project, which can be created and recreated over and over again, by any number of users. In the video below, Heekya gives the example of a friend’s wedding, which is documented by the bride and groom and filled with photos, text and videos.
For the collaborative bit, guests from the wedding can take the Heekya story created by the bride and groom, and add their anecdotes, images, and videos as well. From this stance, a story can be recreated from several different vantage points, and distributed through multiple channels as a custom narrative by each person. Heekya seems rather simple to use, and its import and sharing capabilities will be key to its success—the easier it is for any given editor to pull from their existing content from across the Web, the more accessible Heekya becomes to a very wide range of users.

Over at threeminds, Marta Strickland asks: “Will ‘Social Storytelling’ Hit The Mainstream? She compares Heekya with previous attempts at collaborative storytelling, Penguin Books’ We Tell Stories project and The L Word’s partnership with FanLib to sponsor a contest in which fans submitted scenes. Strickland suggests Heekya may become a more compelling example of exploring storytelling as it relates to the social web.

Here’s a video about Heekya (OK, if the video doesn’t work, go to the source):
Heekya: Wikipedia for Stories from DavidAdewumi on Vimeo.

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Nipping at the heels of the Heekya debut is word that Roxio is launching an online storytelling platform.

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When I try to load http://www.heekya.net/ , I get python errors.

MOD_PYTHON ERROR

ProcessId: 7126
Interpreter: 'heekya.net'

ServerName: 'heekya.net'
DocumentRoot: '/home/developer/jazz/'

URI: '/'
Location: '/'
Directory: None
Filename: '/home/developer/jazz/'
PathInfo: ''

Phase: 'PythonHandler'
Handler: 'django.core.handlers.modpython'

Was it up when you accessed it? Or is it not in public beta?

Oops, sorry, Laura. Maybe it's because the site is in beta testing. Yes, it was up when I first posted. Here's the founder's address if you'd like to ask him about it: david@heekya.com

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Applied Storytelling:
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The following are sections of A Storied Career where I maintain regularly updated running lists of various items of interest to followers of storytelling:

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Links below are to Q&A interviews with story practitioners. Links will go "live" when each interview is published:

The pages below relate to learning from my PhD program focusing on a specific storytelling seminar in 2005. These are not updated but still may be of interest:

Links

Organizational Storytelling

Annette Simmons' Group Process Consulting

Molly Catron, Storyteller

Storytelling: Passport to the 21st Century

Steve Denning: The website for business and organizational storytelling

Pelerei

MakingStories.net

Anecdote

Story at Work/Golden Fleece

Center for Narrative Studies

Storytelling in Organizations

Storytelling -- It's News: Business Articles

Storytelling Organization Institute

David Boje

Corporate Storytelling

Corporate Storyteller

Storytelling Power

Storytelling, a part of EduTech's Knowledge Sharing Service

Story - Storytelling - Business - Research

International Storytelling Center

Seth Kahan

Moving Pictures

NASA's ASK (Academy Sharing Knowledge)

Organizational Democracy

Storytelling in Organizations section of ChangingMinds.org

David M. Armstrong

The Storytellers


Interdisciplinary

Storytelling, Self, Society Journal

Narrative and Learning Environments

Tim Sheppard’s Storytelling Resources for Storytellers

The Co-Intelligence Institute

sc'moi

Transformative Language Arts Network

The Story of Everything

Brevity

Storychasers

Nieman Narrative Digest

Narrative Psychology

Narrative Inquiry Journal

Virtual Chautauqua

Storytelling at a Distance

Beyond Usability and Design: The Narrative Web

The Elements of Digital Storytelling

Distributed Narrative

George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling

Narrative Magazine

Divine Caroline

Stories for Change

School of Storytelling, Emerson College, UK

Confessions of an Aca-Fan

Storycatcher

Stories That Work

Society for Storytelling

Daily Om

The Call of Story

Jon Buscall

Gilliam Consulting

Winamop

Kevin D. Cordi, Storyteller


Storytelling and Career

A Storied Career's Blog-within-a-Blog, Tell Me About Yourself

AboutMyJob.com

CareerHero

10 Career Stories


Journaling and Personal Storytelling

Good Books about Journal and Memoir Writing

The Elder Storytelling Place

Reader's Digest Stories

OurStory

Dandelife.com

The Circle Project

The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing

ThisDayInTheLife.com

This American Life

This I Believe

The Story

Your Unique Story

StoryCorps

Smith Magazine

British Library: National Life Stories

Life Story Telling

The Remembering Site

Memory Writers Network blog

Tera's Wish

Fray

Story Circle Network

PNN (Personal News Network)

About Personal Growth Stories Section

The Experience Project

Telling Our Stories

The Moth

The Monti

Story Salon

First Person Arts

Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard)

Boomer Cafe

Tintota

Association of Personal Historians

Storytlr

Great Life Stories

Tokoni


Blogging

Into the Blogosphere

The Art of Blogging

Grassroots KM (Knowledge Management) through blogging


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Blogs

Storytelling Blogs

The Secret Language of Leadership: Steve Denning

Pop Anthropology

Storytelling My Way

Storytelling, a Fiction Weblog

Only Connect

Storytelling category of Servant of Chaos

Storytelling category of Brand Story

Partum Intelligendo

Brandtelling

Narrative Assets

Storytelling Category of Marketing Interactions

Laurence Vincent

Narrative Marketing category of James Phelps

Let's Talk Story

Bringing Brands to Life

Casey Hibbard's Stories that Sell

Memory Writers Network

The Storyteller and the Listener

Using Technology to Tell Stories

EllouiseStory

Natalie Shell Think Talk Walk

Storytelling section of Mighty Casey Media Mighty Mouth Blog

The Written One

Center for Narrative Coaching

The Knowledge Management and Storytelling Blog

The Chief Storyteller's Blog

Two Men Talking Blog

Ishmael's Corner

Love Lust and Life

Storytelling (French Language)

NewStorytelling

Blogim Stori (Storytelling Blog)

Storytelling Organizations

Post Advertising


Empowering Blogs

Career Doctor Blog

Quint Careers Blog

Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips Blog

Tell Me About Yourself

Monitor all four of the above blogs at once


Blogging Blogs

Rebecca's Pocket

Contentious


PhD Blogs

PhDweblogs.net

Tomorrow's Professor Blog

Mama PhD


Other Cool Blogs

Idealawg

The New Charm School

Cognitive Edge

Find Your Way

The Blog Ate My Gun

Build a Better Box

Creative Liberty

Endless Knots

an undone calm