As I have probably written previously, it’s easy enough to find slideshows and videos about storytelling. You can simply go to SlideShare or YouTube and search using “storytelling” as your search term. But given that, for example, the YouTube search results in 38,000 videos, it’s a good idea to watch for others to curate the videos and check out their recommendations (the SlideShare search is set up to return only 16 results; if you search Google using the terms “SlideShare.net” “storytelling,” you get 50,000 results, a mix of SlideShare presentations and sites that mention SlideShare presentations).

Recently, a number of bloggers have cited noteworthy storytelling videos and slideshows. Here are a few of them:

• Nick Montfort cites “a 10-part video series about storytelling in our networked, digital age,” posted by Kurt Reinhard of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Find Part 1 and links to the other parts here.
• I lost track of who touted these two, but on SlideShare, Bianca Cawthorne’s Engaging Through Storytelling (embedded below) and Roger Burks’ Creating a Culture of Storytelling earned support.
• Over on Prezi, the very cool Web-based presentation app that enables zoom effects, Raf Stevens’ Power of Storytelling generated praise and is a Prezi Staff Pick.
• The agency StoryWorldwide has begun a storytelling channel on You Tube, offering the video Storytelling for Brands — The Storytelling Matrix.
• Lara McCulloch-Carter has prepared a slideshow with audio track in Pecha Kucha style titled The Art of Storytelling A pecha kucha presentation. Though she doesn’t break a lot of new ground, she gives some good examples of the effectiveness of storytelling, and the Pecha Kucha format is an interesting touch. When I view the presentation, the slides lag a bit behind the narration.
• Claudio Perrone’s excellent Crafting Outstanding Presentations — Storytelling Techniques almost stands alone without narration. It offers terrific images, and most slides have very little type. My favorite slide: “I could brain-damage people with PowerPoint.” Lots of interesting comments posted about this slideshow, too.
• Finally, this video featuring storyteller Jay O’Callahan (also titled The Power of Storytelling) has enjoyed considerable attention. As the site 99%, where the video appears, points out, “through the lens of a tale about NASA putting a man on the moon, O’Callahan illustrates how storytelling taps into our imagination, engages those around us, and inspires amazing achievements.”

Want to learn to tell compelling visual stories in presentations? Nancy Duarte, arguably the guru on that subject, has a new book just out, resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences, and you can read a sample chapter here. Nancy is the next subject in this blog’s Q&A series starting a month from today, Nov. 8.