My job here at A Storied Career is to curate applied-storytelling resources (yet another tip of the hat to Terrence Gargiulo for that characterization). Time was when I would write a blog entry about every new storytelling resource I came across. It quickly became apparent, though, that so many fabulous … Continue reading
Category Archives: Digital/Multimedia Storytelling
Is It Storytelling or Just Technical Wizardry? And What Is Database Storytelling?
Spinning a bit off a comment by Paul Furiga in the recent Q&A with him and his partner, John Durante, I’m thinking that as technical capabilities become every more mind-boggling and jaw-dropping, we need to beware of labeling every technologically stunning multimedia presentation as storytelling. Last week, a Twitterer sang … Continue reading
Storytelling: Cross-Media, Transmedia, Immersive … All the Same Thing?
I’ve been seeing and thinking recently a lot about the terms: cross-media storytelling transmedia storytelling immersive storytelling distributed storytelling As I read about these terms, they all seem to be talking about roughly the same thing. I figured if anyone knew about the nuances of difference among the terms, it … Continue reading
A Dozen Eye-Openers about Telling Stories in Presentations
This year’s SlideShare “Tell a Story” contest underscored the emergence of of storytelling as a significant component in presentations (even if slide shows aren’t always compatible with good storytelling). (I had thought the “Tell a Story” contest replaced the more generic contest SlideShare held last year but just learned the … Continue reading
Storytelling’s Golden Age? My Teleseminar Is a Month from Today
A month from today, I am stepping way, way, way out of my comfort zone to host a Worldwide Story Work Teleseminar (Wed., Sept. 9, 4 pm EDST), entitled: The Golden Age of Storytelling: Why Is Story Exploding? What Does It Means for Practitioners? Why out of my comfort zone? … Continue reading
Telling New-Venture Stories Paints a Picture for Investors
The New Prosperity Initiative (NPi) is a Boston-based media organization “that pairs storytelling with new media to publicize the efforts of people and organizations doing socially innovative work to end poverty and build prosperity. NPi stories take the shape of interviews, photo essays, videos, and podcasts and are distributed both … Continue reading
Workbook Project Offers Resource to Extend Your Story
The Workbook Project offers a slideshow and corresponding PDF about “how one can use to social media to extend a story and generate a conversation around [one’s] work.” Although The Workbook Project (“for those who want to be creative in the digital age”) focuses on such media as film, games, … Continue reading
Add to the List of Odd Visual Storytelling Media: Scars
Earlier this week, I blogged about visual storytelling, including a bullet point about unusual media used to tell stories — Lego-like blocks and Viewmaster-like reels. After I posted that entry, I came across a piece on NewYorkTimes.com entitled “Our Scars Tell the Stories of Our Lives” by Dana Jennings, who … Continue reading
Visual Storytelling Wears Diverse Faces
Periodically, I like to present a collection of visual materials with significant storytelling content. This collection is especially rich. Romantic visual storytelling: A storied wedding invitation that has made the rounds of the Internet is that of Jill and Matt. The invitation tells the story of the relationship up to … Continue reading
Do These Videos Pass Test for ‘Compelling, Inspiring, Radically Simple’ Storytelling?
Video is everywhere these days … it’s more and more ubiquitous. Often I’ll see an interesting Twitter tweet or other storytelling reference that when I click on it, turns out to be a video. Nothing wrong with that except that I have zero patience and often am too restless to … Continue reading