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DigitalStory.Tools is a directory of tools and resources to help you build your digital stories. Have fun with our handpicked list of 85 tools. Read the full article to find the link to the (currently) 21 categories of tools.
"Using digital storytelling resources in your classroom connects students to an age-old practice in a modern way." Read the full article to find out, and link to, 30 of the best digital storytelling resources on the web today.
"After working with hundreds of nonprofits, social enterprises and impact organisations, we’ve distilled our steps for developing awesome stories into an easy to follow process, The Story Canvas. The Story Canvas is based on the Business Model Canvas’ and is a simple to use tool to develop and iterate your story ideas." Read the full article to access this step-by-step guide.
"There are scads of blog posts and books out there all telling you WHY storytelling is so important. But HOW the heck do you tell a great story? That’s the $20,000 question.
It’s a question I attempt to answer here on this blog. And it’s the study of millions of writers, poets, marketers, speakers, and teachers across the globe. If you’d like to join them and learn more about HOW to tell a great story (and how to keep at it when you start to doubt yourself), here are my top book recommendations for you."
Read the full article to find the list and links to 10 books to get you started on the path to telling a compelling business story.
"My radio show is called ‘Story Powered™‘ and is a platform for talking about all things story. Every week, experts from around the world will share their expertise and experience in story powered leadership, branding and business development.
Story Powered will also help business leaders and entrepreneurs to think about the internal stories that are holding them back or affecting their success and learn how to create a new narrative that moves them closer to their goals and dreams."
Read the full article to follow along on this weekly radio show, or listen to or download the episodes.
"The problem with pivot points – events that result in major changes in your organization’s history or your personal career – is that they often slip by unnoticed. The significance of the event isn’t recognized until later.
You typically have to dig deep into the past to identify your pivots, the lessons they taught, and the opportunities they created. The reward for digging deep, however, is that past pivot points often uncover story opportunities that can help you define your brand and create memorable story-based content marketing.
To help you learn from the turning points in your or your organization’s background, I created a simple worksheet to help you locate the relevant turning points as well as uncover the details surrounding each story."
Read the full article to download the turning point worksheet and find out more about:: - two types of pivots
- the three steps to harvest pivot stories and lessons
- suggestions for filling in the worksheet
"Here on this page, I’ve collected together everything on storytelling I’ve found really useful and/or geeked over from the last 2 years. I currently make a living from a mixture of telling my own stories (mainly around my love of exploring the world) and teaching other people how to tell theirs — and everything that follows has either helped me or inspired me to keep doing what I do.
I’ll be maintaining this list as I go ahead. Check back for updates!"
Read the full article to access links to resources for learning to tell stories under these headings:
- “Storytelling”? Eh? – Introductions to the subject.
- Storytelling Theory – The science bit, both literally and figuratively.
- Tips & Tools – Practical techniques you can learn and apply to everything.
- Great Storytelling In Action – ‘Nuff said.
- Online Collections – Collecting together the best stories on the Web.
"Storytelling is an essential component of nonprofit communications, but very few organizations have a firm grasp of what good storytelling truly is and how it can be leveraged to improve outreach and fundraising. This is especially true among smaller organizations, which often lack the resources and staff to invest in developing the required processes and fostering in-house expertise.
Georgetown University's Center for Social Impact Communication researched and produced a publication a resources aimed to fill the existing storytelling resource gap by providing examples of good, compelling stories that have had measurable outcomes for organizations, along with a step-by-step strategy for creating and sharing these stories—one that’s particularly geared toward smaller organizations."
Access this resource page to download primers, checklists, and how-tos to jumpstart your organization's storytelling efforts around: - Stories worth telling: A guide to strategic and sustainable nonprofit storytelling
- Creating your storytelling bank
- Story development
- Online storytelling and social media
- Staffing for storytelling
Telling a good story is more challenging than you think. Read the full article to find out about these resources, tips and tools we’ve collected over the years to help you improve your online storytelling strategy: Step 1: Getting Started - Knowing The Heart Of What You Do Step 2: Making Your Story Strategic Step 3: Make It Visual And - Other Resources, Tools And Tips - Great Books On Storytelling - Low Cost Or Free Storytelling Tools We LOVE!
The bond between copywriting and storytelling is not just strong… It’s unbreakable. If you consider yourself a copywriter, you better be damn good at writing “cannot put the thing down” stories. Read the full article for an extensive list of essential reading and resources from categories like: - Articles/Links - Books - Courses and other Products - Audio/Podcasts
This online workshop is for storytellers of every sort: ones who might have a bit of trouble getting started, ones who are a little stuck in the middle, and those who are simply in search of a new idea. Story Elves work in four distinct ways: writing a story, editing the words, illustrating the story and designing the look of each page. By undertaking these four types of work, a story becomes a polished book. We offer tips of these four kinds, in the event that you might like to create books of your own. Don’t forget that you can collaborate with another artist, as we ourselves do. You may desire to work on one thing at a time: writing, editing or illustrating or design. Therefore, we stack our tips in separate rooms, to make each aspect of story work more clear.
Stories and storytelling can make a significant impact on the development of a child. Stories can strengthen not only their language, but their ability to tell their own story and to make themselves heard. Access the article to download the free 104 page online guide which covers: - The importance of storytelling and stories
- The relationship between attachment and storytelling
- The Three T model of storytelling
- Creating story worlds - Supporting resources
- A story selection
- Story-making game cards (see seperate download)
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"Given a choice between dull or interesting, people will gravitate toward interesting every time (our informal research showed 37 out of 37 people preferred Breaking Bad over CSPAN). That’s the genesis of this Periodic Table of Business Storytelling and this microsite. By borrowing the same techniques found in storytelling, fiction and nonfiction alike, business communications become more interesting and thus more persuasive. Equally important, these storytelling techniques offer a repeatable process to improving content development. You don’t have to be Ernest Hemingway to tease out an anecdote in the copy. We’d like this microsite to serve as an industry resource. Consider this Rev 1.0. We know there’s room for improvement and welcome your input. Feel free to email us at storytelling@hoffman.com." Click through to access the periodic table. As you click on the elements you'll find links to examples.
"Last weekend, at the Journalism Interactive conference hosted by the University of Maryland, I presented a card game that I have been prototyping for the last year in classrooms from Northeastern to the Nieman Foundation. The game, in a nutshell, helps students conceptualize, scaffold and focus a digital story for a specific topic and a specific user." The Storydeck game is based on the research conducted through Storybench and it organizes many of the common ingredients that go into a successful digital news article. Read the full article to: - download the game (a free pdf)
- instructions on how to print off the cards
- find out how it works
Whenever I have asked non-profit professionals what the most challenging part of storytelling is, people consistently tell me that it’s is finding stories to tell. Not only does there need to be some organizational collaboration when it comes to finding stories to tell, you also have to interview people for their stories. The latter part often proves to be the most challenging and understandably so. Read the full article to find out more about these 5 tips on how to ask better questions during interviews and tell better stories: - Do your research
- Think about the trajectory of the story
- Create a comfortable environment
- Be curious
- Relax! Remember it's just a conversation
StoryCorps founder and 2015 TED Prize winner of $1 million, Dave Isay, believes a genuine conversation can make a difference – and his group has created an app to facilitate those talks.
"When’s the last time someone listened to you? Really listened carefully? A time when the person listening wasn’t trying to get something out of you? How did it feel?
Maybe you felt understood. Appreciated. Noticed. Chances are, it felt pretty good.
It’s a special experience, especially for people who have been made to feel that they don’t matter. And it’s at the heart of StoryCorps, the nonprofit that provides people of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives.
That mission got a boost last month when the organization launched the first version of its mobile app. The tool enables users to record an interview, take a picture to accompany it, and then tag and share the story. And like the rest of StoryCorps’s more than 50,000 recordings, stories uploaded using the mobile app during its first year will be archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. They will also appear on the new storycorps.me website.
The app was announced when StoryCorps founder Dave Isay was awarded the 2015 TED Prize by the global ideas nonprofit, granting him $1 million and the support of the TED audience to carry out a wish. He asked for help so that “anyone, anywhere, can easily record a meaningful interview with another human being, which then will be archived for history.”
Read the full article to find out more about: - where to download the free mobile app
- why the app is more than just the technicalities
- link to watch Dave Isay’s TED Prize talk and how to follow the progress of his wish on the TED blog
"Here we’d like to share a few of our favorite books. Some of these were written just for filmmakers, helping us understand how each technical decision affects our stories. Others take a more general approach, examining how human beings are wired to respond to narrative, and how you can craft your stories to better engage your audience."
Read the full article to find out more about why these 7 books that will help you to tell better stories: - The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall
- Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
- Wired For Story by Lisa Cron
- Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age by Steven Ascher
- The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
"Eleven years ago, StoryCorps began with the simple mission to get people to slow down and hear what others had to say. Beginning with a single booth inside New York's Grand Central Terminal, over the years, they’ve amassed 55,000 interviews from across the U.S.A.—stories the cover the spectrum of the great human condition. For their work in capturing contemporary America's collective oral history, the company recently won the annual TED Prize award, $1 million dollars that will go towards funding a “wish to inspire the world,” to be announced in March."
Read the full article to see or access examples of their work - a combination of audio overlayed on animation
- audio followed by a written a transcript.
For more information and DIY tips, visit the StoryCorps website.
"This is a list of story models, techniques, tools, & resources from our storytelling workshop. There are different models that can help you to piece your story together."
Read the full article to find out more about these models: - Lead with Story CAR Model
- Made to Stick SUCCES Model
- Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey Model
- Ira Glass on Storytelling
- Pixar’s 22 Rules to Phenomenal Storytelling
- Story Workshop Development Activities
"You probably won't recognize these storytelling elements from creative writing class.
The design of Dmitri Mendeleev's Periodic Table of Elements has been used to catalog many things besides atomic structures, from cocktail recipes to heavy metal bands. Now it's being used to characterize all of the elements of storytelling in a tongue-in-cheek infographic put together by Design Through Story Telling's James R. Harris."
Click here to access the online version which links each element to its TV Tropes wiki entry.
Find out the scoop on Rate Your Story, a great service for authors--plus it's FREE! They accept short stories (up to 2,000 words) and have a team of experienced writers who will read your story and rate it, providing a good indicator as to whether or not it's submission-ready.
A large selection of digital storytelling examples, information, and tools.
To celebrate National Storytelling Week 2013, we’d like to entice you and your class into the world of make believe, of pirates, faraway lands, fairy tales and graphic novels, inspiring everyone to share their own stories in the process. This collection of expertly crafted teaching resources, shared by teachers, for teachers, is freely available on TES to help you enrich the lives of your pupils through the power of storytelling. - Story telling inspiration and ideas - Ten top storytelling tips - MFL - 21st Century storytelling - digital stories
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