Becky Chung:  "Eleven years ago, StoryCorps began with the simple mission to get people to slow down and hear what others had to say" ...

I like those stories - interresting possibility to make ordinary people tell their personal stories

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Becky Chung:  "Eleven years ago, StoryCorps began with the simple mission to get people to slow down and hear what others had to say" ...

I like those stories - a goog way to help ordinary people tell their personal stories.

Jens Peter Madsen, Denmark

www.digitalstoryteller.dk/english

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Bryan Bishop:  "Virtual reality company Oculus has been building momentum since it launched the Kickstarter campaign for its Oculus Rift headset two years ago. At its developer conference Saturday, it launched its latest prototype — while filmmakers made a convincing argument that VR is the dawn of a completely new form of visual storytelling."

Recent prototype headsets offer great promise for narrative experience but can they also support the social side of entertainment?  Most entertainment--from gaming to films--is a shared experience physically as well as across social media.

Paula Bernstein:  "A new wave of creators is blurring the lines of storytelling to span multiple platforms. Here, a handful of those creators from this year's New York Film Festival Convergence program explain what convergence means to them."

Whether you call it immersive storytelling, interactive filmmaking, transmedia or another term, what it all boils down to is new ways of connecting to audiences. Innovative, non-linear and new forms of storytelling.

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Wow -- what a rich and thought-provoking post that is a must-read for anyone interested in business storytelling (or any kind of storytelling). The insights shared here should keep you occupied for quite awhile.

The gist of this article is this: if we see/want a better future, then what story will help us get there? As the author says, "Our stories have an immense power to shape the world."

Tim Hjersted of filmsforaction.org is the author and I'm adding him to my list of 'must follow people'. He explains how sharing different kinds of stories will get us out of our present and into a more desirable future.

Even better -- he then goes on to share the emerging new stories to get behind. Some of these I've been charting for the last 15 years. It's fun to see how far we are coming along. And yes, we still have a ways to go.

These stories are particularly important for businesses to not only be aware of, but become part of. This is particularly true as companies continue to embody social causes as a way of doing business.

Get behind the new stories that engage you. You will thank you, your customers will thank you, your business will thank you, the world will thank you.

This review was written by Karen Dietz for her curated content on business storytelling at www.scoop.it/t/just-story-it 

Simon Staffans:  "It's not a coincidence if Nordic TV is at the fore of the digital revolution, these local execs explain" ...

Simon Staffans:  "A couple of years ago I wrote that I believe the term ”transmedia” will become utterly redundant in a few years’ time. Looking at how the audience and the audience’s engagement has evolved, how new technological possibilities, startups and solutions enable all kinds of new producers, and how the market has started leaning towards a new economy and a new way of approaching content creation, distribution and monetization… I think we’re getting there, quicker than I thought."

Peter Robinson:  "Online celebrities will surge ahead in 2015 as the old media try to get a grasp of the pesky new names" ...

"...return doesn’t necessarily mean pure profit, but there has to be something of value coming back to us, for example a better understanding of who our audience is"

tell your story and curate 

Matthew Poe:  "The true crime podcast has become an addiction for millions of listeners -- and the reasons why might be useful for any storyteller."

DRC:  "You might also be interested in reading Mashable's 12 podcasts that will tell uou a fantastic story."

Analyse fouillée des mécanismes du storytelling à l'oeuvre dans ce podcast-feuilleton qui rassemble plus d'1,5 million d'auditeur chaque semaine à la radio.

La storytelleuse et productrice, Sarah Koenig s'est détourné des codes classiques de narration anglo-saxonne, en créant une fiction interactive avec un personnage de narrateur. L'originalité du récit est que l'auteur elle-même n'en connaît pas l'issue. Donc aucun risque de spoiler, le suspense reste intact.

Simon Staffans:  "First, a full disclaimer. I’m writing this post not so much for you, dear reader, as I’m doing it for myself. Let me explain. As I’m increasingly working with people who have no or little experience of transmedia" ...

What is transmedia? As simple as this. 

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You might be the next storyteller to perform at our site

Tak for den - Imovie og udgivelse på Youtube.com er overraskende let. Se mine videoer på http://www.jenspetermadsen.dk/videoblog

Alt sammen produceret med min Iphone, iMovie og udgivet på Youtube.com

Not that they didn’t have that before. iPhones have been used to make shorts and other types of films before—there are even multiple iPhone film festivals—but what the iPhone 6 offers is what Apple’s Phil Schiller called “technology used by high-end DSLRs” 

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Affordable filming.

And if you're saving up or have no budget you can always make films with your smartphone 

Eric Hynes:  "In 2014, most every filmmaker knows that it’s important to build a website for your project. But how many of us know enough about programming or design to create a site that serves as a fitting representation of the project, let alone one that functions as a tool for both marketing and audience building?"