STORYTELLING RESOURCES & LINKS
by Dana Atchley
Corporate Storytelling Sites
Personal Storytelling Sites
Tools, Software & Resources
Festival, Events, Showcases & Contests
Other Storytelling Resource Sites

CORPORATE STORYTELLING SITES:

Hilary McLellan Executive Leadership article
How corporations are using digital stories: by Heath Row
Companies will thrive on their stories and myths: Fast Company Magazine
Distributed Storytelling: XL Capital, Reid Kempe
Corporate Intranet: IXL, Mike Bonifer
IBM Knowledge Socialization Project
Executive Leadership: Executive Development Associates
Business to Business: Rolling Thunder Media
Newsweek: My Turn
Aurora & Quanta: Photography & Digital Media
A Narrative-based web site by Aurora & Quanta for Eastern Mountain Sports
Ford Motor Company: A visual delight but needs stories.
Toyota Motor Company: Talks to you!
National Geographic's Congo Trek
Shutterfly & Snapfish: Digital photography portals and online photo
warehouses with some album making activities
Quokka: Immersive Sports and Adventure
stories.

Building Communities on the Web:

Vietnam Veteran's Wall
Oxygen.com: "Our Stories"
My Family: Virtual Family Reunion

Working Title's Resource Guide:
Fast Company Heath Row's guide to articles on corporate storytelling.

PERSONAL STORYTELLING SITES:

Web-based Story Sites
The Spleen: Piotr Szyhalski's gorgeous poster stories.
The Fray: Derrick Powazek's appended storytelling site.
Bubbe's Back Porch: Abbe Don's online back porch story forum
Maggie Donea Colors: Exotic, erotic bedtime stories for adults.
Bitter Waitress: Waitresses vent frustrations. Funny!
Annotated Websites: Add Post-it style notes with commentary to other web sites.
Scott McCloud's Comics: by the creator of Understanding Comics
The Bit Screen: Films made for the Internet
Private Art: Community based on WWII letters.

UnWebbed.com: Webzine for the Digital Storyteller
Daniel Meadow's Free Photographic Omnibus: Photojournalism

TOOLS / SOFTWARE / RESOURCES:

The Center for Digital Storytelling
Joe Lambert & Nina Mullen's Non Profit Center for Digital Storytelling Workshops
The Digital Storytelling Cookbook

Derrick Story's Digital Storytelling Reader's Showcase
How to create a Digital Story using QuickTime Pro: by Derrick Story
The Story Behind the Story by Derrick Story
Storytelling Without a Camcorder for Mac by Derrick Story
Storytelling Without a Camcorder for PC by Derrick Story

The iMac and iMovie

During a recent two-day Apple Computer digital desktop video workshop, participating kids outpaced adults and showed off their creative abilities in shooting, editing, titling and scoring original videos. This includes an iMovie Tutorial by Apple Master Harry Marks.

A Tutorial on Web Design
A Online Tutorial for Designing Web Sites by Valerie Casey, Vivid Studios

Music and Copyrights
Copyrighted Music and Internet Publishing by Derrick Story


State of the State of Tools for Digital Storytelling

Apple Computer: iMac DV, iMovie, Final Cut, QuickTime
Adobe Systems: Premiere, Photoshop, AfterFX, GoLive, Image Ready
Trellix Corporation: Trellix
Real Networks: RealSlideShow, G2 Player
SmartSound: Licensed Soundtracks
Macromedia: Shockwave, Flash, Director, Dreamweaver, SoundEdit16
Terran Interactive: Media Cleaner Pro
Slides and Sounds: Slide shows from photos.

Canon: DVCamcorders.
Life.com: Software for Remembering Life's Stories
Video Farm: Online editing software

FESTIVALS / EVENTS / SHOWCASES / CONTESTS:

National Storytelling Festival & Conference
The Digital Storytelling Festival: Annual Festival and Conference
Great Sites with Trellix Web Contest
Res Fest: Digital Film Festival
iFilm: A forum for the best and most innovative work in filmed entertainment.
Always Independent Television: Independent Film Showcase
Slamdance Anarchy online short film competition
Webby Awards: The "Oscars of the Internet".

STORYTELLING RESOURCE SITES:

Hilary McLellan's Mother of All Lists of Links

Books:
The Healing Art of Storytelling by Richard Stone: Hyperion 1996
A Way of Being Free by Ben Okri: Phoenix Paperbacks 1997
Legacy
A Simple Step by Step Guide to Creating Personal History by Linda Spence:
If you have sites or resources you would like me to consider adding to this list please email Dana Atchley.