I’ll be taking Dec. 22 (oooo…that’s today) through Jan. 7 off for Christmas and a vacation to FL to visit with family. I am going to do my darndest to post a little something everyday to keep you interested. There are a lot of good webinars and educational series coming up in 2009, so I’ll let you know about those as well.
For now, I wanted to let you know about a fantastic series that NTEN and TechSoup Global are presenting in late January, early February called Social Media and Storytelling.
The topics are relevant and it looks like a great series for folks still getting their feet wet. The first webinar is called Building Blocks and is on January 21. Register today!
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Thanks Beth for letting folks know about this! We have a number of resources on TechSoup on Digital Storytelling: http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/p/18211/82816.aspx#82816 that provides some good background & I’m excited to have these webinars update these concepts further using social media tools.
It’s simple. Storytelling is broken online. We’ve fixed it.
Here are some of the highlights:
* Heekya is the Wikpedia of Stories, a social storytelling platform that is changing the way consumers create, share, and discover stories. Free. Fun. Easy. 60 seconds. See it here: http://heekya.com/preview.php
* What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) drag and drop story editor. Import all media (photo, video, text, and audio) from third party services (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc.)
* Users grab and embed Heekya story widget across social networks (Facebook, MySpace, et. al) blogs (wordpress, blogger, twitter) personal websites and via e-mail and instant message.
* Ability to re-mix and mashup other stories, retelling them from a consumers own vantage point, that will keep user engagement levels high and attract more traffic virally, as people share and re-share stories.
Storytelling is at the core of human existence. We’re building Heekya to unlock powerful stories of people all over the world and empower them to share their story with anyone, anywhere, anytime.