From Compilation Sites

From Fray.com

Derek Powazek has created a personal story site with many excellently written and designed stories for the web meant to encourage a community exchange of stories about various topics. His colleague, Lance Arthur (host of Glassdog.com) contributed a recent story about growing up in Bakersfield, California, My Stupid Childhood.

From Bubbe's Back Porch

Abbe Don's storytelling site includes a section of stories with images from an international event "The Digital Story Bee" that was produced in 1998. Our favorite story was "My Great Aunt Rose" by Danielle Cass.

From ZoneZero

Pedro Meyer's photography exhibition site often includes text. Of the many stories to come from his site, this series of stories about "Fathers and Sons" was one of the most powerful.

From AKA Kurdistan

The site is a historical memory project to gather stories from the personal archives of Kurdish people. Many of the stories, like Sa'eeda's story, revolve around a singular historical portrait.

From PhotoJournal.Com

A site to encourage journaling on travel and other unique life experience. Stories like "Letters from China" are great uses of the images and materials that people collect along a journey.

Stories from Personal Websites by Design Professionals

Joseph Squier's Life With Father

Although created in 1995, Life With Father remains one of the more compelling pieces of writing with images to appear on the web. The mixture of page layout, the placement of text and graphics, and the choice of links, paced the work in a way that elegantly led you through the material.

Dorelle Rabinowitz Dorelvis

Dorelle is a designer from Oxygen Media, responsible for Oxygen's OurStories section, and an active multimedia storyteller. Her Confessions of a Serial Dater demonstrates how to tell personal stories using dolls to play all the roles.

From the Hyperbole Media

Greg Roach has moved through the interactive narrative in many contexts from early hypercard explorations that would fit on a floppy to the recent 7 CD ROM X-files Virtual Cinema™ game. Greg Roach's Tony's Conoco is a little fiction about a real gas station in Crested Butte, Colorado presented as a mockumentary about the loss of the family run business.

The Parnassus Album
by Jim Leeke

Jim Leeke creates a set of imagined stories from a group of old images he has collected.

From Aaron Becker's Storybreathing

Aaron has created a story sharing site that features a number of effective stories. Our favorite is "Fear," a look at facing a health crisis.

Tips and Techniques

Dana Atchley has been a seminal force in the movement ot popularize new media storytelling, as both a seminal digital performing artist with his multimedia show, Next Exit, and as founder of the Digital Storytelling Festival. He has created an online tips section of his website for storytelling and media production that are useful for any would-be digital storyteller.

Dan Bricklin has a developed some amazing tools over the years (including being one of the developers of VisiCalc, the original spreadsheet that changed the world of personal computing), and in the last couple of years he developed a great tool for storytelling on the web. On his site, Web Photo Journals, he has detailed examples of how to tell stories on the web. His ideas about how to tell a story with pictures is a great resource.