Digital Storytelling Festival

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Introduction:

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Joe Lambert: How are we differentiating the concept of digital storytelling from the more general idea of multimedia?

Dana Atchley: By putting the word storytelling in there, you shape the brand.
Storytelling is the key ingredient. We are telling stories.

Stories means many of things to different of people. You and I have been talking about the anecdotal nature of conversation, the use of stories in informal presentations. Conversational storytelling is the kind of storytelling most of us are comfortable with and understand.
When we refer to digital, we are talking about a utility...a tool. We have been given a new set of tools to create and share our stories. The tools are extremely diverse: there are the software, the hardware used, and the actual publishing and dissemination media.

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