This document provides tips and tools for online and offline storytelling. It discusses various blogging platforms like Blogger, Wordpress, and Tumblr and how they can be used to tell stories. It also explores alternative platforms for microstories like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Additional tools mentioned for audio stories include podcasting and video casting. Visual storytelling tools highlighted include Animoto, Dipity, Bundlr, Pinterest, Flickr galleries, and Storify. The document recommends several free multi-purpose tools for designing and editing stories, like Prezi, Aviary, The Gimp, Audacity, Vimeo, Evernote, Google Apps, and Scrivener. It emphasizes registering a domain name

1. Better Story Telling w/Tech
tips, tools and new ways to engage your
audience online and off

2. The universe is made of
stories, not atoms.
- Muriel Rukeyser →

3. Online Storytelling Tools

4. Written

5. THE BLOG
MANY FORMS, AND MANY FUNCTIONS

6. Blogger
+ Easy to set up
+ Quick to publish
+ Stable
- Cannot Redirect

7. Wordpress.com
+ Simple to set up
+ Customizable
+ Fully exportable
- Takes time to learn

8. Wordpress.org
+ Highly customizable
+ Very extensible
- You could use a bit of geek
in your DNA
- Not hosted €€€

9. Tumblr
+ Great to aggregate
+ Super easy
+ Free
+ Very rigid

10. Posterous
+ Quick and simple
+ Easy to publish from
+ Free
- No aggregating

11. Squarespace
+ Super easy to design
+ Full website capabilities
+ Extensible and exportable
- Costs money

12. MICRO STORIES?
HOW MUCH DO YOU NEED TO HAVE A STORY?

13. The Big guys
Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

14. Alternatives
Things you might not be thinking about

15. JUST A SAMPLING
FORGET THE “BUZZ” GET THE “+”

16. GOOGLE PLUS?
I VOTE YES! - PHOTOS, EDITABLE THREADS

17. AUDIO
THINK VIDEO WITH OUT THE IMAGES

18. PODCASTING
SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE, AND EMOTIONAL

19. VIDEO CASTING
RECORDED OR LIVE, JUST REMEMBER IT’S MORE THAN A PAN SHOT

20. ANIMOTO
WWW.ANIMOTO.COM - MUSIC AND PHOTOS

21. LET’S GET OUT OF THE BOX...

22. TIMELINES
WHY NOT SHOW US HOW IT HAPPENED?

23. DIPITY.COM
INTERACTIVE TIMELINES

24. BUNDLR.COM
SHARE A GROUP OF STORIES OR MORE

25. THE NEW DELICIOUS
STACKS CAN TELL GREAT STORIES

26. THE NEW DEL.ICIO.US
CREATE A STACK FOR PEOPLE TO FOLLOW

27. PINTEREST
SHARE A COLLECTION OF IDEAS

28. FLICKR - GALLERIES
I MADE A BUCKET LIST!

29. STORIFY
DYNAMIC STORYTELLING WWW.STORIFY.COM

30. STORIFY
SUPER SIMPLE, WITH AWESOME DRAG AND DROP

31. TELL THE HARVEST STORY
STORIFY.COM/TREVR/NAPA-VALLEY-HARVEST-2011

32. MULTI-PURPOSE TOOLS
THESE CAN HELP YOU WITH THE STORYTELLING - AND THEY ARE FREE!

33. PREZI
SLIDESHOWS DONE RIGHT

34. PREZI
SLIDESHOWS DONE RIGHT

35. AVIARY SUITE
POWERFUL: FREE AND ONLINE - IMAGE, AUDIO, AND MORE

36. AVIARY SUITE
BASIC AND COMPLEX, YOU CHOOSE

37. THE GIMP
PHOTOSHOP FOR FREE

38. AUDACITY
SOUND EDITING AND PODCAST CREATION TOOL

39. VIMEO
A PRETTY VERSION OF YOUTUBE

40. EVERNOTE
INDISPENSABLE - NOTE TAKING, ORGANIZATION, REMEBERING

41. EVERNOTE
TAGS, NOTEBOOKS, SEARCHABLE TEXT, VOICE TO TEXT

42. VOICE2NOTE
YOUR VOICE TO TEXT AND SEARCHABLE

43. GOOGLE APPS
SERIOUSLY, WHY NOT?

44. GOOGLE APPS FOR YOUR DOMAIN
SERIOUSLY, WHY NOT?

45. SCRIVENER
MAC WITH WINDOWS VERSION ON THE WAY

46. PAY FOR PREMIUM
EVERNOTE, YES - GOOGLE, NO - DESIGN/CONSULTING YES

47. An idea.

48. REGISTER A NAME
WWW.HOVER.COM - BETTER DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION IN MINUTES

49. CREATE A SITE
WITH OR WITHOUT A NAME

50. “The process of putting
your life into order with a
beginning, middle and
end forces you to see
cause and effect.”
— Catherine Burns, Artistic Director, The Moth

51. Thank you
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