This document summarizes a Toronto Net Tuesday event focused on digital storytelling. The event featured speakers Kate Hodgson, who helps clients develop professional narratives through storytelling workshops and coaching, and Chris DePaul from the Centre for Social Innovation. Attendees were asked to tell short stories to neighbors and brainstorm tools. Digital storytelling was defined as using different media to tell a story. Common platforms and a life cycle from idea to sharing were also discussed. The goal was to help nonprofits use technology more effectively to tell their stories.

1. Toronto Net Tuesday
Digital Storytelling
September 9, 2014
with Kate Hodgson and Chris DePaul

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9. Logistics
 Wireless:
CSI Guests
 Twitter: #Net2TO
 Recording & slides will be available post-event
 Enjoy the food!

10. Welcome & Introductions
Name
Organization
A way you currently tell digital stories

11. Storytelling with a Friend!
1. Tell your neighbor a story you/ your
organization would like to share digitally
for one minute. After the minute is up, we
will switch. Summarize your story on your
worksheet.
2. Between speakers, we will brainstorm
tools and strategy with a partner.

12. Speakers
Kate Hodgson
Kate Hodgson is the founder of Ikommunications, a company that
specializes in developing professional narratives through the art of
storytelling in workshops and one on one coaching. She helps clients turn
their experiences into stories and guides them through the process of
discovery, development to delivery. An active member of the Toronto
storytelling community, Kate performs around the city in shows such as True
Stories Told Live, Raconteurs, Awkward and Caplanskis and internationally in
shows such as The Moth in Detroit. Kate is also the creator and host of the
9to5 Narrative, a live storytelling event showcasing personal stories of
peoples' professional lives. Kate has coached a TEDx speaker, start-ups and
non-profit founders with their keynote speeches in developing their own
personal and professional narrative library.

13. Speakers
Chris DePaul @chrisdepaul
5 years in the communications
department of the David Suzuki
Foundation
3 years marketing for a Toronto
theater company
6 months in communications at CSI

14. Digital Storytelling

15. Digital Storytelling - Transmedia
“The combination of different media elements to
tell a story.”

16. Digital Storytelling - NY Times

17. Digital Storytelling - Life Cycle by Samantha Morra
1. Idea
2. Research / Explore / Learn
3. Write
4. Storyboard / Plan
5. Piece Together
6. Gather Media Elements
7. Share
8. Assess Results

18. Digital Storytelling - Story Elements

19. Digital Storytelling - Platforms

20. Digital Storytelling - Longform

21. Digital Storytelling - Thank you
Kate Hodgson