The document discusses planning and delivering digital stories. It provides an overview of digital storytelling tools and techniques. It suggests asking questions about potential multimedia elements, maps, community engagement, additional context links and databases to tell a story. It also discusses live coverage, curating content from the web and social media, using tools like Storify and Storyful, and presenting stories in different formats like timelines, maps and more. The document encourages participants to analyze example digital stories and plan one for an upcoming event or topic.

1. Planning & delivering
digital stories
Steve Buttry
CBCnews.ca
Nov. 18, 2011
#CBCstory

2. Read more
• stevebuttry.wordpress.com
• Slideshare.net/stevebuttry
• stephenbuttry@gmail.com
• @stevebuttry

3. Plan for the day
• Overview of digital storytelling tools &
techniques
• Group exercise: Analyze digital stories
• Working lunch: Demonstrate tools
• Group exercise: Plan (& work on) digital
story
• Present story plans

4. Ask about each story
• Can you cover the story live?
• What are potential multimedia elements of
your story?
• How can a map help tell your story?
• How can you engage the community?
• What links will provide greater depth?
• Can data provide depth, personal info?
• What form will tell this story best?
• What content should you curate?

5. Live coverage
• Liveblog as the story happens
(CoverItLive, ScribbleLive, update story/blog)
• Live-tweet (feed into liveblog)
• Livestream with
webcasts, webcams, dashboard cam
• Feed tweets into blog/story using a widget
• Live data
• Text alerts

6. Multimedia elements
• Photos (individual photos, galleries, time
lapse, audio slide
shows, submitted, social, media, panoramic)
• Videos (raw, edited, in
story, webcam, webcast, security
cameras, user-submitted, social media, link to
video)
• Animation (Flash, HTML5)
• Audio (alone, w/ photos or videos)
• Bring it all together

7. Maps
• Invite users to tell their stories & share their
photos on map
• Story unfolds live on the map
• Map as database
• Map is format for user-guided story
• Map in motion
• Crowdmap

8. Engage the community
• Crowdsource (investigations, features, events)
• Collaborate w/ or curate blogs
• Conversation on Twitter, Facebook
• Polls
• Contests
• Hashtags
• Sharing tools, ratings
• Ask for photos, videos

9. Links
Editorial reason: Context
Ethical reason: Attribution
Business benefits:
• Generate traffic
• Boost SEO
Sending users away works for Google; it will
work for you, too.

11. Databases
• Help users personalize story
• Answer questions
• Provide depth
• Provide detail
• Interactive
• Data visualization

12. Alternate story form
• List
• Graphic novel
• Timeline
• Map
• Graphic
• Self-directed, not linear

13. What is curation?
Museum curator: Journalism curator:
• Studies topic • Studies topic
• Chooses relevant • Chooses relevant
content (other content (social
sources & museum media, blogs, staff)
collection) • Authenticates
• Authenticates • Groups related items
• Groups related items • Provides context
• Provides context • Presents collected
• Presents exhibit content

14. NPR’s Andy Carvin
“I think curation has always been a
part of journalism; we just didn't call it
that.” – quoted in The Atlantic by
Phoebe Connelly

15. Curation tools for journos
• Google & other search engines
• Twitter Search (advanced)
• Other Social media search
• Storify, Storyful, Chirpstory

16. Gathering content
• Reporting notes • Web search
• Shoot video • Social search (can
• Shoot photos localize)
• Record audio • Blog search
• Acquire video • Archival search
• Acquire database • Invite submissions
• Scrape data • What else?

17. Presenting story
• Text • Timeline
• Video • Graphic
• Slideshow • Embed(s)
• Photo gallery • Combination
• Animation • What else?
• Map(s)

18. Storytelling exercise
• What are the elements used?
• How was content gathered?
• How was the story presented?
• What skills were needed?
• What could make the story better?
• How might you use these
tools, techniques on an upcoming story?

19. Choose a digital story
• Collapse of highway bridge
• Parkersburg tornado
• Vanishing coastline
• Choose a story from Visual.ly
• Faces of the Dead & Faces of the Fallen

20. Some storytelling tools
• Storify & Storyful (curate social & Web
content)
• Intersect (time & place)
• Maps (Google & Crowdmap)
• Timelines (Dipity & Memolane)
• Visual.ly
• What else?

21. Follow up
• Send links of your digital stories to:
sbuttry@journalregister.com
• These tips, tools & examples:
stevebuttry.wordpress.com
• slideshare.net/stevebuttry
• @stevebuttry