50 Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story

I was reading a review of a concert with Stuart McLean and the Vinyl Café troupe the other day, and was struck by how storytelling appeals to a vast audience. We all have stories to tell and we all seem to value the stories of characters we know and love. Maybe that’s what brings us closer to each other – that shared time of experiences we can understand and appreciate.

A website a colleague brought to my attention, CogDogRoo, has instructions on how to:
Design a basic story concept that can be created in a web 2.0 tool using images, audio, and/or video.
And then create it quickly using one of 50 different web tools that are free to use.

This kind of approach can be very motivating for all writers. Audio and video and image files can be embedded in these stories, and the range of possibilities is endless.

His steps:

• Step 1 - Outline a Story
• pick an idea (he has a number of ideas on how to do this)
• write out the elements of the story in point form
• for each bullet, list possible ideas for visual or media metaphors you will need
• Step 2 - Find Media for your Story
  
  • he has links to a number of websites that contain images, audio and video files
• Step 3 - Select a Tool to Build your Story
  
  • Slideshow Tools
  • Timeline Tools
  • Mixer Tools
  • Comic Tools
  • Scrapbook Tools
  • Map Tools
  • Flickr Tools / Ideas
  • Audio Tools
  • Video Tools
  • Presentation Tools
  • New Tools