People Stories – Digital Content
Over three years ago I made a statement in print (via email) that I wanted to go around the world and collect people’s stories. To some extent this is true of what I have done – with the odd consulting career, living in three (or more countries) and more thrown in for a bit of fun – but it isn’t until now that I realise I may actually be able to reaise it! (Easy technology/improved ways to spread the stories has also become more accessible over the time…youtube social networks etc).
As I move to evolving this site the coming months to include a Story-Storytelling section I thought you may want to see some other people’s stories I’ve enjoyed…that are produced by traditional media (though not television — newspapers) but have a ‘real’ feel to them.
Globe Docs: Globe and Mail – multimedia section -Scroll down to the DOCS part – I discovered this when I was stuck at home sick – it is BEAUTIFUL stories, image and words, made by journalists and photographers who work at the Globe
NY Times Videos: my favourite is the wedding section – simply go here and put ‘weddings’ into the search box. Or scroll down to ‘videos’ on the weddings page…I still remember when I used to sit in NY on the weekends and laugh at the 1950′s style wedding announcements (like here -recommend reading in newsreader voice). Now they have extended this service to short video stories of how people met / came together. Ok maybe ‘real’ is a strange way to describe them. But…
PS Does someone PLEASE want to give me a job making these?!?!
PPS I am actualy starting to make some of my (type of thing) anyway – stay tuned as I get the hang of the editing part ;)
PPPS for some interesting things to read on Storytelling and Social Change, also related to Digital content, read here.
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