Recording notes. More prep for the digital storytelling talk for a conference. Getting to the heart of things - tracking objects and data over time. I've got to get this out to the world. I love it and I think that it could/would really help others who are exploring these concepts. Currently, this is our vision, but I'd love for other to catch ahold and run with the vision as well. Alone and in the dark, it will die without light and usage.

As I was reading though some of the documents and underlining things and marking things up, I kept thinking about Shannon (my sister) and all of her help. I'm so grateful for Shannon's help on getting some of this stuff prepped and put into writing. It doesn't do others any good if it is just stuck in my head.

It may be quite a bit, but I'd like to upload all of my notes, scans, and docs that I am working on. I've learned a ton by going over these things.

Small note added on 7/27/23 - If you want, here is a link to my notes. There are 40+ scanned pages of notes and brainstorming.

Title: Exploring Digital Storytelling - Benefits of going beyond the data

Description: Everything has a story to tell. What if you could help your data start talking back to you (nicely)? Wouldn't that be awesome! Imagine asking something like this: What's your story? Who created you? Where have you been? Where are you headed? Who are your buddies? Where do you belong? When did you finish? In this session, we will be exploring the 12 core concepts of digital storytelling. We'll discuss real world examples of how using these concepts can bring life, depth, and value to your data, apps, systems, and platforms.

Outline:

Here are the 12 core concepts of digital storytelling:

1. Capture & Record The Story
2. Groups, Players, Individuals, & Characters
3. Relationships
4. Trouble, Problems, Pain, Needs, & Goals
5. Decisions & Choices
6. Consequences (cause & effect)
7. Accountability
8. Permissions & Settings
9. Systems
10. Vision & Future Developments
11. Tech, Tools, & Maintenance
12. Tracking Objects & Data Over Time

Other things that I would like to cover:

• Systems thinking approach
• Success isn't a destination, it's a journey!
• Finding success along the way
• Everything has a story to tell
• All the W's - who, what, where, when, why, wHow :) - just being funny!
• World building
• Digital assembly line concepts
• Tying everything into the 12 core concepts of digital storytelling

References:

I've been studying and using some of these concepts for years. See attached for some of my notes. In my notes, I took pages and pages and boiled them down into a smaller list of key points. Each main point is numbered and underlined. For reference, the numbers look like this: #2.8 or #4.5, depending on which document the idea or point comes from. I may refine it further, but this is the rough draft.

Below are the links to the original docs in digital form (no mark-up, no numbers, no underlining on the originals).

Number #1 - Submission to speak at an Adobe ColdFusion conference - link

Numbers #2.0-#2.13 - Text from the business zipper website on the about us page - link

Numbers #3.1-#3.17 - Text from the old adilas.biz website. You may have to scroll down to see the text. - link

Numbers #4.1-#4.51 - Core concept document - taken from the adilas archives - still partially unfinished - link

We had a request from a client to add in some client-side validation to our forms and pages. They submit things and then get an error, when they click the back button, the form has removed their work and they have to do it again. That's the browser that does that, but we could help by having client-side validation to help prompt them even before they submit the page or the form. We really want full coverage of this (client-side validation and server-side validation) for the upcoming fracture or adilas lite project.

Sean got ahold of me and needed his custom credit card fee, that we did for a trailer rental client, to show up at the end of the invoice. The code adds the fee whenever the invoice or cart goes past a certain amount. Because it was just in memory (in the cart), it was hard to control where it would show up. It was just another line item. Anyways, we added some code that when it gets submitted and changes from the cart (memory) into a real invoice, we just flip that line and change the sort number to a higher value, making it show up later or at the bottom of the invoice. Small little tweak.

Added another quick black box page that alters the invoice and changes the line item sort value. Pushed up the new code.

Multiple sessions. Organizing my notes on digital storytelling into blocks. Tallying which core concept each note or sub note was tied to. I've been working on this prep work for a conference talk that I may be giving. I've been on and off this project for a few days now. Here is a link to element of time # 10355 to see all of the notes, scans, brainstorming, and organizing that I was trying to do. Fun little project.

Meeting with Bryan. We were working on some planning for the next level of online scheduling. We went over a few things that we are learning on rentals. Sean is onsite this week in Texas with a trailer rental store. We had to figure out some things with saving credit cards per person, incase other payments were needed the card was no longer present. We also had some funky special credit card fees that the client wanted to pass on to their customer. We then had to tweak that special fee to make it show up at the very bottom of the invoice line items, even if it was added in between other line items. Anyways, small review of what we are learning.

Bryan and I then shifted gears and went into our own prep stuff for online scheduling of appointments. We went over some of our ideas for the web availability and calendar layers that we had talked about previously. We did a bunch of drawing and planning for the next phase. Bryan asked me to record a small video. We used a different tool and we only got my side of the audio. That's my bad. Anyways, we did a quick 16 minute clip.

After that, we spent a little bit of time time talking about Bryan project management and timeclock tools. He is looking at ways of recording sub times in one corp and being able to auto add those same timeclock records to other corporations (where permissions were assigned). We talked about some time id matching and storing those cross-corp mappings. Light back and forth. Good meeting.

Recording notes form yesterday and today (7/26 to 7/27). I feel like I'm always behind.

Working on a title, small description, and outline for a possible talk for a conference. Sent an email out with details and a small proposal. See elements of time # 10355 for more information. The subject is exploring digital storytelling - benefits of going beyond the data.

Recording notes and printing out elements of time as a back-up. My printer was struggling. Ended up working on recording notes for back on 7/5/23.