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