Digital Storytelling for StateDept Exchange Alumni is a presentation about sharing stories through digital means. It discusses using platforms like SlideShare, Tumblr, Storify, SoundCloud, and Twitter to upload presentations, photos, curated social media posts, audio files, and microblog. The presentation provides examples of how each platform can be used and recommends signing up for a free Storify account to immediately create a "Storify". It concludes by asking how attendees will share their own stories and provides a link to all examples discussed.

1. Digital Storytelling for
@StateDept Exchange Alumni
Mindy McAdams
Professor, University of Florida
Fulbright Senior Scholar:
Indonesia 2011–2012
Malaysia 2004–2005

2. How do you share stories?

4. 1. Follow news
sources.
2. Find and share
links to news.

5. Upload any
PowerPoint
to
SlideShare
and allow
people to
view it
online.

6. Upload any
PowerPoint
to
SlideShare
and allow
people to
view it
online.
You can also
allow
downloads.

7. An easy-to-use
micro-blogging
platform — with no
word limit! And
you can post pictures!

8. In Tumblr, you have a dashboard (above).

9. < Choose
Text, Photo,
etc., and
then add
your content.

10. The Washington Post used Storify as part of its coverage of this news event (March 16, 2012).

11. All of the quotes and photos came from Twitter.

12. Sign up for Storify (free) at storify.com
and make a “Storify” immediately

13. The icons at the
top enable you
to quickly find
and add items
from popular
social media
sites.

14. Example:
After selecting
YouTube,
a search for syria
(18 March 2012)

15. SoundCloud makes it easy to upload and share audio files.

16. Each audio file has its own page, its own URL.
And
people can
leave
comments
too.

17. You can record directly into SoundCloud
if you have a microphone attached to
your computer. You can store up to
2 hours of audio, free.

18. How will you share your story?

19. View all links to all sites and all examples here:
http://storify.com/macloo/digital-
storytelling-webinar

20. Mindy McAdams
Professor, University of Florida
Twitter: @macloo
mmcadams@gmail.com
http://mindymcadams.com