I’m delighted to have been invited by Alexandra Danciu of https://www.universum.ro to make a presentation about Heartfluttering Digital Storytelling at GoTech World at Romexpo in Bucharest, Romania, on Thursday 3 October 2019. See GoTech World. I’ll reflect on some of the things the 700 or so people who made their digital story with the BBC taught me about crafting cracking stories; stories that make the fluff on your forearms tingle. Here’s an outline of the session: From ‘stunning’ to ‘swooping’, Gareth shares persuasive lessons he learned from his time with the innovative BBC Digital Storytelling project.  How to.. 1. Add swoops of scale so your audience’s imagination zooms out from…

DS Cymru’s Esko Reinikainen has just updated that group’s Ning portal to say that, with a month to go, registration is open for the festival. The full list of speakers is out on the DS6 website. I think this year’s event has a broad appeal to all digital storytelling practitioners. But I think this year’s program will appeal especially to those using digital storytelling in the Health sector. Two of the speakers – Patient Voices’ Pip Hardy and StoryWorks’ Karen Lewis – have deep experience in this field. Another sector that I’m expecting to find attending are people who work in Education. I know from my dealings with ISTE (hat-tip…

Joe Lambert’s DS Working Group is quite an active Facebook group, formed especially for digital storytellers. It was on that group I learned that the Blink Mobile Media Activity Day takes place 14-16 May, the weekend before the Fourth International Day for Sharing Life Stories. Joe says: “If you have an iPhone, or other such device, you should make a film and share it that weekend.” I dusted off the trusty Nokia N93 and had a go today, just to test the tech (see video below). I hope you’re able to join in the fun next weekend. Blink and you’ll miss it.