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.