Slides, links for interactive storytelling tools webinar

Thanks to all who joined today’s Online Media Campus webinar, Interactive Storytelling Tools.

The tools I demonstrated during the webinar were Storify, Google Maps and Infogr.am. The tool Elaine Clisham mentioned in her tweets (below) was Tableau. Elaine (a friend from our days at the American Press Institute together) made some of the same points I did, about how easily and quickly you can learn to use a new tool.

@stevebuttry My first (feeble) attempt at Tableau: https://t.co/LWmI6jyk43. Had to get it done fast, still learning how to make it better.

— Elaine (((Clisham))) (@eclisham) June 9, 2016

@stevebuttry But start to finish, once spreadsheet was done, took me about an hour, including learning. No coding required.

— Elaine (((Clisham))) (@eclisham) June 9, 2016

@stevebuttry Thanks! For much better examples, check out @colleenodea‘s work on @njspotlight: https://t.co/5GtKIFaMLE

— Elaine (((Clisham))) (@eclisham) June 9, 2016

@stevebuttry I should say that the data for my maps had to be geocoded — but there’s a free online way to do that! https://t.co/CXgFyp0yu8

— Elaine (((Clisham))) (@eclisham) June 9, 2016

@stevebuttry And I learned the hard way that it’s much better to clean/standardize data before you import it. Big pro tip. (OK; done now.)

— Elaine (((Clisham))) (@eclisham) June 9, 2016

Examples I used during the webinar:

Holiday lights map

Fireworks map

Carrie Jewell Dugo Atavist story

Chasing the Beast

Here’s the link from my 2015 Interactive Storytelling Tools class, with my students’ tutorials on various tools and examples of how they used them.

Here is an earlier post with more examples of interactive stories:

Examples of stories using interactive tools

Here are my slides from the webinar:

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What are the ‘advantages of Foursquare’? Learning about engagement around location

As I was live-tweeting an interview of Foursquare General Manager Evan Cohen Tuesday, Joey Kulkin asked a good question:

@stevebuttry What are advantages of 4sq again?

— Joey Kulkin (@incrediblekulk) October 25, 2011

I promised an answer:

I may blog about that: RT @incrediblekulk What are advantages of 4sq again?

— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) October 25, 2011

So here goes. Why do I “check in” every time I eat at a restaurant or attend an event (or even at each train stop as I roll home from New York tonight as I write this)?

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News Foo Camp: Not fully open, but certainly not secret

I tweet a lot from journalism events. I think I can say that few people tweet as much about journalism as I do. I didn’t tweet much from News Foo Camp last weekend.

But other campers and I tweeted enough that our tweeps wanted more.

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   howardowens It’s easier to find out what Hilary Clinton said about some third level diplomat from China than what #newsfoo is. 06 Dec 2010 from web

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Mourning my drowned iPhone

Buttry at son Joe's wedding rehearsal

That moment of silence for my iPhone was not mourning. I was just stunned. The sobbing, that was mourning.

For three years now, since the first iPhones came out, Apple’s mobile meth has been at the heart of my innovation pitch.

At the first Newspaper Next symposium in February 2006, Harvard scholar Clayton Christensen used phones as an example in explaining disruptive innovation. I understood instantly. At an intellectual level, I understood Christensen’s story of how Alexander Graham Bell’s original telephone disrupted Western Union and the telegraph business. At a personal level, I understood deeply Christensen’s story of how the original mobile phones – though barely good enough by such standard measures as reliability, audio quality, battery endurance and size – changed communication forever because they offered mobility.

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