Steve Buttry

Visual storytelling was the focus of Steve Buttry‘s talk. He shared with us his blog, The Buttry Diary. He said he’d use some examples from his blog post  from the previous time he talked to Klein’s class. He said he’d also use some new examples. He started with examples using maps as a gateway for […]

Briggs Ch. 9 – ‘Data-driven journalism and digitizing your life’

Organizing your digital life was the focus of this chapter. There are many free or trial programs that can help you organize your digital self. Since these programs are online, they are easily edited and can be accessible to others. Some examples: Backpack Zoho MS Office Suite (Outlook, etc) Dropbox Basecamp Databases are helpful in […]

Briggs Ch. 8 – ‘Telling stories with video’

Video storytelling was the concept of this chapter. Now anyone can use the digital equipment around them to create video storytelling, it just takes a lot of practice. Thanks to YouTube, the quality of the video doesn’t have to be very high. What’s important is authenticity. The most entertaining videos get re-posted over and over. […]