How Connections Let Us Tell Stories In New Ways
Technology is enabling creativity via new ways to enhance stories, express ideas and discover new worlds
1. Storify ( http://storify.com ) allows social media to add to and become a new form of Journalismn. Before the world of social media and mobile phones with cameras that allowed easy uploading of material such storytelling would not have been possible.
2. The Creators Project ( http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/ ) enables is a showcase where technology meets the arts. A great place to see how folks from around the world are leveraging the Art of the Possible.
At its heart the Internet is a connection engine that allows people not only to transact and discover but also find new ways to express and share their thoughts, ideas, dreams and stories.
Joan Didion wrote " we tell ourself stories in order to live", and today we have new ways to tell our stories which often allow for more vivid ways of being alive.
