Watch Your Audience Grow

My Story is billed as the BBC’s biggest search for the most remarkable real-life stories in the UK. Launching soon, it’s a storytelling and creative writing project where people will be asked to tell a true, personal story and send it the BBC to be shared with others.
As the site says: "True life stories [...]

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My Story is billed as the BBC’s biggest search for the most remarkable real-life stories in the UK. Launching soon, it’s a storytelling and creative writing project where people will be asked to tell a true, personal story and send it the BBC to be shared with others.
As the site says: "True life stories [...]

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You can hear the answers given by these people with experiences of homelessness, recorded by Thames Reach:
http://www.thamesreach.org.uk/news-and-views/stories2/changing-lives/
Gareth Morlais

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100 of Europe’s film-making elite will be in Cardiff for a week of high-profile workshops, networking, screenings and associated events, meeting the cream of Welsh film-making talent to explore co-production and international film-making opportunities.
That’s what the press release says from Film Agency Wales. European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs - EAVE - is holding a week of training [...]

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"Say three things about yourself: 2 true and 1 lie" That’s an ‘icebreaker’ I’ve been instructed to take part in at the start of two different training courses (not digital storytelling) I attended. I dislike being told to tell lies as it’s hardly the best way to kick off a relationship with a group of [...]

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Dark Horse Media is hiring. Company specialises in equestrianism, environment, local interest, health and cookery. http://www.dhmediaproductions.com/
Source: Cultural Enterprise news section - "Creative editorially-sound Avid Editor required Brecon" http://tr.im/avidb

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"Likely Story are looking for a Director, Writer/Dramaturge and an unconventional Prince Charming to help them devise a new adaptation of The Princess and the Pea. We are planning an innovative production, combining physical theatre, circus and live music."
http://www.likelystory.org.uk/#/current-castings/4534685503
(from the Cultural Enterprise newsletter)

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"If anyone had told me in my Te Aute days, that one day I would be the virtual authority on E-learning; ultra-fast broadband; fibre-drop; FarNet and digital stories, I’d have said, ‘yeah right, and man will walk on the moon’." - Hon Dr Pita Sharples; Associate Minister of Education
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0907/S00187.htm

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At LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Campaign’s Dublin summit in August, digital stories will be used for organizational storytelling in the healthcare sector:
"ICanServe Foundation announced that Carla Paras-Sison, volunteer coordinator for Media and Information, will represent the organization at the premiere LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Summit in Dublin, Ireland, August 24-26. The Summit is the landmark event of [...]

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Listen to the first five minutes of this podcast of RTE’s The Frugal Household for a really good example of a way a family can record their own family recipes for posterity. What a great thing to hand down the generations: a recording of your whole family making your favourite food or drink. Imagine this [...]

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