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Can digital storytelling be accelerated? Only if you accelerate your Oregon Story Board application
- Digital storytelling creatives don’t often identify their projects as a business. While folks in the tech startup scene self-identify as “building a business,” many of the people pursuing awesome storytelling concepts are motivated by pure creative energy. And while they realize that they have to find ways to fund their projects, seeing that project as a “startup” or a “business” is often an non-obvious intuitive leap.
- Acceleration is not a common concept. Again, in the tech startup world, folks have been conditioned to understand the concept of an accelerator. In fact, some would argue that startups have been inundated with accelerator opportunities. But if you don’t see your digital storytelling as a business and you don’t have any peers who are going through accelerators, then seeing an accelerator as an opportunity for your company is yet another non-intuitive leap.
- “Digital Storytelling” is an even more broad and amorphous term than “startup.” From an Oregon Story Board perspective, we see digital storytelling as covering a very broad range of pursuits. It could be anything from content creation—filmmaking, transmedia, journalism, video games—to creating technology and platforms that support storytellers—blogging platforms, special effects software, editing suites—to the services industries that support storytelling—production, post production, digital agencies. But that isn’t inherently obvious by muttering the words “digital storytelling”.
Read the full story here: http://siliconflorist.com/2014/07/28/digital-storytelling-accelerate-oregon-story-board-application/