Once Upon a Time: Telling Your Story Digitally

1. What is the title of your presentation?

Once Upon a Time: Telling Your Story Digitally

2. Is your session geared towards beginner, intermediate, or advanced social media experience levels?

Beginner

3. Please provide a brief synopsis of your session to include in our attendee guide.

Once upon a time, we did not have FlipCams and video editing software to make videos easily. Once upon a time, we did not have Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or podcasts to distribute our stories easily. It may be easier to make and tell your story today, but digital storytellers can lean a lot from stories that have come before, from the campfire to Luke Skywalker to the Story of Stuff and beyond. This session will take a look at how we can better tell our stories, business or personal, using digital tools.

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Christopher Whitlatch is Manager of Marketing and Communications for The Pittsburgh Foundation, the 15th largest community foundation in the country. He joined the Foundation in April 0f 2009 and has directed the Foundation’s online and social media activities since that time. Previously, he founded UniversalWit, a digital media consulting company and is the creator of several on-line and alternate reality games. In May, the Foundation launched Pittsburgh on Video a community video hub that is part of the Miro Community. Christopher serves as the first curator of content for the site. http://www.pittsburghonvideo.org.