Manageable storytelling model

 

We continue to develop a manageable storytelling model to build relationships and support for pro-social endeavours.

Manageability is key. There cannot be too much work at any of the points of transfer to bring stories to life and pulse them out to interested recipients.

Evidence of Activity - this is the results of doing - of making headway, of encountering a problem, of problem solving, and moving (forward, sideways, backward) again. Activity is powered by our beliefs, our values, our interests, our desires. Activity is the result of taking action in some way - talking, creating, re-creating, deconstructing, constructing. Evidence is the capture of activity as tangible artefact - a video, photograph, drawing, notes, diagram, design. Evidence of activity shows others the results of our taking action in pursuit of furthering our investment, it is evidence of broadening our perspectives and deepening our understanding. We share our evidence of activity to let others know what we are working on, to find each other, to support each other, to invest in each other's work.

Collecting - we collect evidence of activity in the moment the work is available for capture - think of contemporaneous notes, where the notes themselves are multi-modal: expressions through voice, movement, gesture, manipulation, interpretation. 

These multi-modal expressions are made available through various media, starting with source documents digitized and transmitted across social media platforms - trans-media communications.

The process of multi-modal trans-media communication starts with collecting evidence of activity. These artefacts are minimally coded (ie. date, time, location, participants) and annotated (context, conditions, precursor, what we cannot see in the frame). These coded annotated artefacts are loaded into a repository for editing and dissemination.

Editing processes review the artefact collection and make decisions about sequence, significance, and connections to previous storytelling as well as set the stage for next steps. Editing processes develop narrative threads, emergent patterns, and significant meanings arising from the collective coherence arising from the Evidence of Activity.

Disseminating - dissemination processes re-organize artefacts and store them in social media account infrastructure, making them available for blogging, video editing, and posting to social media platform accounts. Social media platform accounts provide for tagging and notifications to bring interested readers / observers to available resources - for their perusal and possible re-distribution to their own social networks.

The work of disseminating includes an editing component, where configurations of artefacts give rise to new meanings and significance as patterns are identified and milestones are reached. Disseminating artefacts includes making sense, making meaning, and bringing out new understandings previously unidentified and unknown.