My Reaction to the Introduction to Digital Storytelling with the Audience becoming the User of the Story

Post is in relation to September 26th's class which covered our introduction to digital storytelling

I consider myself a pretty typical YouTube user. I watch my fair share of viral videos, I subscribe to a dozen or so YouTube personalities (partnered channels), and I even manage to contribute a few videos of my own every once in a while so much so that YouTube gave me the ability to monetize my account.

But you know what's really cool about the whole monetization thing? They give you a whole plethora of tips. One major tip YouTube gives is engaging the audience by asking questions and asking for responses via comments or "response videos".

Sounds similar to something I learned in class... One of the keys to utilizing the internet as a digital storytelling platform is to bring the audience into the story, which brings me to the question I have to ask myself, "What am I doing to engage the audience and bring them into a story not just as an interactive audience but rather as a user of the story itself?"

This blog definitely isn't an interactive storytelling medium but rather a journal open for the world to see my thoughts in relation to my storytelling class. There's even a specific blogger that encourages his audience to become part of the blogger's daily stories Maybe I could kick it up a notch....

COMMENT BELOW AND TELL ME WHAT TO TALK ABOUT or SEND ME A LETTER OR FUNNY PICTURE AND I'LL PUT IT UP ON MY NEXT POST.

I'm tired of being like this girl except more techno-manlike....
YAY DIGITAL STORYTELLING

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