Telling stories

• Julia Allison (Nonsociety)
• Fernando Sulichin (Central Films)
• Ora-Ïto (Artist)
• Loic LeMeur (Seesmic)
• Moderation: Constantin Bjerke (TheCrane.tv)

For this panels you should not miss the live tweets! Notes from the moderator:

• Who has been affected in their live with a story?
• it is the oldest form of communication
• people like to hear and tell stories
• they bring us emotions
• diverse round of storyteller

Loic Le Meur

• tells a story directly from the stage to his seesmic account, records at the same time [see it here]
• founded seesmic to make it easy to tell a story online
• wants to check if there are replies from the room later
• shows an interview with Yossi Vardi about his catastrophe conference
• shows example of the BBC

Julia Allison Traditional media background. Now working at Nonsociety which is a Lifecasting company. What's lifecasting? 3 girls sharing their everyday dating, tech and fashion experiences with a wide online network of friends.

• Lunch table conversation
• Soap opera without directors
• Reality show without producers
• Magazine without editors
• is liveblogging from her iphone during the presentation of the video

Ora-Ito

• he created one of the first virtual brands
• had customer ask in the store for the virtual good, chinese now produce it
• this is how he started he created his career
• people thought that he was japanese due to his name but he is not
• was asked not to tell that he is not japanese - said that might be difficult
• awkdio.com you can listen to the big clubs of the world, 24 hours music - if you are living somewhere it is not cool, this is your chance.

Fernando Sulichin

• considers him to be a traditional storyteller
• has produced many different films for example Tran An Hung
• really enjoys being a storyteller

Notes from the panels

• C: What makes a good story?
• F: When I feel it is a good story for me
• J: thanks the panel for giving her a description for what she is doing
• does not depend on what you think is a good story
• we are interested in peoples live, we want to know what is happening
• uses herself as a guinea pig, now you can go from your own experience
• C: Would your stories have been possible without the internet?
• F: No, not without that kind of technology
• C: What are the key elements for stories which come up on top
• L: we have them bubble up through replies count
• similar with twitter - how many people retweet it
• if you are boring, nobody talks to / about you
• video installation got hundreds of replies
• it is awesome when you have someone from Australia replying to someone from Germany to someone from the USA
• the greatness of sharing stories from all over the world
• for him it is about how it spreads
• it is very international and very human
• F: This is a dangerous thing, because there is a lot of marketing trying to spread movies, commercials
• J: interesting from one to many storytelling, broadcast to what is there today
• has changed her life
• got mails from people during the DLD conference right away
• "I am sorry, I am not asking for your opinion" but by putting it up people assume
• C: would you agree that the internet transports greater transparacy? do you have a responsibility as distributor to filter them?
• L: video is more human than other platform, it is a human network, not just by text
• when trolls use the stage, there is a limit
• they have a flagging system in place
• L: what is the difference between humor or not?
• J: we talk a lot about the lack of manors
• there is this period of chaos when there are not yet rules in place
• she does not have comments because she does not like anonymous comments
• until we have real names and accountability it will not stop
• L: let's talk about good stuff instead
• C: Challenge of how to get your audience to listen
• O: tell a story about their story
• C: Public life has impact on personal life - why do you let people into your life?
• J: it is a huge experiment, had some wonderful consequences
• started of as a columnist, which is per definition more personal
• was the one I was most comfortable with, so I do not have certain filters like others do
• by sharing she was able to have a conversation with readers
• talked about her own experience with bulemia in telling that in first person experience and got tons of feedback she claims you would not have had if that would have been a third person account
• C: this new form of story telling has had a big effect, for example the Obama campaign
• L: politician enhance reality all the time
• each time they say something which is not true or overstated, it will be commented
• F: Great danger for using the internet for political campaign
• there are a lot of media who try to demonize a person and repeat a story over and over again
• stories where the facts and reality have nothing to with one another
• fantasies are created all the time
• there is so little time to fact check it - and just because it is on th NYT people believe it
• later erasing is nearly impossible
• J: has seen a huge transition with the Obama campaign
• we should rather talk about what it does to politician
• when politician get more successful, they get more blander all the time and she now sees this happening to normal people
• you only get one choice as there is only one you online
• what if is not lies, but how you react differently in different situations?
• my father reads my web page - awkward
• everyone is going to have an internet persona, the one where they are going to piss of the least amount of people
• question from the audience to Julia: with growing popularity and power, how do you plan to use that to get ahead in life or have more things than getting better at sex?
• Lisa: "Loic shut up - you get the question about how you plan to make the world a better place"
• you can be either interested in fashion, beauty OR feminist rights, science etc. She likes to be both.
• young women need to know it is possible - my success does not come at the expense of you
• C: but don't you open up yourself to that by putting yourself out there? are you a product?
• J: yes. and obviously this comes with disadvantages
• Oprah is able to speak to people
• yes it is hard to be that way sometimes, but there is no other way to be able to effect people like this
• Question audience: What story are you telling next
• F: I don't know but I am in my revolution phase
• Question Gabemac: Aren't we getting tied up in technology changing stories?
• there is this famous book with a lot of stories, you know the bible - what if Jesus would be a blogger?
• J: you are right there are universal story, these are old stories
• we have the same human emotions, how to find love, happiness, closure, they are constant
• different methods of story telling work with different people