This web site serves a few purposes:

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Document the festival.

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Show a style of covering an event, be it a conference, vacation, or business trip.

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Show how Trellix Web can be used to let regular people create such things, not just experienced webmasters.

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Show how RealSlideshow can be used in this environment.

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Show how Trellix Web and RealSlideshow can complement each other.

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Show that you can use these tools on the road in "real time" without a large investment or staff.

How did it come about?

Dana Atchley, the Digital Storytelling Festival Director, was interested in showing the Web Photo Journal-style of story (i.e., the style I used in the writeup that appears on this web site of his presentation at the Web99 conference). He wrote this in his invitation to me to speak at the Festival:

I think what you are working with on the Photo Journals (was that the right title?) would be compelling to our audience... A thought:  maybe you could use your software to do daily Festival reports which we could link to from our website and then you could show our audience how you did it.