[ddj] StoryBuilder, a new tool for creating NYT-like scrolling stories

Thu May 1 14:49:31 UTC 2014

Great!!!

From: ericnbarrett at gmail.com
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 18:19:19 +0400
To: data-driven-journalism at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [ddj] StoryBuilder,	a new tool for creating NYT-like scrolling stories

We have enabled email authentication/login now! I hope that helps non-FB users:)
Eric 

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Joseph Cox <josephfranciscox at gmail.com> wrote:

This is so cool. Really keen to be updated on this!

On 1 May 2014 11:30, Alvaro Alvarez Ricciardelli <carosoalvarez at hotmail.com> wrote:

Looks great!!!

I agree with the facebook thing though, looking forward to log in with an email account...

Congrats!!!

From: mjaeger at moritzjaeger.de

Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 11:06:15 +0200
To: data-driven-journalism at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [ddj] StoryBuilder,	a new tool for creating NYT-like scrolling stories

This looks really interesting, good work. Please, keep it up.Moritz Jaeger
Freier IT-Journalist und Autor
Phone: +49 89 420 950 394

Mobile: +491736972121

Frauenstr. 10
80469 München

2014-05-01 10:52 GMT+02:00 Andrew Callaghan <Andrew.Callaghan at knightstone.co.uk>:

Brilliant Stuff

Actual concept of tool and finished article look fantastic

From: data-driven-journalism [mailto:data-driven-journalism-bounces at lists.okfn.org]
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Sent: 01 May 2014 09:51

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Subject: Re: [ddj] StoryBuilder, a new tool for creating NYT-like scrolling stories

We are working on non-third-party authentication/login, as well as more open authentication options. That should be ready soon. I understand the frustration. Our first target audience were Georgians and they all use FB here. 

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Andrew Callaghan <Andrew.Callaghan at knightstone.co.uk> wrote:

Disappointing that you can only login with Facebook Sign In

Possible to setup login not connected to other sites, would be great

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Subject: [ddj] StoryBuilder, a new tool for creating NYT-like scrolling stories

Dear all,

I know this doesn't technically fall into the real of data journalism, but once you are ready to tell the story, it might come in handy.

We at JumpStart Georgia wanted to do similar mixed-media scrolling stories like the

NYTimes does. We are trying hard to inspire creativity and diversity in the ways Georgians tell stories, especially local activists, journalists, and NGOs. We initially built this for us and our stories, but decided it would be way cool for others to be
 able to create these types of mixed-media stories too. Not everyone can use 
D3 and code a story like this.

The tool,
http://storybuilder.jumpstart.ge/en/,  is mainly only functional (see the
Demo), but needs, of course, a lot more user interface design. However, it already works and people can start using it. Some cool features:

you build the story in sections and can rearrange them once you have created them
you can choose whether each section will be text or some type of media
you can audio to each section
currently, the media we have is screen-size photo and video, but we will add a slideshow soon and then others (maybe interactive choropleth map, simple charts, ...)
the media can have captions and sub-captions
you can host your scrolling story on the site itself;
you can export, as a zipped file, all the files once you build it, and host them on any server you want;
you can download the entire app for use in your organization (the github link is in the top-right corner - it is a Ruby-on-Rails app)
we have started adding templates to it;

Obviously, we still have a lot to do (well, sky's the limit) , but slowly we will build this up and add new features. Let us know what you think and if you have any ideas that might
 make it useful for you, we'd love to hear them.

http://storybuilder.jumpstart.ge/en/

Eric

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