Listen deeply. Tell stories. Tis is the mantra of the Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) in Berkeley, California, which since 1993 has worked with nearly 1,000 organizations around the world and trained more than 15,000 people in the art of digital storytelling.

In this revised and updated edition of the CDS’s popular guide to digital storytelling, co-founder Joe Lambert details the history and methods of digital storytelling practices. Using a “7 Steps” approach, Lambert helps storytellers identify the fundamentals of dynamic digital storytelling—from seeing the story to assembling and sharing it. Readers of the fourth edition will also fnd new explorations of the applications of digital storytelling and updated appendices that provide resources for budding digital storytellers, including information about past and present CDS-afliated projects, and place-based storytelling, a narrative-based approach to understanding experience and landscape. A companion website brings the entire storytelling process to life.

Over the years, the CDS’s work has transformed the way that community activists, educators, health and human services agencies, business professionals, and artists think about story, media, culture, and the power of personal voice in creating change. For those who yearn to tell multimedia stories, Digital Storytelling is the place to begin.