Making interactive stories yourself
Any form of digital storytelling requires some kind of digital development, coding or nerdy technology skill. If you're in a big organization or if you're daddy is rich that is not so much of a problem. But when you are a standalone creative and tech is not your thing, some other solution has to come up.
There is a growing number of services that offer online solutions for creative storytellers that have already plenty of text and images available in whatever form, plus a good deal of imagination. Those services can also provide webhosting or even appstore-fulfillment for those who want to access mobile platforms. Of course, most of them charge you some money; but they might be a lot more time- and cost-effective than building yourself from scratch.
We wont provide an extensive list of such services here, but I like to mention one that I ran into recently and that has an interesting portfolio list of digital interactive stories to browse. It's Klynt.net, a young Paris-based company spun out off movie production house HonkyTonky films. We see more film production companies at the base of stortytelling solutions and examples, for a reason.
Some creative Klynt-clients use the service and production tool to accompany other parts of their storytelling. Those are truly interesting examples. With limited means, one can make this way a quite impressive set of messages across media, that interact and empower. See for example the story about the deforestation in the Paraguayan forest Gran Chaco Americana, and the indigenous people living there. The interactive web documentary accompanies an audiovisual installation and exhibition that travels South America.