This really cool announcement came my way via the Esri Story Maps team… If people took last Thursday off for the long July 4th weekend they may have missed that along with the various updates to ArcGIS Online, we’ve released a completely new story map app that we think will be game changer especially for GIS professionals with a lot of narrative text, maps, images etc that they want to present.” Enter the Story Map Journal
We are assured that Story Maps will be represented pretty extensively at this year’s International User Conference. Attendees will hear about them and see live example story maps on the main stage (likely even from Jack himself I’m told), as well as in the various demo islands on the exhibition hall floor, demo theaters, technical workshops, and user presentations. See more detailed info in this blog post, Story Maps at the Esri User Conference 2014
Finally, if you’d like to get started making your own Story Map Journal be sure to check out the new resource at http://storymaps.arcgis.com/
Story map journal app from Esri
For those of you headed to San Diego this year you also MUST check out the extensive San Diego Story Map from Rupert Essinger sharing just about everything you could ever want to see while visiting beautiful San Diego – since Rupert is from San Diego there was big pressure on him to deliver and he did! Note, Rupert also has a handy San Diego Shortlist story map of suggested things to do and places to go in San Diego as well as this one that has a focus on great places to eat in San Diego