More info ausculture-newsletter is our free email newsletter bringing you the latest on culture, recreation and online issues. Bubbe's Back Porch e-publishes stories written by women who tell their family stories as part of a Digital Story Bee. Participants in the story bee each bring along family photos and tell their family story to the group. They are then helped to scan in family photos, type up the text of the story and upload the completed story on to the Net. The current stories on Bubbe's Back Porch are the result of story bees in Tel Aviv, San Francisco, St Petersburg, Kiev and Moscow.
Any theme is possible, really.
Also, people learn from each other when they are working on a similar theme. A coherence and 'bonding' emerges from within the group. Bubbe's Back Porch publishes warm tales of family love, life, and loss.