Services

Content Development: Locative Press provides content development services to organizations in need of a locative product. We provide a no-commitment consultation to discuss the content you want to publish, before providing a detailed quote that includes costs associated with collecting and organizing content and media, content development using third party tools, and hosting charges if applicable. Examples of locative content include:
  • residential and commercial real estate: self-serve driving tours for relocating individuals and businesses to identify new listings, new developments, and available commercial properties with details on amenities, services, and pricing
  • chambers of commerce: self-serve driving tours through locally-owned businesses in specified categories (retail, brewing, realty, etc.), or space opportunities for startups
  • historic civic organizations: self-serve walking tours through historic districts and preserved sites with embedded photographic/video interpretation
  • parks and recreation: self-serve walking or biking tours in preserved areas (ruins, cemeteries, battlefields, historic sites), or along/near public greenways
Professional Development: Locative Press provides online or on-site professional development/training services to schools and organizations who want to learn how to use locative media tools to publish their own stories. We work with you to select appropriate third party tools that best fit your needs and budget, with many free tools available. Workshops can be arranged at field sites (e.g., a state historic site) to support locative geo-tagging or story outlining prior to finishing a story back in a lab setting. No-commitment quotes including any facilities charges available on request.
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​Software: We do not currently offer our own locative storytelling software product, but rather work with existing products shown under the "Solutions" tab. Our university sponsored an initial set of meetings with Durham-based Pathos/Ethos to wireframe a mobile locative story authoring app, and we are interested in continuing this development if additional grants or strategic partnerships are realized. We are interested in helping story authors publish locative media products with more interaction capabilities than typically seen, and story consumers to read stories online or in the context of a designated physical space. While our initial target market is K-12 and homeschool education, further applications in higher education and study abroad are clear, as well as potential non-fiction uses in different industry sectors such as tourism and real estate.

Locative Stories

"People have attempted to tie stories to places for as long as stories have existed. The meaning of a story is affected by the place in which the story is told and, similarly, the meaning of a place tends to be told through stories."
​--Farman, 2014

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