Phillip Ratliff
In the studio: a quick guide to audio story production
The script is in the can. The experts have fact-checked it, and your team of grammarians have declared the copy squeaky clean. Now you’re...
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Phillip Ratliff
- Dec 4, 2019
- 2 min
Audio Story Scriptwriting 101
The story’s the thing. That’s the Backstory mantra. We recite it every time we produce a museum exhibit. And it’s central to our audio...
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Phillip Ratliff
- Dec 3, 2019
- 3 min
GPS-triggered audio stories that your public will love
Thanks to GPS-triggered mobile apps, the future of audio interpretation is here. That’s not hyperbole. Because it is so intuitively...
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Phillip Ratliff
- Dec 3, 2019
- 1 min
The Auburn Villager features Backstory exhibit
2019 was quite a year for Backstory. The traveling exhibit Alabama Justice is one reason why. Here’s a link to an in-depth story, posted...
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Phillip Ratliff
- Dec 3, 2019
- 1 min
Backstory exhibit makes national news
The Associated Press featured Alabama Justice: The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation in its round-up of state news. Click here for...
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Phillip Ratliff
- Dec 3, 2019
- 2 min
Outdoor signage the Backstory way
It's a bang-for-your-buck issue. If your public ignores -- or is flat-out confused by -- your outdoor signage, you've essentially tossed...
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Phillip Ratliff
- Nov 5, 2019
- 2 min
Why you should choose custom exhibits over off-the-shelf
Whether they come to your gallery space from off the shelf or through a custom process, interactive exhibits aren't complicated in their...
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Phillip Ratliff
- Nov 4, 2019
- 2 min
STEM exhibits by the Backstory team
Building an interactive is building an interactive. That's true, whether the subject matter is the arguments behind a landmark Supreme...
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Phillip Ratliff
- Oct 31, 2019
- 1 min
Exhibit Brief: Interpreting a city's historic train station
Launching an exhibit is a process. It involves inventorying artifacts and sourcing images, researching oral and written sources and...
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Phillip Ratliff
- Oct 21, 2019
- 2 min
Translating a book on local history into an exhibit
The media are vastly different, but independently published history books aresolid starting points for exhibit content creators. Images...
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Phillip Ratliff
- Oct 21, 2019
- 2 min
You don’t know who you’re missing
We live in bubbles — social media bubbles, church bubbles, school bubbles, work bubbles. These social enclosures reinforce our sense of...
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Phillip Ratliff
- Oct 20, 2019
- 1 min
The tangible benefits of bottom-up exhibit design
Organizations that mount exhibits working with companies whose design approach is empirical and organic see benefits. Here are four of...
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Phillip Ratliff
- Oct 18, 2019
- 2 min
Betting on the wrong exhibit design firm can cost you
You’ve secured the funding, assembled a team of in-house staff, and now you’re ready to build an exhibit. Don’t make your next step a...
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Phillip Ratliff
- Oct 18, 2019
- 1 min
Grow Your Blog Community
With Wix Blog, you’re not only sharing your voice with the world, you can also grow an active online community. That’s why the Wix blog...
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Phillip Ratliff, Backstory Educational Media
- May 23, 2017
- 5 min
The Joy of the Joy of Painting
Over the past 30-plus years, Bob Ross's meditative DIY series, The Joy of Painting, has amassed a following of hippies and hipsters....
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Phillip Ratliff, Backstory Educational Media
- May 23, 2017
- 2 min
Making Chronic Disease Management Personal
Chronic disease management is a big problem, no matter what segment of society you're looking at, but it hits medically underserved areas...
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Phillip Ratliff
- May 20, 2017
- 1 min
Ruffner looks to Backstory Ed to help tell their story
Ruffner Mountain Nature Coalition saved a mountain and built one of the largest urban nature preserves in the United States. Today,...
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Phillip Ratliff, Backstory Educational Media
- Dec 19, 2016
- 3 min
Engineering a Continuing Pharmacy Education Machine
When the Georgia Pharmacy Association approached me in the fall of 2016 about running their continuing pharmacy education, I admit it was...
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Phillip Ratliff
- Dec 15, 2016
- 4 min
Retro/Upside Down
To viewers steeped in 1980s popular film, the world of Stranger Things will seem eerily familiar. When we meet series’ four tween...
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Phillip Ratliff, Backstory Educational Media
- Dec 15, 2016
- 2 min
When you believe in the project, sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith
This month, B Metro published my short article on the the Birmingham Industrial Heritage Trail project. It was an insider's view of this...
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