The best way to get an idea of the impact of digital storytelling is to watch examples. The sites below offer a wide variety of story content and styles to inspire the viewer and storyteller creator.

BBC's "Telling Lives: Your Digital Stories" : 
A project of the British Broadcasting Corporation. In particular, visit "Capture Wales" (link on left of the BBC page) which started digital storytelling in the UK and the BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk/tellinglives/

"Silence Speaks" Project: 
A project of the Center for Digital Storytelling, "in support of healing and violence prevention."
www.silencespeaks.org/

South African Digital Stories:
A project of the Center for Digital Storytelling with South African EngenderHealth’s “Men as Partners” (MAP) initiative and the “Silence Speaks” project.
http://www.engenderhealth.org/ia/wwm/wwmds.html

CHYME Digital Stories: 
(Community Histories by Youth in the Middle East)
http://www.cctvcambridge.org/node/62
Digital Storytelling was a part of a project with the Slifka Program in Intercommunal Coexistence, a program of The International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life, Brandeis University
www.brandeis.edu/slifka

Stories for Change
On-line meeting place for digital storytelling facilitators and advocates to share resources and stories.
www.storiesforchange.net

Dana Atchley's Next Exit:
Archived works of the late performance artist and digital storyteller.
www.nextexit.com