Colette Ellis of InStep Consulting for Nonprofit Central and Craig’s List Foundation recorded the 18-minute podcast, Once Upon a Time: Create Stories to Engage Your Supporters. It provides tips for nonprofit leaders to create engaging stories that will motivate potential supporters and volunteers (including a model for writing the story). … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Weekly Wordle
This week’s Wordle.net word/tag cloud based on A Storied Career.
Two Men Talking … and Teaching about Storytelling
Both Two Men Talking and the related site narativ are rather spare Web sites into which one must do a bit of digging to see what they’re all about. A press release on Two Men Talking explains the origins: > Murray Nossel and Paul Browde met in 1974 in Johannesburg … Continue reading
Storytelling Meets Social Media: Part 3
It has been awhile (March) since Part 2 of this series. The convergence of social media and storytelling is hugely fascinating to me, but something prevents me from blogging more about it. Maybe I just want to do it justice. Although myriad examples of storytelling in social media can be … Continue reading
Malcolm Gladwell Tells Hiring Stories from the Near Future
Malcolm Gladwell’s next book apparently will be about the challenge of hiring in the modern world. Amazon lists his next book as Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don’t, which doesn’t sound exactly like the topic he talked about at the recent New Yorker Stories from the Near Future … Continue reading
Why Is This the Best Recruiting Video?
My friend Steve Rothberg of CollegeRecruiter.com calls this* the “best recruiting video.” He says: “After watching this video, the only candidates who aren’t more likely to want to work for Whirlpool are those without souls.” What he doesn’t say is why. Because it tells a story. *2020 Update: The referenced … Continue reading
A Storied Olympics
I’m not a huge sports fan — I like a little college football and Major League Baseball — but I’ve always been a bit of an Olympics junkie. I have come to realize that it’s largely the stories that attract me. When ABC used to cover the Olympics, they come … Continue reading
You Were Put on This Planet to Live an Extraordinary Life
I came across the utterly charming and uplifting site Tera’s Wish, subtitled “a free informational resource about Creativity.” The Tera’s Wish web site, the site says, “is about exploring the energy within each of us that fulfills and makes us most happy.” There are a heck of lot tools on … Continue reading
Telling Science Stories is Not a Trivial Thing
Through this posting by Jonah Lehrer in the blog The Frontal Cortex, I learned of a wonderful commencement address (superb content, well delivered) given by Robert Krulwich at the 2008 Cal Tech graduation ceremony. (The address is in RealPlayer format and doesn’t actually occur until about 9 minutes and 15 … Continue reading
Wordle-licious Friday
This week’s Wordle.net word/tag cloud based on A Storied Career.