I can’t say it any better than Robb Lucy has at Your Legacy Smile: “If you had a short document written by each of your long lost relatives telling of their lives, hopes & dreams…. would that be good?” Lucy writes. Then he lists 10 Reasons Why You Should Record … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2008
This Week’s Wordle
This week’s word cloud/tag cloud from Wordle.net
Third-Person Stories: More Trustworthy?
Does anyone agree with this assertion set forth by Terje Johansen in an article called Writing Your Bio on WritingWorld.com? Write in Third Person. People automatically give more trust to what is said of one person by another, than to what people say about themselves — even when they know … Continue reading
Blog Action Day: Stories of Poverty
Today, I’m participating in Blog Action Day, an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. This year’s issue, about which the day aims to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion, is poverty. One … Continue reading
If Dogs Could Tell Their Stories…
BAD RAP is the website/blog of Bay Area Dog Lovers Responsible About Pitbulls. Over the summer, one of the site’s bloggers wrote about an article in Bark magazine about Michael Vick’s pitbulls by Susan McCarthy. The blogger particularly cited a line in the article that reads, “Although dogs don’t tell … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: Shawn Callahan
It’s a very special treat to present the ninth installment in this series of interviews with some of the gurus of both performance and applied storytelling. This interview is with Shawn Callahan, founder of Anecdote, described as the leading business narrative services firm in Australia, “renowned for its work in … Continue reading
Storytelling and the Death of Newspapers
I am a newspaper reader and have been since I was 7 years old (I learned a certain sad truth about Santa Claus by reading Dear Abby). I intend to be a newspaper reader until the day I die. I am old enough that I believe newspapers will still be … Continue reading
Using Story to Analogize a Complex Entrepreneurial Concept
A venture capitalist named Josh recently told a long but interesting story of Francis Bates (read more on page 1014 of this PDF download), who invented the flags that come on mailboxes to indicate that there’s mail in the box. The story is an analogy for a company that Josh’s … Continue reading
Real Women’s Stories of Success and Inspiration
The Forté Foundation is a consortium of major corporations and top business schools that has become a powerful change agent in educating and directing talented women toward leadership roles in business. Forte’s mission is to substantially increase the number of women business leaders by increasing the flow of women into … Continue reading
Last Road-Trip Wordle
Winding up a cross-country road trip. Here’s this week’s Wordle.