It’s so much fun to get to know story practitioners through this Q&A series, of which this is the 18th entry. This one is with Ron Donaldson, with whom I became familiar through the Golden Fleece group. See his bio and photo below. His Q&A will appear over the next … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2008
Creating Compelling Interview Stories
It’s great when other career gurus tout storytelling in the job search. I feel like I’m not the only voice crying out in the wilderness. This one is from my colleague Barb Safani via Ezine Articles. Barb and I both serve on the executive board of the Career Management Alliance, … Continue reading
Obama Administration Seeks Healthcare Stories
Tom Daschle, President-elect Obama’s point man on the healthcare issue, is discussing the new administration’s early strategy for reforming the healthcare system. The strategy begins with giving people the chance to highlight their concerns and experiences. Daschle invited people around the U.S. to hold what amounts to house parties from … Continue reading
Did You Notice ….?
… that I forgot the weekly Wordle tag cloud/word cloud last Friday? Here’s this week’s:
Q&A with a Story Guru: Carol Mon, Part 5
See Carol’s bio, photo, and Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. Q&A with Carol Mon (Question 5): Q: Your clients seem to be primarily organizations, but much of what you have to teach about communication skills seems as though it would work on an … Continue reading
Things I Like about Tokoni (and a Few Things I Don’t)
Tokoni is a story-sharing site that’s about a year old and has ties to eBay (investments, plus its founders were eBay execs). I like Tokoni as it offers features that could easily keep one absorbed for hours. The full “about us” description of Tokoni appears below, but here are my … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: Carol Mon, Part 4
See Carol’s bio, photo, and Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, and Part 3. Q&A with Carol Mon (Question 4): Q: One of the seminars you present is Tell Tales, Make Sales. How did you come to discover that storytelling is effective in sales? Do you have a story … Continue reading
Coin Stories
At this point, I am no longer amazed either by the things that people are asked to tell stories about or by their ability to tell stories about the most obscure topics. Still, the last topic I would have thought about as story fodder is the concept of people saving … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: Carol Mon, Part 3
See Carol’s bio, photo, and Part 1 of this Q&A and Part 2. Q&A with Carol Mon (Question 3): Q: How important is it to you and your work to function within the framework of a particular definition of “story?” (i.e., What is a story?) What definition do you espouse? … Continue reading
Oops – Forgot One Visual Storytelling Activity/Prompt: Book Spines
When I wrote the other day about a couple of ideas for visual storytelling, I had a nagging feeling there was another one I had wanted to mention. Nina Katchadourian has undertaken the Sorted Books project, as she describes below. She groups the books so that the titles on their … Continue reading