This story activity caught my eye because it appeared in the blog The South Jersey Line, and South Jersey is where I grew up. The South Jersey Line is by journalism professor Mark Berkey-Gerard, and it serves as a resource for students enrolled in his Online Journalism I course at … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2009
21st-Century Storytelling Alive and Well? The Sundance View vs. the MIT Media Lab View
Today is the last day of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the theme of which is “Storytime.” Although Storytime seems to be more about “the stories — from the screen and from the street — that make Sundance what it is” than about storytelling in films per se, Michelle Meyers, … Continue reading
Does Storytelling 2.0 Mean Open Story Loop?
OK, so technically I have not yet blogged about the concept of “Storytelling 2.0,”* but if you you follow storytelling, you know about Bryan Alexander’s and Alan Levine’s piece by that title in EDUCAUSE Review. Similarly, Lars Bastholm writes about “Social Storytelling,” which I would consider analogous — or at … Continue reading
Build a Story, Build a World?
Read an interesting, thought-provoking, lengthy blog post by Austin Kleon from last fall in which he equates storytelling with “world-building.” His argument reminded me of my musings from a few weeks ago in which I questioned whether digital storytelling is a genre or form of applied storytelling as opposed to … Continue reading
First Wordle of the Obama Era
Here’s this week’s word cloud/tag cloud from Wordle.net based on A Storied Career:
Storytelling Adds Human Touch to Virtual Work
I got interested in virtual teams and virtual work a few years ago when I learned that some of my former students felt that, while their business-school education had prepared them well to collaborate in face-to-face teams, it fell short in readying them to participate on geographically dispersed teams in … Continue reading
One Example of What a Lifestream Might Look Like … and a Bunch of Resources
Not long ago, I blogged about lifestreaming, the concept of aggregating various forms of one’s social-media participation into some sort of cohesive format, and thus into some semblance of a story about yourself. Apparently WordPress has a Lifestream plug-in (ahem, got anything like that, Movable Type?), which Mark Krynsky uses … Continue reading
My Inauguration Story
1:05 p.m.: I’ve been watching coverage since a little after 7 a.m. Barack Obama has now been our president for a little over an hour. It’s a day of great emotion, and I wish I could blog in front of the TV, but my laptop chose today to commit suicide. … Continue reading
Real-Time Storytelling
Chris Brogan earlier this month raised the question: “How have (or how can) you use social media tools in real time to capture the stories around us, in whatever form you want?” The example Brogan used was being at a Panasonic press conference at a larger convention and sending out … Continue reading
Q&A Series on Hiatus Until March 2
The first phase of my Q&A series with story practitioners has now concluded. The Q&A cupboard is almost bare. An additional two dozen gurus have committed to providing responses to my questions, but I’m committed to remaining flexible with deadlines since I know everyone is busy. And 21 must be … Continue reading