It’s hard to put into words just how honored and thrilled I am to bring you my 20th Q&A — with Annette Simmons, one of the legends of applied storytelling, and certainly a huge influence on me. I read her The Story Factor early in my dissertation research and also … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Whose Story Would You Like to Hear? Suggest 3 Respected Luminaries for ‘America Remembers’ Campaign
Sarah McCue is a force of nature who is involved in several projects aiming at making the world a better place. One is The Remembering Site, a non-profit initiative that McCue co-founded with D.G. Fulford and launched in 2004 “to make it easy for anyone, anywhere to write, share and … Continue reading
Am I a Storytelling Expert?
I’m currently reading The Huffington Post’s Complete Guide to Blogging, which makes the point that many people blog to establish or share their expertise on a topic. Similarly, a Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008 report indicated that “To share my expertise and experiences with others” is the second-biggest reason … Continue reading
Add Lifestreaming to Personal Narrative Trends
This entry is a bit of an addendum to my New Year’s Eve posting about 2008 as the year of personal narrative in which I agreed that 2008 was a starting point but predicted that personal narrative will just get bigger and bigger. I talked about social media as part … Continue reading
Flokka: Story Prompts for Entrepreneurial Stories
Flokka, the tagline of which is “Where women in business blog,” encourages women to share their stories. Aliza Pilar Sherman, in an article reprinted from Her Business magazine, tells women readers of having lunch with other women at conference and sharing stories of business woes with another woman at her … Continue reading
First Wordle of the New Year
This week’s word cloud/tag cloud from Wordle.net based on A Storied Career:
Two New Discoveries for the New Year
Regular readers must tire of my constantly expressing my astonishment at making new storytelling discoveries. After searching for story material on the Web for four years — partly for this blog and partly for my PhD program — I would have thought I would have found it all. Yes, of … Continue reading