The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging has extrapolated information from University of North Carolina journalism-school professor Phil Meyer to determine that the very last newspaper will land on doorsteps in April 2043. I’ve said in a past entry that I’m OK with the inevitable death of newspapers as long … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Birth of a Community-Storytelling Project
In Web and social-media time, it feels like Jennifer Warwick and I have been friends for ages and ages. It’s really been only since 2004, but she’s one of my “oldest” virtual friends, meaning that I have all sorts of warm feelings and admiration for her even though we’ve never … Continue reading
Champion of the Sustained Storytelling Practice: Barbara Ganley
One of my new heroes is Barbara Ganley, who blogs at (The New) BG Blogging. I find her fascinating because of her work with story in higher education and in community storytelling. She recently left the former to focus on the latter: Barbara Ganley recently left higher education to set … Continue reading
Jobless Stories with a Twist: They are Career Counselors and Recruiters
As a followup to Friday’s entry about Unemployed Bob who is attempting to collect stories of the jobless through his eponymous blog, I came across the story of Greg Dillon, as told by CNN’s Jennifer Reingold on CNNMoney.com. What makes the story especially interesting is the fact that Dillon is … Continue reading
V-Day Preview: Six-Word Memoirs of Love and Heartbreak
Valentine’s Day is a week from today, and the folks at SMITH magazine are serving up another tasty box of chocolates, a.k.a., their third book of six-word memoirs, Six Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak.
Commiserating Over Joblessness Through Stories as Half a Million Jobs Are Lost
A troubling convergence today: The US government announced this morning that 598,000 more jobs were lost in January; for the first time in this crisis, I learned of a friend who was just laid off (not counting a number of my former students who have not found appropriate work since … Continue reading
Friday Wordle
Here’s this week’s word cloud/tag cloud from Wordle.net based on the content of A Storied Career:
America’s Story
Perhaps it is President Obama’s inauguration, Black History Month, and the fact that February brings us Presidents’ Day that puts me in a patriotic mood and receptive to Americana. I was thus charmed by a site, America’s Story, from the Library of Congress. The site was designed especially with young … Continue reading
From Poverty Porn to Humanitarian Storytelling
Last fall, my Facebook friend Liz Massey of the blog Write Livelihood interviewed Roger Burks, a pioneer of what he calls “humanitarian storytelling.” The interview, Roger Burks, his company Pictographers, and Burks’ pioneering work in humanitarian storytelling all impressed me. I had especially not consider the negative and exploitative effect … Continue reading
12-Step Storytelling
As I read a piece by “Jennifer” on “the lost art of storytelling” (which I don’t believe is actually lost), it dawned on me that storytelling is a mainstay of 12-step groups. I have been sober for 26 years, after 10 years of problem drinking in my 20s, but I … Continue reading