In yesterday’s entry, I proposed deploying transmedia storytelling on an individual basis for the purpose of, say, getting a job or attracting clients. I used a framework suggested by Jeff Gomez, president and CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, for looking at individual transmedia storytelling. Gomez (who very kindly stopped by … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2009
My Wackiest Proposal Yet: Transmedia Storytelling for the Individual, Job-seeker: Part 1
What I’m about to propose here may be wacky, but it’s also timely, given personal-branding guru Dan Schawbel’s blog post yesterday asking readers to predict when traditional resumes will die. My proposal: Individuals and job-seekers can use transmedia storytelling to tell their personal stories and brand themselves. It’s wacky primarily … Continue reading
Thank YOU, Bernajean, for All You Do for Storytelling
Bernajean Porter, who is kind enough to frequently retweet my entries here on A Storied Career, made a lovely comment on yesterday’s entry. Since comments are a bit obscured here, I thought I’d bring it to the forefront as Bernajean deserves much credit for all she does for storytelling: I … Continue reading
Should Storytelling Be a Required 21st-Century Skill?
On her Langwitches Blog recently, Silvia Tolisano wrote, “I am intrigued and fascinated by the resurrection and increase in The Need for Storytelling Skills in the 21st century.” In turn, she cited an earlier entry in which she had invoked the likes of Daniel Pink and Jason Ohler in arguing … Continue reading
2010 Will Be Documented in a Story a Day by 365 Peeps
Yep, it’s that time of year. Fall is here, and thoughts turn to the holidays and the next year. the3six5 is a project that will attempt to “document each day in 2010.” Participants will write about the events of the day — tell the story of the day — but … Continue reading
Jawbone.tv Curates the Evolution of Storytelling
My job here at A Storied Career is to curate applied-storytelling resources (yet another tip of the hat to Terrence Gargiulo for that characterization). Time was when I would write a blog entry about every new storytelling resource I came across. It quickly became apparent, though, that so many fabulous … Continue reading
Storytelling Helps Us Remember More than the Standard Seven Data Points
Mike Speiser recently wrote on the GigaOM Network that “our short-term memory is widely believed to have a capacity of seven elements, plus or minus two,” which is the reason, Speiser notes, “that U.S. phone numbers have seven digits.” If you connect items (or data points) together as a story, … Continue reading
‘Tell Me About a Time ….’ You Created a Story-Sharing Culture in Your Organization
In a wonderfully well-articulated recent article on the blog Philantopic, my friend Thaler Pekar (pictured) makes a concise and persuasive argument for “creating a true culture of story sharing within our organizations, especially those that function as hubs of entrepreneurship and innovation, and especially at this uncertain moment” — as … Continue reading
Finally: “Story-Mindedness” from the Employer Side
Storytelling in the job search is my crusade, one that I am joined in by a small band of folks on the job-seeker-advocacy side of the desk: Terrence Gargiulo, Rob Sullivan, and Judy Rosemarin among the most prominent of them. I am also quick to pick up hints and glimpses … Continue reading
All Conferences Should be Storied
I’m a little surprised not to have known about Business Innovation Factory’s Collaborative Innovation Summit before this year, given that the fifth one is happening Oct. 7-8. For this is a conference not of speakers, but of stories, as Saul Kaplan describes it: No PowerPoint presentations, no matrix, just stories. … Continue reading