About a month ago, Facebook launched Facebook Stories to mark the addition of Facebook’s 500 millionth user. Now Twitter is launching Twitter Tales, which the microblogging site describes as “a growing set of articles that highlights creative individuals and businesses from all corners of the world that help make Twitter … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Defining Storytelling and Leveraging My Passion for It
Recently, storyteller Eric James Wolf turned the tables on me. I’ve conducted more than 57 Q&As with story practitioners — and now Eric has done a Q&A with me. I thought it would be worthwhile to excerpt some of it here because it explains some of my philosophies and approaches … Continue reading
More Boje: Storytelling Consulting Bibliography
I wrote recently about the site scholar David Boje has set up, StoryOrgs, where folks can ask questions about the organizational storytelling concepts he researches and writes about. Another of the vast resources Boje offers online popped onto my radar recently and is worth sharing: David Boje’s Annotated Bibliography on … Continue reading
Stunning (and Risque) Brand Storytelling By Perrier
Welcome to Perrier Mansion, a swanky and retro venue where you can follow American burlesque artist, model, and actress Dita Von Teese into the edifice and play slightly naughty games with her (as you might guess from Dita’s photo at right). This decidedly R-rated Web story/game has been tweeted as … Continue reading
Improving Your Storied Brand in Social Media, Part 3
Came across a couple of additional postings that relate to the upcoming Social Story: How To Tell Your Story Through Social Media Conference (Aug. 24 in Denver). Anthony Townsend is annoyed that “There aren’t any stories” on venues like Twitter and Facebook. “Some conversations become really good stories,” he writes, … Continue reading
Have You Been Following TED’s Playlists?
Not all TEDTalks contain storytelling, but terrific stories are at the heart of most of these superb presentations. In fact, TED generally frames the presentations as stories. For the uninitiated, TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together … Continue reading
Improving Your Storied Brand in Social Media, Part 2: Storytelling about Your Brand Book Is Here
I’ve written more than once about Bernadette Martin’s book, Storytelling about Your Brand Online & Offline: A Compelling Guide to Discovering Your Story. The book was “forthcoming” in those posts (and also had a slightly different title), but now it’s here, published in both hard-copy and ebook formats, and I’m … Continue reading
A Plethora of Tips for Better Storytelling
Back in the spring, M. Amedeo Tumolillo, a.k.a., Flying Flashlight, published lists of storytelling tips by three well-known storytellers, the late novelist Kurt Vonnegut, playwright David Mamet, and screenwriter/screenwriting teacher Robert McKee. While the authors of these tips work(ed) primarily in the fiction realm, these tips work equally well for … Continue reading
The Story Guru Q&A Process
Recently, storyteller Eric James Wolf turned the tables on me. I’ve conducted more than 57 Q&As with story practitioners — and now Eric has done a Q&A with me. I thought it would be worthwhile to excerpt some of it here because it explains some of my philosophies and approaches … Continue reading
Deploying Stories to Instill Company Values
I always especially appreciate content about storytelling related to employment. While my personal crusade is about storytelling in the job search, I’m also interested in the flip side — how employers use stories to entice, retain, and engage employees. Employee engagement is a major hot-button topic in HR, and some … Continue reading