QuintCareers, the parent site of A Storied Career, has for more than 10 years, provided readers with updates to new resources added to the site, most of them links to other sites. In fact, those updates evolved into the site’s newsletter, QuintZine, now in its 12th year.

Recently, it occurred to me that I could do something similar here — not just announce that I have added new links to my inside pages, but list exactly what I’ve added to bring these interesting resources front and center. So here we go with the first installment of links that are next to be added to my inside pages:

Links about Journaling, Memoir-Writing, and Personal Storytelling

• Beth LaMie: Author, speaker, and personal historian who helps people capture their family stories.
• Family Life Stories: Lynne Griffin shares compelling stories that provide insight into the human condition.essays, interviews, videos, and links to other sites.
• Foley Center for the Study of Lives: An interdisciplinary research project at Northwestern University committed to studying psychological and social development in the adult years.
• My Life Stories: Autobiographical blog by teenager Katie Kellar.
• New Life Stories: Journaling and Ellen Moore’s own life story.
• Obit Magazine: Examines life through the lens of death.

• OhLife: Journaling tool that sends users daily emails about what happened each day.
• The Place + Memory Project: Project to use people’s memories and stories to recreate places that no longer exist. “Places that were important to us. We are creating a series of stories for radio and an online map where you can to add your own memories through text, photos, sound, whatever.”
• Proust.com: A place for families and close friends to share life stories, thoughts, and aspirations to spark meaningful conversations about who we are. Inspired by the 19th-century writer Marcel Proust, who became associated with a popular ice-breaker parlor game, now known as the “Proust Questionnaire.”
• Story of My Life: Blog of “Jenni” that tells her life story.
• Then Life Happens: For sharing experiences and life lessons with an intention to encourage, inspire, and motivate users to live a life beyond imagination.

Links to Interdisciplinary Storytelling Resources

Narrative Psychology

• Power of Stories Section of Psychology Today: Based on the premise that telling stories is the best way to teach, persuade, and even understand ourselves.

Oral Performance and Presentation Storytelling

• 5 Truths and a Lie: Six interesting people are given a theme and asked to tell an 8-10-minute story from their lives, without notes, in front of a live audience. The twist is, one of the storytellers (known only to the host and themselves) is lying. At the end of the evening the audience takes a vote and we find out which person was fibbing. See also 5 Truths and a Lie Facebook page.

Social-Change Story Initiatives and Resources

• The Ruby Books: Deploying great girl voices combined with the power of well-told stories to balance and heal the world.
• Discover the Journey: Team of journalists and story-tellers who expose injustices facing children in-crisis and advocate for intervention partners until change is realized.
• Silence Speaks: International digital storytelling initiative supporting the telling and witnessing of stories that often remain unspoken — of surviving and thriving in the wake of violence and abuse, armed conflict, or displacement.
• Wonderfully Made: HerStory: Film series of Wonderfully Made that features testimonies from real girls who’ve gone through real struggles. This collection of stories is designed to share a message of hope, freedom and worth with girls everywhere.
• Over 50 and Out of Work: Ongoing multimedia project that documents the stories and the impact of the Great Recession on jobless Americans, 50 and older.
• Immigrant Archive Project: Independent national initiative dedicated to preserving the life stories of America’s immigrant population.

Story Collections

• 1000 Lives in 100 Words: Working on getting 1,000 people to write about their lives in 100 words.
• The Atavist: Publishes original nonfiction and narrative journalism for digital devices like the iPad, iPhone, Kindle, and Nook.
• Byliner: Publishing company and social network built around great stories.
• The Day I Found Out: Where those recently diagnosed with cancer can find inspiration from the people who’ve been there,.

• The Memoro Project: Nonprofit online initiative dedicated to collecting and divulgating short video recordings of spontaneous interviews with people born before 1940.
• The Parable Teller: Growing collection of inspiring, thought-provoking and life-affirming stories illustrated with pictures from flickr.
• Red Lemonade: Publishes fiction and highly narrative non-fiction.
• The Story Collider: Stories about science
• Storytelling Traditions: Stories in text, audio, and video formats comprising Folklore, Cowboy/Western Tales, Family Stories, Heroic Stories, Tall Tales, Fairy Tales, Poetry, Biographies, Auto-Biographies, Cultural, Regional, Seasonal, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Ghost Stories, Military, Political,
• Storyville: App from iTunes ($4.99) that publishes one story each week to your iPhone or iPad.
• World of 30: Platform for stories from women around the age of 30 worldwide.
• teller2teller: Storytelling podcast that gets everyday people to tell everyday stories.
• TellMyStory: Online library of that contains interesting and sometimes fascinating stories from people of all walks of life.

Story Practitioners/Consultancies: Marketing, Branding

• Find Your Online Voice: Offers social-media and content marketing using storytelling techniques and tools.
• Greenough Communications: Helps companies develop thought-leadership programs through a “disciplined, yet creative, approach to storytelling that generates brand conversations with customers, prospects and investors.”
• Storytelling for Software Marketing: Pietro Polsinelli’d collection of links on this subject.
• Transmedia Storyteller: Company providing interactive, social and pervasive cross-platform entertainment and marketing services.

Story Practitioners/Consultancies/Authors: Other

• StoryThings: Helps clients design, produce, deliver and evaluate story-related projects across a range of media.

Storytelling/Narrative Theory and Research

• The FrameTales Project: About storytelling in art (novels, theater plays, movies), but also for strategic reasons (presentations, pitches, speeches, ad campaigns.

Visual Storytelling

• ISHRA7: Digital content creation company focused on developing intelligent visual stories that drive engagement.

Links to Blogs that Relate to Storytelling

• Narrative by B. E. Berger: Barbara Berger’s blog exploring narratives.
• Narrative: Richard Gilbert’s blog focusing on reading, writing, and teaching narrative nonfiction.
• Narrative Now: Siobhan O’Flynn’s blog about the design of narratives in interactive environments, including screen-based works, in situ installations, online social networking sites, cross-platform projects, and interactive short films.
• Stories Connect. Love Heals Blog by Charles R. Hale, an “archaeologist piecing together ancestral shards. I am an historian, mapping my ancestors’ spirits and emotions with words.”
• Storyfountain blog: A blog by Richard House about communication and storytelling.
• Story of Design: Shares how to extract the stories that drive problem-solving for designers; interviews with designers, design thinkers, and entrepreneurs; how to’s that demonstrate various parts of the design process, and more.

Links to Storytelling Platforms, Prompts, and Tools

• 100 Digital Storytelling Tools for Your Digital Selves + Natives, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
• MuseumBox: Allows users to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.
• Prompts Writing: Asks open-ended questions to inspire users to start writing.
• Storyworld Box: Create-a-Story Cards: Commercial product in which each themed box contains 40 cards from the StoryWorld that suggest a myriad of characters, places, objects, and more. Users pick a handful of cards, use their pictures and words as inspiration and you tell a new tale every time they open the box.
• The Tarot Game: Encourages storytelling and evokes laughter, providing an engaging, cooperative, environment to address life’s issues and create a bond between players. The game includes more than 100 insightful questions, as well as a 78-card keyword deck for beginners.

Links to Organizational Storytelling Resources

• Only Human Communication: Uses creative approaches to help organisations and groups improve how they are seen, understood and valued: both inside and out.