Here are four presentations — three videos and one slideshow — that I’ve come across recently. Story fans may already be aware of at last two of them as they’ve been a bit viral in the story world, but I thought it would be interesting to juxtapose all of them. … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2011
‘Life in a Day’ Film Now Available
Updating a post from this past summer about the film Life in a Day, a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film shot in a single day. The videos that comprise the film were shot on July 24, 2010. My friend Elayne Zalis alerted me to the fact … Continue reading
Two More Freebies for Lifewriters
In his final offering of November’s National Lifewriting Month, Denis Ledoux offered the downloadable Scheduling for Success, a guide to keeping one’s writing projects on track. Strictly speaking, the guide works for any writer, not just lifewriters. Meanwhile, Annabel Candy is offering the free, downloadable e-booklet, Personal Writing Magic. The … Continue reading
Being Remembered by Telling Your Story: A Recruiter’s Eye View
Job-seekers probably don’t think about the sheer numbers of people that hiring decision-makers talk to during the recruiting and hiring process — and how candidates need to stand out from the pack to be remembered. An interesting — if slightly flawed — article by Esther Choy describes the kind of … Continue reading
A Story of How NOT to Network
OK, this post is admittedly a bit off-topic, but it’s something I needed to get off my chest… The other day I received an email from someone whose name seemed slightly familiar, but I couldn’t place who he was. The email was mass-mailed to about a dozen people, and it … Continue reading
Hopeful Stories for World AIDS Day
Today is World Aids Day. In this short (2:49) video, HIV-positive people tell hopeful stories. It’s from the Clinton Foundation, whose Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission (PMTCT) initiative has changed the way PMTCT programs are managed, resulting in a 40 percent drop in transmission rates across six focus countries from 2008-2010.
True Path, a Branding-Based Approach to Life-Story Interventions that Guide Career Choice (Part 5 of a Series)
This entry will probably be the concluding post in my series about life-story interventions that guide career choice. My goal has been to explore tools and assessments that employ stories/narrative to assist users in discerning what they want to do (or do next) in their careers. Two came from print … Continue reading
Lessons of “The Life Reports”
Here’s one more followup on New York Times columnist David Brooks’s project to collect stories from folks older than 70, a series he’s calling “The Life Report” … Brooks has synthesized the lessons offered by the life stories/essays he received: Divide your life into chapters. Beware rumination. You can’t control … Continue reading
Over-70 Stories (“The Life Report”): Followup
A few weeks ago, I posted about New York Times columnist David Brooks’s request for stories from folks older than 70, a series he’s calling “The Life Report.” Yesterday, Brooks summarized the responses he’s received. He also has been running an essay a day on his blog. Some of Brooks’s … Continue reading
Change Based on a Deep Understanding of Self-Identity: Life-Story Interventions that Guide Career Choice, Part 4
A few months ago, graduate student Joseph Palmisano asked me to be a subject-matter expert for his master’s-degree project, an online, narrative-based career tool. In fact, it has been my involvement with Joseph’s project that has inspired this current series. He turned me on to Lisa Severy, whose similar project … Continue reading