Reinvention Summit 2 is history, but I’m continuing to recap, synthesize, and expand on its 20 excellent sessions. If you ever have a chance to see Rohit Bhargava deliver a presentation, do it. He uses image-heavy/text-light slides, projects an easygoing, entertaining presentation style, and has brilliant things to say. I … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2012
Q and A with a Story Guru: John Randall: A Friend Who Recovered from Depression as He Told His Story
See a photo of John, his bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. Q&A with John Randall, Question 5 Q: What’s your favorite story about a transformation that came about through a story or storytelling act? A: A little over 10 years ago, my … Continue reading
Q and A with a Story Guru: John Randall: Seven Narremes Are Story-Analysis and Construction Tools
See a photo of John, his bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, and Part 3. Q&A with John Randall, Question 4 Q: Your forthcoming book is about your studies of narremes and narratology. Can you give readers a bit of a preview of the book? In a nutshell, … Continue reading
Q and A with a Story Guru: John Randall: Words are Like Precious Jewels
See a photo of John, his bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, and Part 2. Q&A with John Randall, Question 3 Q: You describe on your Web site the time in your life that you got into narratology, but what attracted you to this field? What has inspired you to … Continue reading
Q and A with a Story Guru: John Randall: Internet Narratologist is Writer, Paleontologist, Archaeologist, Explorer, Teacher Rolled into One
See a photo of John, his bio, and Part 1 of this Q&A. Q&A with John Randall, Question 2 Q: How did you initially become involved with story/storytelling/ narrative? What attracted you to this field? What do you love about it? A: My love of storytelling began with my mother … Continue reading
Welcome to the Digitoral Era: #story12 Jonah Sachs
Have we returned to the oral tradition of story? Jonah Sachs thinks so. In his new (June) book, Winning the Story Wars, and his session at Reinvention Summit 2, Jonah conveyed the belief that “the oral tradition which dominated human experience for all but the last few hundred years is … Continue reading
Q and A with a Story Guru: John Randall: Our Best Stories Generate the Light, Energy We Need to Accomplish Full Recovery of What is “Most Human” in Us
John Randall’s work caught my eye because it’s in an area that is completely unfamiliar to me — narremes. I’m looking forward to learning about this field through this Q&A and John’s upcoming manifesto, Narremes. I also have a soft spot for him because he shares two of his names … Continue reading
Jim Signorelli [ #story12 ] Tantalizes with Applying StoryBranding to People
Reinvention Summit 2 is history, but I’m continuing to recap, synthesize, and expand on its 20 excellent sessions. Because I’ve published some of author Jim Signorelli’s approaches in my Q&A and because even more is available in a meaty excerpt from his book, StoryBranding, I won’t go into great detail … Continue reading
Meet Some Rising Stars in the Story World #story12
Who might we hear as presenters at the next Reinvention Summit? Who are the future thought leaders who have visions of stories spinning in their heads and are newly charged up by Reinvention Summit 2? They just might be the group profiled below, who had the opportunity to describe their … Continue reading
OMG, My Book Is Available on Kindle
Just a tiny indicator of how the book market is changing, a couple of days ago, I got TWO queries in one day from folks wanting to know if books of mine were available as ebooks/Kindle editions. I didn’t think Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling to Get Jobs and Propel … Continue reading