A couple of followups on publications I’ve blogged about in the past: A couple of days late, but happy anniversary to SMITH magazine, which celebrated its third anniversary on “National Smith Day,” a day to celebrate Smiths, famous and not, on Jan. 6. SMITH is celebrating with a new book … Continue reading
Author Archives: KatHansen
Q&A with a Story Guru: Annette Simmons, Part 2
See a photo of Annette, a link to her bio, and Part 1 of this Q&A. Late-breaking bio news: I’ve just learned that Annette’s The Story Factor has been included as one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, a book to be published by Penguin in February. … Continue reading
Author Offering Free Copy of Her Tribute to Departed Sister: Sixty-Five Roses Memoir
Heather Summerhayes Cariou, whose memoir I blogged about not long ago, has made a very kind offer to send a copy of her book, Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister’s Memoir to a reader of A Storied Career. If you’d like to be the lucky recipient, simply write a sentence in the … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: Annette Simmons, Part 1
It’s hard to put into words just how honored and thrilled I am to bring you my 20th Q&A — with Annette Simmons, one of the legends of applied storytelling, and certainly a huge influence on me. I read her The Story Factor early in my dissertation research and also … Continue reading
Whose Story Would You Like to Hear? Suggest 3 Respected Luminaries for ‘America Remembers’ Campaign
Sarah McCue is a force of nature who is involved in several projects aiming at making the world a better place. One is The Remembering Site, a non-profit initiative that McCue co-founded with D.G. Fulford and launched in 2004 “to make it easy for anyone, anywhere to write, share and … Continue reading
Am I a Storytelling Expert?
I’m currently reading The Huffington Post’s Complete Guide to Blogging, which makes the point that many people blog to establish or share their expertise on a topic. Similarly, a Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008 report indicated that “To share my expertise and experiences with others” is the second-biggest reason … Continue reading
Add Lifestreaming to Personal Narrative Trends
This entry is a bit of an addendum to my New Year’s Eve posting about 2008 as the year of personal narrative in which I agreed that 2008 was a starting point but predicted that personal narrative will just get bigger and bigger. I talked about social media as part … Continue reading
Flokka: Story Prompts for Entrepreneurial Stories
Flokka, the tagline of which is “Where women in business blog,” encourages women to share their stories. Aliza Pilar Sherman, in an article reprinted from Her Business magazine, tells women readers of having lunch with other women at conference and sharing stories of business woes with another woman at her … Continue reading
First Wordle of the New Year
This week’s word cloud/tag cloud from Wordle.net based on A Storied Career:
Two New Discoveries for the New Year
Regular readers must tire of my constantly expressing my astonishment at making new storytelling discoveries. After searching for story material on the Web for four years — partly for this blog and partly for my PhD program — I would have thought I would have found it all. Yes, of … Continue reading