Since I’m trying to do holiday-themed entries this week, let’s file this one under “Possible gifts that I’m not sure I support.” iTales appears to be a relatively new story site that is slick in appearance. Unlike most (if not all) the story sites I’ve cited in A STORIED CAREER, … Continue reading
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Another Perspective on Holiday Time …
I’ve written the last couple of days about various ways of sharing stories (especially family stories) during the holidays. Saturday’s was about eschewing consumerism and instead sharing family stories; yesterday’s was about “digi-scrapping,” which my sister and I have apparently been inadvertently doing with some recent Christmas projects. In the … Continue reading
Digi-Scrapping: Who Knew?
I never cease to come upon new forms of and uses for storytelling. Just discovered a site and blog called We Are Storytellers, which focuses on “digital scrapbooking” or “digi-scrapping,” which I’d never heard of. The illustrations of digi-scrapping pages look as though they are photos of paper scrapbook pages, … Continue reading
Holidays Are a Great Time to Give the Gift of Family Stories
In a column in Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley newspaper, the Statesman-Journal, Jeanine Stice rails against consumerism at the expense of sharing family stories at Christmastime. She notes that she’s met people who … … don’t measure their soul with statistics but instead with real-life stories. So instead of reading statistics and … Continue reading
Seasonal “Wishstories”
Scott Schwertly of ethos3, the company that promotes storytelling in presentations, says he’s “captivated” by Sears’ holiday “Wishstory” campaign. The campaign tells stories (in a very truncated fashion) of how gifts given by parents to children (who, in this campaign, grew up to be celebrities) shaped the celebrated lives of … Continue reading
Wordle as Story Prompt, Interpretive Tool?
Bryan Alexander, whose work on “Storytelling 2.0” I greatly admire and want to blog about soon, commented on how these Wordle word clouds/tag clouds might be used: I’m wondering about tag clouds for storytelling. They seem like assistive tools. visualizing a story, to rethink and interpret writing prompt What else … Continue reading
What’s Johnny Bunko’s 7th Lesson?
Back in September, I blogged about Daniel Pink’s manga-style quintessential convergence of story and career, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need. As I noted back then, Pink was running a contest at the Johnny Bunko Web site. The premise of the book is that … Continue reading
Nice Twist on the “About Us” Story
From time to time, I’ve commented on “About Us” sections of Web sites as storytelling examples. Red Canary is a Canadian social-networking software “talent hub” that doesn’t have an About Us section. Instead, it has an “About You” section. Makes sense. A social-networking site should be user-generated, and users may … Continue reading
Don’t Stop Your Story; Change Your Story
A few weeks ago, “YogaGirl” blogged at As a mantra of fact … about ceasing to tell stories about oneself that function as barriers to what you truly want to do. Here’s part of what she said: One of the themes of my retreat last weekend was “Stop Telling Your … Continue reading
Word CLOUD Reminds Me Of …
… seeing the film Man on Wire last night, in which French wirewalker Philippe Petit did his eight crossings — on a tightrope wire — of the space between the late World Trade Center towers in 1974. The cloud part comes in because it looked like Petit was walking on … Continue reading