Family history has been on my mind of late. My sister Robin has been doing quite a bit of genealogical research, as well as scanning old photos and artifacts. We have fragments of family-history Web sites online, but I’m getting ready for a major revamp, re-design, and consolidation. The author … Continue reading
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US Airways Launching Annual Holiday Travel Storytelling Contest
For the third consecutive year, US Airways invites travelers to share their favorite holiday travel memories with the rest of the world. The winning submission will take home a $500 US Airways Gift Card to be used anywhere US Airways flies, and two runners-up will take home a $250 and … Continue reading
Creating Compelling Interview Stories
It’s great when other career gurus tout storytelling in the job search. I feel like I’m not the only voice crying out in the wilderness. This one is from my colleague Barb Safani via Ezine Articles. Barb and I both serve on the executive board of the Career Management Alliance, … Continue reading
Obama Administration Seeks Healthcare Stories
Tom Daschle, President-elect Obama’s point man on the healthcare issue, is discussing the new administration’s early strategy for reforming the healthcare system. The strategy begins with giving people the chance to highlight their concerns and experiences. Daschle invited people around the U.S. to hold what amounts to house parties from … Continue reading
Did You Notice ….?
… that I forgot the weekly Wordle tag cloud/word cloud last Friday? Here’s this week’s:
Things I Like about Tokoni (and a Few Things I Don’t)
Tokoni is a story-sharing site that’s about a year old and has ties to eBay (investments, plus its founders were eBay execs). I like Tokoni as it offers features that could easily keep one absorbed for hours. The full “about us” description of Tokoni appears below, but here are my … Continue reading
Coin Stories
At this point, I am no longer amazed either by the things that people are asked to tell stories about or by their ability to tell stories about the most obscure topics. Still, the last topic I would have thought about as story fodder is the concept of people saving … Continue reading
Oops – Forgot One Visual Storytelling Activity/Prompt: Book Spines
When I wrote the other day about a couple of ideas for visual storytelling, I had a nagging feeling there was another one I had wanted to mention. Nina Katchadourian has undertaken the Sorted Books project, as she describes below. She groups the books so that the titles on their … Continue reading
Two Activities/Story Prompts with Visual Materials
Here are two activities I’ve come across focusing on visual storytelling: Photobooth Stories: This activity was an assignment for a class called Intermedia I in the Communication Studies Department at Concordia University. I’m guessing that the assignment was to tell a story using the 4 shots takes in a photo … Continue reading
Storied Lives: Mundane, Mediocre, Unremarkable?
Two portrayals of life stories that may seem unremarkable … but the charm and pull of these stories is truly in the eye of the beholder. As a child of the 50s and 60s, I have long been fascinated by that era — from movies made during that time to … Continue reading