Even at my most consistent and prolific on this blog, I wasn’t great at one of the features that distinguishes blogs – presenting new information on the blog’s topic quickly, being among the first to disseminate news. As I duck in to make one of my (very ) sporadic appearances, … Continue reading
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Anthology of Millennials’ Stories Documents Lost Generation’s Quest for Answers
Neal Gorenflo, co-founder Shareable Magazine, a nonprofit online magazine about sharing, and Malcolm Harris, senior editor of the New Inquiry, have just released Share or Die, an anthology with stories by recent graduates and twenty-something experimenters “who are finding (and sharing) their own answers to negotiating the new economic order.” Because the nonprofit Shareable … Continue reading
Integrating Story into Online Learning
Cross-posted in my KatharineHansenPdD.com blog about online teaching.. A major reason that I’ve been delinquent in getting A Storied Career back on track is that I have been trying to build a new career in online teaching. Here’s a post that combines my passion for applied storytelling with my emerging … Continue reading
How Would You Fix This Story?
Lead with Story author Paul Smith has a nifty recent post in which he presents a story a client submitted to him for improvement suggestions. Paul offers his suggestions, but he also invited some of the luminaries of the applied-story world to give theirs. David Hutchens, Andrew Nemiccolo, and Annette Simmons … Continue reading
Healing-Story e-Journal Seeks Submissions
DIVING IN THE MOON JOURNAL WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU! The Healing Story Alliance journal, Diving in the Moon: Honoring Story, Facilitating Healing, will now be designed as an e-journal that will be published online on the Healing Story Alliance journal Web site by or before fall 2013. The theme for the first online … Continue reading
Calling All Story Practitioners: What’s Your Take on These Questions about Storytelling in Management, Leadership?
Pia Christina Bröckelmann is a student in Mexico conducting research for her thesis on “Storytelling in Management – an Effective Tool for Leadership.” Her deadline is very tight; she needs responses this week (March 25 at the latest). She has been interviewing story practitioners, such as Paul Smith and Karen … Continue reading
If Only We Had Listened: An Assessment and Broad Overview of the Status And Scope of Narrative Practice
Graham Williams and Dorian Haarhoff of The Halo and the Noose are offering an article, “If Only We Had Listened: An Assessment and Broad Overview of the Status And Scope of Narrative Practice,” and submit this note for readers: “We share Theodore Levitt’s belief that …a colourful and lightly documented affirmation works better than the … Continue reading
New Book Distills Leadership Stories Down to 3 Types
Annette Simmons (The Story Factor, Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins) tells us of six kinds of stories that can be told in organizations; Steve Denning (The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling) lists seven; Paul Smith (Lead with a Story) describes stories for 21 business challenges. But in The Three Stories … Continue reading
iBook of 150 Life Stories is Free This Week
I’ve cited Reader’s Digest several times in this blog as a major early source of my passion for stories and anecdotes. Just happened to notice in my Web wanderings today that the magazine’s The Best Life Stories is free on iTunes or the iBook app this week. Here’s a description … Continue reading
Slideshow Conveys Fabled Design Message
Update: I’m a little rusty about posting to this blog after my 5-month hiatus and forget that when I embed things like slideshows and videos, email subscribers can’t see them. In addition, yesterday, I found something else inexplicably running in the space where the slideshow should be. Bottom line: It’s … Continue reading