Just a couple of items to add about this year’s Blog Action Day 09 — in addition to Cathryn Wellner’s wonderful guest entry. One of these is related to storytelling; the other not so much: Another story-based initiative regarding global warming is the online anthology, Thoreau’s Legacy: American Stories about … Continue reading
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No. 2 Entry in Raf Stevens Great Storytelling Challenge: Sometimes It’s All in the Delivery
Again rising to reader Raf Stevens’ challenge for me to present more examples of good storytelling in this space, I give you another one that is making the social-media rounds. This one could not be more different from my first entry, posted earlier this week, “The Closet.” While that one … Continue reading
Winning Entry Says More about Cell Phones than Toilets
I mentioned a few weeks ago, a “Tell Us Your Best Toilet Story” contest from American Standard. The winning entry, submitted by Emily Horos of Atlanta GA, has now been chosen. Here’s the beginning of it: It Works As a Phone, Too I lived in a house with two female … Continue reading
Rising to the Challenge: Great Storytelling Example No. 1
Last week, reader Raf Stevens challenged me to present more examples of good storytelling in this space. I was critical of the storytelling in the entries in Slideshare’s World’s Best Presentation Contest, so Stevens wanted to get a better idea of what I consider to be good storytelling. Here’s an … Continue reading
Job-seekers: Find Your Story
In yesterday’s entry, I lauded the How to Find Your Story Worksheet that Elizabeth Sosnow of BlissPR created for B2B businesses. As promised, today I present my adaptation of the worksheet for job-seekers. As I noted yesterday, for job-seekers to use this worksheet effectively requires thorough research into each targeted … Continue reading
Story-Finding Worksheet Can Work for Individuals and Businesses
I recently came across Elizabeth Sosnow of BlissPR and its blog, B2B Bliss: PR for Thought Leaders, in which she is offering an awesome worksheet called How to Find Your Story. It’s particularly targeted at businesses, and especially businesses in the B2B realm, but as always my mind starts spinning … Continue reading
Reader Reflections on the “Cover Story” for Career-Changers
In addition to appearing in this space, my blog entries also appear in my Facebook profile, and occasionally I get more comments on the Facebook version than I do here at A Storied Career. Such was the case with Tuesday’s entry about whether career-changers should use a white-lie/half-truth “cover story” … Continue reading
Getting Storied with Your Elevator Speech/Pitch
I’ve written somewhat extensively in two of my books about the elevator speech, which is also known as the elevator pitch. In Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling to Get Jobs and Propel Your Career, I call this communication tool the Elevator Story. I have to admit, however, that of all … Continue reading
LinkedIn Profiles as Storytelling Tools
I just attended a webinar delivered by Bernadette Martin, a Paris-based American who has a new book coming out soon, I Need to Brand My Story Online and Offline — Now What???. Martin’s work has a lot in common with my Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling to Get Jobs and … Continue reading
Should a Career Changer Use a “Cover Story?”
When we hear the phrase “cover story,” we think of a story that’s not true. Recently on CollegeRecruiter.com, Sital Ruparelia suggested that career changers should have a cover story for those between-jobs situations when someone asks what the career-changer is up to these days. Ruperelia describes his personal experience with … Continue reading