See a photo of Paul and John, their bios, Part 1 of this Q&A,Part 2, and Part 3. Q&A with Paul Furiga and John Durante, Questions 7 and 8: Q: The storytelling movement seems to be growing explosively. Why now? What is it about this moment in human history and … Continue reading
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Q&A with Two Story Gurus: Paul Furiga and John Durante: Journalism, Politics, and Healthcare as Foundations for Storytelling PR
See a photo of Paul and John, their bios, Part 1 of this Q&A, and Part 2. Q&A with Paul Furiga and John Durante, Questions 5 and 6: Q: Paul, it is easy to determine how your journalism background fits in with PR, but how does journalism inform the storytelling … Continue reading
Listen to Karen Dietz on Blog Talk Radio: Core Stories Business Need for marketing
Well-known story practitioner Karen Dietz, (and one of my Q&A subjects) was interviewed on Blog Talk Radio about stories, storytelling, and marketing recently in an hour-long show. Says Karen: We talk about the essential set of core stories every business needs for marketing, how to become a better storyteller, and … Continue reading
Q&A with Two Story Gurus: Paul Furiga and John Durante: Evolution of “StoryCrafting”
See a photo of Paul and John, their bios, and Part 1 of this Q&A. Q&A with Paul Furiga and John Durante, Questions 3 and 4: Q: What brought the two of you together as business partners? Did you both support the idea of storytelling for business when you started … Continue reading
Q&A with Two Story Gurus: Paul Furiga and John Durante: Airlines and Auto Industry Need to Tell Better Stories
I’m delighted to bring you my first double Q&A and the longest one I’ve run — with Paul Furiga and John Durante of WordWrite Communications. This Q&A will appear over the next eight days. Bio: Read Paul’s bio here and John’s bio here. Q&A with Paul Furiga and John Durante, … Continue reading
You Know You Wanna Craft Your Memoir … Here’s Some Guidance
I definitely have memoir on the brain as it seems like a lot of what has come across my desk and screen in the last couple of weeks has been memoir-related. It is indeed so important to leave our story, our legacy, for others. Here are a couple of resources … Continue reading
Miss This Week’s Storytelling/Leadership Webinar? You Can Still Experience It Along with Resources
If you’re lamenting that you missed the Terrence Gargiulo/Shawn Callahan webinar that I wrote about earlier in the week, you can experience it here, thanks to the presenters’ generosity. The presenters also provided a slew of additional resources: Selecting a Story Tool One of the questions we get asked the … Continue reading
Storytelling + Anonymity = Healing
I’ve been writing recently about storytelling for healing and “memoirs-on-the-go” — autobiographical writing in blogs. (And, by the way, here’s a poignant take on a different kind of memoir through social media.) An article by David Spark on SocialMediaBiz reminded me of a site that brings these concepts together and … Continue reading
Stories Matter in the Quest for Social Change
Marshall Ganz, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a civil-rights activist has written a thought-provoking article, Why Stories Matter: The Art and Craft of Social Change on the site Sojourners Magazine. Ganz notes that it’s not effective to simply tell people to follow the … Continue reading
A Few Nuggets from A Storytelling Leadership Webinar
I just finished attending a terrific webinar with Terrence Gargiulo of MakingStories and Shawn Callahan of Anecdote. I have attended several of Terrence’s webinars, but this was my first one with Shawn. This was the second presentation of this webinar; the pair presented it last week at a time more … Continue reading