Sometimes storytelling that teaches a lesson is inadvertent. It’s not intended as “business narrative” or one of Steve Denning’s springboard stories meant to spark change. It’s just good reporting and writing that tells a story that provides a lesson businesses can learn from. Want to convey the lesson that you … Continue reading
Author Archives: KatHansen
Moon Landing Stories
I don’t have a good moon-landing story. Forty years ago, I was 15. I watched the grainy, black-and-white video of the landing on a snowy, black-and-white TV. I always associate the moon landing — for some reason — with the Miracle Mets of 1969 and with my fervent participation that … Continue reading
A Clearer Picture of ‘What’s at Stake?’ in Job-Search Stories
It’s probably pretty typical for authors to immediately second-guess what they’ve written in their books and be champing at the bit to revise as soon as the book is published. I wish I’d been more original with Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling to Get a Job and Propel Your Career. … Continue reading
What Is Storymapping?
I’ve mentioned storymapping before but am now seeing enough new material on the subject that a definition seems in order. The blog Emerging Upstate Arts Professionals describes what storymapping, a project of The Center for Digital Storytelling, is: Essentially, “storymapping” is a method of reclaiming the dialogue and character of … Continue reading
Using Story to Teach [Hi]story
Clay Burrell says history isn’t learned, but story changes that problem. He suggests scrambling “the major periods of history in a random cluster on the board or a handout: “Medieval Period,” “Cold War,” “Roman Empire,” “Enlightenment,” “Age of Exploration,” “Classical Greece,” “Industrial Revolution,” “Greek Heroic Age/Trojan War,” “Renaissance,” “Sumer,” “Solomon … Continue reading
Three Interesting Story Prompts
Whether we are storytellers, story practitioners, journalers, writers, bloggers, memoirists, or just folks seeking personal growth and self-actualization, we can always use good story prompts for inspiration. Here are three I liked that I came across recently: Tell the story of the most inspiring, influential storyteller you’ve known. This one … Continue reading
Storytelling: Key to Our Species’ Survival
Why did homo sapiens survive while Neanderthals didn’t? Thriller novelist Lee Child wrote not long ago that it was because homo sapiens developed language. “But then something strange happened,” Child wrote. “We invented fiction. We started talking about things that hadn’t happened to people that didn’t exist.” Speculating, based on … Continue reading
10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media
Blogger’s Note: A Storied Career is participating in a project to publish the same blog entry — this one — across many blogs simultaneously today. An accompanying entry, Storytelling Edition: Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media, looks at ways to use storytelling in social media to support charity. This … Continue reading
Storytelling Edition: Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media
This entry is in conjunction with the multi-blog campaign, 10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media, which A Storied Career is participating in. Some of the 10 Ways mentioned are already story-driven — such as sharing stories with others and supporting causes on “awareness hubs” (because one of the … Continue reading
Much Re-Tweeted Storytelling Items Demonstrate Buzz
It’s time for another one of my roundups of storytelling news and views that have been experiencing considerable buzz in the Twitterverse. My usual buzz test is that an item continues to be re-tweeted by multiple people (not that all re-tweeted items are buzz-worthy, in my opinion). If these much-re-tweeted … Continue reading