Starfishpeople.com, an employment website for the consulting industry, is sponsoring a new blog for job seekers to share their stories, advice, and successes. Starting June 15, a new story from readers will be posted every day. More from the blog’s Karen Vogel: Each of these stories will be unique, inspirational, … Continue reading
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Q&A with a Story Guru: Whitney Quesenbery: Stories in UX Add Complexity, Serendipity to Logic, Analysis
See a photo of Whitney, her bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, and Part 3. Q&A with Whitney Quesenbery, Question 4: Q: How did you initially become involved with story/storytelling narrative? What attracted you to this field? What do you love about it? A: User experience is my … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: Whitney Quesenbery: Stories Help Us Connect in Technological World
See a photo of Whitney, her bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, and Part 2. Q&A with Whitney Quesenbery, Question 3: Q: The storytelling movement seems to be growing explosively. Why now? What is it about this moment in human history and culture that makes storytelling so resonant with so … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: Whitney Quesenbery: The Importance of Storytelling in User Experience Design
See a photo of Whitney, her bio, and Part 1 of this Q&A. Q&A with Whitney Quesenbery, Question 2: Q: The first chapter in your upcoming book, Storytelling for User Experience Design, addresses why “stories are important as part of user experience work.” Without re-creating the chapter, can you offer … Continue reading
Missing from the Debate: Women’s Stories
The Huffington Post is soliciting the stories of women who have made the difficult decision to have an abortion, especially a late-term abortion. Noting that women’s stories are missing from the current rhetoric about abortion following the murder of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, the media outlet seeks these stories … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: Whitney Quesenbery: Stories Move Us into the Future
User Experience Design is one of those exotic (to me) areas that I know almost nothing about. Yet, it makes sense that “user experience” would suggest storytelling. Whitney Quesenbery is a practitioner who uses storytelling in User Experience Design. I’m excited about her upcoming book. She is currently working with … Continue reading
Storytelling-in-the-Job-Search Champion of the Week
I am heartened by how often I come across career experts these days who share my support for using storytelling in the job search. The headline is almost not far-fetched — that I come across one almost every week. This week it’s Ford Myers, who was kind enough to send … Continue reading
It Finally Happened ….
… I broke my streak of blogging 7 days a week that I have kept up since Feb. 1, 2008. Technically you’ll see an entry for yesterday, but it’s the daily literary quote that has run for a long time in this space; I freshen the date periodically so it … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: Andrée Iffrig Q&A, Part 5
See a photo of Andree, her bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 . Q&A with Andrée Iffrig, Question 6: Q: In the workbook for Find Your Voice at Work: The Power of Storytelling in the Workplace, you caution against “Victim Narratives.” Can you … Continue reading
New Question on Storytelling and Social Media on 1-Question Survey
I’ve posted a new question to the 1-question survey on my sidebar (right under the Google ads). The question: To what extent and in what ways do you feel Web 2.0/social-media venues (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) are storytelling media? Would love to have your responses.