Here’s this week’s A Storied Career word/tag cloud from Wordle.net:
Author Archives: KatHansen
Scholar Says Black America Needs a New Narrative
The cover article of the current issue of American Scholar, published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, carries the headline “The End of the Black American Narrative,” with this subhead: A new century calls for new stories grounded in the present, leaving behind the painful history of slavery and its … Continue reading
How’s This for a Narrative Device?
No sooner had blogger “Nien” written these words: … social media is all about the person and telling the their story. I think it’d be a trip either adapt a novel that’s told through Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Flicker, blogs and whatever or write an entirely new novel using the same … Continue reading
A Family Mystery Story
My mother’s side of my family has long been tantalized by the mystery of what became of my great-grandfather, Walter Scott Fenimore, who disappeared after leaving for work in Beverly, NJ, without a trace in September of 1913, leaving my great-grandmother, Katharine Hathaway Fenimore, after whom I am named, and … Continue reading
About Us, About You, and Storytelling Beyond Integrity
The other day, I blogged about storytelling on About Us pages. Following on that discussion, Jim Randall of The Raconteur, describes a process he takes clients though to “create enterprise through stories.” He writes: To be successful we need to connect with, inform and engage those we serve and those … Continue reading
Svend-Erik Engh’s Tell a Story
Danish story practitioner Svend-Erik Engh, who will be featured in a Q&A interview in A Storied Career this fall, has written a fine little 145-page book, Tell a Story: Be Heard, Be Understood, Create Interaction, that is both written and designed in a reader-friendly manner. The book is full of … Continue reading
Olympians Are Self-Narrating Their Stories
As the 29th Olympiad comes to a close, I note an interesting trend. With some exceptions, most athletes have been narrating their own stories in the video “packages” on NBC’s telecast. No voiceover narration from an omniscient sportscaster. The athletes who’ve done it seem very camera-savvy and well-spoken. I find … Continue reading
About Us Provides Opportunity to Tell Your Organization’s Story
I get very frustrated when Web sites either have no About Us page or have About Us pages that really reveal nothing. A classic case in point of a tell-nothing About Us page is Twitter’s. Now, I know what Twitter is, what it does. But I’d like the perspective of … Continue reading
More Community Storytelling
Not long ago, I blogged about a community storytelling initiative in Oakland, CA. Commenter Tim Enerata pointed out that lots of place-based, community-based storytelling projects are thriving out there, some of which are listed at The Center for Digital Storytelling’s StoryMapping Stories page. I’ve also just come across Denver’s Five … Continue reading
Wordle-y Yours on a Rainy Friday
Here’s this week’s A Storied Career word/tag cloud from Wordle.net, produced during Tropical Storm Fay after four straight days of rain: