Oakland, CA, is fortunate to have The Organic City, a thesis project created by the combined efforts of Seamus Byrne and Sarah Mattern, students in CSU East Bay’s Multimedia Graduate Program. The Organic City seeks to connect with the community through its website where visitors can find and tell stories … Continue reading
Author Archives: KatHansen
Success Stories for Sales and Careers
Communispond, an e-mail newsletter about sales and presentation skills, recently talked about using success stories of other customers to sell to new customers. The same structure for shaping success stories that Communispond recommends can apply to the job search:
Story of An Addiction … to Internships
I’m really excited about a story from a favorite former student and advisee, Julie Davis. I put the story together, but she deserves all credit for it. It is just such an inspiring tale of kicking off one’s career in a smart, smart way by completing multiple internships: As a … Continue reading
Storytelling in the Classroom
A couple of recent items about using storytelling in teaching: In a publication about teaching corporate ethics, Timothy Fort writes: > It’s important to include the use of narrative in class, and there are often other more subtle and powerful forms of narrative that can be used as well. On … Continue reading
This Week’s Wordle Story
Found the most awesome toy this week, Wordle. Above is what you can do with a Wordle — make a word/tag cloud. Generated the one above simply by enter the URL for A Storied Career. You can do all sorts of colors, fonts, and designs. I’ve decided I’ll post one … Continue reading
Visually Painful Stories
I’m fortunate to live near one of the best photography museums in the nation — though I don’t take advantage nearly enough. It’s the Southeast Museum of Photography at Daytona State College. Through Aug. 29, the museum has a show by one of its own faculty members, Eric Breitenbach, called … Continue reading
Better Digital Storytelling Needed Here
This video, Storytelling Theory and Practice, was recommended by a blogger as “excellent” and offering great tips. I’m sure the content is excellent and does offer terrific tips. But I couldn’t get through more then 5 minutes of its 45 minutes. Yes, the presenter, Dr. Brian Sturm of the University … Continue reading
Are You More Than Your Personal (Hi)story?
I dabbled a bit in the Oprah cultural phenomenon around Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth. I gave up a little too quickly when the technology didn’t quite work during the first installment of the Oprah/Tolle Webcasts. I also didn’t really grok the first chapter of A New Earth. So, … Continue reading
Envisioning Your Career as a Future Story
Natalie Shell, whose considers her life’s work “a dialogue project [in which] conversations and stories are key themes,” writes about “future vision,” which she compares to strategic planning: You will still see that most people spend a lot of time and money paying for a strategic plan. A plan that … Continue reading
The Story of Making a Movie
Another one of the areas of storytelling that I don’t really deal with in A Storied Career is storytelling within movies and TV. But Apple’s Set to Screen series of podcasts tells the story of the movie-making process. The context for the series is Baz Luhrman’s upcoming film *Australia*. (For … Continue reading