In her blog, my Facebook friend Lindsey Pollak cites the case of her own (brand new) husband Evan, who got a job through LinkedIn and was featured in this article by Alison Doyle. Pollak also cites other articles by Doyle that offer tips on networking and job-searching through social-media venues … Continue reading
Author Archives: KatHansen
Journaling: What Hath Twitter Wrought?
With the exception of a period in junior high, I’ve never really kept a journal (I think I may have anticipated the Internet because I wrote my journal back then as though it would be read by the public.) But beginning in early March 1993 when we first got on … Continue reading
The Wonder of Webinars
I’ve been really into “attending” webinars recently. I never did teleseminars because I’m phone-phobic. Even if I was not expected to speak, I wanted nothing to do with any learning opportunity that involved the phone. But now that learning options are available that just require my laptop, the Web, and … Continue reading
Collection of Digital Storytelling Tools and Resources
As I attempt to categorize my storytelling interests (and the focus of A Storied Career) in my brain, I have a bit of trouble with digital storytelling. This branch of applied storytelling is huge in the education world, and while I’m interested in storytelling and learning, the blog could easily … Continue reading
Marketing Stories with “Catch” Become Job-Search Stories with “Catch”
Marketing Interactions is offering a very cool, free e-book called Why Marketing Stories Have Catch. It’s full of excellent descriptions of how and why stories are so effective for marketing. Author Ardath Albee aptly refers to stories as “stealth marketing.” Much of the principles in the e-book also relate to … Continue reading
Photo Stories
The photo-sharing site Shutterfly has a section (essentially a blog) called Shutterfly Storytelling that offers lots of nice ideas for creating digital photo books that tell a story. The accompanying blog says: “At Shutterfly, we all have a real passion for telling our stories so we thought that this blog … Continue reading
Jonathan Harris on Storytelling Platforms
. In the above video, he talks about The Whale Hunt as storytelling platform, as well as other storytelling platforms, including the very talk he’s giving as a storytelling platform. Pop!Tech, which describes itself as “a one-of-a-kind conference, a community of remarkable people, and an ongoing conversation about science, technology … Continue reading
Get into Position to Recall the Stories of Your Life
What autobiographical story might this body position evoke? Katinka Dijkstra, Michael P. Kaschak, and Rolf A. Zwaan have conducted research that shows that people can recall their autobiographical stories faster by getting into body positions “similar to the body positions in the original events” than they can when in different … Continue reading
10 Career Stories
I’ve been having a really fun time over the past month or so collecting and editing the stories of the careers of a variety of workers and job-seekers. Everyone has such a fascinating career and interesting perspective. The stories are for one of the sister sites of A Storied Career, … Continue reading
An Online Place for Lifestory Writers to Discuss Their Craft
My new friend Sharon Lippincott of The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing has joined with Jerry Waxler to start a Yahoo-based discussion group for those interested in lifestory writing. Although my interest in that area is embryonic at best, I’ve joined the group and am impressed with the warm and generous spirit its founders and members convey.
You can join here, and in the extended portion of this entry, I have also borrowed (stolen) QUITE liberally from Sharon’s site to further explain the group. Here’s the first part of Sharon’s invitation:
Calling All Life Writers
There is good news for anyone who would like to hang out with other people who write life stories, memoir, journals, personal essays, or other forms of recording their lives in writing. Whatever your reason for writing about your life, the newly formed Life Writers Forum is a great place to ask questions, share thoughts, post short stories or excerpts from longer works, and generally shoot the breeze about writing.