Blogs about Storytelling/Branding ~ Storytelling/Marketing Storytelling category of Servant of Chaos Storytelling category of Brand Story Partum Intelligendo Brandtelling Narrative Assets Storytelling Category of Marketing Interactions Laurence Vincent Narrative Marketing category of James Phelps Let’s Talk Story Storytelling: Branding in Practice. Publisher’s description: As a concept, storytelling has won a … Continue reading
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Storytelling in the Classroom
After two years of trying, I still have not achieved the level of success I’d like in using storytelling in teaching – although I’ve gotten incrementally better at it. I came across a great resource, Narrative and Learning Environments, which offers a great bibliography, as well as examples and resources. … Continue reading
Story Events: A Running List of Events for Those Interested in Narrative and Storytelling
The Be the Change! Share the Story! school video contest invites student teams to choose and execute a social or environmental project of their choice and document their progress in a couple of short videos that will be uploaded on Quantum Shift TV between September 2007 and March 2008. An … Continue reading
Do Pictures or Words Tell a Better Story?
Reinhard Kuchenmuller and his wife, Dr. Marianne Stifel, work for corporate clients doing visual facilitation. In an interview on Projects@Work (may require log-in), Kuchenmiller states: Information presented in visual language as a picture-word combination is understood better and more quickly than information that is solely text-based. This is because information … Continue reading
Confabulation Is Normal
A fascinating article in New Scientist by Helen Phillips focused on “confabluation,” a tendency for folks in older age to “develop amnesia about recent happenings while retaining memory of their younger days.” Wrote Phillips: “Until fairly recently it was seen simply as a neurological deficiency – a sign of something … Continue reading
Parrot Stories
During a trip to San Francisco, my husband and I were walking down a terraced hill near Coit Tower when a woman came up to us and said, “Have you seen the wild parrots?” This question had the flavor of a bit of spy code as though she had said, … Continue reading
Storytellers: A Running List of Folks Telling the Story of Who They Are
Michael and Rebecca Kull told the story of a trip around the world in Tales from Low Orbit. In Story Tour: Storytelling Rabbi and his Adventures, Shana T. relates stories told by her father, Rabbi Tobesman, and reflects on them. Sharon Lippincott blogs about The Heart and Craft of Lifestory … Continue reading
Bike Stories
As an avid cyclist, I was delighted to learn of the site crazyguyonabike.com that enables touring cyclists to journal about their bike tours. These folks are much more ambitious than my partner and I have been so far; we biked in about 12 states last summer but traveled between them … Continue reading
Story Practitioners: A Running List of Story Practices, People, Initiatives, and Organizations
“Nothing changes until the story changes,” says Mette Norgaard, who puts on workshops and has written The Ugly Duckling Goes to Work, with workplace wisdom based on Hans Christian Andersen stories. The Circle Project: We provide innovative learning experiences in communities and organizations by creating surprise, energy, depth, and relationship … Continue reading
What Do You Do?
Want to know what a certain job is like? Listen to the story of someone who’s in that job. Goldman Sachs makes that possible with videos of what various aspects of working for the organization are like. Text stories also are available.