This blog started seven years ago on May 12. It’s one of a few anniversaries I mark on the blog because I was a pretty sporadic blogger for the first three years. But this weekend, I’m looking at some of these milestones. Early on, and from time to time, I’ve … Continue reading
Category Archives: Blogging and Storytelling
A Dozen Ways to Optimize Story-Driven Social Content: Marie Forleo and Corbett Barr [ #story12 ]
Reinvention Summit 2 is history, but I’m continuing to recap, synthesize, and expand on its 20 excellent sessions. From a session with Marie Forleo (“My goal is to add more value to your world than you ever dreamed possible by giving you tools that you can immediately use to improve … Continue reading
New Finds: Blogs about Storytelling
Links to Blogs that Relate to Storytelling 365 Stories in a Year: Lee Pound posts a new story every day. A Storied Perspective — Bill Baker’s Blog: The blog of Bill Baker, of BB&Co Strategic Storytelling. The Depictionist: An exploration of personal and professional storytelling through narrative branding. Food Curated: … Continue reading
Defining Storytelling and Leveraging My Passion for It
Recently, storyteller Eric James Wolf turned the tables on me. I’ve conducted more than 57 Q&As with story practitioners — and now Eric has done a Q&A with me. I thought it would be worthwhile to excerpt some of it here because it explains some of my philosophies and approaches … Continue reading
Will You Take the 12-Week Story-Blogging Challenge?
Michael Margolis has proclaimed a 12-week story blogging challenge for himself and has invited others to join him. He’s challenged himself in conjunction with his Social Media Jedi Program, which launched last week. The challenge is to blog at least weekly. In the comments to his entry announcing the challenge, … Continue reading
10 Intriguing Storytelling Blog Posts
Lou Hoffman, president and CEO of The Hoffman Agency, writes about storytelling as seen through a business prism in his blog Ishmael’s Corner. He has identified his top 10 storytelling-related blog posts of 2009 in two parts: Part I Part II
Two New Story Blogs for the New Year
Two new story blogs emerged in the waning months of 2009, produced by story folks I highly admire and respect: Story Route, published by Cathryn Wellner, features entries in such categories as business narrative, organizational storytelling, personal narratives, poems, social myths, and storytelling quotations. Cathryn writes: “Join me on the … Continue reading
Categorizing and Appreciating the Narrative Web
Reader Raf Stevens’s challenge to me to present examples of good storytelling had the interesting effect of getting me thinking about categories of storytelling that one can access on the Internet. Here’s the list so far: Digital/video storytelling Live storytelling performance, captured on video Live storytelling performance, captured on audio … Continue reading
Blog Action Day’s Stunning Participation Includes Heads of State
I’m delighted to have participated in yesterday’s Blog Action Day 09 (thanks to guest writer Cathryn Wellner), joining 13,222 blogs from 155 countries with more than 17 million readers. Also blogging were the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain along with The White House. From a roundup post toward … Continue reading
Storytelling’s Far from a Lost Art: More on Memoirs on the Go
“One thing that people ask me all the time is: ‘is storytelling dying?’” said Dale Jarvis, the Intangible Cultural Heritage development officer for Newfoundland, in a transcript of a podcast interview on PreservationToday.com I know what Dale’s talking about. I constantly see articles lamenting “the lost (or dying) art of … Continue reading