Category Archives: Blogging and Storytelling

Continuing my discussion about the article referenced in my previous entry, another commenter agreed that blogs are important component of recruiting, in some cases replacing the resume: We’ve hired two people fresh out of college in the past 4 months that we found through their blogs – one didn’t even … Continue reading →

Thanks to my wonderful blog/Movable Type guru, Chris Dixson of Brandego, this blog can again take comments — as long as the commenter registers (to avoid spam).

Some time ago, I noodled with the Comments feature of my blog because I was getting inundated with spam comments. I wanted to set it up so that registered users could comment, but I hoped it would not be cumbersome for them to do so.

I’m not there yet.

Two people have taken the trouble to tell me that they had difficulty commenting, including Tim Sheppard, who has a fabulous UK storytelling Web site. I hope to soon fix this feature so others won’t experience the frustration he describes. In the meantime, please be patient, and e-mail me if you’d like to comment in the meantime: kathy@astoriedcareer.com. Continue reading →

My dissertation is not quite out the door, but it’s complete enough so that I can get back to my poor neglected blog. I begin by sharing numerous resources from this year’s Smithsonian Associates/Golden Fleece storytelling weekend in April. I didn’t attend this year, but much wonderful material was shared … Continue reading →

You know a trend has become legitimate when an academic organization is formed around it. The Society for New Communications Research has been formed to “be the leading think tank for the advanced study of new communications tools, technologies and emerging modes of communication, i.e. blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, collaborative … Continue reading →

The other day, the ever-ebullient Jennifer Warwick wrote to some collegaues that she had just purchased blogsbywomen.org,blogsbywomen.net, and thenewjane.com. She wrote: I am terrified and exhilarated. I can’t wait to repackage them, tweak them, dance all over them, buy them cocktails etc. Any and all feedback will be most welcome … Continue reading →

My New Year’s resolution for 2006 is to blog regularly!

In an earlier version of this entry, I said that my blogging experience was being ruined by spammers who attacked the blog with spammy “comments” and phony trackback pings. I wondered how other bloggers dealt with these attacks. I think I know. I explored Movable Type’s features enough to now … Continue reading →

The ever-fabulous Jennifer Warwick of The New Charm School turned me on (through her Gutsy Women newsletter) to Blogher, “a network for women bloggers to draw on for exposure, education, and community.” BlogHer is holding a “day-long conference on July 30, 2005, and establishing an online hub.” BlogHer is “initiating … Continue reading →

Last week, I made my first small attempt to publicize this blog. Having sent an annoucement to the Working Stories list, I got a lovely e-mail from Stephen Harlow, who, I believe, became the first blogger to blog about my blog

Stephen turned me onto several interesting story links. I’m just beginning to digest Ulises Ali Mejias’ blog and his concept of Distributed Textual Discourse.

A bit more accessible to my feeble brain is Mark Bernstein, with whom I was already familiar and one of whose articles is linked from this blog’s links section. In a frequently cited piece for A List Apart magazine, “10 Tips on Writing the Living Web,” Bernstein presents Tip No. 6, Let the story unfold:

The Living Web unfolds in time, and as we see each daily revelation we experience its growth as a story. Your arguments and rivalries, your ideas and your passions: all of these grow and shift in time, and these changes become the dramatic arc of your website.

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