Sarah McCue is a force of nature who is involved in several projects aiming at making the world a better place. One is The Remembering Site, a non-profit initiative that McCue co-founded with D.G. Fulford and launched in 2004 “to make it easy for anyone, anywhere to write, share and … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Constructing Identity
Add Lifestreaming to Personal Narrative Trends
This entry is a bit of an addendum to my New Year’s Eve posting about 2008 as the year of personal narrative in which I agreed that 2008 was a starting point but predicted that personal narrative will just get bigger and bigger. I talked about social media as part … Continue reading
Has 2008 Been The Year of Personal Narratives?
Gena Haskett, writing on blogher, thinks so: From identity politics to Twitter tweets this has certainly been the year of the personal narrative. It is the search for your story told by another being that shares or reflects your thoughts, feelings and, at times, pain. It is the need for … Continue reading
Digi-Scrapping: Who Knew?
I never cease to come upon new forms of and uses for storytelling. Just discovered a site and blog called We Are Storytellers, which focuses on “digital scrapbooking” or “digi-scrapping,” which I’d never heard of. The illustrations of digi-scrapping pages look as though they are photos of paper scrapbook pages, … Continue reading
Holidays Are a Great Time to Give the Gift of Family Stories
In a column in Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley newspaper, the Statesman-Journal, Jeanine Stice rails against consumerism at the expense of sharing family stories at Christmastime. She notes that she’s met people who … … don’t measure their soul with statistics but instead with real-life stories. So instead of reading statistics and … Continue reading
Nice Twist on the “About Us” Story
From time to time, I’ve commented on “About Us” sections of Web sites as storytelling examples. Red Canary is a Canadian social-networking software “talent hub” that doesn’t have an About Us section. Instead, it has an “About You” section. Makes sense. A social-networking site should be user-generated, and users may … Continue reading
Best Ways to Tell Family Stories with Photos
Family history has been on my mind of late. My sister Robin has been doing quite a bit of genealogical research, as well as scanning old photos and artifacts. We have fragments of family-history Web sites online, but I’m getting ready for a major revamp, re-design, and consolidation. The author … Continue reading
US Airways Launching Annual Holiday Travel Storytelling Contest
For the third consecutive year, US Airways invites travelers to share their favorite holiday travel memories with the rest of the world. The winning submission will take home a $500 US Airways Gift Card to be used anywhere US Airways flies, and two runners-up will take home a $250 and … Continue reading
Things I Like about Tokoni (and a Few Things I Don’t)
Tokoni is a story-sharing site that’s about a year old and has ties to eBay (investments, plus its founders were eBay execs). I like Tokoni as it offers features that could easily keep one absorbed for hours. The full “about us” description of Tokoni appears below, but here are my … Continue reading
Storied Lives: Mundane, Mediocre, Unremarkable?
Two portrayals of life stories that may seem unremarkable … but the charm and pull of these stories is truly in the eye of the beholder. As a child of the 50s and 60s, I have long been fascinated by that era — from movies made during that time to … Continue reading