Back in December, Madelyn Blair sent a message to the 689 members of Worldwide Story Work noting that she and the other two administrators of the Ning group were contemplating moving the group to Facebook. Ning, which began as a free platform on which users could create free social-media venues … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Social Media
Doug Rice Launches #StoryChat on Twitter
Colleague Doug Rice (see my Q and A with him here) is initiating “a Twitter chat centered around the story concept in business, art, and life” — #StoryChat. He’ll feature “copywriters, screenwriters, novelists, photographers, storytellers, and many other professionals and interesting people who use story as a platform for what … Continue reading
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
Q and A with a Story Guru: Mary Daniels Brown: Matching the Narratives We Tell about Ourselves to Our Perception of the Social Context
See a photo of Mary, her bio, and Part 1 of this Q&A. Q&A with Mary Daniels Brown, Question 2: Q: To what extent do you believe people construct their narrative identities differently in the digital world — for example on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and blogs — from the way … Continue reading
Two Cool Ways that SXSW Got Storied
Someday I’d like to attend the South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference in Austin. In the meantime, it’s nice that the conference gets comprehensively covered in clever ways with strong story elements. Here are two that caught my eye this year: Storify: Storify, the tool that helps users tell stories … Continue reading
Facebook Story Winner Announced
As I noted in mid-January, Mashable recently held a story contest to mark the huge expansion of the character limit of Facebook status updates to 63,206 characters. The site announced the winner this week: We received a range of responses, including prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and even someone who used … Continue reading
Bones to Pick with ‘About’ Pages — Storied or Not — and an Example of a Good One
I had two occasions in the last couple of months to see the “About” pages of many Web sites and blogs. In the first, I had a few dozen story practitioners that I wanted to invite to participate in my Q&A series. In the second, I visited many sites and … Continue reading
Ponderings about Twitter …
I committed myself this month to updating some aspects of this blog, notably the “inside pages” on which I list links related to applied storytelling (Links to Interdisciplinary Storytelling Resources, Links to Organizational Storytelling Resources, Links to Storytelling Platforms, Tools, and Prompts, Links to Blogs that Relate to Storytelling, Links … Continue reading
Where Do You Most Authentically Tell Your Story?
A convergence of three recent articles tickles my fascination with differences in how we tell our stories in the virtual world vs. “in real life.” In one of the posts (which is referenced in the second one), R.I.P. Personal Branding, Olivier Blanchard expresses a refreshing, iconoclastic view in a careers … Continue reading
A Stellar, Storied LinkedIn Profile
Recently, in a LinkedIn group to which I belong, a member cited his “favorite LinkedIn profile of all time.” The profile belongs to Orrin “Checkmate” Hudson, who uses chess to turn around troubled kids, and it does the best job I’ve ever seen of using a LinkedIn profile as a … Continue reading