This week saw lots of buzz over the new Facebook profile timeline, which will be rolled out to users on the 29th. I couldn’t help loving the emphasis on story, as in the tagline “Tell your life story with a new kind of profile” on Facebook’s page about Timeline. The … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Social Media
Many a Truth is Spoken in Fiction
Fiction is not atop my interests here on A Storied Career, but today, I’m dipping into two fiction-based story projects that have implications for storytelling outside fiction. Both of these are also mashups of fiction and social media. Erik Hare has launched a fiction project called Mythnology, which he explains … Continue reading
Storytelling Ning Groups Are at a Crossroads
Earlier this year, Ning, the site that allowed anyone to create a social network at no cost, announced that it was ending its free service. Administrators (known as Network Creators) of roughly 300,000 Ning networks were faced with either paying for their networks or moving them to different platforms. (See … Continue reading
Would You Grieve for Virtual Friend You Barely Knew?
Kate Bolick writes for The Altantic about a woman she knew peripherally at a former workplace. Bolick didn’t know the woman well — they worked in different departments — and both of them eventually left the company. The woman later friended Bolick on Facebook, and in fact dominated Bolick’s news … Continue reading
Not to Be Outdone, Twitter Launches Twitter Tales
About a month ago, Facebook launched Facebook Stories to mark the addition of Facebook’s 500 millionth user. Now Twitter is launching Twitter Tales, which the microblogging site describes as “a growing set of articles that highlights creative individuals and businesses from all corners of the world that help make Twitter … Continue reading
Improving Your Storied Brand in Social Media, Part 3
Came across a couple of additional postings that relate to the upcoming Social Story: How To Tell Your Story Through Social Media Conference (Aug. 24 in Denver). Anthony Townsend is annoyed that “There aren’t any stories” on venues like Twitter and Facebook. “Some conversations become really good stories,” he writes, … Continue reading
Job Posting Invites Candidates to Start Their Story with Organization
Gregg Morris yesterday turned me on to what he thinks might be the first job posting ever to use “story” in the way this posting does. It is certainly the first one I’ve seen that does so. The posting is for the position of Social Media Specialist. Here are some … Continue reading
Improving Your Storied Brand in Social Media, Part 1
Though I am unlikely to be able to attend, my friend Trey Pennington is putting on a mighty tempting conference later this month. It’s called Social Story: How To Tell Your Story Through Social Media, and another friend, Sean Buvala, will present there. While I suspect that the conference will … Continue reading
Facebook Stories: Story Data from Large, Diverse Population
My blog feed runs on Facebook, where occasionally, my entries generate more comments than they do here on the actual blog. Such was the case with my followup blog entry about Facebook marking its 500 millionth user by launching Facebook Stories. The entry generated a lively discussion on Facebook among … Continue reading
Update: Facebook Reaches Half a Billion Users and Launches Facebook Stories
Updating my entry from Sunday that included a mention of Facebook stories: Facebook acquired its 500 millionth user today and decided to ficus not on those staggering numbers but on the stories behind them. Hence, the social-media venue is launching Facebook Stories today. Pretty significant when the biggest site on … Continue reading