I’ve seen plenty of Web sites that offer story prompts. In fact, I keep intending to create a Story Prompts section on A Storied Career. But Plinky is the first story-prompt site I’ve seen that combines story prompts with social media. In fact, Plinky doesn’t frame its prompts as prompts … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Social Media
Those Unattached to Their Interior Story Get Addicted to Feedback
One of the recent podcast interviews in Michael Margolis’s The New Storytellers series featured the wonderful Christina Baldwin, author of one of the seminal books in the current storytelling movement, Storycatcher. I was particularly fascinated by the part of the conversation about introverted vs. extroverted storytelling. Storytelling on social-media venues … Continue reading
Could We Be at the End of the Storytelling Bubble?
Reaching a zenith in 2008 and 2009, a steady stream of new Web sites to facilitate online storytelling seemed to pop up regularly. I list many of these sites here and here. Not only am I seeing a dramatic drop in announcements of new online storytelling venues, but I recently … Continue reading
Storytellers Try Google Search Stories
After my entry the other day about Google Search Stories Video Creator as a storytelling tool, I noticed that a couple of storytelling folks had tried out the tool. On her blog Story Route, Cathryn Wellner crafted a memoir of her career using Google searches. Bernadette Martin shared hers with … Continue reading
Social Media as Both Storytelling and Means to Communicate About Story
In the run-up to Storytelling Weekend, practitioners had an interesting conversation on Golden Fleece’s Working Stories discussion group about the desirability of tweeting the conference. Steve Denning, leader of yesterday’s Smithsonian portion of the conference, maintained that he is “old school” and not fond of the idea of people tweeting … Continue reading
Friendship Storytelling Contest Starts on Twitter Today
Cathie Dodd of Tears of Joy Video has been running number of Twitter storytelling contests. I’ve been asked to participate on the judging panel for the contest, on the theme of “friendship,” that starts today. Here’s what Cathie has to say about the contest: Do you have a good friend? … Continue reading
25 Stories to Inspire the Human Spirit Had Their Origins in Facebook Connections
I’ve been exploring for a while the extent to which social media are storytelling media. Author Emily Liebert would likely say that stories can be found within social media. As noted on the Facebook fan page dedicated to it, Liebert’s new book, Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to Inspire the Human … Continue reading
Twitter’s a Tool in the Space Between Story and Gaming
Ongoing chronicling of how folks are using social media, especially Twitter, for forms of storytelling … “Choose Your Own Adventure” has long seemed to me to fall somewhere between storytelling and gaming. Jonah Peretti is using Twitter for a “Choose Your Own Adventure” activity. As Mashable describes the activity … … Continue reading
Slideshow: Latest Twist on the Storytelling Resume
The folks at SlideShare aren’t declaring the resume dead but are dubbing it “old school.” In a newsletter I received this morning, SlideShare tells the story of how Laura Gainor (pictured) told her story in a slideshow targeted to a prospective employer: Laura Gainor wasn’t always the PR & Social … Continue reading
A Twitter Storytelling Experiment for SXSW
I’ve reported on quite a few Twitter storytelling projects. Fourth Story Media has launched another, this one in conjunction with the SXSW Music + Film + Interactive Festival. This one has a twist I’m not sure I’ve seen in other Twitter storytelling efforts — participants vote on the best sentences … Continue reading