…. Well, with Facebook anyway. I’ve written about many forms of Twitter storytelling, but Snipisode is the first storytelling app I’ve come across for Facebook. Snipisode, developed Agency Zen, lets you type or paste in a whole story and then with a click of a button snip up the story … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Social Media
So Many Barely Explored Opportunities to Tell Interesting Stories in New Ways
Today, the quote from Peggy Nelson that ended Sunday’s entry is our headline and the springboard for a look at some new ways of telling fictional and true stories with new media/social media/transmedia: Reader Stephanie Pride turned me on to a “‘micro-community’ of 17th century voices” that have clustered around … Continue reading
Five Perspectives on Storytelling in Social Media
Much is being written these days about social-media storytelling. Here are five perspectives that have popped up on blogs recently: Social media extends the ways you can tell your story. Social media is easier to execute and more effective when you or your organization are oriented toward storytelling to begin … Continue reading
Applying Storied Social-Media-Campaign Principles to the Job Search
First: Internship Story Has Happy Ending My recent involvement with Ink Foundry’s contest to choose a social-media intern based 3-minute videos submitted by candidates reinforced the value of story-rich social media in the job search. Readers might want to know how the contest came out. The candidate whom I felt … Continue reading
Story Goodies You May Have Missed from the Twitterverse
It’s been at least two months since I’ve looked at storytelling items that are getting significant buzz on Twitter — usually in the form of multiple retweets. The primary application I use to alert me to storytelling items on Twitter has been out of commission, and my alternate methods aren’t … Continue reading
A Social-Media Week Story Project and a Life-Story Seminar
Two notable back-to-back story events coming up: Jill Golick is organizing a Social Media Week Story Project, Social Media Week being Feb. 1-5. Golick wants to “use the social media to tell some stories about how social media are affecting relationships” and is recruiting writers, actors, designers and other interested … Continue reading
Big Re-Tweets in the Storytelling Realm
It’s been almost two months since my last roundup of storytelling tweets that enjoyed significant buzz in the Twitterverse. Time to look at what folks think is worth re-tweeting in the storytelling world: The book Why Now Is the Time Crush It! Cash in on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk … Continue reading
Is the Internet Killing — or Nourishing — Storytelling?
Ben Macintyre’s Times of London article from two weeks ago, The internet is killing storytelling continues to generate huge buzz on Twitter, and I expected to vehemently disagree with it. But I surprised myself by acknowledging that Macintyre has a few good points. First, I like the staccato spew of … Continue reading
On Rabbit, Rabbit Day: Twitterings about Storytelling from the Last Month
Do you know the story of rabbit, rabbit day? Neither does anyone else according to Wikipedia, yet millions say some variation of “rabbit, rabbit” on the first day of every month. I never knew about this tradition until I married my husband, in whose family of origin the habit is … Continue reading
Tell the 6-Word Story of Your Digital Life and (Maybe) Win a Prize
SMITH Magazine and PBS FRONTLINE/Digital Nation want to hear your stories about life in the digital age. In six words, the sponsors would like to know how the web and digital technology are changing how you think, work, live, or love. Has something you’ve posted online come back to haunt … Continue reading