Cathie Dodd’s Storytelling Twitterthon begins at 6 am PST Labor Fay, Sept. 7. Says Cathie: Start sharing sharing your personal stories. It will be going all day,so whenever you have a moment stop by and be apart of it. Some have already started sharing their stories. Just go to Twitter … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Social Media
Storytelling Twitterthon on Labor Day: Everybody Has a Story … What’s Yours?
Cathie Dodd, one of the subjects of my Q&A series is trying a storytelling Twitterthon on Monday, September 7, Labor Day in the US, from 6:00 am – 9:00 pm PDT. You can RSVP and see more info here on Facebook. Looks like you need to friend Cathie on Facebook … Continue reading
Storytelling: Cross-Media, Transmedia, Immersive … All the Same Thing?
I’ve been seeing and thinking recently a lot about the terms: cross-media storytelling transmedia storytelling immersive storytelling distributed storytelling As I read about these terms, they all seem to be talking about roughly the same thing. I figured if anyone knew about the nuances of difference among the terms, it … Continue reading
Storytelling’s Far from a Lost Art: More on Memoirs on the Go
“One thing that people ask me all the time is: ‘is storytelling dying?’” said Dale Jarvis, the Intangible Cultural Heritage development officer for Newfoundland, in a transcript of a podcast interview on PreservationToday.com I know what Dale’s talking about. I constantly see articles lamenting “the lost (or dying) art of … Continue reading
What They’re Tweeting about Storytelling
Time for my monthly look at storytelling zeitgeist in Twitterland. Here are items that have gained significant attention: Add to the annals of Twitter storytelling, Columbus across the Atlantic, in which Chuck Steele is “twittering the ship’s log of Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to the New World.” An Ad Age … Continue reading
Memoirs on the Go and the Blurring of the Personal and Public
I came across an interesting interview last week with Cynthia Franklin, author of Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory and the University Today. I was attracted to the interview by Scott Jaschik because I sometimes think about and consider writing about my all-too-short academic life as a college instructor. But the … Continue reading
Workbook Project Offers Resource to Extend Your Story
The Workbook Project offers a slideshow and corresponding PDF about “how one can use to social media to extend a story and generate a conversation around [one’s] work.” Although The Workbook Project (“for those who want to be creative in the digital age”) focuses on such media as film, games, … Continue reading
Twitter Storytelling: Chapter 2
“Twitter is a storytelling tool,” writes Tim Girvin. “Every person tells a micro-story in the 140 characters of text that are tied to the messaging output from many tiers of devices.” I’m not totally convinced, and neither are all of story practitioners in my Q&A series. But folks have continued … Continue reading
10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media
Blogger’s Note: A Storied Career is participating in a project to publish the same blog entry — this one — across many blogs simultaneously today. An accompanying entry, Storytelling Edition: Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media, looks at ways to use storytelling in social media to support charity. This … Continue reading
Storytelling Edition: Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media
This entry is in conjunction with the multi-blog campaign, 10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media, which A Storied Career is participating in. Some of the 10 Ways mentioned are already story-driven — such as sharing stories with others and supporting causes on “awareness hubs” (because one of the … Continue reading