It’s time for another one of my roundups of storytelling news and views that have been experiencing considerable buzz in the Twitterverse. My usual buzz test is that an item continues to be re-tweeted by multiple people (not that all re-tweeted items are buzz-worthy, in my opinion). If these much-re-tweeted … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Social Media
Oooooo, I Like the Idea of #StorySunday
A couple of Sundays ago, Will Coley created a Twitter hashtag, #StorySunday, and proposed storytelling Sunday. So far his proposal is the only item under that hashtag. I think it’s a coo idea, though. What if the storytelling community made Sunday a particular day for sharing stories and material about … Continue reading
New Question on Storytelling and Social Media on 1-Question Survey
I’ve posted a new question to the 1-question survey on my sidebar (right under the Google ads). The question: To what extent and in what ways do you feel Web 2.0/social-media venues (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) are storytelling media? Would love to have your responses.
Storytelling Buzz in the Twitterverse
This will be a pretty quick-and-dirty compilation of some of the most talked-about storytelling topics on Twitter in the last three weeks. Yes, I know I have not given A Storied Career my best effort recently — the perils of writing another book — but that should all end on … Continue reading
Tell Your Story Via Proust Questionnaire
My friend Sarah McCue, co-founder of Read/Share a Story “for women and men of the world to learn from each other for self-discovery, exchange, awareness of other cultures, and development of new friendships through online networking and communication,” just announced a Proust Questionnaire on the site. Sarah is also behind … Continue reading
Storytelling Chatter in the Twitterverse
I haven’t done one of these compilations of the storytelling topics that people are talking about on Twitter for a few weeks because I’ve been traveling across the country in an RV with limited Internet access. Now, I’m one place — our summer home in Kettle Falls, WA, till sometime … Continue reading
Follow Saturday: Kat’s Definitive (!) Storytelling Twitter Follow List
Not long ago, Tim Enereta in his blog Breaking the Eggs, listed storytellers to follow on Twitter. Although some of them represented realms beyond traditional oral storytelling (“old school,” as Tim calls this tradition), most were performance storytellers. He explained that he was not including organizational-storytelling types, noting that he … Continue reading
Recent Storytelling Buzz in the Twitterverse
Oops… didn’t mean to have Twitter-related entries two days in a row. Guess that’s just that way it works out sometimes. Don’t want everyone to think I’ve gone Twitter-mad, though I have become much more of a user than I was a few months ago. Which reminds me that I’ve … Continue reading
Telling Stories with Twitter?
I’ve speculated in this space before about whether Twitter is an appropriate medium with which to tell stories. Turns out that folks are deploying Twitter storytelling in several ways: The Twitter of Oz … answers the question “What if the main characters in the Wizard of Oz were on Twitter?” … Continue reading
Current Storytelling Buzz in the Twitterverse
Here’s what folks on Twitter have been saying about storytelling in the past few days: Storytelling has apparently been a prominent topic at at the media festival/conference South By Southwest (SXSW). One Twitterer called “narrative” the SXSW “term of the week,” going on to note that the term suggest[s] a … Continue reading