I use two Twitter tools to alert me about what folks in the Twitterverse are saying about storytelling. My current favorite is Twicker (which works only on Mac OS 10). Twicker gives me a line of Twitter avatars across the bottom of my screen that represent tweets about storytelling. The … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Social Media
UK Storytelling Tool, Bloombla, Combines Social-Media Features
Bloombla (I personally find that hard to say) is a free storytelling tool that helps folks collect, manage, and share life experiences. Bloombla offers a status-update/tweet-like feature, a box that beings with “I’ve …” The user fills in the rest of the “Bloom” with anything from the trivial to the … Continue reading
From 6-Word Stories to 5-Frame Stories
I’ve written a number of times about 6-word memoirs/stories, particularly from SMITH magazine. A cousin of the 6-word story has emerged, and a new Ning group is dedicated to the activity, as is a Flickr group, Tell a Story in 5 Frames. Five-frame storytelling seems to be primarily for use … Continue reading
Story Fragmentation: Does it Inhibit Storytelling or Merely Change It?
In his Digital Storytelling Cookbook, Joe Lambert talks about today’s “story fragments:” …we are bombarded with millions of indigestible, literally unmemorable, story fragments every time we pick up a phone, bump into a friend, watch TV, listen to the radio, read a book or a newspaper, or browse the Web. … Continue reading
The Story of a Year Told with One Photo a Day
Flickr has a cool group project in which group members each day take a self portrait, tag it with “365days,” and submit it. Below a small selection from a member with the screen name “everythingsjustjake.” I love this idea. What a fantastic way to tell the story of a year … Continue reading
Storytelling Find-o-Rama
Four interesting story-related finds that have come across my computer screen in the past few days: Rooftop Confessions: I’ve blogged about sites where folks can tell their personal stories, including sites like Alpha Women, which logs rather racy confessions. But this is the first site I’ve seen in which confessions … Continue reading
What Does Our Social-Media Behavior Say About Our Stories?
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Twitter and how I changed my “Twitter behavior” overnight. In the time since that entry, I’ve gone from following just one person on Twitter to following 200+ today. At the time of that entry, I tried to explain my Twitter behavior in terms … Continue reading
Social Bookmarking for Storytelling
Stephane Dangel has started a social-booking site (also called a “social-content network”) for storytelling, StoryBest, where fans and practitioners of storytelling can build a collection of interesting things we find on the web. Funny, that’s sort of how I think of the purpose of A Storied Career — except that … Continue reading
Champion of the Sustained Storytelling Practice: Barbara Ganley
One of my new heroes is Barbara Ganley, who blogs at (The New) BG Blogging. I find her fascinating because of her work with story in higher education and in community storytelling. She recently left the former to focus on the latter: Barbara Ganley recently left higher education to set … Continue reading
My Big, Fat Career-Storytelling Synthesis
Sometimes I feel like a lonely voice crying out in the wilderness about the value of storytelling in the job search and career advancement. Particularly when I was in my PhD program describing my dissertation about using stories in the job search, other scholars would look at me as though … Continue reading