My colleague, Chandlee Bryan, of CareersInContext, is looking for folks who landed jobs through social media: Did you or someone you know land a great job due to smart use of social media and social networking applications? I am in the process of preparing a presentation for the Career Management … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Social Media
Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Twitter Followers
Over the weekend, my social-media-and-storytelling pal Thomas Clifford sent me eight Twitter followers. This influx of followers finally convinced me that I should follow all the folks who have been following me. So why wasn’t I following them earlier? It’s hard to explain. Ever heard of the FIRO-B assessment? Among … Continue reading
Does Storytelling 2.0 Mean Open Story Loop?
OK, so technically I have not yet blogged about the concept of “Storytelling 2.0,”* but if you you follow storytelling, you know about Bryan Alexander’s and Alan Levine’s piece by that title in EDUCAUSE Review. Similarly, Lars Bastholm writes about “Social Storytelling,” which I would consider analogous — or at … Continue reading
One Example of What a Lifestream Might Look Like … and a Bunch of Resources
Not long ago, I blogged about lifestreaming, the concept of aggregating various forms of one’s social-media participation into some sort of cohesive format, and thus into some semblance of a story about yourself. Apparently WordPress has a Lifestream plug-in (ahem, got anything like that, Movable Type?), which Mark Krynsky uses … Continue reading
Real-Time Storytelling
Chris Brogan earlier this month raised the question: “How have (or how can) you use social media tools in real time to capture the stories around us, in whatever form you want?” The example Brogan used was being at a Panasonic press conference at a larger convention and sending out … Continue reading
Social Media Resume Can Help Tell Your Story
I was quite tickled last week and felt I’d made the bigtime when Dan Schawbel mentioned my social-media resume on Mashable (along with his own and several others). I first blogged about my social-media resume almost exactly a year ago. I created my social-media resume partly because I saw that … Continue reading
Add Lifestreaming to Personal Narrative Trends
This entry is a bit of an addendum to my New Year’s Eve posting about 2008 as the year of personal narrative in which I agreed that 2008 was a starting point but predicted that personal narrative will just get bigger and bigger. I talked about social media as part … Continue reading
Stories Told Purely in Dialog
Creative-writing-type stories are not a primary interest here at A Storied Career, but I bring you an entry about WEbook because it’s an interesting site that includes all kinds of stories and lots of other goodies. Short stories are apparently one of the top genres at WeBook, and topics include … Continue reading
How’s This for a Narrative Device?
No sooner had blogger “Nien” written these words: … social media is all about the person and telling the their story. I think it’d be a trip either adapt a novel that’s told through Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Flicker, blogs and whatever or write an entirely new novel using the same … Continue reading
Storytelling Meets Social Media: Part 3
It has been awhile (March) since Part 2 of this series. The convergence of social media and storytelling is hugely fascinating to me, but something prevents me from blogging more about it. Maybe I just want to do it justice. Although myriad examples of storytelling in social media can be … Continue reading