Category Archives: Storytelling: Other

The folks at ethos 3 Communications specialize in using stories in presentations, as evidenced by their blog, Presentation Revolution: Revolutionizing Presentations Through Storytelling. They also offer a nifty 22-page book, StoryBored: How to Improve Your Presentations Through Storytelling, as a free download. The booklet has a fun layout/design and lots … Continue reading →

From a terrific list of 250 Things To Improve Your Presentations at Siam English come several items related to storytelling: Tell a story, make a point. Tell another story, make another point. Create a story bank. Each time something interesting happens — big or small — write it down. You … Continue reading →

This week’s Wordle.net word/tag cloud based on A Storied Career.

 I’m not a huge sports fan — I like a little college football and Major League Baseball — but I’ve always been a bit of an Olympics junkie. I have come to realize that it’s largely the stories that attract me. When ABC used to cover the Olympics, they come … Continue reading →

Through this posting by Jonah Lehrer in the blog The Frontal Cortex, I learned of a wonderful commencement address (superb content, well delivered) given by Robert Krulwich at the 2008 Cal Tech graduation ceremony. (The address is in RealPlayer format and doesn’t actually occur until about 9 minutes and 15 … Continue reading →

I previously wrote about the “locative storytelling” project of a team of Northwestern University graduate students to study the intersection of journalism and emerging location-based technologies. The team has concluded its project and presented its findings, which they summed up here in 12 points and have made available as a … Continue reading →

This week’s Wordle.net word/tag cloud based on A Storied Career.

Because, as Jon Graves writes, “shared experiences are the glue of relationships of all types.”

Lisa Neal Gualtieri, Ph.D., of the Tufts University School of Medicine, who blogs about health and education, has two requests having to do with stories and health. She writes: First, I am helping on a proposal for a health web site and need citations about the benefits of storytelling for … Continue reading →

I like the term Terrence Gargiulo uses: Return on Experiences (ROE). Telling stories in ways that “enhance your credibility and influence” provides ROE. I also like the idea of Social Collaborative Sharing (SCS) for social media. (OK, not precisely story-related)