Category Archives: Storytelling: Other

Claudia L’Amoureaux, education community developer for Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life, is one of the presenters at Storytelling, a Path to Innovation, an event in the Washington, DC, storytelling weekend planned for May 8-10. In an interview with Steve Denning, L’Amoureaux discusses innovation and learning in the “metaverse,” … Continue reading →

Through May 1, the Art League of Daytona Beach has an exhibit called Storytellers featuring the work of five women artists whose works share strong narrative qualities, according to curator Robin Moore, as quoted by Laura Stewart in the Daytona Beach News Journal.

I’ve added these guys to my Storytellers section, but their stuff is too gorgeous not to do a whole entry on. They are Oscar and Kartika of S1 Weddings, who describe themselves as “in love with each other, and passionate in capturing weddings and lifestyle portraits.” They reside in a … Continue reading →

Harry Bingham, who blogs at Toasting Napoleon, has announced that he has a publishing deal to write a book with the provisional title of The Storytelling Ape. Here’s how he describes it: The book will deal with why humans tell stories; what role narrative plays for us; and how these … Continue reading →

The wonderful Moth is offering subscriptions to receive one free story per week to listen to at your leisure on your iPod/MP3 player or your computer. From The Moth: We have collected a number of our favorite stories from the last 10 years, some of which you may never have … Continue reading →

Some fairly recent blog entries talk about the emotional impact of storytelling and persuasion. Kenrick E. Cleveland offers several postings, highlights of which include: Stories have been used to elicit emotional responses, whether by design or by accident, since the beginning of man and some of the best stories are … Continue reading →

Meet Henry from chereemooreKevin Dugan posted on the blog Strategic Public Relations some pretty compelling evidence for the growth of storytelling in business: The fact that in a search on the site SlideShare, more than 500 results come up in a search for “storytelling.” (Well, actually, he said more than … Continue reading →

I don’t claim to totally understand Tom Atlee’s concept of Story Fields, but here’s his definition: a particularly powerful field of influence generated by a story or, more often, by a coherent battery of mutually reinforcing stories – myths, news, soap operas, lives, memories, games – and story elements – … Continue reading →

I’m revisiting this entry because I didn’t do a good job of explaining Penguin’s project. That’s because I couldn’t find a good explanation on the site. Here’s one I found by a blogger named “Melissa” at Central Region AA|RF Planners: Penguin challenged 6 authors to create new forms of story … Continue reading →

The April issue of Domino magazine has a feature enetitled “The Narrative Decorator.” Maybe its my lack of visual sensability, but I couldn’t discern a whole lot of storytelling in the design work of Fawn Galli, the featured decorator. Words/phrases like “dreams,” “favorite memories,” “fantasy,” “storyscapes of fabric, furniture, and … Continue reading →