After our big cross-country move, I’m still playing catch-up — in a very big way — in curating story news and conducting synthesis and analysis. Here are a few items of interest that have popped up in recent weeks:
- Seth Kahan, one of the leaders on the Washington, DC, storytelling
scene, has a new book out, Getting Change Right: How Leaders Transform Organizations from the Inside Out, published by Jossey-Bass, with an initial print run of 7,500 copies. You can read about it and order it through Seth’s website. - Michael Margolis is now contributing to PSFK.com, a leading online magazine for marketing, design and culture. His first article is Lessons in Brand and Social Media Storytelling. Of particular value is his list of tips on How to Find Your Brand Voice (which I believe will work just as well for personal branding as for product/service branding). Given that Michael was encouraging folks to comment on the article two weeks ago, I’m quite late to this party, but I’m sure Michael would welcome more comments joining the 24 already there. He has a new column on the site inspired by the film Exit Through the Gift Shop. Also of great interest among Michael’s many offerings is his podcast of the latest edition of his The New Storytellers interview series. Last week’s interview was with the wonderful
Paul Costello (pictured). The interview’s theme was “a new theology for storytelling in this modern world. Exploring the re-defining boundaries of narrative across time and space, and culture.” - Jim Ballard, a subject of my Q&A series, has launched service as a writer of people’s life-stories. You can download his brochure, MyLifeAsABook.doc.
- Bernadette Martin‘s book, Storytelling about Your Brand Online and Offline, is getting ever closer to publication, and I got more intrigued by it when I saw a sneak preview of the manuscript. Should be a quick, fun read at 78 pages.