The Week in Storytelling Apr. 9, 2010

by Gregg on April 9, 2010


Storytelling Excellence

A really nice post from Laura Packer on Narrative Form inspired by a keynote delivered by Bill Harley at the Northeast Storytelling Conference.

The Leadership Playlist: Uncovering alignment with authentic stories

Allen Schoer writes a fine piece in The Washington Post about using storytelling to create alignment within an organization and ultimately, creating a stronger organization.

Expanding the Definition of Storytelling

Good interview with Mauro Porcini, Head of Global Design at 3M, Consumer & Office Business division worldwide, on story and storytelling.

Introduction to Storytelling

James Frey writes on where story ideas come from.

Storytelling: Your Skeleton Key to the Brain

A look at how storytelling works no matter what your field or endeavor by Julie Roth.

Growing Your Nonprofit’s Bottom Line Through Internal Storytelling Techniques

Five tips for learning to use the power of nonprofit storytelling in business communications.

A story a day should keep enforcement at bay

Personal stories that talk about how broken the immigration system really is, giving us deep insights into the immigrant experience.

Build Your Brand with Storyteller Marketing

A nice post from Abby Johnson on how under utilized storytelling is by most marketers.

Can You Tell Your Story in Just 6 Words?

Inspired by a statement from Ernest Hemingway. Makes Twitter’s 140 look like War and Peace.

Fifty People One Question: Confessions On Life, Death & God

Interesting video stories.

CharityFocus Using Storytelling to Inspire Action

These folks understand how to put people at the center of their stories.

15 Stories Tracking the Canadian Financial Crisis

Videos that tell stories of all sides of the financial crisis. Some inspiring, some heartbreaking, some in between.

Imagination on the Run

How a mom uses storytelling to engage her kids on her daily 45 minutes commutes to and from school.

Interview: Grant McCracken

Michael Margolis will be conducting his second interview in the The New Storytellers series. Be sure to register if you haven’t already.

iPad as a one-to-one presenter

Using the iPad as a personal storytelling device.

Deviating from Storytelling Fodder

Lou Hoffman gets away from his usual writing on business storytelling to talk about influencers and the PR industry.

Reverse-engineering UPS Story on Training

Lou is back to storytelling looking at the piece on UPS in The Journal. I like the use of the negative stat as the door opener to the story that Lou points out.

Q&A with a Story Guru: George Dutch: Story Helps to Find Patterns, Plots, and Meanings

Dr. Kathy Hansen has another great interview series running this week.

Storycatcher: I finally did it!

Christina Baldwin is back to blogging and back to burying banker’s boxes.

Storytelling and email marketing

“As I scan the web now for products and services that do a good job in telling their stories, I do not see very many.” Heckuva’ quote huh?

The St. Marys Storytelling Festival

Looks like a great group of storytelling folks.

Utah Storytelling Guild

These folks do too.