This Week in Storytelling Mar. 26, 2010

When Was the Last Time You Told Your Story?
I tweeted about this post of Mark’s and included it in one of the daily storytelling posts. It’s a really nice post.

Our Stories Make Good Conversation
This is a post inspired by Mark’s post above. It too is very nicely done.

Q&A: Transmedia guru Henry Jenkins on ‘Lost,’ negative capability and that ‘Sopranos’ ending
If you’re a fan of, or wondering about, transmedia, this is an interview you’ll want to read.

Spreading your transmedia bets….
Staying with the transmedia theme, this post does a wonderful job of explaining what it is, how it’s platform driven, its social elements and much more.

Shekhar Kapur: We are the stories we tell ourselves
I caught mention of this from a tweet by Michael Margolis. It’s a talk from TED and it’s a bit different than what you might expect but very good nonetheless.

The Journalism of Collapse: New Storytelling and a New Story
I thought that this is one of the better pieces I’ve read on how journalism needs to reinvent itself. He talks about the old story, the collapse, new stories and more.

Telling the Stories of Jonesborough
A nice story about storytelling and community.

Hertz Campaign Explores Personal ‘Journeys’
Don’t know whether it will succeed for them or not, but it’s a great attempt to make an emotional connection with the customer base via storytelling.

Illustrations Enhance Business Storytelling Series – A Storied Career
This one, and the two that follow, are three of the many posts from Dr. Kathy Hansen this week. This one points to Kelsey Ruger’s The Moleskin blog and those posts on organizational storytelling.

Twitter’s a Tool in the Space Between Story and Gaming
How Twitter is being used as a storytelling tool.

The Portfolio Explained – Tell Me About Yourself
What a portfolio is and how to go about using it.

Essay Makes Case For More School, But Student Writing Skills Seem Just “Fine”
Lou Hoffman responds to an essay in the WSJ, with some storytelling examples, about how our kids need to spend more time in the classroom.

Storybird – Collaborative storytelling
Storybird is a service that uses collaborative storytelling to connect kids and families. Two (or more) people author a Storybird—one with words, one with pictures—and then share it with their network.

Tikatok – Imagine a Story. Create a Book.
A little different service from Storybird. You can help a child to build a story but it’s not meant to be collaborative production. Still, it’s pretty neat and I’m all for encouraging kids to tell stories.

5 Questions: Creating a Culture of Storytelling
The 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference is approaching and Roger Burks, who is doing the session on “Creating a Culture of Storytelling,” asks some questions.

How Case Studies Get Done – One Leg at a Time
Casey Hibbard has a nice post on all that’s involved in getting a case study done.

Digital Storytelling: comics, heroes, symbols and myths
Is social media changing the way we tell our stories?

Storytelling
A very nice storytelling resource.

360 Storytelling
“As theater artists, no matter our discipline or technique, we find, create and tell stories to our audiences. What if we let them have a turn?” Great idea huh?

Novel Matters: Don’t Be a Writer.
“Writing is the means. The story is what matters.” A new writing resource for me and what a fine one it is.

The Art Of Story Telling (TV Commercials)
FWIW, my personal opinion is that 30 and 60 second spots were anything but stories. Brand propositions wrapped in audio and visual messages maybe. Clearly, these folks think that studying them will help you tell stories in a focused, relevant way.

Telling a story on the label
A wonderful example of how to engage the customer with a story.

The Story of Bottled Water
From The Story of Stuff Project, this is just cool.

Twitter / Sean Buvala: Wrestled through the final …
The Storyteller, Sean Buvala, tweets a teaser about an upcoming Executive storytelling telecourse.