2009
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Show me the village
The weekly print edition of the Christian Science Monitor has an article (not available online) in its December 20 edition by Gloria Goodale called “Show Me the Money.” The article explains how sites like YouTube, Hulu and Metacafe are doing less posting of user-generated content and more delivery of commercial content, essentially because little-s, naturally… Read more
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Eight observations – 6th
(This is the sixth in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) What people think you mean when you talk about stories and story projects, and what you… Read more
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Working with Stories wants to know
This is an open call to readers of my book Working with Stories. As some know, I started out this blog by dusting off a presentation I made in 2000 on eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups. I’ve been surprised by how much I have to say about those observations nine story-filled years… Read more
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Eight observations – 5th
(This is the fifth in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) This blog post has been moved to (and revised for) The Working with Stories Miscellany. You… Read more
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Eight observations – 4th: herding
(This is the fourth in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) (And then, in the fourth of the series of eight, this is the fourth in a… Read more
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Eight observations – 4th: listening: opportunities
(This is the fourth in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) (And then, in the fourth of the series of eight, this is the third in a… Read more
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Quotes and echoes
I’m slowly preparing my next blog post while enduring a flu-like illness (I refuse to speculate). This entails looking back through old writings and in doing that I ran across these two interesting juxtaposed quotes. “Once upon a time, when people made more of their own things, they created more stories about their life experiences.… Read more
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Eight observations – 4th: listening: dangers
(This is the fourth in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) (And then, in the fourth of the series of eight, this is the third in a… Read more
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The internet has failed storytelling
So I’m looking at Kathy Hansen’s blog and as usual she brings the news to the news-poor: an article called “The internet is killing storytelling” in the London Times that is apparently the talk of twitter-town. I simply had to respond, even (evidently) after everybody else already has done so, and added this comment: The… Read more
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Eight observations – 4th – making
(This is the fourth in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) (And then, in the fourth of the series of eight, this is the second in a… Read more
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Eight observations – 4th – telling
(This is the fourth in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) Let’s say you have something you want to do in the world. You want to make… Read more
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How can one remain neutral while acting as a story curator?
Recently Thaler Pekar asked me this excellent question. This is the answer I gave her. Once I was on a train listening to conversations and I overheard a young woman asking an old man about her upcoming marriage. She said she was afraid of making a mistake. I was lucky enough to hear his answer.… Read more
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Eight observations – Leftovers from 123
These are some thoughts “left over” from the first three posts in this series of eight observations. This blog post, on ultra-compact stories and narrative waves, was included in (and revised for) Working with Stories. Look for it as the sections “Extreme compression” in Chapter 3 and (the last part of) “Ecological and narrative cycles”… Read more
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Eight observations – 3rd
(This is the third in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) This blog post, on how stories run in cycles, was included in (and revised for) Working… Read more
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Eight observations – 2nd
(This is the second in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) This blog post, on how stories have stories, was included in (and revised for) Working with… Read more
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Eight observations – 1st
Several years ago I gave a presentation made up of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. These were not scientific findings; they were just things I had encountered that had surprised me and that gave me food for thought. (Nor were they original thoughts,… Read more
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Hey everybody
Thoughts on starting this blog. Read more