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Friends of the Earth have created a very powerful short plea for the “men in suits” to act on what they already know to avert disaster due to climate change. Using a child as narrator and some clever visual storytelling, the video is a graphic summary of the problem and the need for urgency. I found [Continue reading Video conversations tap storytelling techniques] Kathy Hansen has been searching for the Holy Grail of storytelling in presentations. You can follow the search in her excellent blog, A Storied Career. Today she thinks maybe she has found it. Her quest led her to Servant of Chaos and the presentation Gavin Heaton created to train young citizen journalists how to tell stories [Continue reading Teaching storytelling with a story] Computer graphics are so sophisticated these days it’s hard to know what’s real and what’s fake. These two videos are clearly in the latter category. No one watching them would believe a squirrel can play hacky sack or a penguin become a table tennis whiz. The ads are no less fun for that. Both tell stories. [Continue reading Our power to manipulate stories] I generally consider myself fairly immune to advertising, but the ads for Apple’s FaceTime app for iPhone4 makes me want to run right out and buy this smart phone. And I don’t even carry a cell phone. What so successfully bypasses my normal resistance is the stories. In this series of ads we people separated [Continue reading Tugging the heart with an ad story] The oil spill in the Gulf is everybody’s story, but from our distant vantage points, we are not always sure how to influence it.
NASA image on June 26, courtesy of NASA Goddard Photo and Video’s Flickr photostream I write on Day 68 of one of the world’s most horrendous environmental disasters, with little to [Continue reading Twittering a new story] Those of us immersed in storytelling believe, at a gut level, that if we want to change something, we have to change the stories we tell about it. Take climate change, for example. If we dismiss concerns as paranoia, we find support in stories that discount the science. Climate Change Skeptic is a good [Continue reading Narrating the way to a new future] Greg Morris is another of the story practitioners whose work I follow. So it isn’t just because he posted an excerpt from Soaring on the wings of a story that I’m writing about him here. (Anyway, that post was on another of my blogs, Catching Courage.) The reason I want to make sure you visit Greg’s [Continue reading Writing a new story] Having moved so many times in my adult life, I’ve rarely had the chance to really connect with “my” doctors. Some make it easier than others. They are the ones who know how to listen, who want to know the context of whatever symptoms walk through the door. They want to know my story. A doctor [Continue reading Hey, Doc, I’m a story, not just a symptom] Regular readers of Story Route and those of you who are Facebook friends will likely recognize A Storied Career. It’s Kathy Hansen’s “Blog to explore traditional and postmodern forms/uses of storytelling”. Even in the middle of a cross-country move, Kathy continues to post provocative and fascinating entries on a dizzyingly wide array of storytelling topics. So [Continue reading The storytelling labyrinth] Electronic medical records (EMR) are a boon to doctors. They gather all information about patients in one convenient place, easily accessed when someone presents a new set of symptoms or some variation of the old. As the patient’s story unfolds, her doctor can scroll through the appropriate records, underpinning the narrative with knowledge of previous [Continue reading Doctors learning new ways to hear stories] |
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