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Love this idea!

How do we talk about a product? I thought “my 1st car story“, was a really interesting idea. Hmmm… how can we apply this to a lecture at University? Imagine a lecture mashup!

Simplicity works.

Sometimes it isn’t the complexity of the visual message that makes something attractive. What if we tell the story and tell it straight? Forget the glam just get the story out there. Even a label tells a story.

6 Word Story?

We spend a lot of time teaching our students to write essays, news stories, press releases and the list goes on. What about combining words an images to create a complete story? What if you did it every day? Here are some samples from http://sixwordstoryeveryday.com/?et_mid=533708&rid=233339100                       [...]

Just watch this!

Books, Ideas, Inspiration, Storytelling, People, History, You, Change YOU CAN DO ANYTHING!

Story in the story!

I posted the Storify video interview yesterday. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvPBqON3yUQ[/youtube] What is really cool is that these guys are huge Hugh MacLeod fans! Check out the images in the background! And did you catch the Seth Godin quotes? Very cool!

How is your documentary coming along?

Do you have a personal maybe family documentary in the can? Have you ever thought of making a personal documentary to tell your story or maybe the family story? Well that is the idea behind relate your story. Darin Johnson talked to me about the idea of making a professional personal documentary and it makes [...]

Make your story work!

Stories are a powerful tool that we spend too little time thinking about. The problem with storytelling is we are caught out by context! We, you and I , feel that it is the job of some people to tell a story and not the job of others. We are all storytellers and we need [...]

It all depends how you look and read things.

This is a great piece of video that truly does make you think about not only what we see and think about but how we contextualize things. Content is important BUT context is also very important. Do you really listen? When you are listening do you get the point? Or do you hear what you [...]

Locker #2375 Chapter 16

As always this is the 1st draft of the story, there are all sorts of little things to be corrected BUT you get a peak into the process! Welcome. Locker 2375 c16 The Lab. Of course you can only run so fast in the hall before you become an obvious target of the hall monitor [...]

Locker 2375 c4

Locker 2375 c4 The Noise After that morning thumb wrestle I had a nagging feeling that something was up! The first clue was me loosing a thumb wrestle with my Dad. Me losing is about a likely as seeing a flying camel in art class, ok English, well maybe in science… you get the idea. [...]

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