Save the Date! My Interactive Storytelling Workshop Date Is April 8th 2016, 4:30 - 6 pm! This workshop is going to be fun. I can't wait for you to join me at NAB Village room 5. If you don't know which room that is don't worry, there will be a sign. After the game stay for a…
Life is not about the big stuff. Everything that is important is quite small. We tend to think of a person’s life as a long and complex story. A biography shouldn’t be a short easy read right? It should be a complex narrative that examines a person’s loves, struggles, accomplishments and failures. What if I…
Attention and time are at a premium. If you find you are experiencing information overload, so is your prospective audience. And yet things do manage to grab our attention, how does that happen? If matters to you, it will matter to someone else. Viral content is something people connect with so much they want to…
“I feel like I have done it all, I have made all of the mistakes and now I am fearless.“ - Paraphrased from an interview with Barak Obama on Marc Maron’s podcast WTF. It is not possible to be completely without fear, it is a natural part of being alive. Another way of looking…
Where do your most meaningful stories come from? From your lived experience. They come from your childhood, your friends, travels or working life. How do you identify the stories that move you? You don’t forget them. You see or hear something and it reminds you of that event or time in your life. Take note…
And then it happened… I used to think that the most magical phrase in storytelling was, ‘What happened next?’ But now I understand that we need the release from the next and the new of each chapter. We need to pause for a moment in a place and rest before the next twist and turn.…
Free workshop at NAB Village May 8th! Now that I have your attention, a bit of info! As you all know, I am deeply, madly, completely addicted to storytelling. Now I want to hear your story! I will be at NAB Village on May 8th in room number 8. I want to hang out with you…
Planning can often feel useless. John Lennon said, "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans". That is true. While we can make plans all we want, we don’t know what is going to happen in the future. That means we have to flexible. We must be able to bend when it…
I don’t know about you, but there seems to be a lot of endings and beginnings going on. Why do we tend to do similar things at about the same time? Is it the collective consciousness? I would say it is the power of story. We tend to make decisions within similar time frames because…
I love stories! I especially love interactive ones where you get to take part of the action. I had the opportunity to conduct an interactive Twitter story at a Content Strategy Melbourne meet up group. We collaboratively created a story about the age old narrative of man versus machine. Lilith is an artificial intelligence program…
Storytelling Built For Innovation 