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2008 marks a busy year for Anecdote and this graphic gives you an idea of our workshop schedule. Storytelling is represented with bears, business narrative …

Another find from the filing cabinet clean up. This time an anecdote from Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn. This story was recorded by Brand from …

We had a great day on Monday running our Narrative Techniques for Business workshop in Canberra. The venue overlooked Lake Burley Griffin and we had …

People vote for politicians based on the emotions they generate not the intellectual merits of their policies.1 And emotion is generated by the stories we …

Here’s a piece in the Sydney Morning Herald making the case for storytelling as a key factor in Kevin Rudd’s success. Kevin Rudd’s campaign was …

I’m often asked, “What happens if the story is untruthful? Wont that skew the participant’s viewpoint?” Robert McKee makes this paradoxical observation which you might …

Mark and I love speaking to audiences of all shapes and sizes and we have had the privilege over the years to give seminars and …

Larry Lessig has a presentation style named after him. You guessed it, the Lessig Method. Professor Lessig is a copyright expert and champion of creative …

Last week the Churchill Club hosted a conversation titled, What’s Your Story? Leon Gettler (journalist at The Age), Andrea Lemon (scriptwriter, author, theatre director and …

Brandweek reports that the Advertising Research Foundation has just completed a three year study on the effectiveness of TV advertisements in the USA and found …