Archive for the ‘Business storytelling’ Category

It’s only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 26, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

I read this lovely quote in the following paper, Petranker, J. (2005) ‘The When of Knowing’, The Journal of Applied Behavioural Science, vol. 41, no. …

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The art of editing a story for emotional impact

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 20, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

I wont say much at all here except go read this post by Les Posen (and definitely watch the YouTube video). It features a Welshman …

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The difficulty in being the expert interpreting a story

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 19, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

Scientific American.com has an amusing piece by Steve Mirsky that highlights one of the reasons why experts shouldn’t attempt to interpret stories—there are many truths …

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Demonstration of Zahmoo and Sensemaker

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 15, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

For those of you who will be coming to our workshop in Sydney, we will be demonstrating our new Web 2.0 service called Zahmoo as …

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Definition of an Anecdote

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 13, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

I was over at Wikipedia today and ended up on the Anecdote article. Here’s their definition of an anecdote, which I think is pretty good. …

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Staff induction or orientation

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 11, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication, Culture

I might have mentioned a few posts ago that we are currently helping a government department develop a staff induction program for their Aboriginal employees. …

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Narrative Techniques for Business Workshop in Sydney – 26 July

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 6, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling, Events

It’s been over a year since we presented this workshop in Australia, so we are pleased to say we are running our narrative techniques for …

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Ross Dawson’s Web 2.0 Framework

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 1, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication

It’s important for businesses to keep an eye on what’s happening on the web as so many new business models are emerging every day. Ross …

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Organisations not really doing Most Significant Change—the selection process

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 28, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication

    Yesterday I discovered another large organisation who think they are using the Most Significant Change technique to evaluate their programs but they don’t …

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You can’t predict anything

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 25, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

Chris Anderson has listed his 5 top business books and I was struck by this explanation of why you must read Fooled by Randomness: The …

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