Category: Book Content

  • This summer, I had considerable opportunity to apply Storyteller Uprising principles to real-world organizational communication challenges.  It was great to take my thought-process for a test spin to see what resonated.  It also inspired me to add to the book (it’s getting fatter and more expensive!), primarily around how to concretely engage communities with story.…

  • When we change the way we communicate, we change society. I have a lot of favorite passages from Clay Shirky’s 2008 Here Comes Everybody, but in 2011, this is the line that resonates most.  Our media technologies have facilitated our ability to reach out to each other; to connect in meaningful ways, without necessarily requiring…

  • I conclude Chapter 19 Storytelling as Common Denominator of my Storyteller Uprising book with this: I highlighted those four words in the preceding paragraph – “entrepreneurship,” “innovation,” “community,”  “story” – as I see them as the core elements that all communicators must now draw upon if they wish to engage with trust and persuasion in…

  • I love that turn of phrase from Clay Shirky’s still influential 2008 book, Here Comes Everybody.  Publish, then filter.  In the digital age, it means barriers to entry, costs, and content distribution platforms are all so accessible that the traditional mass media model of “filter, then publish” is no longer the norm. Net economics have…