• Thousands of people flooded around me.  I stared in exasperation at the sign.  Yet, I knew that it had to be emblematic of something about my week-long trip to Beijing — my first to China.  True to my personality, I had tried to go against the tide by trying to enter the Forbidden City from…

  • 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.…

  • That’s me bleary-eyed and bearded at 7:30 a.m. on the set of KING5 Morning News in Seattle.  Anchor Brad Goode featured my book this morning (a) because he likes it; (b) because like me, he’s about to start his own uprising.  This is his last week on the job at KING, as he joins the…

  • 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…