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Storyteller Uprising

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  • Guest Post: “Meaning” — what Ann Hedreen thought of my SALu lecture

    [Writer Ann Hedreen attended my SALu Storyteller Uprising lecture on February 9th, and contacted me later to share her thoughts about the lecture, posted originally to her Restless Nest blog.  Here’s what Ann wrote:] Scrawled in fat black Sharpie script on the inside door of a blue bathroom stall at Kane Hall on the University…

  • Seattle Arts & Lectures U Presentation

    This Prezi was designed by MCDM’er Roni Ayalla, building off of my earlier presentations (also check out my Seattle Town Hall talk last year, “Storytelling and the Repression of Communication.”  Here are my talking points from the Seattle Arts & Lectures kick-off talk, “Storyteller Uprising: Trust & Persuasion in the Digital Age.” Download the lecture…

  • Now on Kindle

    As I mentioned earlier. I’m exploring how I can produce Storyteller Uprising as an enhanced e-book (I even put that question out on Quora).  It’d be pretty non-disruptive otherwise to distribute a book about the “uprising” of non-institutional content creators on an established press, wouldn’t it? In the meantime, I’ve got a number of high…

  • Wallflowers of the uprising

    Frank Rich’s Wallflowers at the Revolution in this weekend’s New York Times resonates deeply.  It hits me both as an observer on the impact of social media platforms on such uprisings, as well as as former television news reporter in the Middle East. The live feed from Egypt is riveting. We can’t get enough of…