Story Telling

How to Tell Your Story – It doesn’t have to be a Book

18 December 2011

Tell your Life Story in any way you choose.
Biographies are normally thought of as being books but that’s wrong. Biographies are stories nothing else and the technology of telling those stories is your decision, maybe a book, maybe something else.

Look at all the digital systems that are now available to you and choose one …

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Interviewing and Story Telling with Ira Glass and Richard Fidler

10 November 2011

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What we can learn from the professionals.
I was listening to this episode of Richard Fidler’s wonderful Conversations, interview programme on the ABC and thinking how much of it is relevant to what we’re doing with Life Stories.

From Richard’s recent trip to the US we have this interview with Ira Glass, host of the hugely …

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Episode 62 : Fear of Your Life Story

2 November 2011

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Are you fearful of telling your story, or just a little shy?

In this episode of Create Your Life Story I want to open a conversation about the reasons for people not wanting to tell their stories, particularly when they say that they are interested.

In recording conversations for Your Story, I’ve noticed several, sometimes contradictory reasons why people avoid wanting …

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Stunning Memorial to a Fragile Life

8 September 2011

You just have to listen to this!

Sometimes it’s not about someone telling their story – but of us telling the story, of what they meant to us. Sometimes we just need to get our thoughts out there and in doing so we manage to capture an essence of who they are/were.

Kevin Farkas from the Social Voice …

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Episode 55 : 3 Steps to the Stories of Your Philosophy on Life

3 August 2011

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One sentence to sum up your philosophy on life

Push, pull… Fight, kick and scratch or just let it be and do as you like, or not! How do you do this thing called your life?

If you’ve had the good fortune to raise children you’ll sometimes find yourself sharing your beliefs on life. What it …

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Life Stories for Genealogists.

30 July 2011

Interview on GeneaBloggers Blog Talk Radio
Today I had the opportunity to share with some of the genealogy community on GeneaBloggers BlogTalk Radio the advantages of recording a life story and how that will become part of the history for future generation.

If you want to listen to the show I’m on from about 5:00 minutes …

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70 Year Journey Back in Time

7 July 2011

Your own personal Time Machine
Imagine for a moment stepping through a door, back in time to the dark days of WWII. What would you see if you could travel in that time machine? How many little things would be the same and how many would have changed?

Recently a woman who owned a flat near …

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Ghosts of the Past are Here

27 June 2011

Use the images of the past and put them in modern context.
With nearly a hundred years of popular photography and photojournalism we now have some amazing historical images from the past that we can compare with today. And I’ve recently found this photo manipulation method of explaining how things have changed over the years.

If …

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Episode 50 : 5 Historical Timelines of Your Life Story

20 June 2011

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No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.→

You don’t live alone. You live with people in your family, community, culture, country and world.
From each of these groups you’ve been impacted by all the events that occur in them. Obviously family occasions tend to be very …

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Episode 44 : Say More with Nothing

4 May 2011

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Pause to create the space and rhythm of a conversation

One of the things that always comes up when you decide to Create Your Life Story is how to deal with the breaks in conversation or the pauses. Sometimes pauses get in the way but often they can scream loud. Do you wait or interrupt, …

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Tell a Story as a Marketing Tool

18 April 2011

We all have something to sell, even if it’s only our opinion on a topic or attention from someone in our life.

Maybe we have some product or concept that we need to get across. Here is a radically new product and if you look at the video of the new home brewing technology product …

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Start Your Story. Then Discover What You Know

14 April 2011

While producing the last podcast episode I again had a wondrous experience, but this time it was the strongest that I’ve ever had.

As you know the last episode is all about the importance of listening, a topic I’m quite passionate about and one that I think I have some natural ability with but not …

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Episode 41 : Listen and They’ll Tell You Everything

13 April 2011

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Genuine listening is the key to their confidence

It’s not what they say but the way you listen, that helps people to share the deepest parts of themselves.

We often think we listen… but do we?
Are we really listening or are we just taking turns to speak?

In a recorded conversation we’re away from the distractions of …

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Say Hello via Audio

5 April 2011

Don’t be shy… Say G’Day
I know, you feel a little shy and you may not be totally comfortable on the microphone yet but what better way to move forward than to tell your story to someone who understands.
I’ve recently installed a SoundCloud easy audio uploader so you can drop me a comment or just …