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Problogger on blogging as a story

We live in a world where we’re literally bombarded with information all day every day. There’s nothing wrong with information, or having a blog that is ‘informational’ in nature - but if you want to make an impression on people, be the type of blog that people tell their friends about, that people want to ‘journey’ with - you need something more and ’story’ is one element that can bring this.


In her introduction Annette introduces six types of stories that help if you want to influence others:

* “Who I Am” Stories
* “Why I Am Here” Stories
* “The Vision” Story
* “Teaching” Stories
* “Values-in-Action” Stories
* “I Know What You Are Thinking” Stories

Stories engage people in a completely different way to any other form of communication that I’ve come across and on blogs I find that they can be particularly powerful.

Rather than blogs degenerating into ’spin’ machines I encouraged people to think about injecting personality into them by sharing stories on a number of levels:

# Company or Business Story - every company has their own story. How it started, it’s evolution, it’s successes and failures, it’s lessons learnt and how it’s interacted within it’s industry.

# Product Stories - in a similar way, each product or service within a company has a story. How the idea was born, what needs it was designed to meet, what versions and evolutions it’s been through and how customers are using it.

# Employee Stories - a business is only ever as good as it’s employees and every one of them has their own story. These stories are important as they illustrate what the employees bring to the job that they do (experiences, passions, skills etc) but they also empower the employee and give a personal face to a company.

# Customer Stories - telling the stories of customers (with permission of course) can be a very powerful thing both internally and externally for a business. The interactions a company and customer have are great for learning and education of staff, they help to illustrate the values of a company and if done well can be incredibly empowering for a customer.

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/08/25/the-power-of-story-on-blogs/

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/08/29/using-stories-in-blogging/

Seth Godin Redefines the 5 P

Never mind the "P"s. Marketing has five elements:
Data
Stories
Products (services)
Interactions
Connection

STORIES define everything you say and do. The product has a myth, the service has a legend. Marketing applies to every person, every job, every service and every organization. That's because all we can work with as humans is stories. I want to argue that data and stories are the two key building blocks of marketing--the other three are built on these two.

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Seth Godin: Go write a book

First, he wrote a book. You should write a book, too. Publishing a book is easier than it appears (in some ways, like the typing, typesetting, printing, and distributing part) but more difficult in others (like the writing something worth reading part.) Writing a book forces you to be organized and passionate and persuasive. Isn't that worth trying?


http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/06/what-dave-just.html

tapbot, the immersive story engine

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Building an immersive story engine


Make AI and virtual world technologies accessible to artists so that they can create the future of immersive story entertainment

That's the Big Hairy Audacious Goal ("BHAG"). Of course a BHAG also has a 10-to-30-year timeline. A more immediate goal or milestone is to create an immersive story engine.

Immersive story

Immersive story is dramatic narrative for the metaverse. Immersive as in virtual world immersion - the state where you cease to be aware of your physical self. Basically, how can we use the same technology being developed forintelligent virtual agents and use it for entertainment.

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