by cityworks | Apr 10, 2012 | Interviews, Social Media, Storytelling, Engagement
Can storytelling do more than entertain us? Does it have even greater, more substantial powers? Can stories change the world, change our world, change us and even change our day-to-day behaviors? Yes. An example: Cigarette smoking. It was once an accepted behavior....
by cityworks | Apr 17, 2012 | Interviews, Storytelling
Why do we like stories? Why do we seem to need them? Why do we still, to this day, find the Iliad so fascinating that Brad Pitt grew his hair really long to star in Troy. (Did Homer’s ancestors get a box office cut?) There’s science behind storytelling. It’s said that...
by cityworks | Apr 18, 2012 | Interviews, Storytelling
Today, we continue our discussion with Kendall Haven, author of Story Proof: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story. The project was quite the undertaking. According to his website, he gathered evidence from 16 different fields of scientific research,...
by cityworks | May 16, 2012 | Interviews, Word Choice
Words have a history. Some of those histories are beautiful, pleasant places and some are not. So, today, we focus on words and the meaning via their history that they carry with them in our communications and messages. Take the word Michael, my name. It has an...
by cityworks | May 10, 2012 | Interviews, Word Choice
As the basic building block of messages – words are powerful. Even so, can one word sum up an entire year? How about a decade? A century? Or even a millennium? Impossible, you say? Well, the American Dialect Society (ADS) may take issue with you on that. Since...
by cityworks | May 8, 2012 | Interviews, Word Choice
Because we are anything but a stagnant society, we need new words. Words are sort of like fashion. Think of the dictionary as your closet. New designer jeans come in; that silk shirt from the 70’s disco era goes out. Indeed, new words aren’t only fashionable....
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