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Story Radar -- Not Everything Is A Story | Seven Stories

Story Radar -- Not Everything Is A Story | Seven Stories | Public Relations & Social Media Insight | Scoop.it

The idea of storytelling for leadership and business is generating a lot of interest these days, as it well should. Stories are one of the most powerful ways to communicate. Stories can be memorable and meaningful. They’re immensely useful – whether you want to lead people, market your business, or just get some laughs. The best writers read a lot, and the best storytellers pay close attention and listen to the stories around them. But what exactly is a story, and what do you listen for?...


Via Karen Dietz
Jeff Domansky's insight:

Shawn Callahan's four story essentials are worth noting: time, place, dialogue, the unexpected

Karen Dietz's curator insight, January 11, 6:02 PM

Got your story radar on?


I did not even know what this meant until I read this article by colleague Andrew Nemiccolo and listened to my colleague Shawn Callahan explain it.


Basically it is this -- not everything we hear is a story. And plenty of people are confused about this, as I can attest to in my own story work with clients.


Shawn offers us an activity that will get us to quickly understand the storied world we live in, and helps us know what a story is and is not.


Thans Andrew and Shawn for putting this together! I know I am going to use it with clients. And with myself too so I can continue to develop my story listening skills (those always need attention no matter how long you've been doing this work!).


This review was written by Karen Dietz for her curated content on business storytelling atwww.scoop.it/t/just-story-it

Karen Dietz's comment, January 12, 3:56 PM
Absolutely Jeff. They are key essentials. I'm glad Shawn put these together to share with us.
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Twitter Background Design How-To and Best Practices

Twitter Background Design How-To and Best Practices | Public Relations & Social Media Insight | Scoop.it
Check out this overview of best practices to stand out from the crowd with your Twitter theme and follow the tutorial to create your own profile from scratch.

 

With Twitter quickly becoming the hottest site to be seen on, everyone wants to stand out from the crowd. There has already been a range of quality designs showcased on various sites, which has shown an emergence of trends such as the ‘sidebar’. Let’s take a look at some of the best practices around Twitter background design and get to work creating our own.

 

We all recognise the default blue Twitter background right? It’s not a bad design, it’s clean and trendy but it doesn’t stand out when the majority of Twitter users also have the same look. Furthermore, if you’re keen to achieve more followers, removing this background would probably help out by showing that you’re an active user, or if you’re tweeting on behalf of your company or service, it helps prove that you’re not a spammer.

 

Generally speaking, there are three main approaches when it comes to creating your Twitter background (other than a boring solid colour!):

 

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Via Martin Gysler
John van den Brink's comment, May 17, 2012 1:11 PM
Thank you Martin.
Martin Gysler's comment, May 17, 2012 3:22 PM
You're welcome John, I'm glad you like it!