How a 2-Minute Story Helps You Lead – Stew Friedman – HarvardBusiness.org

Great short piece on story and leadership from Harvard.

A good leadership story has the power to engage hearts and minds. It has these six crucial elements:

1. Draws on your real past and lessons you’ve learned from it.
2. Resonates emotionally with your audience because it’s relevant to them.
3. Inspires your audience because it’s fueled by your passion.
4. Shows the struggle between your goal and the obstacles you faced in pursuing it.
5. Illustrates with a vivid example.
6. Teaches an important lesson.

How a 2-Minute Story Helps You Lead – Stew Friedman – HarvardBusiness.org.

Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie

Got a few minutes! Make an animated movie – free!

Xtranormal is a fun tool for playing around with story elements, structure, etc.

Turns your written script into a movie that you can publish on YouTube, facebook and MySpace.

Learning from Pirate Communities – Treasure in the Classroom

From John Horn, a colleague at the Sauder School of Business, about his experience “walking the plank” during a recent mash-up of a class to try out collaborative, synchronous, virtual technologies for learning.

Learning from Pirate Communities – Treasure in the Classroom

As per usual, I’ll do my best to tie this whole thing to pirates. So, readers, are you skeptical as to my ability to bring together pirates, a Web 2.0 classroom, discovery-based learning, buried treasure, and constructive criticism from one of my students? 

Well, I challenge you to read on, my friends. 

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5 Things To Do Before Choosing An Online Community Platform : Telligent – Enterprise Community and Social Network Software

5 Things To Do Before Choosing An Online Community Platform

George Dearing Thursday, November 06 2008     1 Comment » Latest by Busby SEO Test – Kung Hei Fat Choi

1.Plan Your Community Around A Purpose       

We can thank Gartner for amplifying this one. Too many times marketers and brand managers get the GMOOT syndrome Get Me One Of Those when it comes to online communities. Look across your business and identify areas where better communication and engagement with customers and employees could be improved. Many times an external community can serve multiple business units. For example, product marketers gain valuable customer feedback on how to position and develop new offerings while sales can harvest feedback and loop that data into the sales process. And dont leave out inward-facing communities. Theres real movement from corporations that want to use the intrinsic value of collaboration and community to improve specific internal processes. Many times an organization realizes its a heck of a lot easier to pilot things behind the firewall. Another bonus is the bottom-up adoption and visibility youll have as you plan your external community.

Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

via Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

.Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. And the topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one’s own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between. A great way to begin learning about Digital Storytelling is by watching the following video introduction to Digital Storytelling.