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Storytelling in the Digital Age – The (Work)Book

While the digital age provides many different ways of telling stories, the techniques used to create stories are ancient. Storytelling in the Digital Age looks at how powerful stories are created, evaluated and shared through digital media. Stories can work for you, but they can also work against you. Storytelling in the Digital Age provides […]

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About Monkeys and Market Crashes

Once there was and once there was not, a small, dusty African village where a trader man dressed in  a smart business suit arrived on a mighty ship. The trader man announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to […]

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The Story of the Cloud

Early one morning a wispy cloud bumped into a story….. Views: 24

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Big games, serious games

The french philosopher, Michel Foucault, once  suggested that prisons exist in the world because it helps us imagine that the prison is “out there” and that we aren’t already living in one ourselves. The same idea applies to games – there are many games out there that serve to remind us that we don’t live […]

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How the Monkeys Saved the Fish

That year, the rains were the strongest ever and the river had broken its banks. There were floods everywhere and the animals all ran up into the hills. The floods came so fast that many drowned except the lucky monkeys who were used to swinging high up in the treetops. They looked down on the […]

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The Naked Truth and the Lie

The Truth and the Lie meet  on the road one day. The Lie says to the Truth: “It’s a marvelous day today!” The Truth looks up to the skies and sighs, for the day was truly beautiful. They walk together for a while, until they reach a beautiful well. The Lie tells the Truth: “The […]

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Copper Woman and Snot Boy

In the time before time, when the world was still soft and new, awaiting its first true songs, there was the Copper Woman. Her skin held the warm, living glow of the metal for which she was named, shifting from a deep, earthy red in the morning sun to a soft, burnished gold in the […]