Gather Our Stories
Once upon a time when we were young our parents and teacher told us stories to pass on information. Long ago the oral history of nations was shared the same way.
Many of us blog for our businesses. Blogging allows us to share our expertise and our knowledge base. We could spread our wisdom all day on Twitter. Twitter can give us a podium on which to stand and deliver our message to the world. Blogs can do that too. We’re best if we don’t go there. Podiums make lecturers.
We might like to learn, but few folks like to be taught.
Great teachers share stories, and in that way, pass on what they’ve experienced. They follow the writers’ rule of “show don’t tell,” pointing out examples that bring home ideas and lessons that are meaningful in ways that principles alone could never illuminate.
I want to know how you know what you know so that I can be sure what you’re learned will work for me.
It’s my experience that telling stories lets people find their way into a situation or an idea without a wall of information between. Stories entertain without being intimidating or intrusive. We can see how to apply good story without feeling that we’re being judge for what we may have done wrong.
While you spend your holidays, tell stories. Even more listen to them. Find great stories and ideas to bring back.
- Listen for the wisdom.
- Listen for the ideas to share.
- Listen so that you can blog the shareable stories.
You’ll have something to blog, that will never you’ll never find on Twitter. Stories that move and compel us to action are longer and more moving than will fit in 140 characters. You’ll find them in real life not on Twitter.
Why do you blog when you could just Twitter?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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