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Content as Conversation | Using Stories & Story Elements

Content as Conversation | Using Stories & Story Elements | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Every use of your website is a conversation started by a site visitor. Think about it: why do people come to your site or app?

 

If you read my review and article on this same page ("Forget About Content Management...") about moving away from content management systems to developing audience development systems, then this article explains more about how to do that. Yeah!

 

I really like the specific examples and concrete steps laid out in this post. It all makes sense to me!

 

Once again, while never mentioning storytelling per se, the article is all about using stories and story elements to generate conversations and engagement with customers/prospects. Like: converse with personal prounouns, invoke action using verbs, and write visually. Sounds like storytelling to me.

 

So go grab this article and its tips so you can continue developing audiences and engagement to build business success.

 

Review written by Karen Dietz for her curated content on business storytelling at www.scoop.it/t/just-story-it ;

Dr. Karen Dietz's comment June 6, 2012 5:26 PM
Thanks Jeff! Have fun today :)
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Below the Fold: Why Most Brands Will Suck at Storytelling

Below the Fold: Why Most Brands Will Suck at Storytelling | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
"STORY" IS THE NEW "CONTENT." As buzzwords go, story isn’t entirely bad -- for years I’ve pushed clients to be storytellers. I’ve berated the descent of story into a furtive sea of “content,” stripping all emotion from human pursuits.

 

I love this post and its irreverent attitude. It is quite refreshing in this day and age when 'storytelling', 'branding', and 'content' are such pervasive buzzwords and hyped as the cure-all for everything.

 

There are great reminders in this article that great business stories are not sanitized, and that there is danger in always crafting a happy ending.  Only sharing your 'success' stories eventually undercuts your believability. We know there have been mistakes, trials, and tribulations along the way and we want to hear about those too.

 

Why? Because it makes you human. As the author Gary Goldhammer says, storytelling is about people. Brands aren't about Hollywood actors, and "companies are not logos. There are human beings behind them all."

 

There are more insights here in this quick post -- reading it is almost like hitting the 'reset' button when we forget the fundamentals of storytelling after getting caught up in the hyped-up excitement about story branding, social media, content creation, and technology.

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