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April 11, 2006

Via Crucis Grid Blog : Station 6

- Crossroads Dispatches

When I was a little girl, the oldest of three girls, my parents made the mistake of starting to take us to the neighborhood Catholic Church not too long enough after they broke the news that Santa Claus wasn't... ›››

Category: Awareness | Storytelling | Teachable Moments

April 07, 2006

Straight to the Art

- Crossroads Dispatches

Pictured right is an entry from one of Janice Lowry's journals. The artist has kept journals for her entire adult life. "It's the cheapest therapy a person can do," she says. - from Somerset Studio's Signatures: The Art Journal... ›››

Category: Innovators and Creators | Storytelling | Tsunami | writing

March 15, 2006

One Day After I'm on Oprah, Picked Up By Miramar, Distributed by Wal-Mart. Are You Waiting to be Discovered?

- Crossroads Dispatches

'The curious shall inherit the earth.' - Jim Coudal I just got back late last night from nearly five exhausting days at my first SXSW. For a few days I wondered what I was doing among the code wranglers... ›››

Category: Innovation | Innovators and Creators | Start-Ups | Storytelling | art | entrepreneur | startup | sxsw | sxsw2006 | writing

February 28, 2006

So How Does It Feel to Be A Global Micro-brand?

- Crossroads Dispatches

I received an email from someone writing a feature on marketing innovations and global microbrands.  I answered the writer's email questions while I watch tonight's The Apprentice. (TV is rare for me, but concentration isn't a problem as I... ›››

Category: Awareness | Marketing | Social Enterprise | Storytelling | The Future of Work | The Greater Hunger | Weblogs

So How Does It Feel to Be A Global Micro-brand?

- Crossroads Dispatches

I received an email from someone writing a feature on marketing innovations and global microbrands.  I answered the writer's email questions while I watch tonight's The Apprentice. (TV is rare for me, but concentration isn't a problem as I... ›››

Category: Awareness | Marketing | Social Enterprise | Storytelling | The Future of Work | The Greater Hunger | Weblogs

Furious At Words

- Crossroads Dispatches

For two months, I realized I could live and function daily quite well (perhaps better) without being consumed with what's hot on Memeorandum. But that's not why the question of giving up blogging occured to me (that is, after... ›››

Category: Storytelling | Weblogs | writing

Furious At Words

- Crossroads Dispatches

For two months, I realized I could live and function daily quite well (perhaps better) without being consumed with what's hot on Memeorandum. But that's not why the question of giving up blogging occured to me (that is, after... ›››

Category: Storytelling | Weblogs | writing

February 24, 2006

No Sound Bytes I'm Afraid: Blogs as the Perfect Vehicle for Microstories

- Crossroads Dispatches

On the day after the tsunami anniversary, I ran into Ed, a Reuters foreign correspondent whom interviewed me and I had first met at an all-day meditation tsunami memorial event on Christmas. We sat down for a couple of... ›››

Category: Blogging | Journalism | Social Media | Storytelling | Tsunami | Weblogs | citizen journalism | disaster relief | katrina

February 13, 2006

Great Stories, Continued

- John Winsor

After reading my Sharing the Story post, a friend sent me a link to Garr Reynold's Presentation Zen blog. It's worth checking out.... ›››

Category: Storytelling

February 08, 2006

Sharing the Story

- John Winsor

Lately, I’ve been talking to lots of folks about improving their internal presentations by turning them into powerful stories. All of us have sat through boring PowerPoint presentations. So, how do you make your information have more impact? In... ›››

Category: Storytelling

January 10, 2006

Sanuk, Customers, and Friends

- Crossroads Dispatches

Just before I hit publish on this post two elderly women, Germans I presume, walk into the rental car/tour operator/Internet cafe office. Your wife. She is alive? They pause for an answer. We are so happy. She helped us... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Global Lens | Marketing | Storytelling | Tsunami | Word-of-Mouth Marketing

December 27, 2005

Bazuki: A Photographer Revisits Tsunami A Year Later

- Crossroads Dispatches

I briefly met Bazuki the other day at the Christmas Day ceremonies with the twenty-one Buddhist forest monks. He and Ed both work for Reuters, and they are among the very few journalists and photographers I've been impressed with.... ›››

Category: Innovators and Creators | Storytelling | The Greater Hunger | Tsunami

December 26, 2005

Tsunami Anniversary Photos

- Crossroads Dispatches

Photos from yesterday and today's One Year in Memory of Tsunami ceremonies on Phi Phi Island, Thailand, which a Bangkok Post reporter tells me was this country's hardest hit island. It's nearly midnight now and December 26th is coming...... ›››

Category: Global Lens | Storytelling | Tsunami

Hand Cleared

- Crossroads Dispatches

I spend an inordinate time at the press center organized by PhiPhi26community.com today uploading photos. From this vantage point at the Phi Phi Inn, which was also generously converted into a temporary medical center earlier this year until the... ›››

Category: Resiliency | Storytelling | Tsunami

Phi Phi Island, Thailand on Tsunami Anniversary, or the Laboon Anniversary

- Crossroads Dispatches

We stood for a minute of silence at 10:15 a.m. this morning. Later after the deputy prime minster has spoken, we file towards the bay. A six or seven-year old blond girl with a white sundress gently bows and... ›››

Category: Awareness | Resiliency | Storytelling | Tsunami

December 24, 2005

Return to Paradise

- Crossroads Dispatches

I wake in the morning and peek through the mosquito netting and straight through the wide slats in the bamboo hut. My line of sight ahead is above the rooftop terrace bungalows where guests slept alfresco on the evening... ›››

Category: Resiliency | Storytelling | Teachable Moments | Tsunami

December 23, 2005

Tsunami Anniversary: Mai Pen Rai

- Crossroads Dispatches

Papa Holland lent me a book written in 1965 by a US Foreign Service wife who ends up teaching at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok while her husband is stationed in Thailand. It's amazingly culturally relevant even today, and especially... ›››

Category: Awareness | Belief Systems | Social Media | Storytelling | Tsunami

Photos Haunt Us

- Crossroads Dispatches

In Krabi I picked up Time Asia, six of the sixteen Best Photos of 2005 were of disaster (including shots from the Indian Ocean tsunami, Katrina, and the Pakistan/India earthquake). Time quotes Susan Sontag: Narrative can make us understand,... ›››

Category: Awareness | Innovators and Creators | Storytelling | Teachable Moments | Tsunami

December 21, 2005

Tsunami Anniversary: Mai Pen Rai

- Crossroads Dispatches

Papa Holland lent me a book written in 1965 by a US Foreign Service wife who ends up teaching at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok while her husband is stationed in Thailand. It's amazingly culturally relevant even today, and especially... ›››

Category: Awareness | Belief Systems | Social Media | Storytelling | Tsunami

Photos Haunt Us

- Crossroads Dispatches

In Krabi I picked up Time Asia, six of the sixteen Best Photos of 2005 were of disaster (including shots from the Indian Ocean tsunami, Katrina, and the Pakistan/India earthquake). Time quotes Susan Sontag: Narrative can make us understand,... ›››

Category: Awareness | Innovators and Creators | Storytelling | Teachable Moments | Tsunami

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