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8212; Next ». Meeting at the river-bank. 8220;This is like meeting up at the riverbank, isn’t it? He paused for a brief moment, pensive, puzzled. “Should that have been the other way round? I can never get those clichà s right…”. What are some of your own ‘meetings by the river-bank’? With whom was that meeting? What were your respective territories – from different families, perhaps, different businesses or communities? Different cultures, faiths, professional disciplines? As you do this reflection, not...
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Zahmoo » Blog Archives » Tags, comments and links
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8212; Next ». Tags, comments and links. Continuing the theme of linking between posts in Zahmoo. Two other ways to create inter-story links: with tags, and with comments. A really simple way to create implicit links between stories is to use the same tags. You can then include the tags in a search, as selected on the form on the search-page; or, to show all stories with that tag, simply click on the tag-link in the list shown in the grey box on the search-page. You’ll then see the current list of t...
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Zahmoo » Blog Archives » Get ready for story-season
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8212; Next ». Get ready for story-season. 8220;‘Tis the season to be merry”, some say. For many people it’s also a season to reminisce and reflect, to look back at the passing year and years. Which means it’s also a time when the stories tend to flow free – so are you ready to catch them as they drift by? To get the best value out of those gatherings, we need to make sure we’re ready for them. First, think about logistics. Do you have the equipment that you need? You’ll need a. Can be very useful here...
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Archive for 'How to' Category. Next Page ». Twice this week I’ve been sent an email with a ’round the dinner-table’ photo, as a memento of where I’ve been – one from a business-meeting in Austria, the other from a family gathering in south-west England. Each of these photos describes a real story in itself. But what can I do with them, and [.]. October 1st, 2012 by Zahmoo. Filed in: For Business. 8221; Back in the present day, a phone-call from a close colleague: “Are you up for an HEC this week? In most...
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Zahmoo » Blog Archives » Listen for the deeper story
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Listen for the deeper story. 8220;I was born in Ajdabiya, I live in Ajdabiya, I will die in Ajdabiya”, he says, as he takes a brief respite from protecting his Libyan home town in April 2011. 8220;I’m actually 20 years old”, he adds, with a grin, “because you need to subtract Gaddafi’s 42 years in power. Even the grey hairs I got from Gaddafi are gone.”. Yet at Zahmoo we’ve noticed that people will sometimes talk about narrative and story as if there’s only ever the one Big Story. We’re fortunate i...
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Zahmoo » Blog Archives » Don’t forget the metadata!
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8212; Next ». Don’t forget the metadata! How do we know which stories to use, and for what purpose? What would each story. The answers to those questions often reside not in the story itself, but in the other information that we collate. That story – in other words, what’s known as theÂ. For stories in our story-bank, Zahmoo helps us in much the same way. It can’t automatically create much of our story-metadata, of course, but it does remind us to do so ourselves. For example, when you ente...Checkbox is...
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Zahmoo » Recording
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Archive for 'Recording' Category. Yes, I’ll admit it: it’s a trick, of course. But it’s a useful trick – especially for those of us who need to collect stories for organisations, communities, and even for family-history. The place is important here: it needs to be the right kind of place, the right atmosphere – the kind of ‘story-place’ where [.]. October 5th, 2012 by Zahmoo. Filed in: For Business. How do we learn in action? January 18th, 2012 by Zahmoo. Filed in: For Business. Get ready for story-season.
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Zahmoo » Blog Archives » Seasons
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8212; Next ». Here in my mother’s garden it’s already late summer – the last of those subtly-scented roses, the last of the summer light and warmth before the fall begins and the old statue is laid bare again. Back where I lived down south, of course, it’s just turning towards spring: a different season indeed – a different world, almost, it seems now. To each place its own seasons. And that’s just as true for families, communities, businesses – they have their seasons too. Whose stories are they? And yo...
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Zahmoo » Blog Archives » Lost and unlost
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8212; Next ». What are your own stories of this, in your family, your community, your business? In what ways did you or someone else become lost? In what sense of ‘being lost’ – place, ideas, behaviours, relations with others? How did that happen? And what happened next? Did the story have a happy ending, as in my own examples there? Or was there a more tragic turn to the tale? Either way, what was learned? Apply the usual story-themes to guide you in this:. Who were the people, the players in the story?
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