February 22, 2011 By Maikiko James, Active Voice Program Manager For the last decade, Active Voice has built its portfolio of work around stories of immigration, an issue that becomes increasingly polarized while solutions seem to be dimming. With Shelbyville Multimedia, we’ve embarked upon our most ambitious and challenging project on the subject to date….
By CJ Callen Rosencrantz: What are you playing at? Guildenstern: Words. Words. They’re all we have to go on. — Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard Words matter and strike at the heart of what it means to engage in respectful dialogue with others. Alas, respectful dialogue remains elusive in our Hollywood black…
By Jill Blair January 11, 2011 Thanks to TWI, I was referred to and just finished reading Malcom Gladwell’s article Small Change: why the revolution will not be tweeted, (New Yorker, October 2, 2010). The article resonated with me. I wondered if the echo was generational – me being my age and he being his,…
By John Esterle Continuing the story telling theme from my last post…. Free Range Thinking is a monthly newsletter written by Andy Goodman for “public interest communicators who want to reach more people with impact.” In this December article he cites intriguing research that explores the persuasive power of stories vs data. In this contest,…