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Caine’s Arcade: How Powerful Storytelling Can Make a Difference

Polaris

Stories—and storytelling—are powerful. Its signature event is the Global Cardboard Challenge, held in 2013 and 2014 on the Saturday closest to the anniversary of the 2012 flash mob. They help charities secure more donations, persuade juries in trials and sway opinions in politics and the boardroom.

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Defining Thought Leadership in a Business Blog

Ishmael's Corner

Instead, it’s the type of business storytelling that’s useful or informative and ultimately helps people in their jobs. Bring meaning to the concept of storytelling in business communications, offering pragmatic advice/insights. Out of the 139 posts published between May 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014, 126 played at the industry level.

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Creative Storytelling: Picture This: It’s Not Just the Words – It’s What You Do with Them

Waxing UnLyrical

The great Brian Solis, who I had the pleasure of seeing live in 2013 as keynote speaker at the PRSA’s International Conference, recently published this article on LinkedIn about creative storytelling. Solis says that 550,000 LinkedIn members describe themselves as storytellers. I love a good idiom. Are you one of them?

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Just Like Bad PR, There’s Bad Journalism Out There

Ishmael's Corner

To USA Today’s credit, the premise of the headline offers the promise of contrarian storytelling. It turns out seven companies in the S&P 500 spent more on R&D than Apple in 2013 and Q2 of this year. Uncategorized bad Journalism bad pr bad public relations contrarian storytelling' It’s the least we can do.

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Return of Ishmael’s Greatest Storytelling Hits

Ishmael's Corner

Taking a page from the music industry, I introduced our “greatest storytelling hits” in 2013 pulling from posts published before 2011. Now I’m going back to the well, showcasing some of my favorite posts published between 2011 and 2013. But PR can apply storytelling techniques which give lift to all forms of communications.

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Author Reflects on The Harmony of Words and Visuals in Storytelling

Ishmael's Corner

The Art Of Storytelling In Business Communications And Public Relations. That’s essentially what happened to Ella Frances Sanders when she created the post “11 Untranslatable Words From Other Cultures” in 2013. The post Author Reflects on The Harmony of Words and Visuals in Storytelling appeared first on Ishmael's Corner.

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What is a PR Campaign? How-to Guide with Examples (2025)

Prowly

Unlike advertising, which relies on paid media channels, PR campaigns focus on earning media coverage, building relationships with media professionals and target audiences, and influencing public perception through engagement and storytelling. One of the best PR campaign examples of storytelling was Dove's Real Beauty, launched in 2004.

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