The newsletter subscription form on each page now includes an option to register via email, for those who have difficulty with the form. One "smart" link uses Javascript to automatically enter the subject, etc., in your email. The other, for older browsers, is a simple email link.
Added September 30, 2002.
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Each page now sports a link you can click on to "Email this page to a friend." When you click on it, you'll have a chance to enter your name as well as your friend's name and email address. This automatically sends an email to your friend giving the title of the page, its web address, and any comment you add. (I won't use any of this information, except to send this one email to your friend.)
Added April 17, 2002
Tooltips.
The navigation bar (the yellow bar down the left side of the screen) now has "tooltips." Tooltips are little balloons that pop up when you hold your cursor over a link, showing a few words that describe the linked page. You may have to wait a second to see them; don't click, but hold your cursor completely still. Some older browsers may not show them at all.
"This tape is so inviting that children will want to listen to it over and over again." Review by Naomi Leithold in the Chicago Parents Paper.
Added February 18, 2001
Major overhaul of the site.
Reorganized contents. Updated appearance. Navigation bar on the left side added, including the path to the current page. Each page now ends with the date it was last updated. Added search page.
Added December 9, 2000
"Electronic newsletter: eTips from the Storytelling Coach"
Do you want to spend more time on your art, and less time making a living at it? Want to finally go full-time - without becoming a slave to the business of storytelling? My first-ever telephone seminar gives you the key concepts and the most practical ideas that have changed my life. Over the last two years, I've discovered an approach to that "dirty word" among storytellers, "marketing," that has given me more time to do the work I love - and helped me secure an income with less drudgery and aggravation. Fully guaranteed!
Can't make the seminar? Enjoy an early-bird discount by pre-ordering the recording. Added May 23, 2002.
How to get a boost in your storytelling without attending an entire multi-day coaching intensive: the four-hour coaching mini-workshop gives you a summary of the coaching principles you are about to see in action, a chance to see Doug coach three other tellers, and a forty-minute turn of your own - to work on a story idea, an existing story, a project such as a tape or workshop, or any problem or issue in your storytelling.
Updated November 11, 2001
Coaching is the art of helping to free the creative intelligence of others. This workshop gives you a chance to focus on the skills of helping others overcome their storytelling obstacles. "Makes me a better listener, better communicator and better storyteller." - Fran Yardley, NY.
Added August 28, 2001.
All artists hunger to live their art. Whether you are a
storyteller, speaker, musician, writer, painter, or other
artist, you face the question, "How do I live my art, and
still live in the real world?" Now, you can give yourself - and your art - the
opportunity to spend a long weekend imagining your art as
the focus of your life. And take home the skills to make
your dream happen!Added July 19, 2001.
Are you a public speaker? Do you know any speakers
who would like an information-filled, practical, one-day
seminar on storytelling? Added July 19, 2001.
A detailed description of the annual 4-day workshop offered by Doug and Judith Black. Combining coaching with workshop presentations, integrating beginners with seasoned professionals, this is a workshop that people come back to again and again. Added April 14, 2001
Doug's speech and/or training session that teaches professionals and managers to use what storytellers have discovered about image and vision, about meaning, message, and relationship.
Held November 30-December 3, 2000. A unique event on an unspoiled island off the Georgia coast. Finally, the setting that matches the power and beauty of transformational stories.
Do you want to spend more time on your art, and less time making a living at it? Want to finally go full-time - without becoming a slave to the business of storytelling? My first-ever telephone seminar gives you the key concepts and the most practical ideas that have changed my life. Over the last two years, I've discovered an approach to that "dirty word" among storytellers, "marketing," that has given me more time to do the work I love - and helped me secure an income with less drudgery and aggravation. Fully guaranteed!
Can't make the seminar? Enjoy an early-bird discount by pre-ordering the recording. Added May 23, 2002.
Everything you need to protect and enhance your irreplaceable instrument - your voice. Includes two videos, two audios, a booklet, wall-chart, and pocket warm-up guide - even an "Exercise video for your voice." Stop neglecting your voice today! Now available! Updated February 1, 2002
Five storytellers in a lively concert - recorded at the very start of the storytelling revival. Jay O'Callahan, Jackson Gillman, Maggi Peirce, Doug Lipman - and more. Added February 26, 2001
Doug's forward to a ground-breaking book about the applications of storytelling to issues of influence, inspiration, and creating mutually respectful communities. Storytelling moves beyond its important sphere as an art form and becomes also a key ingredient in helping organizations work on all levels. Added April 18, 2002
By "midrash," I mean the practice of adding episodes to a story, in order to clarify or change the story's meaning. This concept illuminates how meaning can be shaped - or radically changed - by simple narrative changes. Added September 23, 2001
How do we know that a story is being told? The concept of "framing" clarifies many basics about the expectations inherent in telling and listening to stories.
Added May 13, 2000
When I was a boy, my father made up a story for me - and, in his confusion about the need to be perfect, taught me that what matters is not just the story you tell, but the act of telling. Added April 14, 2001
A great opportunity for a small number of storytellers who are serious about their online presence. An absurdly low monthly fee for a full-service, professional web hosting account. Plus free web domain name registration!
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