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		<title>Diversity is Inclusion &#8211; Telling a story so I can hear your story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently a client asked me to find and record the stories in their organization that demonstrate and promote diversity. Across 48 countries this organization interacts with people from impoverished to wealthy, from indigenous to expatriates, and they know they have a problem with gender inequality. I&#8217;m not an expert in digital storytelling. So I asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juicy, Colorful, Textured and Vivid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Create a vivid picture by using descriptive details that light up more than one part of a listener&#8217;s sensory cortex. Mix up sensory details sound and vision when you describe a detail like a quiet face, a blue humming, or screaming purple. Every sense you stimulate makes your story feel more like a real experience. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lean In! Stories about Women and the Will to Lead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to talk about Sheryl Sandberg and her new book, &#8220;Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.&#8221; I share her story and a few stories of my own in this video. I believe that along with storytelling tips, sending you videos like this will help develop your storytelling talents by reminding you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflecting on the Messiah Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The characteristics of a Messiah (from TVtrope.com) are: loves everyone, gives anyone 2nd chances, and returns cruelty with kindness and anger with calm.]]></description>
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		<title>Puppies, Paintings, and Philosophers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stories come from every where, every field of study, and particularly from people who deeply care about something, or someone.  Seek the geeks!!]]></description>
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		<title>Hanging Out in Our Underwear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stories get told when extra-ordinary events happen, and these change relationship only when they feel personal.  Read on&#8230;. During a recent visit to Austin, I met a ring-tailed tooter named JoAnn.  As true Southern ladies, we got to know one another before mentioning anything tacky like the property I called to discuss.  We shared our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From “Contact” to Friend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to confess I never liked the word “contacts.”  I have always preferred to make friends but social networking warmed me up to the word: contacts.  I probably don’t know you personally, but I appreciate you because you and I ARE connected.  I wish I knew you better, knew some of your stories.  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Storytelling and Structure&#8230;not so much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“What’s your opinion on the topic of structuring business presentations as Story?” Question from: Gonzales Alvarez Good question, Gonzales. Let me begin by giving my definition of a story: A story is a narrated sequence of words or other triggers in a way that an simulated experience (def: images, smells, sounds, tastes, touches, and emotions) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annettesimmons.com/infrequently-answered-questions/storytelling-and-structure-not-so-much/</link>
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		<title>Saying &#8220;Hero&#8221; One Too Many Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The” hero story never existed as a myth. It may be "a" hero story, but that's not the same.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annettesimmons.com/infrequently-answered-questions/saying-hero-one-too-many-times/</link>
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		<title>Raf asked me about &#8220;untrue stories&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How true does a story have to be?&#8221; Raf &#8211; a good buddy who stretches my brain &#8211; asked me to visit  http://significantobjects.com/ where people make up stories and compete to see how much value they can add. I puff up with pride and can barely muffle my &#8220;told you so!&#8221; when well told stories take [...]]]></description>
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