Storytelling is a fine way to grab people’s attention, be it in a blog post, be it in social life. Stories are what get people interested in what you have to say (or sell). It’s a way to engage them, and make them read on or want to know more. A great example is this commercial from Canal +.
Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category
Never Underestimate the Power of a Great Story
Thursday, November 5th, 2009Kevin Spacey tries to explain Twitter to David Letterman
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Have a funny Fortnight
Monday, June 8th, 2009
Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version
Sir Ken Robinson: A New View of Human Capacity
Friday, April 24th, 2009
Wonderful inspiring talk by Sir Ken Robinson, author of “The Element”, on the issues of creativity, inovation, and that special something we all have, but few of us use. I’m getting the book.
O does Jay
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
A funny and content rich interview given by The President of the United States Barack Obama to Jay Leno, on the Tonight Show.
Com todas as letras
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Versão não censurada de parte do programa “Governo Sombra” da TSF, em que se comenta o insulto de um deputado do PSD a um ao PS, durante um debate parlamentar. É preciso ter tomates. Para não dizer C******.
How the stock market works – the monkey story
Thursday, January 15th, 2009This was sent to me by email. I don’t know the source. If you do, please let me know so I can credit it. I find it a very funny (and true) analogy to the times we have been living.
“Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them.
The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.
Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it !
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50 ! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.
In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. “Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each.”
The villagers hurried round with all their savings and bought all the monkeys.
Then they never saw the man nor his assistant again, only bloody monkeys everywhere!
Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works.”
Colbert on Madoff
Tuesday, January 13th, 200924: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
Friday, December 5th, 2008
Very funny parody of how the Internet world was, just a few years ago. My my, how things have changed since then!
Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and play
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
I read Fred’s post, got curious about IDEO, added the book
to my reading list, and found this engaging talk by their CEO Tim Brown.
