Archive for December, 2011

Stories of celebration

They come out each Christmas, those very domestic angels, hanging above the fireplace with their gingerbread-tray and cake-mixing bowl, and the rotund Santa Claus between them. In front of the bookshelves, my mother counts the Christmas cards, clicking on the small grey clicker-counter in her hand, a relic of the long-closed library. “One hundred and […]

December 25th, 2011 by Zahmoo
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Listening for the story

How do we collect stories? How do we know which stories to collect, and why? For that matter, what is a story, in the sense that we use it in Zahmoo? For practical answers to those questions above, one of our best resources is the Anecdote website. If we need ideas about how to use story […]

December 19th, 2011 by Zahmoo
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Get ready for story-season

“‘Tis the season to be merry”, some say. For many people it’s also a season to reminisce and reflect, to look back at the passing year and years. Which means it’s also a time when the stories tend to flow free – so are you ready to catch them as they drift by? Family gatherings […]

December 12th, 2011 by Zahmoo
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Don’t forget the metadata!

How do we know which stories to use, and for what purpose? What would each story mean, in real-world practice? The answers to those questions often reside not in the story itself, but in the other information that we collate around that story – in other words, what’s known as the metadata for the story. Think […]

December 9th, 2011 by Zahmoo
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Getting started with your Zahmoo story-bank

You’ve decided you want to use Zahmoo as your story-bank. But how do you get started? Here’s how. Go to the Zahmoo website, and perhaps first browse around the three focus-areas: family community business As we’ll see in a moment, these focus-areas also represent different account-plans – different levels and capabilities for your Zahmoo story-bank. […]

December 5th, 2011 by Zahmoo
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