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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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Building interest in your story-bank
How do you gain the best value from the stories in your Zahmoo story-bank? How do you develop the interest in collecting, storing and re-using the shared stories of your family, your community, your business? We call Zahmoo a ‘story-bank’, and that metaphor of a bank can be useful here. Think of your stories as […]
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The story behind the story
You have a story. You have a collection of stories, in Zahmoo. But what’s the story behind each of those stories? What’s the greater story that links all of those stories together? I drive around town with a friend, a retired builder. He points at the Town Hall: “That’s one of mine” he says. “Fixed […]
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Finding your place in the story
How do you connect with place? What is it about a place that helps establish meaning for each small story? How do the samenesses and differences between places help to remind you of who you are, what has meaning for you, your family, community, company? People, place and time are some of the most common […]
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Small moments that matter
Small moments – small stories – are often those that matter most in telling us the true character of a person, a community, a corporation. For example, take my cousin Netty: always charming on the surface, yet also fiercely competitive. So much so that when we were kids, playing a board-game, if it looked like […]
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Find yourself a community
Family history research, just like just about everything else, can be helped by seeking out the support of a community around the topic. Thanks to the internet and all the online platforms we have now access to, finding a community of interest is a just a few search terms and clicks away. Directories Cora Num […]
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Backing up your bank
The process of collecting and building a bank of stories is a cumulative one. If you’re just starting out, it might seem like you’ve only got a few stories to tell about your family. As you dig deeper (see other posts here and here on how to do that) and build up some momentum, you […]
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Ancient storytelling traditions
Cultures around the world all have their own traditions around storytelling and storytellers to reflect their ways of life, values and aspirations. — In ancient Greece, storytellers were travellers who peddled fables (stories with a moral or a message), legends (like the stories of Aeneas and Ulysses), and myths (about the gods). As well as […]
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