via TwitterWhat's Your Story?
Welcome to CathyBrooks.com - the resource for building more persuasive stories in business
Okay, so it's my site, which means you'll mostly find my stories - my history, work and opinions (there are plenty of those). You'll also find errant sage bits of wisdom about the role of storytelling in business, and links to an array of resources that teach you how to connect "who" with "what", and as a result make your professional narrative more compelling and powerful. My name may be on the digital door, but everyone's story is welcome here.
OtherThanThat...
Tuned in to Music and Tech: An Interview with Brian Zisk of SF Music Tech Summit
In addition to writing (not at often as I’d like) for my own blog, each week I contribute a short post for the new LGBTA community site dot429. The producers of the site asked a small number of their founding members to do these weekly posts, and to make things easy on us, each week [...]
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Social Media Hour #72: Truth, Reputation and Honesty
Trust. Integrity. Reputation. Three powerful words that we’ve tackled before on Social Media Hour, and this week we take them on again. This time around it’s through two different lenses – the impact on making news from the realm of crowd sourcing it, and the idea of utterly anonymous professional business reviews and the impact [...]
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The Guide to Compelling Narratives
We all have a story. Telling it is another matter. In business people frequently toss aside their true, personal perspective in favor of spin or, even worse, a recitation of their C.V. This workshop fixes that. You'll leave this 4-hour session with a more powerful and compelling professional narrative - and some great stories to share.
Read More >>Our Miss Brooks? Chatty Cathy? Whose site is this?
A good friend and colleague of mine once said she gets amusement from describing her career path as a peripatetic one. I laughed - both because I love effective use of .25 words and because it's a description that maps to my own career. When asked for a single sentence or phrase for self-description, I've taken to proffering: raconteur and genetically inclined connector.
AlphaBitch
Be fierce as a female (especially in business) and chances are there's a word they'll call you. It's meant as an insult. It doesn't have to be. This book shows how.