Head to our new home, COMMUNITY EXPRESSIONS: http://community-expressions.com
As my work has evolved away from setting up centers for community digital exploration and into the heart of storytelling approaches for community building, the Digital Explorations website, as wonderful as it is, doesn’t quite capture the feel and scope of Community Expressions. And so, I am [...]
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New Website! Head to our new home, COMMUNITY EXPRESSIONS: http://community-expressions.com
October 27, 2011 – 8:54 pm
The Work Evolves: Story and Storytelling
October 18, 2011 – 10:56 am
Over the past year as the storytelling work has taken me on the road more and more to work with communities, foundations and academic institutions, my ideas and techniques have evolved, growing ever more effective, I hope, and ever easier to implement. This website no longer reflects the work as accurately as I would like. [...]
Workshop to Go: Storytelling for Community Planning
June 23, 2011 – 9:02 am
For the Orton Family Foundation, we have put together a 30-minute workshop in both video and slideshow formats to take you through an overview of storytelling in community planning efforts, using Orton’s project partner towns as examples to learn from, and with exercises to work through as you think about employing storytelling in your community. [...]
Posted in Digital Storytelling, News, Projects, Reflection, Rural Life, Uncategorized, Workshops, materials, storytelling
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Tagged community engagement, community planning, Orton Family Foundation, storytelling
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LocalMatters: Planning a Storytelling Project for Community Engagement
March 11, 2011 – 8:11 am
This past fall, we participated in the Community Matters’ 10 Conference in Denver by offering a full-day pre-conference workshop on designing an effective storytelling workshop to enhance community engagement. We created a wiki that followed the workshop and offered strategies, exercises, and resources. You are welcome to have a look!
Posted in Rural Life, Workshops, materials, storytelling
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Tagged community matters, how-to, Workshops
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Storytelling Paper Published
March 10, 2011 – 5:36 pm
The Orton Family Foundation has just published an online version of the paper I wrote for them, Reweaving the Community, Creating the Future: Storytelling at the Heart and Soul of Healthy Communities. I’m pleased to have it go live, and in a format that invites conversation about this powerful approach to community engagement efforts. Do [...]
From Barbara’s Blog: Memories of Ancestors, Thoughts of the Land
July 6, 2009 – 1:40 pm
July 4
Being the daughter of a historian who spent his life researching, writing, and teaching about the early days of this country, I’m naturally thinking back today as I look out over the fields I call home…to the rich history of Vermont and its role in the country’s story, its public figures from [...]
Summer & Fall Workshops in Vermont
April 30, 2009 – 8:45 am
We offer a sampling of our innovative, experiential workshops here in our Vermont barn. If you’re interested in exploring the rich promise of storytelling and social media, come be inspired by our surroundings and our creative exercises and expertise.
Ask us about our Workshops-to-Go!
Posted in Launch, News, Projects, Reflection, Uncategorized, storytelling
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Tagged News, social media, storytelling, Workshops
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Digital Story of Damariscotta Heart & Soul Story Interviews
April 18, 2009 – 5:17 pm
Watch a short movie of excerpts from neighbor-to-neighbor chats in Damariscotta, Maine as part of Orton Family Foundation’s Heart and Soul Project.
With Orton, we are exploring the potential role of storytelling, both traditional and digital forms, in community engagement efforts. Damariscotta has experimented with story circles and story interviews thus far as ways to bring [...]
Posted in Digital Storytelling, Projects, storytelling
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Tagged Damariscotta Maine, DigEx, Digital Storytelling, interviews, Orton Family Foundation, storytelling
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We’re Up and Running…
April 17, 2009 – 10:54 am
We’ve made it–onto our website–after a couple of years of dreaming from inside the walls of higher education about a different model of learning: townspeople coming together online and in person to share their collected expertise, their community-based projects, their processes through connecting, creating, collaborating and conversing–here, in town, online, and all over the country! From talking through the possibilities with The Fab Fearless Five and convincing my fabulous board and staff to join me in this adventure, to securing our first contracts and collaborations , I am thrilled by the response to our vision for bringing storytelling (both old and new), connective strategies (both old and new), and Centers for Community Digital Exploration into the heart of rural downtowns.
Vermont Workshop: Planning a Community Storytelling Project
April 15, 2009 – 8:23 pm
On April 14, we led a workshop, on planning community storytelling projects, for Orton Family Foundation in Starksboro, Vermont as part of their Art & Soul Project, an initiative to use art to enhance civic engagement in rural communities as they plan for their future. View the slides from the workshop here:
Starksboro Overview
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Posted in Projects, storytelling
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Tagged civic engagement, DigEx, Orton Family Foundation, rural communities, Starksboro, storytelling, Vermont
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