Simply communication or pure literature?!?!
"What about the role of communication today?
Today that is incredibly important – if you can’t communicate properly then game over – and it happens faster than ever before – if you can’t sum it up in 20 seconds then you may not get your point across – you don’t always have the luxury in this media environment of being able to explain yourself in a long winded debate – that’s a real issue for politicians these days!"
Buzz Marketing for Technology
This is a fragment of Tony Blair former Prime Minister of Great Brittan’s Q&A session at the World Business Forum. The interview caught my attention mainly by the short and direct answers of the former Prime Minister, while I've long time been used to reading long satiated magazine interviews. Indeed the KEEP IT SHORT AND SIMPLE slogan for today's communication is already a tradition. But taking this saying out of the room of long-followed-habits from my mind and putting it in the new-ideas-taster room recalled me an interesting presentation that I bumped over, several days ago. It was about MiniSagas. MiniSagas appear to be short narrative composition built with the same purpose like the Haiku: that of being straight and simple in your statements. The minisagas are 50 words epic compositions and the challenge in writing them is to give them flavor by using your own style (not like the Haiku which has it's own rule for style). And all this creation must keep the composition within the settled limits.
The invention of such a writing style makes me figure that literature is once again adapting to the time and to the environment. Whether this will develop in a true literary style or not, I still find the MiniSagas practical exercises for one's individual communication skills.
!! I advise everyone, including the teachers in schools and the trainers to use this exercise in their learning activities.
The MiniSagas presentation is available here.
Today that is incredibly important – if you can’t communicate properly then game over – and it happens faster than ever before – if you can’t sum it up in 20 seconds then you may not get your point across – you don’t always have the luxury in this media environment of being able to explain yourself in a long winded debate – that’s a real issue for politicians these days!"
Buzz Marketing for Technology
This is a fragment of Tony Blair former Prime Minister of Great Brittan’s Q&A session at the World Business Forum. The interview caught my attention mainly by the short and direct answers of the former Prime Minister, while I've long time been used to reading long satiated magazine interviews. Indeed the KEEP IT SHORT AND SIMPLE slogan for today's communication is already a tradition. But taking this saying out of the room of long-followed-habits from my mind and putting it in the new-ideas-taster room recalled me an interesting presentation that I bumped over, several days ago. It was about MiniSagas. MiniSagas appear to be short narrative composition built with the same purpose like the Haiku: that of being straight and simple in your statements. The minisagas are 50 words epic compositions and the challenge in writing them is to give them flavor by using your own style (not like the Haiku which has it's own rule for style). And all this creation must keep the composition within the settled limits.
The invention of such a writing style makes me figure that literature is once again adapting to the time and to the environment. Whether this will develop in a true literary style or not, I still find the MiniSagas practical exercises for one's individual communication skills.
!! I advise everyone, including the teachers in schools and the trainers to use this exercise in their learning activities.
The MiniSagas presentation is available here.
Labels: Communication
posted by lullabyaskswhy at
9:42 AM
0 Comments
