Stories

I have been doing a fair amount of speaking at various groups and conferences lately and have noticed that while I am telling the story of some deep-dive research there are always some people in the audience who are shaking their head or giving a bit of a tsk tsk when I talk about the unexamined assumptions some of our clients have made.

Recently a friend of mine asked me if I knew any freelance writers who would be interested in a temporary gig. He needed someone to write a few general audience pamphlets about his gaming company. Nothing too technical. 

There's a deli near the office that many of us frequent for lunch. They make a good sandwich at a good price (for Gastown anyway). Recently, they changed ownership and although they kept the basic format, small changes began to creep in. Now, I'm all for change but some of the new ideas were questionable. One minor change in particular annoyed me.

Last December I organized ADG's Christmas party. We decided to have the event at the office so I began researching local caterers. This was the first time I'd organized an office party and I wanted to make sure that people enjoyed it. That meant we needed lots of food.

It’s been a year full of wonderful (travel!, new job!) and some not so wonderful experiences – lots of false starts and surprises. Thankfully, things have turned out very well in the end, but the trend continues through December. As a last test for my endurance and patience, my husband got very sick with the H1N1 flu and was unable to help with any holiday preparations. None.

Colour is the worst reason to buy a bike says my local bike seller (we’re talking bicycles here, not motorcycles). I can’t really disagree, it’s true, there are so many other things to consider like fit, comfort, components, style of bike that really colour shouldn’t even appear on the list of requirements.

Lately stories and storytelling have become a bit of a theme around ADGi. It started a couple of months ago with me noting that a company we were doing some business with referred Very Often to their “story” as in “we have a great story to tell about our SharePoint implementation services” or “I met with those guys and didn’t like their story.”