Storytelling Corner

Exploring storytelling lessons from popular media

19 brilliant gift ideas to win Christmas: A holiday gift giving guide by the geeky Moonsail North team

Is your goal is to win Best Gift award at your family/friend/office holiday party this year, but you find yourself stressed out and gift-less as you read this? Because let’s face it, who’s got time to brainstorm, find, research, buy…

5 tips to boost your social media impact with better photos

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I started taking photos with the most inexpensive camera you can buy: an oatmeal box pinhole camera. It may have been made of cardboard, duct tape and a piece of an aluminum can, but it taught me how a photo…

An innovative approach to opening doors of opportunity for children

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Educare California at Silicon Valley is an innovative school in San Jose, California for early learning, and this video captures the moment last week when children broke open the school’s banner — a symbolic gesture that replaced a more traditional…

Helping innovators — like the USGBC — communicate and grow

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When people ask what we do at Moonsail North, our answer is pretty simple. We use storytelling and strategy to help innovators communicate and grow. We helped a Silicon Valley start-up run a Kickstarter that beat its goal by 34…

Developing an authentic personal brand

It was a pleasure to be share a presentation on developing a personal brand as part of today’s41st annual Kaleidoscope event presented by the Sparrow Foundation and Women Working Wonders. Kaleidoscope is designed to empower, enrich, and inspire women through a focus on…

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Celebrating stillness (every once in a while, anyway)

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It should go without saying that we love digital media – it’s a big part of what we do at Moonsail North! In fact, we’ve spent a lot of time writing about some of our favorite digital hacks here in…

Slack + startup: A love story

You know that moment in a new relationship when you realize the person you’re with is a keeper? I seem to have that moment every week with Slack, described by NiemanLab writer Laura Hazard Owen as “a virtual meeting room and water…

Create a high impact infographic in Canva – for free!

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Canva has long been one of Moonsail North’s favorite free design tools. We use Canva to spice up our social media by creating sharable inspirational quotes, adding visual elements to our blog posts, and bringing facts to life through eye-catching…

99 reasons to love Google, but Google+ was not one

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The quick-scan version of this post (all you need to know as a user): The upshot: You will eventually no longer need to have a Google+ account to access Google-owned platforms such as YouTube. This will be rolled out in…

Sorry, crazy uncles – Facebook’s news feed changes made you less relevant

Oh, Facebook. Such a wonderful tool for so many reasons – keeping up with old friends, venting to a captive audience, and even playing a small role in major world events. But let’s be real – Facebook can be a…

(P)insight into Pinterest’s new buyable pins

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Earlier this month, Pinterest announced a big change: in-platform purchasing integration through Buyable Pins. Pins, Pins and More Pins What’s the difference between product pins, promoted pins, and buyable pins? Product pins include the price of an item and link…

6 tips that may be of (P)interest to you

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Pinterest is changing creativity as we know it. Where else can you find fashion trends, art (p)inspiration, humor and an adorable teacup pig all in one place? I lost count of how many times the recipe to my favorite dish…

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