Urbanism Speakeasy
11 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago -The prohibition of good design is over!
URBANISM SPEAKEASY will equip ordinary people to create happy, healthy communities. No fancy degrees or design pedigree required.
Public space is supposed to serve your interest. Streets, retail districts, plazas, and parks can be designed to promote walking and bicycling - the building blocks of vibrant places.
This show will give you storytelling and marketing tips to transform car-oriented places to people-friendly places.
Your host is Andy Boenau. He's won artistic awards for podcasting, filmmaking, and photography. His contributions to improving the built environment have been acknowledged by various outlets covering design, engineering, and culture.
https://twitter.com/Boenau
https://www.linkedin.com/in/boenau/
Curious about bike share in your community? Download Andy's book of FAQ:
http://bit.ly/BikeShareBook
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Episodes
How to end your story
July 06, 2020 14:00 - 1 minute - 968 KBStop at the end. We’ve all enjoyed a movie only to suffer through a superfluous wind-down. Be quick about it. _ https://www.speakeasymedia.tv
Body of a short story
July 01, 2020 14:00 - 2 minutes - 1.47 MBWith the exception of tweets, your shortest stories will probably be summaries of experience on your corporate website or qualifications package. In these contexts you’re relating a single contract or type of experience in less than a page, with space reserved for pictures or graphics. I find project write-ups to be the most challenging format for short stories. _ https://www.speakeasymedia.tv
How to open your story
June 29, 2020 14:00 - 2 minutes - 1.19 MBGetting to the point is timeless advice, more so in our era of flittering attention. Is the story about planning a new park? Start with the kids playing soccer at the edge of a grocery store parking lot. Open well and you’re halfway there. _ https://www.speakeasymedia.tv
Point of view
June 24, 2020 14:00 - 3 minutes - 1.7 MBYou’ve got an idea for a plot. Now what? Every story has a method of narration. A project description for a procurement your office is issuing, a proposal for your firm to build a hydroelectric dam, an About Us page on your website, a bike share case study for a webinar -- each of these has a point of view. _ https://www.speakeasymedia.tv
Thrive in a boring industry
June 22, 2020 14:00 - 3 minutes - 1.79 MBI have some encouraging news after teaching thousands of people like you in dozens of courses, workshops, and webinars. Few people in your industry are putting storytelling into practice. You may feel like you’re the last to learn a new skill, but you can make an immediate impression. Clients will turn away from the piles of industry mediocrity and fix their gaze on you. _ https://www.speakeasymedia.tv
One screen playing two movies
June 17, 2020 14:00 - 4 minutes - 4.05 MBScott Adams is the brilliant creator of Dilbert. Besides his work on the painfully true comic strip, he's written a lot about persuasion. One of the concepts he talks about quite a bit is the observation that two different people can watch the exact same thing at the same time and draw opposite conclusions. One screen playing two movies. Here's how that applies to your marketing and storytelling. _ https://www.AndyBoenau.com
Blogging and podcasting
June 15, 2020 14:00 - 4 minutes - 2.32 MBSomeone asked me recently if I had any advice for people who work in advocacy. I said Write, Publish, Repeat. Doesn’t matter if you feel unqualified or out of your element. Write. Publish. Repeat. Maybe it sounds like aspirational advice, but I have practical motives for sharing it. _ https://www.AndyBoenau.com
Avoid defensive storytelling
June 10, 2020 14:00 - 3 minutes - 2.02 MBIn the last episode I told you one of my favorite quotes: If you want to learn about a culture, listen to their stories. If you want to change a culture, change the stories. One way to change the stories is to get out of a defensive posture. Avoid the point-counterpoint stories. Any boring politician or statistician can do that, and it persuades no one. _ https://www.AndyBoenau.com
Storytelling in 3 Words
June 08, 2020 14:00 - 3 minutes - 2.1 MBOne of my favorite quotes is from a writer named Michael Margolis: “If you want to learn about a culture, listen to their stories. If you want to change a culture, change the stories.” Thousands of books have been written about how to write. You could spend the rest of your days on earth learning about story formats, language, sentence structure, and so on. But I want to give you an easy way to get started. Storytelling in 3 words: Hero. Conflict. Resolution. _ https://www.AndyBoena...
Facts don't persuade anyone
June 03, 2020 14:00 - 3 minutes - 1.99 MBPie charts, line graphs, and bar charts are only as good as the tweetable caption. Tell bold stories with your data. I promise you there's a way, no matter how boring you think the topic is. _ https://www.AndyBoenau.com
Plot sells stories
June 01, 2020 14:00 - 3 minutes - 1.91 MBYou volunteered to give a lunch-n-learn presentation for work. You know it’s not like you’re under pressure to give a TED Talk. It’s just a friendly group of coworkers. Still, why give a forgetful presentation? Let's talk about writing your short story. _ https://www.AndyBoenau.com https://twitter.com/boenau https://linkedin.com/in/boenau https://speakeasymedia.tv