Idea Orgasms: Playfulness and Creativity

Idea Orgasms! Image source: gratisography.com Idea Orgasms - How Play Fuels Creativity On Friday, June 24th, I did a great blab with my friend, Gary Ware, on achieving breakthroughs with playfulness and creativity. Why? Because the collision of ideas gives us creative fuel! In this blab [...]

By |2017-02-21T22:30:58+00:00June 24, 2016|

Bust Boring Content! Sheet Fitters Example

I hear this a lot: "I work in a boring industry or I have a boring product. There isn't much I can do." I disagree. You can bust boring content. There is no boring product or industry - only boring marketing lacking imagination. I believe anyone can think [...]

By |2017-02-21T22:31:41+00:00June 23, 2016|

Why John Oliver Rocks Content and So Can You

  John Oliver, Source: Youtube.com, This Week with John Oliver Why John Oliver Rocks Content I love John Oliver. He's up there in my comedy pantheon along with Key and Peele and Jon Stewart (who gave him his start on The Daily Show). He's smart, insightful, self-deprecating, and [...]

By |2017-02-21T22:32:17+00:00June 22, 2016|

How to be a More Human Connector: with Bryan Kramer

I had such a great time talking to my friend, Bryan Kramer of Purematter on the show recently. Bryan is an influencer, a down-to-earth nice guy and such a powerful connector. We had fun chatting about how to be a more human connector and the powerful lessons he's [...]

By |2017-02-21T22:36:59+00:00April 21, 2016|

Visual Storytelling with Comics

Simplifying Complex Concepts: The Power of Visual Storytelling with Comics I love this article about how a student turned her PhD work in science into a comic book for people who might not otherwise care. Power of Visual Storytelling, Source: mentalfloss.com It never says “visual storytelling” [...]

By |2018-01-06T03:30:48+00:00April 10, 2016|

Comedy in Live-Streaming Video (Vid)

Recently, I had so much hosting a blab with two super smart video people, Tim Washer and Brian Fanzo. Tim knows more about adding humor to b2b video than almost anyone I know and he and I are both humor fans and improvisers as well as marketers. Brian [...]

By |2017-02-21T22:39:18+00:00April 9, 2016|

Improvisation in Business Storytelling

End of February 2016, I got to chat on a video blab with one of my fave fellow improvisers, Kat Koppett, about improvisation in business storytelling, and how principles of improvisation can help us be better storytellers. In short, storytelling models from improvisation can help shape better stories. [...]

By |2017-02-21T22:40:04+00:00March 13, 2016|

Social Media Marketing Humor from Kathy Klotz-Guest

Avoid Snoredom Keeping it Human is about weaving storytelling and humor into marketing for myself and for my clients. Here is my collection of images, sayings, and vids that are fun examples of social media marketing humor. There are so many ways to add humor into [...]

By |2017-02-21T22:44:14+00:00January 31, 2016|

Stop Marketing Bullshit – Use These Three Words

Bullshit is all around. And most of us agree we hate it. Yet, sometimes we do it. Yep - even me in my younger days. Until I realized how much marketing bullshit hurts us. We need to stop marketing bullshit in our professional and personal lives. It does [...]

By |2017-02-21T22:45:44+00:00January 25, 2016|