Barb Shimasaki 🚢 🇺🇦 Storyteller

I retweet story 💎s so you don't miss them | Exploring how the tiniest stories connect people, projects, and possibilities | In search of unforgettable moments

[Barb Shimasaki 🚢 🇺🇦 Storyteller @BarbShimasaki]

Your *business* communication has one job.

Subject lines
headlines
podcasts
courses
(& especially 3000-word articles).

That job?

Routing.
Get your people from point A to point "A-ha!"

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@featherytravels 🎉🥳

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@chrisorzy 😢

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@KevinEspiritu Beautiful! Look at the two of you!! Thanks for sharing and celebrating your friendship!

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@brianstelter So rare

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@NickB2005 🤔

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@MeitnerTom Yes, Mr Cut to the Chase! All ears!!

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@amandanat *whiney*

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@AmandaMGoetz Im 69. Add “sustaining a social network”

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@davegerhardt 👍

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@SathyaHQ @LeeLaunches @RyanHoliday @tnvora @jjude Go Sathya go!

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@nathanbaugh27 Best endings!!

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@alischwanke Taste and discernment for the win

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@jimmy_daly Niiiiiice!

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@namangomi7 @chrisorzy Oh there was a LOT of paperwork

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@BetsyMuse Thanks Betsy!

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💎 Story alert!
Sometimes language is story insurance

Knights from all over Europe in the 12th century?

How could this possibly work?
👇

[Aristocratic Fury @LandsknechtPike]

Knights Hospitaller were an international military order. The knights came from all over Europe.

They were united by common cause and beliefs but spoke different languages which presented a problem.

So which language did they use to communicate with each other? 🧵

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@OfficalDB @herdyshepherd1 😬

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@JuliusGoat Oh snap!

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Time to reread The Unbearable Lightness Of Being.
Rest in peace, Milan Kundera.
Your stories opened my heart.