{"id":3475,"date":"2022-08-09T02:44:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T02:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/verbnerd\/?page_id=3475"},"modified":"2022-08-09T19:15:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:15:29","slug":"verb-nerd-story-about-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/verbnerd\/verb-nerd-story-about-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Active verbs and industrious nerds: a story about storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My name is Tom Mangan. I used to be a news guy; now I&#8217;m a technology storytelling guy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started this one-man storytelling enterprise on Valentine&#8217;s Day, 2011 (hey, it seemed romantic at the time). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I went to County Clerk&#8217;s Office to register my new business, they asked for a business name. I had to call it something and Verb Nerd Industries seemed catchy at the time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can say with firm resolution that this name caught me precisely zero clients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>But it did get me in the storytelling business<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The name remained, mostly because I was too busy building a business to change it. But it turned out I was on to something. Indeed, Verb Nerd Industries came to represent three pillars of my storytelling enterprise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Verbs matter the most<\/strong>. Sure, nouns and adjectives identify and describe. But verbs drive action and produce results. Storytelling must do the same.<\/li><li><strong>Nerds are my favorite people<\/strong>. I was a technology geek before Mosaic was a browser. I get a kick out of learning why techies build things. And I enjoy crafting narratives explaining how these tools make life better for real people.<\/li><li><strong>Fortune favors the industrious<\/strong>. Working with dozens of tech clients over more than a decade convinces me that nothing beats a deft combination of ingenuity, resourcefulness and hard work.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2>Let&#8217;s do some storytelling together <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need a B2B technology writer who digs deep to understand why your customers buy from you, you&#8217;ve got a few choices: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tommangan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stop by my LinkedIn profile<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.contently.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out my Contently portfolio<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/verbnerd\/get-in-touch-with-verb-nerd-industries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Contact me<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/verbnerd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Back to Verb Nerd home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Tom Mangan. I used to be a news guy; now I&#8217;m a technology storytelling guy. I started this one-man storytelling enterprise on Valentine&#8217;s Day, 2011 (hey, it seemed romantic at the time). When I went to County&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/verbnerd\/verb-nerd-story-about-storytelling\/\">Click to read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/verbnerd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/verbnerd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/verbnerd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/verbnerd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/verbnerd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/verbnerd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/verbnerd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3475\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/verbnerd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}