last updated 5/14/2004
We all have been told stories in our lifetimes since we were quite young. There is a common notion that the role of storytelling is primarily constrained to bedtime or play time for children. Recently it has become more popular to extend role of storytelling and the lable of storyteller to include the work of Hollywood filmmakers. "Really, I'm just a storyteller," we might hear Spielberg say in an interview on E!. "Me too!" responds Scorsese.
The true role of story and storytelling is much greater, older, and elemental than Hollywood. The human animal is a narrative animal. We are made of stories. We speak them, understand them, remember them, and live them. In the canonical image of village people sitting around a fire at night, everybody is listening to the storyteller tell the tales of the day, the season or of the people themselves. The tales were about life itself – living it, surviving it and ending it; whether historically or metaphorically. And since stories are such an important part of our very nature, we have no choice but to apply this natural and powerful tool to entertainment as well as to the other parts of our lives, like business.
Story and storytelling are tools like any other - a pencil, a computer. No longer behind the scenes, an increasing number of professionals are discovering the power and applicability of story proficiency for business management, knowledge management, organizational development, coaching, sales, and software interface design. In large and small corporations, storytelling is not just for the marketing and legal departments anymore. Some of the theoretical background for these uses of story comes from the scientific study of narrative, known as narratology; some comes from leaders, researchers and visionaries of the business world like IBM's Dave Snowden; some comes from computer science; and some comes from common experience,common sense, and a common understanding of humanity.
The links below represent a sampling of professionals, writers, researchers, and organizations that are furthering the investigation and application of story in business and other organizational contexts. The list is in no particular order and is not exhaustive. It is offered as merely a beginning taste of how people are applying stories and narrative research to various professional endeavors. Stories are not just for bed time, but for all the time.
-Kevin Brooks, Ph.D.
kevin.brooks@motorola.com
Steve Denning
Author of The Springboard Story
http://www.stevedenning.com/
Advance chapters of his new book, "Squirrel Inc.: A Fable Of Leadership & Storytelling",
to be published
by Jossey-Bass in June 2004.
www.stevedenning.com/squirrel.htm
Master class in organizational storytelling by Steve Denning and Dave Snowden
http://www.aia.org/conferences/
http://www.stevedenning.com/Masterclass%20US%2003.pdf
http://www.ark-group.com/events/conferences.asp
Doug Lipman
Storyteller, professional story coach and workshop leader. Doug Lipman
is an amazing coach. He practically invented coaching for artists and
performers.
www.storydynamics.com
Karen Dietz - Polaris Associates
A folklorist and business consultant that assists companies in their communication
needs booth internally and externally. Karen is also Executive
Director of the National Storytelling Network (NSN).
http://www.polaris-associates.com
Tim Sheppard - Storytelling FAQ
A very comprehensive storytelling site that Tim has been building for several
years. Quite impressive.
http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story
Vandania Story Studio
http://www.vswebs.com
The Six Stories You Need to Know How to Tell
An exerpt from Annette Simmons’book
The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence,
andPersausion Through Storytelling
http://www.storytellingcenter.net/resources/articles/simmons.htm
The Liquid Narrative Group
Part of the Dept. of Computer Science, North Carolina State University
Prof. R. Michael Young, dir.
http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/
Garage Cinema Research Group, UC Berkeley
Prof. Marc Davis, Dir.
http://garage.sims.berkeley.edu
Interactive Cinema Group - MIT Media Lab
http://ic.media.mit.edu/
The Narrative Psychology Internet Resource Guide
http://web.lemoyne.edu/~hevern/narpsych.html
Loren Niemi
Storyteller, corporate and dramatic consultant, chairman of the board for the
National Storytelling Network
http://www.storytelling.org/Niemi/default.htm
Storytelling: Passport to Success in the 21st Century
Why is there a resurgence of interest among today's business and organizational
leaders in the ancient art of storytelling at a time when electronic communications
might seem to make it obsolete? Human beings have been communicating with
each other through storytelling since we lived in caves and sat around campfires
exchanging tales. What is new today about the art of telling stories is the
purposeful use of narrative to achieve a practical outcome with an individual,
a community, or an organization. Four of the world's leading thinkers on
knowledge management explore how storytelling will become the key ingredient
to managing communications, education, training, and innovation in the 21st
century.
http://www.creatingthe21stcentury.org/
Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Compassion
A book
by Marshall Rosenberg about "deep listening" with many
stories and illustrations.
http://www.nonviolentcommunication.com/
Envisioning and Storytelling
A Vancouver British Columbia comany that uses story work with
resort developers and other clients to create branding. Very nice flash
animation site with good explanations of what they do. Especially interesting
is their definition of Story Management.
http://www.e-and-s.com/
The use of metaphors in journalistic stories - specifically having
to do with the Gulf War
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15414
Leading Thoughts
A
talent management firm for business speakers,
including Steve Denning
"In 2002, I was being increasingly contacted by people and firms who were
primarily and directly interested in organizational storytelling to solve business
problems. There was evidence of significant progress towards recognizing
narrative as a central way of understanding and interacting with the world
(reversing two and a half thousand years of bad press)."
http://www.leadingthoughts.com
Narrativity
A business consultancy that uses narrative as a model
for their work. It is directed by Ashraf Ramzy, who has strong background knowledge
of narratology.
http://www.narrativity.net/
David Skyrme, Associates
A business consultancy specializing in
knowledge management. An associate and information analyst in the firm, Jan
Wyllie, has
created "Taxonomies: Frameworks for Corporate Knowledge"
http://www.skyrme.com/
Six Minute Cinema
Founded by Frank Felker, a leading proponent
of short-subject digital storytelling.
http://www.sixmincin.com
The Dialogue Group
A
company that provides dialogue fascilitation
to organizations. Their web page offers some nice definitions of human dialogue,
plus a comparrison
between "dialogue" and "discussion."
"Dialogue
is a foundational communication process leading directly to personal and organizational
transformation.
It
assists
in creating
environments
of high
trust and openness, with reflective and generative capacities. One might think
of dialogue as a revolutionary approach in the development of the following
organizational disciplines: continuous learning, diversity, conflict exploration,
decision making and problem solving, leadership, self-managing teams, organizational
planning and alignment, and culture change."--Linda Ellinor , 1996
http://www.thedialoguegrouponline.com
Robert McKee
Story and screenwriting instructor and guru
http://mckeestory.com/
Seth Kahn's excellent resource page for Community Building and storytelling
in organizations
http://www.communitystorywork.com/
NASA's ASK Magazine
Published by NASA's Academy of Program and Project Leadership.
The stories that appear in ASK are written by project practitioners – primarily
from NASA, but also from government agencies, industry, and academics.
http://appl1.nasa.gov/ask/issues/15/overview/home.html
Svend-Erik Engh
Organizational Storyteller in Denmark
http://www.historier.dk/english.htm
StoryQuest
A
story application business consultancy, founded by Tim Keelan. Using Stories
to help business, connect, teach and build trust.
www.storyquest.us
Richard Stone
Storytelling programs and services with other resources,
including great articles on storytelling and its applications in organizational
life,
as well as how it relates to leadership.
www.storywork.com
David Vanadia - Vandania Story Studio
- A virtual meeting space for people applying story to many disciplines and
a collection of workshop and conference listings
www.storytalk.com
- A collection of New York City stories, featuring 166 historic accounts, 162
pieces of folklore, and 31 photos about Sept. 11, 2001
www.nycstories.com
- David Vanadia's personal web page
www.vswebs.com
The Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism
A
great resource for anybody
interested in the interfaces between traditional storytelling and journalism
-- and photojournalism:
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/narrative
IBM
While some may find it hard to believe, IBM probably employs more "corporate
storytellers" and story researchers than any other company. (That
is, storytellers not employed
by either a marketing or legal department.)
And since IBM shares much of their work with the public on their research
web site, other
researchers
get to share and respond to IBM's efforts. One group at IBM doing much
of this work is the Knowledge Socialization Group.
http://www.research.ibm.com/knowsoc/index.html
Here are some
individual story researchers at IBM that I know about. I am sure there are
many others.
John Thomas
http://www.truthtable.com
pdf doc: The knowledge management puzzle: Human and social
factors in knowledge management
Peter Orton
http://www.research.ibm.com/knowsoc/ideas_society.html
http://www.research.ibm.com/knowsoc/ideas_featurestructure.html
Dan Gruen
http://domino.research.ibm.com/cambridge/research.nsf/pages/people.html?Open&count=500
pdf doc: Beyond Scenarios: The Role of Storytelling in CSCW Design
Others that I know of are:
Eric Mueller - researching AI and cognitive science.
word doc: Story Understanding
Cynthia Kurtz
Principal Researcher for the Cynefin Centre
http://www.research.ibm.com/knowsoc/storycoloredglasses/deconstruction/index0.htm
Dave Snowden
Director of the Canolfan Cynefin Centre
IBM Global Services
http://www.ibm.com/services/cynefin/
snowded@uk.ibm.com
Dave Snowden is a prolific writer, thinker and innovator in the area of organizational
management and knowledge management. Snowden is also a frequent contributor to
the workingstories listserv.
Knowledge Management Magazine has run a number of articles about
narrative by some of the authors mentioned above. Here are some examples:
- by Madanmohan Rao
Networks & Narratives - Highlights from KM World 2003 in Santa Clara (November
2003)
http://www.kmmag.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=1102
- by Dave Snowden
Rethinking Management Methods - Dave Snowden's new Cynefin Centre
takes
an
innovative
approach to organizational
complexity. (November 2002)
http://www.kmmag.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=1013
- by Steve Denning
The Narrative Angle - Exclusive Preview of The Seven Most Valuable Forms of Organizational
Storytelling (March 2002)
http://www.kmmag.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=939
Squirreled
Away - PREVIEW: More chapters on Organizational Storytelling(October 2002)
http://www.kmmag.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=1004
- by Philip J. Gill
Once Upon an Enterprise - The ancient art of storytelling emerges as a tool for
knowledge management (May 2001)
http://www.kmmag.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=231
This is a presentation given by John Thomas (IBM Research, Watson) that explains
some concepts behind
the Knowledge Socialization project and many of its goals.
http://www.research.ibm.com/knowsoc/project_presentation.html
IBM Systems Journal - Volume 40, #4, 2001
This issue of the IBM Systems Journal is dedicated to knowledge management. Near
the bottom of the suggested readings section are citations and descriptions
of two books that each have relevance to storytelling.
- Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity, by Etienne Wenger
A foundational book.
- The Walking People, by Paula Underwood
The transcribed oral history of Underwood's branch of the Iroquois.
The Walking People recounts the journey of a people over a millennium or so from
Asia, across a land bridge to the northern coast of North America, down the Pacific
coast, across the great plains, over to the Atlantic Ocean, and back to the Great
Lakes, where the people eventually settled. During this journey, the people encountered
and had to adapt to a wide variety of physical circumstances as well as a wide
variety of other tribes with various mores, customs, and ways of looking at the
world.
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/sj/404/suggest.html
A business consultancy specializing in knowledge management and organizational
transition.
http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/
The ArkGroup - a knowledge business consultancy and management firm that posts
to the workingstories listserv.
http://www.ark-group.com/events/conferences.asp
Articles and papers by Kevin Brooks:
- There is Nothing Virtual About Immersion: Narrative Immersion for VR
and Other Interfaces
This is an unpublished work written in 2003, though a portion will be published
in the March-April 2004 edition of Storytelling Magazine. http://www.storynet.org/Magazine/mag.htm
Brooks, K. (2004, March-April). There is Nothing Virtual About Immersion. Storytelling
Magazine.
Full version: immersiveNotVirtual.pdf
- Context Quentet - Narrative Elements Applied to Context Awareness
Brooks, K. (2003, June). The Context Quintet: Narrative Elements Applied to Context
Awareness. Paper presented at the Human Computer Interactions International,
Crete, Greece.
Brooks-context_quintet.pdf
- Navigating Context for Nonlinear Narrative
Brooks, K. (2004). Navigating Context for Interactive Narrative. In M. Damásio
(Ed.), Interactive Television Authoring and Production 2003. Lisbon, Portugal:
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias.
navigating context.pdf
- Pas de Duex - The Dance of Digital Design
Brooks, K. (2001). Pas de deux - The dance of digital design. The Design Management
Journal, Spring 2001, 10-14.
pas_de_deux.pdf
- Storytelling and Computational Narratives – Reaching for the High
Bar
This paper is largely a summary of and new direction for my doctoral thesis work.
Brooks, K. (2000). Storytelling and Computational Narratives – Reaching
for the High Bar. Paper presented at the Workshop for Narrative in Interactive
Learning Environments, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Brooks-NILE paper.pdf
Articles by Seth Kahan:
- Bringing Us Back to Life: Storytelling & the Modern Organization
http://www.perfdevgroup.com/Resources_0BringingBusiness.html
- Jumpstart Storytelling - "a powerful technique for quickly engaging participants
in the business at hand and accelerating productive work together. Designed
for groups of 10 to 100, it can be customized for as few as three and as many
as 400. It takes about 60 minutes and sets the stage for the collaboration which
drives high performance."
http://www.perfdevgroup.com/Resources_0JumpStart.html
See also:http://www.perfdevgroup.com/resources.html
Storytelling That Moves People: A Conversation with Screenwriter Coach
Published in the Harvard Business Review, June 2003. An interview
with Robert McKee, Hollywood screeanwriter and screenwriting guru. The quote
at the top of the article: "Forget about PowerPoint
and statistics. To involve people at the deepest level, you need stories. Hollywood's
top consultant
reveals
the secrets of telling them."
McKee, R. (2003). Storytelling that Moves People. Harvard Business Review(June),
p.51-55.
2003_Storytelling-that-moves-people.pdf
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0306B
A couple of articles on storytelling from the New Yorker on films
and Robert McKee. Another from the Shawnee News Star on schools that
confirm the continuing interest
in the
role of
story:
- The Real McKee (Lessons of a screenwriting guru)
Parker, I. (2003, October 20). The Real McKee. The New Yorker.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031020fa_fact
- Ancient art enlivens imagination, learning
Wilkerson, A. (2003, October 12). Ancient art enlives imagination, learning.
Shawnee News Star.
http://www.news-star.com/stories/101203/New_37.shtml
Two Wall Street Journal articles by Julie Bennett
- Promoting Diversity Through Storytelling
Bennett, J. (2003, July 8) Promoting Diversity Through Storytelling.Wall
Street Journal/CareerJournal.com.
http://www.careerjournal.com/myc/diversity/20030708-bennett.html
- Spin Straw Into Gold With Good Storytelling
Bennett, J. (2003, July 30) Spin Straw Into Goald with Good Storytelling. Wall
Street Journal/Startup Journal.
http://www.startupjournal.com/ideas/services/20030730-bennett.html
Booz Allen Hamilton's Strategy+Business - a quarterly newsletter
- When Stories Create an Organization's Future
Forman, J. (1999). When Stories Create an Organization's FutStrure. Strategy+Business(Second
Quarter).
when-stories-create-org-future.pdf
- Once Upon a Time
"When a meeting of the minds isn't enough, try a meeting of the emotions: Tell
a story."
Birchard, B. (2002). Once Upon a Time. Strategy+Business (Second Quarter).
storytelling-in-business.pdf
See also: http://www.strategy-business.com/search/archives/?issue=&textfield=storytelling&x=0&y=0
Introduction to Corporate Storytelling, by Hilary McLellan
http://tech-head.com/cstory1.htm
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Gives $1 Million to Storytelling Group
http://fdncenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=41200045
The Ultimate Interactive Storyteller
A 1999 article by J.F. Culhane that provides an approach to interactive narrative
and includes a summary of the history.
ultimateIntStoryteller.pdf
Analysis of Personal Narrative
by
Catherine Kohler Riessman, Boston University
Analyzing and understanding the power and usefullness of personal narrative
accounts during the interview process.
riessman.pdf
Stories of Narrative Research
A chapter that appears in Qualitative Research Practice
Silverman, D., Gobo, G., Seale, C., & Gubrium, J. F. (Eds.). (2003). Qualitive
Research Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
ISBN: 0761947760
sealechapter.pdf
Story Listening Effect
Part of the research presented by Prof. Sunwolf
Communications Dept., Santa Clara University
http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Departments/Communication/html/sunwolf.html
http://www.speaking.com/speakers/*sunwolf.html
StorylisteningEffect.doc
How Storytelling Ignites Organizations
A January 2002 article by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts.
http://www.rsa.org.uk/read/detail.asp?ReadID=192
What's the Story? Why Stories are Critical to Strategic Planning
Appears in the Organizational Development Leadership News, July/August 2003
ODLJuly_August03.pdf
The application of personal storytelling to politics, with reference
to Gephardt
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/01/opinion/01BROO.html
Henry Jenkin's post to Technology Review Blog on Transmedia Storytelling
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_jenkins011503.asp?p=0
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1089
- Simson Garfinkle's response:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?archive=1103
- Rod Johnson's post
on transmedia storytelling on November 12th to the workingstories listerve.
He makes a nice argument for the power and
structure of transmedia storytelling - storytelling across multiple media (film,
comics,
the internet,
animations) as in the Matrix movies and marketing.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/index.asp
The use of story to create context: The new dynamics of strategy: Sense-making
in a complex and complicated world, by C. F. Kurtz and D. J. Snowden
kurtz.pdf or http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj42-3.html
"As we are progressing with narrative databases we are increasingly seeing the
development of what I will term 'emergent context' which can to a degree
be 'managed' through the use of boundaries and attractors. And to return
to a theme of previous postings (and I seem to have become a lurker in this group
of recent months rather than a participant) the importance of interaction of
people and communities with anecdotal material (none of which has been refined
or enhanced) continues to provide greater evidence of meaning
that 'story telling' per se."
Washington Post article about organizational storytelling at NASA
Storytellers Pass On Lore Of Space Age; Mentors and Their Memories
Christopher Lee. The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.: Nov 29,
2002. pg. A.41
Section: A SECTION
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Fabulists at the Firm - The strange tale of corporate storytelling consultants
by Mark Lasswell of the Wall Street Journal
Friday, January 9, 2004
http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110004529
Not Your Typical Bedtime Story
by Michelle Howard, of Conkling Fiskum & McCormick, a public affairs firm
January 13, 2004
http://www.cfm-online.com/insider/insight.php?insightid=43
Managing By Storying Around - A new method of leadership
by David Armstrong
ISBN: 0-385-42154-0
Making Use - Scenario-based design of human-computer interactions
by John M. Carroll
ISBN: 0-262-03279-1
The Springboard - How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations
by Stephen Denning
ISBN: 0-7506-7355-9
Storytelling in Organizations: Facts, Fictions, and Fantazies
by Yiannis Gabriel
ISBN: 0-19-829706-8
Narrative Intelligence - Advances in Consciousness Research
Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers, eds.
ISBN: 1-58811-273-X
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
by Robert McKee
ISBN: 0-06-039168-5
Hamlet on the Holodeck - The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
by Janet H. Murray
ISBN: 0-684-82723-9
Inside Out – Using Classic Children's Stories for Personal and Professional
Growth
by Myron J. Radio and Rod N. Johnson
ISBN 19316469937
http://www.inside-out-partners.com
Never Be Boring Again - Make Your Business Presentations Capture Attention,
Inspire Action, and Produce Results
by Doug Stevenson
http://www.storytheater.net/booknbba.html
Hypnotic Selling Stories
by Joe Vitale
http://www.hypnoticsellingstories.com/
Augmented Cognition
The connection between augmented cognition and storytelling has
to do with cognitive engagement. The best stories are so powerful and
memorable because they engage so many parts of the human mind at once. Stories
naturally act as a type of glue or connnective tissue, that ties experiences,
sensations, and
emotions to intellectual facts. The goal of augmented cognition is to
extend a human’s information-management capacity by developing and demonstrating
quantifiable enhancements to human cognitive ability in diverse, stressful,
operational environments. Yet we natually process very complex information
when interpreting stories. While the AugCog research may not deliver
a wartime storyteller to improve cognition in the field, it is very possible
that narrative techniques will ultimately play a part.
http://www.computerbits.com/archive/2002/1200/augmentedcognition.html
http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/programs/augcog/
Communities of Practice
The importance of stories and the limitations of conceptual
exposition. An Online Workshop as a Community of Practice: Evolution
of Design and Practice
http://www.LearningAlliances.net/CPW_story/
CPsquare is offering its online Foundations of Communities of Practice workshop
starting on Jan 19th, 2004
presented by Etienne Wenger, John Smith, and Bronwyn Stuckey.
"There are many connnections between communities of practice and storytelling.
"From a learning theory perspective, a community of practice provides
a powerful tool to look at sense-making and sense-making activities, such as
storoy-telling. On another level, communities of practice are interesting
in how they use story-telling to negotiate local theories of cause and effect. Finally,
developing communities of practice is an organizational intervention that works." John
D. Smith <John.Smith@LearningAlliances.net>
http://www.cpsquare.org/edu/foundations/schedule.htm
Communities of practice and organizational performance
an article written by E. L. Lesser and J. Storck for the IBM Systems Journal
issue on Knowledge Management, Volume 40, Number 4, 2001.
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/404/lesser.html
Narrative Medicine
Stories in Medicine
Doctors-in-Training Record a Different Type of Patient History
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1480863
http://www.narrativemedicine.org/
Workng Stories
An important tool for the many georgaphically
separated practitioners of storytelling in business where they can share their
knowledge and expertise. Most of the postings to this list are very intelligent
and articulate.
http://www.workingstories.org
Storytelling in Organizations Special Interest Group
A discussion
group for members of the Storytelling in Organizations (SIO) Special Interest
Group of the National Storytelling Network.
To learn more
about NSN, see storynet.org.
http://www.topica.com/lists/stories-in-orgs/
SIO-B
This group supports a shared conversation about storytelling
in organizations. Although other may join the online discussion, it is primarily
for participants in the Boston-area meetings of this group. For those interested
in a broader discussion, please see the Yahoo Group: Storytelling in Business
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SIO-B/
Golding Fleece
The email list for members of the Golden Fleece group - a Washington DC community
of practice around stoytelling in business. It is a model organization
for the other regional groups around the US. Membership to there mailing
list is private, but requests can be made to Seth Kahan - Seth@SethKahan.com
nestorytelling
The official email mailing list of LANES, the League for the Advancement of
New England Storytelling. Share stories, announce events in New England and
upstate New York, share ideas, and discuss the art, craft, and business of
storytelling.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nestorytelling/
Storytell
There is no more active electronic forum on storytelling in the world than Storytell. It
is a high volume mailing list about global storytelling, with a concentration
in the US and a membership in the hundreds. It is an immense organism of
storytelling expertise that one can post common or escoteric queries to and get
almost immediate and varied responses.
http://www.twu.edu/cope/slis/storytell.htm
Dramatica
A "writing partner" for Hollywood style screenplays that has been
around for many years. It is a pioneer in applying a complex set of
heuristics to story design.
www.dramatica.com
StoryManager
An "up and coming" system for guiding a startup company through
the organization and product story crafting experience. Such stores define
a company's identity and greatly effect their success. StoryManager is an interesting
new attempt at commercial story software in that by utilizing the power of
Adobe Acrobat, it seems to put much more effort into the content than in the
software tool.
http://www.storymanager.com/
The Writer's Store
An online store offering books, supplies and a lot of software packages for writers,
especially for screenwriters.
http://www.writersstore.com/
WebQuestMapper
An open source, Java, storycrafting software package.
The software runtime environment can be downloaded from this page.
http://www.nexist.org/WebQuestWriter/index.html
Storytelling in Organizations
A special interest group of the National Storytelling Network
www.storytellinginorganizations.com
GoldenFleece
GoldenFleece is an international community of practice devoted to storytelling
in business and organizations.
http://www.storyatwork.com/
The Center for Narrative Research, University of East London
http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/
The Center for Narrative Studies, Washington DC
CNS is a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to applying narrative theory to
the practical renewal of leadership in culture and communities. Working with
groups and organizations, we train people to become leaders by teaching them
to understand the power of stories, to weigh the real effects
stories have in shaping our lives, to apply narrative approaches to engage
creatively with conflict and change.
http://www.storywise.com/
National Storytelling Network - includes information about the national storytelling
conference
http://www.storynet.org
The International Storytelling Center - includes information about the national
storytelling festival in Jonesborough, TN.
http://www.storytellingcenter.org/
Illinois Storytelling Inc. - includes information about the Illionois Storytelling
Festival
http://www.storytelling.org/
The League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling (LANES) - includes
information about the New England regional storytelling festival - Sharing
the Fire
http://www.lanes.org
How Storytelling Changes Organizations - a two day workshop
Smithsonian Associates in Washington DC
Friday April 16 & Saturday April 17, 2004: 9.00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m
http://residentassociates.org/rap/idx-comp.asp
Smithsonian_Assoc.rtf
StoryCon
The World's First Summit Meeting on the Art, Science &
Application of Story
http://www.StoryCon.org
(late September)
Fray Day
http://www.frayday.com/
(early October)
Tellebration
http://www.tellabration.org/
(mid November)
Mesa Storytelling Festival
http://www.mesastorytelling.org
(late October)
National Storytelling Festival
Jonesborough, Tennessee, USA
http://www.storytellingcenter.org/festival/festival.htm
(early October)
National Storytelling Conference
http://www.storynet.org/Conf/2004/index.htm
(early-mid July)
Digital Storytelling Festival
http://www.dstory.com/dsfsedona_04/
June 10-12, Sedona, Arizona, USA
Sharing the Fire
The New England Regional Storytelling Conference
http://www.lanes.org/stf.html
(mid March)
Illionois Storytelling Festival
http://www.storytelling.org/festival.html
(mid September)
Nordic Storytelling Day
http://www.berattarverkstan.se/engindex.htm
(every spring equinox)