Stories can heal, educate, sell, empower, and/or  illuminate.  They can be told, performed, journaled, blogged, social media’d, and/or written.  The edges often blur between these categories.  I’ve heard that the perceived danger is that the definition would be too inclusive so the core of storytelling would be diluted.

I haven’t that fear.  As long as I’m made aware of the intention, I’m happy to mix and match.  But sometimes people form groups to explore specific interests.

A Special Interest Group (SIG) is a formal group created by and for National Storytelling Network (NSN) members joining together for a common purpose.

These groups and their purposes are:

Healing Story Alliance: to share our experience and our skills in the best ways to use stories to inform, inspire, nurture and heal.

Producers and Organizers: to encourage cooperation, networking and support among organizers of storytelling events.

Storytelling in Higher Education: to encourage cooperation, networking and support among college and university educators in storytelling.

Storytelling in Organizations: to bring narrative insights onto the contemporary business scene by documenting and promoting the constructive role and widespread importance of storytelling in corporate, non-profit, small business, education, and other settings.

Youth, Educators and Storytellers Alliance (YES!): to encourage educators and other adults to use storytelling with youth as an educational tool in classrooms and in other settings

In the blog A Storied Career Kathy Hansen explores traditional and postmodern forms/uses of applied storytelling such as journaling, blogging, organizational storytelling, storytelling for identity construction, storytelling in social media, storytelling for job search and career advancement.

There’s a new application on Facebook that can help you post your stories in short Facebookable snippets. Snipisode lets you schedule status posts as episodes of a story or feature.  The way it works is you type or paste in a whole story and then with a click of a button snip up the story either by line or by periods. Then you choose a time either daily or every two days. The story will unfold on your status line.  Very cool.

It’s the Perils of Pauline of social media.

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