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This guy left a comment that I think is really interesting. I want it to be an entry. Is this bad blogging etiquette? I figure I can get away with it because I am the small fry of the blogosphere.

It’s about the “organizational storytelling” (the narratives of orgs). How cool is that? Definitely my new favorite term.

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“You’re right on the mark…story is the fabric of our lives. Every relationship, every object, every experience is stored in the mind as a story. Story is the oldest most proven way we humans learning information, make sense and meaning of our world. Now…we have the choice to choose the right stories for whatever reality we want to create. Memory (past), dreams (future), and identity (present) are three dimensions of story that one can consciously work with, at both the individual and organizational levels.

If interested, check out the 4th annual Smithsonian conference on organizational storytelling going on this weekend April 16-18th in Washington DC (which I’m helping to organize)
http://www.stevedenning.com/Smithsonian04.html.

Also launching on Thursday, April 15th with be http://www.storyatwork.com - a web site for our community of practice on organizational storytelling (GoldenFleece) with a compendium of resources, tools, examples, consultants, etc…relevant for the fields of story-based approaches to knowledge management, branding, marketing, strategic planning, fundraising, social change, etc…

Also check out “The Story Factor” by Annette Simmons - one of my favorite recent books on org story.

Story is indeed a social connector and the juice by which we connect, exchange, transact, belong, inspire, and ultimately transform our world.”
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What’s also funny about this is the way that he found about my post. He probably found it via this guy who rights about nonprofit orgs who found it via Seb’s post (and I’m positive that Seb only read my blog because I commented on his one of his blog entries the day before).

Someone else checked out Seb’s post, and wrote an entry about it. I found out about it randomly while I was checking out the stats on my weblog. (And yes, if your wondering, I will check out a site if I get more than 2 hits from it. That’s how you act when you’re a mini-blogger). Anyways, so I responded to it. That’s probably the last thing he was expecting. Especially because he disagrees with what I said in the entry and then says “Simplistic? Of course. But since no one reads this except the ëbots, Iím sticking to it :-)”. (I can’t link to his entry with my comment - the permalink doesn’t include a link to see comments. Annoying).

It’s all kinda silly, but it also makes you realize how much the blogging system sucks. You lose control of and relation to your information way too easily.

The whole thing makes me wish I’d written the original post a lot better.

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