Here’s a collection of recent story-related finds — all free, I’m pretty sure:

• The Science of Presentations
  Nice slideshow with audio about creating preserntations that cater to the way people actually learn; hence, stories are effective in presentations. Audio wasn’t great for me, but that could be my computer.
• Story-Selling in Business by Tom Nies
  Attractive PDF booklet by Tom Nies on the importance of storytelling in business, especially in the current economic climate.

• Storytelling & Social Media series
  5-part webinar series, Social Media and Storytelling, sponsored by TechSoup Global and NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network), that teaches the building blocks of the social web, then the specifics on podcasting, video creation, and creating social media buzz, and finishing with ROI to determine what your strategy is worth. The series ended last week, but slides and recordings are available for free download.
• Podcast: Telling Your Idea Story
  Free podcast about creating a story that will attract others to your killer idea. Outline of podcast here.
• Storytelling and Narrative for Business Podcast #3
  Frequent commenter to A Storied Career, Sean Buvala, responds to a listener’s email asking about the use of jokes, anecdotes, and stories and discusses the differences among each of these items
• Storytelling and Narrative for Business Podcast #2
  Sean Buvala, on using even an old, familiar story in your business presentations.
• Storytelling and Narrative for Business Podcast #1
  Sean Buvala on how every business and every person in the business needs the power of storytelling.
• Episode 3 (in an 8-part series) of the Perry Marshall Podcast about copywriting.
  Marshall discusses, among other things, how storytelling helps make for better copy. This podcast is a bit too off-the-cuff for my tastes (and it’s a dialog with an unidentified woman; maybe she is identified in the earlier parts of the podcast series). The discussion of storytelling begins 8 minutes into this 18-minute podcast.
• One-hour Interview on Socially Speaking (via BlogTalkRadio) with David Spark on Storytelling in Social Media.
  David Spark, owner of a consulting and production company that helps organizations become leading voices in their industries through storytelling, discusses how online and social media have changed our concept of storytelling, as well as tips and tricks you can use. I did not find this broadcast to be very much about storytelling; it’s more about how social-media content is more important than distribution. Judge for yourself by listening below. (I had embedded the broadcast, but it took too long to load and was too hard to turn off.)