Not long ago, Tim Enereta in his blog Breaking the Eggs, listed storytellers to follow on Twitter. Although some of them represented realms beyond traditional oral storytelling (“old school,” as Tim calls this tradition), most were performance storytellers. He explained that he was not including organizational-storytelling types, noting that he would leave it to someone in that group to develop an appropriate Twitter Follow list for the organizational folks.

I am accepting Tim’s challenge, although I am embracing a broader group than those specifically identified with organizational storytelling. I prefer the broader term “applied storytelling,” and my list of folks (and entities) to follow also includes some performance storytellers. These are the storytellers that seem to travel in circles beyond performance and with whom I often seem to rub virtual elbows.

Some of these folks are worth following because they are very active on Twitter and provide value with their tweets. Others are less active but are worth following in the hope they might follow you — because they are important figures in storytelling who might like to know what you’re up to. Interesting trends: An awful lot of Californians, New Yorkers, and Austalians among these folks. (I also theorize that storytelling folks tend to be right-brained and prefer Macs to PCs, but that’s another post.)

I’d like this to be an organic, dynamic list that will continue to grow, so I welcome suggestions of folks to add.

These are in no particular order, and descriptions are taken directly (sometimes with minimal editing) from each person’s Twitter profile. Finally, I had hoped to to have these ready for Follow Friday, but I’ve been frantically getting ready to travel cross-country in an RV and am now in that RV with limited Internet access.

See also my Twitter Story Practitioners List.

mnjorgensen/Martin Jorgensen • Melbourne, Australia • Bio: Fascinated with digital narratives, stories of any kind.

unorder/Shawn Callahan • Melbourne, Australia • Bio: Corporate anthropologist and business storyteller helping leaders build collaborative workplaces

MothStories • New York • Bio: The Moth, founded in 1997, is a New York-based not-forprofit organization dedicated to the art of storytelling.

Secondhand Storytime • California • Bio: Podcast where we tell stories we heard from other people

ethnohtec • San Francisco • Bio: kinetic story theater

Sean Buvala • Arizona • Bio: I help businesses and non-profit organizations improve their bottom line via the power of storytelling.

Storyteller.net/Sean Buvala • Arizona • Bio: Feed From Storyteller.net

StoryRise Staff • Arizona • Bio: Monthly storytelling sessions for adults.

Melissa Wells • New York, NY • Bio: Consultant, Career Coach, Writer. Create a powerful narrative that sets you apart in your career and life.

Jerome Deroy • New York • Bio: Narativ brings people together around stortytelling, and teaches them to tell their story better.

Corvus Elrod • Portland, OR • Bio: A semionaut exploring the borderlands of story and game.

getstoried (Michael Margolis) • New York City • Bio: brand storyteller, pop anthropologist, change marketer, author, social entrepreneur, and eMBA instructor

iTales • Everywhere • Bio: mp3 audio stories

Tearsofjoy (Cathie Dodd) • California-USA • Bio: See http://www.tearsofjoystories.com/index.html

Triptych/Andrew Wooldridge • Cali • Bio: Raptr.com webdev. RPG and Indie game fan. Javascript coder.

storytellin AWooldridge (storyt) • Bio: Delicious bookmarks about storytelling

Karen Dietz • California • Bio: Org Story and MBTI Professional

StorytellingAdv/Rachel Hedman • Utah • Bio: I help educators, librarians, and parents create a safe yet entertaining environment to address family social concerns through storytelling.

People Design • Grand Rapids, MI • Bio: We translate value propositions into stories, then we make things.

Tim Ereneta • Berkeley, California • Bio Storyteller: old school. I make famous and forgotten fairy tales relevant to modern audiences.

Sue James • Melbourne, Australia • Bio: Facilitator, speaker and storyteller. Energised by people, the power of stories to lift and inspire the soul, Appreciative Inquiry, resilience and change.

Muni Diaries • San Francisco • Bio: a place to share and read rider tales

None and Only • Vancouver • Bio: We’re a podcast devoted to storytelling. Find us on iTunes or noneandonly.blogspot.com

Ellouise Schoettler • Chevy Chase, Maryland • Bio: Professional Storyteller — look for stories in your life and tell them.

chrisflanagan • Rhode Island, USA • Bio: Changing Business Models One Story at a Time

Tim Sheppard • Bristol, England • Bio: I turn small business owners into powerful communicators who have fun making a personal impact with compelling stories.

Dean Meyers • New York, New York • Bio: Visual Problem-Solver, using graphic design, the web, social media, and video to tell your story visually.

David Vanadia • Portland, Oregon • Bio: A Storytelling Narrative Mixed-Movement (Tai Chi, Qigong, Yoga) Music Movie and Art Making Sugar-Free Bass Playing Jive Talking Multimedia Storyteller.

Mathilde Piard • West Palm Beach, FL • Bio: I fell in love with reporting and telling stories with more than just words alone. I guess that makes me a multimedia reporter. (Officially I’m a web producer)

Andrew DeVigal • New York, NY

Debbie Maxwell • Scotland • Bio: PhD student (in painful writing up phase now), storytelling, new media, narrative

Craig DeLarge • Philadelphia, PA • Bio: Healthcare Marketing Strategist, Intrapreneur, Design Manager, Career Coach, Mac and Mini Cooper fan, NAMI Member, Biz Value Storyteller

P. Andrew Costello • Rock Creek Commons (Washington, DC, area) • Bio: Stories are Us in the USA

Jon Buscall • Stockholm, Sweden • Bio: Committed to basset hounds. Oh, and helping businesses, organizations and individuals produce kick-ass copy in English.

Susan O’Halloran • Evanston, IL • Bio: Author, speaker, storyteller, workshop leader on diversity, inclusion, and power of story

Jo Golden • Washington, DC • Bio: Teaching Digital Survival for Everyone. Promoting self-education w/ the Web. Exploring narratives and conflicts around identity, learning and technological

Chaos To Clarity • Silver Spring, MD • Bio: Confident, safe and connected. Computer and Web Education; Web design to promote success in a digital world. Women+Technology+ Education=Empowerment

Fake Gavin Heaton • Sydney, Australia • Bio: Using the interwebs on the internet.

Ronda Del Boccio • Branson, MO: • Bio blind mentor, author, ghostwriter, storyteller, networker, speaker, MLM, and global citizen with Vision

storygas • UK • Bio: Worked on a webshow, now link to others while working on some more… StoryGas —Online Drama and Comedy Links… plus lists of web shows.

Casey Hibbard Boulder, CO • Bio: Author of “Stories That Sell,” and customer success story specialist.

James Chutter Gastown Alton, PA • Bio: See http://jameschutter.com/

David Henderson • Washington, DC • Bio: Author; DC-based business communications/media consultant and strategist.

storylaura • Bio: storyteller, writer, dreamer

SMITH Magazine • New York, NY • Bio: Online storytelling magazine and creators of the Six-Word Memoir project

Bernajean Porter • Colorado • Bio: A conniver, teacher, systems changer. 2nd Lifer, and now digital storytelling.

Thomas Clifford • Hartford, CT • Bio: Seasoned filmmaker. Producing films that breathe life into the stories of large companies/non-profits. 99% of my films feature real people.

Ardath Albee • Southern California • B2B Marketer, Strategist, Writer, Storyteller.

Lynne Duddy • USA • Bio: How can I help you find your story?

Sally Strackbein • Northern Virginia • Bio: Make your message persuasive and sticky. Story Strategy for speakers and entrepreneurs.

Storied Gifts/Sherry Borzo • Des Moines, IA • Bio: We work with clients to chronicle their cherished memories and stories to be presented in a quality heirloom book.

Sherry Borzo • Des Moines, IA • Bio: Interviewer of entrepreneurs

Christy Dena • Sydney, Australia • Bio: I am a teapot…that works in cross-media, writing, new media, films, games, TV, print, design, research, strategy, and marketing.

Thaler Pekar • Hoboken, NJ • Bio: Advancing policy and raising funds by helping smart leaders and their organizations find, develop, and share stories about impact.

Marianne Christensen • Vordingborg, Denmark • Bio: Storytelling as a healing art. Teaching and telling. (Hypno)Therapy for healing your life.

Lori Silverman • Mesa, AZ • Own Partners for Progress (help organizations think radically different), strategist, keynote speaker, author, and teach at UWM, UW-Madison

Susan Luke • Corporate Mythologist

Jorge Olson • San Diego, CA • Bio: Dreamer, Writer, Eternal Teenager

Dsplaced • Bio: A collective storytelling experiment exploring human belonging — to a city, a country or even oneself.

Noa Baum • Maryland • Using the power of stories to heal divided of identity, foster collaboration and ignite passion in the workplace and commuity.

Joyce Hostyn • Kingston, Ontario • Senior Director, Experience Design @Open Text. Design thinker. Change agent. Social media advocate. Passionate about compelling experiences.

Merce Gamell • Barcelona, Spain • Bio: See http://www.infonomia.com/ (Disclaims being a professional storyteller but offers storytelling links: http://delicious.com/mgamell/storytelling)

Madelyn Blair • Jefferson, MD • Bio: Wife, mother, life long learner, CEO, coach, artist, writer, mountain climber, dreamer, gardener, feet-on-the-ground, hands-in-the-earth, and great cook.

John E Murray III • Nashville, TN • Bio: Learner, Verser, Dreamer, Doer

Beth Stoner • Ann Arbor, MI • Bio: See http://www.deltapossibilities.com/home/

storystrategist/Denise Withers • Vancouver, BC • Bio: story strategist for learning, communications and engagement

Dave Snowden • Bio: See http://www.cognitive-edge.com/

Casey Quinlan • Richmond, VA • Bio: the Mighty Mouth, helping companies tell remarkable stories that communicate their value.

Stewart Marshall • Vancouver, BC • Bio: I help organisations tell their story through numbers

Larry Lehmer • Des Moines, IA • Bio: Writer, personal historian, author (The Day the Music Died), ex-newspaperman (Des Moines Register, 25 years)

appstory/Eric La Brecque • San Francisco East Bay • Bio: Principal, Applied Storytelling—independent brand and name consultant

rondon/Ron Donaldson • UK • Bio: Knowledge ecologist, consultant, speaker and facilitator

imastranger/Montecarlo • Barcelona • Bio: I consider that filmmaking is a natural extension of writing if, when you sit down to do it, you think in images. So, I write with both, words and images.

Eva Snijders • Barcelona • Bio: storyteller + coach

Quimica Visual • Barcelona • Bio: Storytelling. Content + consulting

FirstPersonArts • Philadelphia, PA • Bio: Hear Stories. See Life. Documentary, memoir and other true stories in art

StoriesThatWork/Gerry Lantz • Philadelphia, PA • Bio: See http://www.storiesthatwork.com/

Story Branding • Location: 10 miles outside the box • Bio: Helping organizations and communities discover, articulate and communicate their authentic, differentiated brands through strategic storytelling.

Annie Hart • Location: Chestnut Hill, PA • Bio: I tell stories that inspire innovative thinking and fresh solutions.

Bob Nunn • Location: Canada • Bio: brand mechanic, digital storyteller, classroom helper.

Terrence Gargiulo • Location: Monterey, CA • Bio: A passion for inciting insight in others.

David Joe Miller • Location: Philadelphia, PA • Bio: Professional Storyteller and Presentation Consultant.

Lucy MathewsHeegaard • Location: Minneapolis MN • Bio: Storyteller, songwriter, photographer, wordsmith, student of clouds and hawks, lover of great wine/great food.

Matt Knisely • Location: Lawton, OK • Bio: Idealist, Visual Storyteller, Thinker, Director of Communications @LawtonFirst, Change Agent, and multi Emmy® award-winner.

Phillip McCreight • Greer, SC • Bio: Learning and Performance consultant passionate about the environment, innovation, and building community through sharing knowledge

The Moth • NYC • Bio: The Moth, founded in 1997, is a New York-based not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art of storytelling.

GirlCanCreate/Lisa Pijuan-Nomura • Location: Toronto, Ontario • Bio: Storyteller, Dancer, Puppeteer and Creativity Coach living in Toronto with her love and her animals.

Jeremy Meyers • Location: Astoria, NY • Bio: Capturing passion in an authentic and remarkable manner and enabling their actionable sharing in order to inform, entertain and inspire people.

Kellbags/Simon Kelly • Location: Seattle/NY • Bio: Passionate about brand storytelling, cooking, restaurants, and people doing extraordinary things.

Linda Ferguson • Location: Oakville, Ontario • Bio: Challenging people to tell better stories about what works.

idealawg/Stephanie West Allen • Location: Colorado • Bio: High ideaphoria, love of learning, life-long learner/teacher about the mind and the brain and the difference btw the two.

David Gurteen • Location: iPhone • Bio: Knowledge Management advisor, speaker and facilitator. Founder of the Gurteen Knowledge Community and Gurteen Knowledge Cafes.

StoryofMyLife • Location: Silicon Valley • Bio: Featuring one fascinating person per day!

StoryLornaMac/Lorna Czarnota • Location: Buffalo, NY • Bio: Storyteller, Author, Musician, Artist, Historian, Educator, healing story, at-risk youth.

Paul Furiga • Location: Pittsburgh • Bio: Corporate storyteller. Honest broker of public relations. Veteran of the political, journalism and business wars.

Deanna Ferrari • Location: Pittsburgh, PA • Bio: Account Exec @WordWritePR.

Samantha Wannemacher • Location: Pittsburgh • Bio: Duquesne PR Student, Asst. Account Exec at WordWrite Communications obsessed with NBC’s the office,loves karaokebars; hates maps/directions and air conditioning.

JoblessMuse/Barbara Winter • Location: Las Vegas, NV • Bio: Run a hardware store for the joyfully jobless.

Catherine Dazevedo • Location: Tampa, FL • Bio: Media Director at Large who believes where you tell you story is as important as the story itself. Addicted to learning new things.

B. Maldonato • Location: Chicago • Bio: Interactive marketing evangelist — SMS, online contests, games, sweeps by day. Social media campaigns and execution by night. Connector.

Will Coley • Location: Santa Monica, CA • Bio: I’m a latte-drinking, bike-riding, NY Times-reading, taco-loving, social justice do-gooder freak show originally from North Carolina now living in Los Angeles.

Elizabeth Sosnow • Location: iPhone • Bio: IMD at B2B PR firm with personal focus on professional services, pop culture fanatic, mom to 3 mad men

Dale Jarvis • Location: St. John’s, Newfoundland • Bio: Storyteller, author, folklorist, columnist, performer, teacher, ghost guy, and blogger.

Dan Kim • Location: The cutting edge • Bio: Creating multimedia content with strong storytelling. Leading change. Fostering creativity.

Women’s Memoirs • Location: Coast to Coast • Bio: We write for, train, coach, interview women memoir writers.

Brendan Nolan • Location: Dublin, Ireland • Bio: I write and tell funny stories on community radio and to people. They are of lovers, loonies, liars and layabouts. Read a sample story on my website.

Very Short Story • Location: Austin, TX • Bio: Twitter sized fiction for your entertainment. Stories by @sean_hill. Feedback welcomed. Send me a noun and I’ll use the ones that inspire me in a story. Thanks.

Random Verser/John E Murray III • Location: Nashville, TN • Bio: Chief Story Symphonizer at Story Institute…Learner, Verser, Dreamer, Doer.

Arjun Basu • Location: Montreal • Bio: Author, editor, traveller, husband, dad, foodie, slightly mad. Creating Twisters, 140-character short stories.

Debbie Maxwell • Location: Scotland • Bio: PhD student (in painful writing up phase now), storytelling, new media, narrative.

Jay Bushman • Location: LA • Bio: If you make a platform, I’ll tell a story with it.

Robert Stjernström • Location: Göteborg • Bio: I help organizations optimize their business using IT and storytelling.

Carol Rice • Location: n/a • Bio: Everyone has a story-love hearing them all. Passionate about helping others find, capture and share their stories at Cherish Bound.

Seth Kahan • Location: n/a • Bio: Helping leaders get change right.

Sarah Chauncey • Location: Nanaimo, BC • Bio: Essayist, satirist, story editor, ideator, story branding specialist, interviewer, ex-TV producer/director and - look, I’m a double Gemini. Leo rising. ‘k?

Projektstory/Sigrid Hauer • Location: Munich • Bio: the storyteller in project management and Business Processes * discovering the stories behind business and what motivates teams ** loves the story side of life.

Story Coach/Lisa Bloom • Location: n/a • Bio: Find your Compelling Story! You can’t afford not to - Story Coaching for Success.

StoryConnect/Storytelling Center • Location: Jonesborough, TN • Bio: Building a better life, a better world, through the power of storytelling.

http://twitter.com/LaToscaSalta/Norah Dooley • Location: Boston • Bio: a massmouth organizer Tosca jumps! word /story/song/written/painted/ artiste ! passion and words Visse d’arte!

MassMouth • Location: Boston • Bio: Greater Boston story slam - story is everywhere - promoting live story in performance.

Alex Carrick • Location: Toronto • Bio: An economist with the good sense to move beyond dollars & cents to write original short funny stories (100+ 2-minute reads). 1st book, Two Scoops Is Just Right. My Write memory • Location: USA • Bio: Story tellers, writers, authors, memory makers, educators and book publishers and more.

Life-Play • Location: Northampton, MA • Bio: Life-Play | collaborative storytelling by phone - Improv format combining life moments and imagination. Enjoy our podcast and learn non-competitive games. cssmallstory/Cara Soloman • Location: Cambridge, MA • Bio: Journalist writing about the lives of everyday people in a blog called The Small Story. Inspired by Studs Terkel, Dan Barry and Dunkin Donuts.

Dave Neelsen • Location: Madison, WI & Austin, TX • Bio: Developing marketing, & video marketing solutions with collaborative story-driven strategy, creative, and content.

GoodmanCenter/Andy Goodman • Location: LA • Bio: Communications consultant, author and speaker.

Erskine Associates/Laurie EW Harrison • Location: Dallas • Bio: Strategic storytelling, online and off

Timpanogos Storytelling • Location: Orem, UT • Bio: Timpanogos Storytelling

ritergal/Sharon Lippincott • Location: Southwestern PA • Bio: Life writing coach, published author, eternal optimist and explorer.

ritergal/Sharon Lippincott • Location: Southwestern PA • Bio: Life writing coach, published author, eternal optimist and explorer.

Career Judy/Judy Rosemarin • Location: NYC • Bio: Coaching executives in career resilience since 1983.

The Art of Storytelling magazine • Location: NJ • Bio: Culture mag based on various street cultures from skateboarding to graffiti, celebrating both the DIY and its infiltration into other spaces.

Ulf Arnstroem • Location: n/a • Bio: n/a.

Storytellers of Canada Annual Conference • Location: n/a • Bio: See http://www.sc-cc.com/annual.html.

Karen N. Johnson • Location: Chicago • Bio: I’m an independent software test consultant based in Chicago.

Jessica Lipnack • Location: iPhone • Bio: Writer/speaker/consultant/collaboration/networking/virtual teams/blogger/novelist/knitter/cook/yogini/CEO, NetAge.

Storytelling Show • Location: Vancouver • Bio: Women’s storytelling in all its variations. Sunday, 9pm, 102.7FM or www.coopradio.org.

Samantha Wannemacher • Location: Pittsburgh • Bio: Duquesne PR Student, Asst. Account Exec at WordWrite Communications obsessed with NBC’s the office,loves karaokebars; hates maps/directions and air conditioning.

Once Upon a Thames • Location: St. Marys Ontario • Bio: 3 day Storytelling/Arts festival in June on banks of the Thames River in St. Marys ON

Rory O’Connor • Location: Belfast • Bio: Creator of Rory’s Story Cubes™, the Inner Vision Deck™ and facilitator/trainer of Innovation Agents.

StoryLaura/Laura packer • Location: Boston • Bio: storyteller, listener, writer, applied dreamer.

New narrative/Randal Hendee • Location: Illinois • Bio: Teacher and Writer.

Natstories/Natalie Shell • Location: Tel Aviv • Bio: storyteller, writer, design & coffee lover and a million more things. tweeting from tel aviv to you!

Svend-Erik Engh • Location: Copenhagen • Bio: Danish storyteller also working in business.

StoryPlanet • Location: Copenhagen • Bio: Want to do great documentary storytelling using multimedia like photo, video and sound? Use our tools to exchange, edit & publish without technical skills.

Angela LoSasso • Location: Portland • Bio: HP Social Media — I’m in the storytelling business. How can I help you tell yours?

Karol Brown • Location: Washington State • Bio: I am a storyteller.

Anderson Story Slam • Location: Anderson, SC • Bio: Personal stories told live each month! —Real People * Real Stories * Real Time.

LifeWriter Coach/Lynda Monk • Location: Salt Spring Island, BC • Bio: Life Coach/Writer/Speaker — I help people who give a lot — to get excited about caring for themselves too! Author of Life Source Writing: A Reflective Practice

StoriesMatter/Sue Doherty • Location: Santa Rosa, CA • Bio: Writing on wellness, infant development, and aging, adapting stories for the screen, preserving oral histories, visual anthropology, living mindfully.

Barbara Fillip • Location: Arlington, VA • Bio: Interested in knowledge management, organizational learning, eLearning and learning in general, international development and more recently aerospace.

Storyplaying • Location: Between books and keyboard • Bio: Loving stories, digital, and digital marketing. Eager to see what happens when you mix the three of them.

Stephane Dangel • Location: France • Bio: See http://storytelling.over-blog.fr/.

Rachel Rose Reid • Location: London • Bio: Storyteller. Love melting cynicism, making connections and building community.

Paul Eres • Location: NJ • Bio: I make games w/ stories: adventure, RPG, strategy, Zelda-like, experimental. Occasionally review for indiegames.com and TIGSource. Enjoys Starcraft.

Robert McKee • Location: n/a • Bio: See http://www.mckeestory.com/.

Anne Stuessey • Location: Chicagoland • Bio: Founded Sniplits.com to publish audio short stories as MP3 files. Graduate of corporate communications career. Unabashedly Midwestern.

Whitney Quesenbery • Location: High Bridge, NJ • Bio: UX, storytelling, plain language, usabilty, user research…

iNarratives • Location: on the Web • Bio: Designed to capture the best of online visual storytelling as practiced by online and print journalists from around the country and the world.

Twae/Chris Brauer • Location: London • Bio: Twae means Two in ‘Scottish’. Pls RT original short stories. Also music, riddles, conversation, and Literary Bursts.

John Girard • Location: Minot, ND • Bio: Chief Knowledge Strategist Sagology, Associate Professor Minot State University, Storyteller, Author, Keynote Speaker, Knowledge Management Consultant.

Lauren Lenita • Location: DC area • Bio: I tell stories mixed with songs and I work with children. I love to knit, crochet etc and I blog incessantly.

The Cult of Me/Brad King • Location: Covington, KY • Bio: My book on How Social Technologies Saved the Story.

Tim Keelan • Location: Chicago • Bio: Leveraging real-world stories to drive learning, lead generation and customer references. Also repurpose conferences to BlackBerry, iPods, mobile users.

American Goulash • Location: Piscataway, NJ • Bio: Let me tell you a painful, hilarious, personal and completely true short story from my childhood, 140 characters at a time. I am also @shinygrape.

Terry Free • Location: New Zealand • Bio: Raconteur, Singer,Comedian, Street Photographer, Storyteller Extraordinaire, Social Networker and Grandfather Supreme.

Dinesh Rudra • Location: Selangor, Malaysia • Bio: Story-junkie, interested in how people interact with their world(s).. a happiness-advocate hoping to be of some help to the planet!

StoryCollective/Robert Rhu • Location: Boulder, CO • Bio: The Story Collective strives to break down barriers to compassion and understanding through collecting and weaving together the stories of the world.

Dixie De La Tour • Location: The Bayeria • Bio: Bawdy Storyteller.

Priscilla Howe • Location: Lawrence, KS • Bio: Storyteller and puppeteer, on a quest for excellent fruit pie.

dialogdog/Steve Krizman • Location: Denver, CO • Bio: Org communications, PR, marketing practitioner and story wonk.

A Storied Career — Hey, that’s me! • DeLand, FL, and Kettle Falls, WA • Bio: Exploring intersections/synthesis among various forms of Applied Storytelling.