My friend Cynthia Kurtz, whose Rakontu web application I wrote about on 
Friday, has also created a new Ning group, Swimming with Stories, along with my friend, John Caddell.
Cynthia describes the group as being targeted toward “people on the listening side of the story field to meet up.”
The group complements Worldwide Story Work, which skews strongly toward the telling side of story work. Cynthia notes that the listening side sometimes focuses on “different topics and concerns” from those of the telling side. “We are hoping to get together a small group for monthly telecons or chats to talk about issues and help each other out,” Cynthia says.