Social media story telling and Twitter... Is there a link?

I recently stumbled upon (a friend sent a link) a short presentation on the constructive uses of Twitter and learning. It's facinating to think that a hyper-connection site like Twitter could create and organize a learning mechanism around story telling. Check out the link to Google docs as this blogger posted this presentation on the different uses. The narrative use of Twitter.

I've now jumped into Kendall Haven's book Story Proof: the science behind the startling power of story and am really enjoying the desconstruction and reconstruction of the foundations and argumentation of stories. Haven does a great job of transitioning the simple perception of what is meant by the word "story" into a more thoughtful and engaging conversation about its deep and rich meaning as it relates to the way that it is described. Haven challenges us to think broadly about our definition stating, "If stories are uniquely effective inside the human mind, then let's use the recent advances in cognitive sciences, developmental psychology, and neural biology to understand the specficis of how the human mind processes, understands, creates meaning from, and remembers incoming narrative information. We will then use the elements of that process as the foundation of our definition of story" (Haven, 2007, p. 19). Wow, good stuff to challenge as he aptly shares our grey matter or goo so that we transition from an older framing of one's childhood memories of storytime into a more robust discussion about a rich and full definition that includes all of the complexities of the process.