These are some annotated links to web pages concerning the use of stories in business and society.

http://maple.lemoyne.edu/~hevern/narpsych.html
An "Internet and resource guide" to narrative psychology presented by Vincent Hevern at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY. The site has an exhaustive bibliography and many links on narrative issues, especially as they apply to psychological and social studies.

http://www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson/Storytelling.html
An essay by Tom Erickson on storytelling as a design tool: "Design is a distributed social process, and, as such, communication plays a vital role. "

http://gn.www.media.mit.edu/groups/gn
The MIT Media Lab's pages on Gesture and Narrative Language, a project which "studies how artifacts such as agents and toys can be designed with psychosocial competencies, based on a deep understanding of human linguistic, cognitive, and social abilities."

http://tech-head.com
Tech-Head Stories: A web site about stories and technology. Published by McLellan Wyatt Digital (a consulting firm). Many links to sites about storytelling, technology, information management, collaboration, visualization, etc.

http://meno.open.ac.uk/meno
MENO (Multimedia, Education and Narrative Organisation): "An empirical study of the design features of interactive multimedia products for education and their effects on learner perception and performance." They ask "Can we apply what we know about the relationships between narrative and learning in linear media to the design of interactive media?" The project is part of the Economic and Social Research Council's "Research Programme in Cognitive Engineering".

http://www.awaken.com
eStoryWorks: A storybase system under development by Awakening Technology (a consulting firm). Their site also has information on other interesting projects along the lines of collaborative learning.

http://www.storycenter.org
The Center for Digital Storytelling: A company that creates story collections for education, business, and community training: "...our mission is to assist people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives, with source material generated from their personal image archives."

http://www.dstory.com/dsf5/home.html
The Annual Digital Storytelling Festival (Colorado, September 1999); also archives from previous festivals.