NSN Board Chair, Bill Wight, extends his remarks from the 2018 National Storytelling Summit in this blog post about his vision for NSN's future.

The better at storytelling someone is, the more that readers and listeners are transported to a whole new world. According to studies conducted on this transportation phenomenon, great stories alter beliefs, result in the loss of access to real-world facts, evoke emotions, and significantly reduce ability to detect inaccuracies. To understand this phenomenon, you don’t need to look any further than your own personal experience desperately rooting for an immortal, time-traveling mutant in X-Men or another equally impossible character and plot from your favorite movie.

On July 28 at the 2018 National Storytelling Summit, the NSN 2018 membership meeting was held. In an effort to assist NSN members in remaining informed about current happenings at NSN, the membership meeting and follow up comments from Bill Wight, incoming Board Chair were livestreamed on Facebook. Videos of both the membership meeting and follow up comments are still available to watch on the NSN Facebook page and will remain available to watch for a period of time. NSN will provide notification prior to the removal of the videos. We received positive feedback on the decision to livestream these events and are working to set up more well-defined procedures for using livestreaming in the future. If you have any comments or suggestions, please submit them to danni@storynet.org.

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