Story Sharing: Similarities And Differences

STORYTELLING: HELP IMPROVING SHARING THE KNOWLEDGE WITHSTAND THE OBSTACLES Story telling is a knowledge sharing activities between a people that have a knowledge and expanding with one or more people in group. Story telling is a one way of communication to spreading the information to public. Story telling or knowledge sharing are include the interactive process shaped by the personal history, biography, gender, social class, race and ethnicity. The benefit of storytelling can help authors producing the literary text and the readers that have the positioned by the conditions and ideological formations of their own era. In storytelling, it is involve three phases in developing tools which are listening, seeing and writing, people are come out

Observation was a beginning process before sharing the knowledge and it is important to observe the environment that relate with yourself and also help in build a skills in the person. Observation was a crucial aspect in storytelling because it need to gain the experience by understanding that happen in the speaker surrounding either it is relate with self or not. According to Tina Koch (1998), she gain the experience from a patient that admitted in Royal Adelaide Hospital named Munro. The attitude of Munro make her realized something about humanity. When she understand it, it is means she are observing the situation. Second phases of storytelling is be a good listener. Tina Koch also mentioned that from her experience, when she listen to other story, it make a common concerns exist in self. Normally, based on the listening it make the situation more unique and clearly conveyed. Most important thing is the person being interviewed to acknowledge edged as a responsible adult. The last phases is writing-seeking new forms of storytelling. From what experience that the speaker gather, the speaker record it and wrote it into a paper to make the information are clearer. Although in story telling or knowledge sharing, it still have a barrier or obstacles that lead to a miscommunication or misunderstanding. Normally it happens in a person to a person or in a group. Nowadays, storytelling happen virtually and it can be proceed everywhere and anywhere.

During the proliferation of the virtual environment in the practice of the business organization, it is less known about the factor that lead to the failure of conveying the knowledge through virtual or not. One of the critical factors is the speaker motivation that need to participate with the community to understand the knowledge and the sharing process among of them. According to Ciborra and Patriota (1998), the knowledge are not flow easily even the organization make a cooperation effort to facilitate the knowledge exchange meanwhile, according to Szulanki (1996) the success of excellence knowledge sharing is depend on the knowledge management of the organization and it related with the culture the social system and technologies attribute that been implement in the organization. But the speaker is still not understand the exactly how the storytelling in communities going well. According to McLure and Faraj (2000), the goal of the study is to understanding the purpose of the virtual knowledge sharing communities in exploring for the activeness of the speakers and the barriers that can lead a failure in the storytelling. In the virtual knowledge sharing, a few methods that been used are engaging in live chats, question and answer session, provide asynchronous feedback and more. With all this method, it can make the process of storytelling become easily in exchanging the knowledge. Moreover,