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Storify. Social storytelling and curation. What is it?. “Storify helps making sense of what people post on social media. Our users curate the most important voices and turn them into stories .” Guided tour .

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Storify

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  1. Storify Social storytelling and curation

  2. What is it? • “Storify helps making sense of what people post on social media. Our users curate the most important voices and turn them into stories.” Guided tour. • “Together, we are building a new information network that will give you the social perspective on any event.” • Burt Herman chat

  3. Storify • The business aspect – getting serious about sales. • Livefyre, a commenting platform used by TechCrunch and other websites, acquired Storifylast year. • Good numbers • In 2012: users posted 554,000 stories for 367 million views. • 46,000 publishers worldwide that have embedded Storifys on their website.

  4. Herman at Poynter

  5. How journalists use it • Use to present live tweets – archival. • Use live tweets and compile in a more contextual way by organizing, curating and adding comments, anecdotes, quotes or other social media content.

  6. How journalists use it • Multiple reporters or sources live-tweeting, pull them together quickly and in an order that makes sense in Storify.

  7. How journalists use it • Quick way to present breaking news

  8. How journalists use it • To curate topical content. 

  9. How journalists use it • To create a narrative.  • Mandy Jenkins used Storify to make sense of a story involving a death outside of a D.C. nightclub. The story had a lot of twists and turns, so she used Storify to illustrate the narrative in tweets, photos and documents.

  10. How journalists use it • In elections: • Round-up of news in a race • Concession and victory tweets

  11. How journalists use it • Wall Street Journal, inauguration • Multi-layered, University of Maryland • Fact-checking

  12. How journalists use it • Storify does its own stories • Viral story • Humor: Olympics • Played a role in the Pulitzer: Denver Post

  13. How journalists use it • Don’t forget it as a search/reporting tool.

  14. Your ideas • How can journalists use Storify? • How will you use it to curate coverage of the Olympics?

  15. How journalists use it • Engagement • Alert followers and others that you’re using a hashtag to curate information on a topic. • They’ll keep coming back to see what’s added.

  16. Increase readership

  17. Not just journalists • http://www.barackobama.com/photos-from-the-field/for-all

  18. Nuts and bolts • Treat curating a Storify story just as you would a traditional one. • Ethical, factual, fair. • Have to be more skeptical because dealing with unverified content.

  19. Nuts and bolts • Write an interesting headline • Create a ledethat gives a bit of background and/or sets the stage. • You can use entries other than tweets, like links to articles, web pages or blog posts, Google maps, Instagram photos and YouTube videos 

  20. Nuts and bolts • The best Storifys show thought and attention to context • Break up the entries with your own text boxes to give context and/or transitions. These text boxes have html, so you can include links and you can make the font bigger on some subhead-style lines.

  21. Nuts and bolts • NOT GOOD: A stream of context-less tweets. • Take care in your selection as well. Pick the best content to use.

  22. Nuts and bolts • When you can, try to use entries from "regular people" not just journalists, politicians, etc. • Aim for 12-20 entries (

  23. Verify, verify, verify • Storify is a story – and you wouldn’t use an unverified statement or fact in a traditional story. • Lots of hoaxes, scammers, satirists out there. • How to verify?

  24. Use discretion • Again, think of this as a story. Be discerning and strive for relevancy. • Storify only lets you publish what you can see online, but you should use discretion. • Don’t go for shock value.

  25. Resources • Storify blog has tips and advice • My diigo links to Storify resources

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