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How Storify Is Being Used To Curate News and Events | Poynter.
From the article intro: ” While covering Occupy Wall Street, many news sites have used Storify to capture on-the-ground reports from journalists and protesters. Storify, they say, gives them a way to help their audience make sense of the stream of information flowing out of social networks. The social news curation tool also helped news sites thwart last week’s media blackout. ? Storify CEO and Co-founder Burt Herman said there’s been a surge in the number of people using Storify to capture the protests. But he’s also seen news sites use it in interesting ways for a variety of other stories.” … ” While journalists could create a Storify for just about any story that plays out on social media, they have to decide whether it makes sense for their coverage. The key is figuring out how you can use Storify to not just tell a story, but enhance people’s understanding of it. ” Robin Good: If you want to get a good idea of the types of news curation approaches that have been used recently, this article has lots of valuable information in it, including many links to sample curated news stories. Resourceful and informative. 9/10? Read on: http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/153697/the-5-types-of-stories-that-make-good-storifys/ ? See it on Scoop.it , via Content Curation World
How Storify Is Being Used To Curate News and Events | Poynter.
From the article intro: ” While covering Occupy Wall Street, many news sites have used Storify to capture on-the-ground reports from journalists and protesters. Storify, they say, gives them a way to help their audience make sense of the stream of information flowing out of social networks. The social news curation tool also helped news sites thwart last week’s media blackout. ? Storify CEO and Co-founder Burt Herman said there’s been a surge in the number of people using Storify to capture the protests. But he’s also seen news sites use it in interesting ways for a variety of other stories.” … ” While journalists could create a Storify for just about any story that plays out on social media, they have to decide whether it makes sense for their coverage. The key is figuring out how you can use Storify to not just tell a story, but enhance people’s understanding of it. ” Robin Good: If you want to get a good idea of the types of news curation approaches that have been used recently, this article has lots of valuable information in it, including many links to sample curated news stories. Resourceful and informative. 9/10? Read on: http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/153697/the-5-types-of-stories-that-make-good-storifys/ ? See it on Scoop.it , via Content Curation World
New Facebook Timeline Cover Photo: How to Make the Most of It
So you’ve got the new Facebook Timeline. What now? We suggest having some fun with “cover photo” creativity. The new Facebook profile design gives you a lovely big space at the top of your page for an image of your choosing. Now your profile photo …
MindTouch Has In-Line Spreadsheet Editing
We have written before about MindTouch.com, the open source alternative to Sharepoint and Salesforce discussion and collaboration tool. Extentech has released today a MindTouch Sheetster Add On which means MindTouch users can now edit Excel spreadsheets …