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How social media helped tell the story of the Democratic National Convention
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other sites have generally been treated as tools to produce or distribute a traditional story.
But increasingly, journalists are starting to see greater potential in social media sites.
While covering last week’s Democratic National Convention as … Read more
Journalist had temporary access to Romney campaign’s Storify account
Oh Boy! Montco
Like any good community engagement editor, The (Lansdale, Pa.,) Reporter's Andy Stettler spent his Saturday afternoon signing in to Storify to do some storifying. But after logging in via his Twitter account, Stettler discovered "to my shock I was inside the Storify account of the GOP presidential candidate's campaign." He backed out without changing anything, but documented the case using screenshots and (of course) Storify. Storify Co-founder Burt Herman tells me the company jumped right on the problem:
Like any good community engagement editor, The (Lansdale, Pa.,) Reporter's Andy Stettler spent his Saturday afternoon signing in to Storify to do some storifying. But after logging in via his Twitter account, Stettler discovered "to my shock I was inside the Storify account of the GOP presidential candidate's campaign." He backed out without changing anything, but documented the case using screenshots and (of course) Storify. Storify Co-founder Burt Herman tells me the company jumped right on the problem:
The technical reason behind this was due to an error with caching user tokens on our site, and we have deployed a fix that will resolve the problem. We are also redoing at a deeper level how user authentication works on Storify to ensure we have stronger security. At no time were any user passwords exposed. We take this very seriously and our users should know that their work is secure.(more...)
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Storify introduces new feature to make individual story elements more sharable
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Storify has introduced a new feature that enables users to share individual social media posts within a story. Users, for instance, can now share a tweet on Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+ or via email right from the Storify that the post is embedded in.
Co-founder Burt Herman, who announced the feature at the Mashable Connect conference Friday, said it gives users more opportunities to share Storify content across multiple platforms. (more...)
Storify has introduced a new feature that enables users to share individual social media posts within a story. Users, for instance, can now share a tweet on Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+ or via email right from the Storify that the post is embedded in.
Co-founder Burt Herman, who announced the feature at the Mashable Connect conference Friday, said it gives users more opportunities to share Storify content across multiple platforms. (more...)
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Storify iPad app should draw more users and live coverage
Storify | iTunes Store | The Next Web
Storify's brand-new iPad app unveiled this morning should extend the curation tool to new, more-casual users and increase the live-blogging of conferences and events.
Storify's brand-new iPad app unveiled this morning should extend the curation tool to new, more-casual users and increase the live-blogging of conferences and events.
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- The new Storify iPad app enables easy, intuitive story building.
Storify was created through classic innovation process
The Washington Post
Burt Herman tells the Post's Innovations blog that Storify, which has become a popular way to assemble bits of social media into a story, was created through a classic process of innovating through iteration and user feedback.
Burt Herman tells the Post's Innovations blog that Storify, which has become a popular way to assemble bits of social media into a story, was created through a classic process of innovating through iteration and user feedback.
"We had an earlier product that we were working on, which was was all about Twitter and making it look more readable for normal people, and that ended up not being as engaging. We actually did an experiment with a thing that let you embed a single tweet into a post, and that seemed to really have a lot of interest ... So we went in that direction ... It's not at all that we sat down at first and figured out what this was going to look like from scratch."In another video Herman says that social media is great material for a story, but isn't a story in itself. || Related: Storify is starting to look like a news site (ReadWriteWeb) | The 5 types of stories that make good Storifys (Poynter) | Burt Herman shares lessons from launching Storify (Poynter)
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Three trends from 2011 that will reshape digital news in 2012
If you’re like me, by now you’ve read more than enough uninspired recaps of what happened in 2011 or wild guesses at what’s in store for 2012. So here’s something a little different.
I looked back at the world of … Read more
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The 5 types of stories that make good Storifys
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 … Read more
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4 ways journalism educators are using Storify as a teaching tool
More and more news sites have been using Storify to capture reaction and highlight interesting discussions taking place on social networks. And journalism educators have also started using it — to create multimedia course content, organize handouts and teach students … Read more
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Storify is starting to look like a news site
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Jon Mitchell writes that Storify's new home page signals its shift from a curation tool to a news site: "The homepage of Storify is now a destination that displays the big stories of the day according to citizens of the Web. That's homepage material for anyone who spends time on social networks, which means it's a natural place to put some ads and turn Storify into a media business." || Earlier: Storify unveils new interface for users
Jon Mitchell writes that Storify's new home page signals its shift from a curation tool to a news site: "The homepage of Storify is now a destination that displays the big stories of the day according to citizens of the Web. That's homepage material for anyone who spends time on social networks, which means it's a natural place to put some ads and turn Storify into a media business." || Earlier: Storify unveils new interface for users
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