PA5920 presentation for Session 3: Storify

1. storify
Jan Morlock
PA5920, Session 3

2. • Offers ease of “Seek, Sense, and Share” for content curation.
• Easy to pull LIVE content from the internet or any social
media
• Content can then be annotated, arranged, embedded, shared
• Add “Storify this” and Storify extension to make the grab
easier
• The Storify story itself can in turn be embedded and shared
• http://storify.com/JanMorlock/why-use-storify#publicize
Why use it?

3. • Storify created by journalists to help make sense of the
information avalanche
• Other good uses include
• Creating timelines
• Telling history
• Telling story behind an event or movement
• Tracking social reaction over time
Who’s using it and how?

4. • Add “sense” through annotation, content, contex
• Ask for and curate content from the readers of your social
media
Best practices

5. • Telling a compelling story about an event or trip: Gates
Foundation “Voices of Change” trip for young leaders to
one of the largest slums in the world:
http://storify.com/gatesfoundation/voices-of-change-a-
trip-through-dharavi
• Articles, images, communications from the trip
participants engage us and invite us in
Example

6. http://storify.com/JanMorlock/why-use-storify#publicize
Check out this resource
on Storify