The document introduces Storify, a tool for curating social media content into stories. It provides examples of how Storify has been used to report on events like hurricanes, political debates, and conferences through curating social media posts. The document argues that journalists play an important role in amplifying voices on social media and helping information reach wider audiences. It encourages journalists to use Storify to make sense of social media and change the world.

1. Storify news:rewired
Xavier Damman - Storify - xdamman@storify.com - twitter.com/xdamman Copyleft Storify- October 2011

2. Storify
Cofounders
@burtherman @xdamman
Former AP Engineer
reporter entrepreneur
California accent Belgian touch

3. New world

4. New opportunity

5. August 23rd, 1966 - first picture of Earth from the Moon - NASA

6. December, 2010 - data visualization of human beings connected to one another on Facebook

7. Social media
800M+ people

8. Social media
800M+ voices

9. Photo by ahmadhammoudphotography on flickr

14. “Everybody is a reporter,
but not everybody is a
journalist”

15. “Without journalists,
those voices would be
lost in the noise,
quickly forgotten,
useless”

16. “But thanks to journalists,
those voices can
impact wide audiences,
be remembered,
change the world”

17. How?
By capturing the voices
that matter and amplify them
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18. Attribution
preserved
Drag and
drop
elements
Search
User
multiple
added
sources
text
18

22. Storify
reinventing storytelling
with social media

23. Use cases
Steve Jobs

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28. Use cases
Weather

29. Built stories with curated
social media when its
news vans could not
reach the hurricane in
New England.
The audience responded
in huge numbers.
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31. Use cases
Live blogging

32. Live blogging
#DSK from
New York
Paris
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33. Use cases
Report from the street

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35. Use cases
Inside view

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37. Use cases
Celebrity endorsement

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40. Use cases
Political debates

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43. Use cases
Covering conferences

45. September 13th, 2011
THE #TCDISRUPT DAILY
The Conference's Best Social Media
Comprehensive view of the
chatter around a conference
Each day, 100 copies of the
paper were gone within an
hour of arrival
Archived so you’ll never
forget
Is your tweet included here?
Stop by the Storify booth to pick up your $10 Apple or Starbucks gift card!

46. Use cases
Compilation / best of

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48. Use cases
Personal

49. Users are making
Storify personal

50. Imagine Imagine
all the people
on twitter

51. Social media stories
are emotional
are collaborative
are engaging

52. Final thought

53. Free exchange of information
has a positive impact
on the world

54. As journalists, you help move
information from people who
have it to people who need it

55. You are the engineers
of this exchange

56. The world needs you
to make sense
of it all

57. Now go excite
some electrons
and
change the
world

58. Thank you
@xdamman
#storify
Xavier Damman - Storify - xdamman@storify.com - twitter.com/xdamman Copyleft Storify- October 2011