{"id":3806,"date":"2011-08-30T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:37:43","slug":"tuesday-tech-trends-with-tara-storify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2011\/08\/30\/tuesday-tech-trends-with-tara-storify\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tech Trends with Tara: Storify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is flooded with real-time streams of information from the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and the many other social media platforms which allow people from around the globe to provide eye witness accounts and information on any topic\u00a0imaginable.\u00a0 These streams of information can be valuable to journalists gathering crucial eye witness accounts, but pulling together information from various social media sources and retaining their format and interactivity can be tricky and time consuming.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.storify.com\">Storify<\/a><\/strong> is a social media curation and reporting too<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">l<\/span> developed for both professional journalists and citizen bloggers to help them quickly and efficiently pull together tweets, videos, photos and\u00a0websites to form a cohesive and dynamic story.\u00a0 Storify&#8217;s platform allows you to search Twitter and other social media within their site and simply drag and drop items you want to use in your story.\u00a0 Users can add text between these media excerpts to create a seamless narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Since being released in private beta last fall and publicly this past spring, the Washington Post, the White House, and Al Jazeera are just a few of the organizations utilizing Storify to effectively curate social media to provide a more complete or unique point of view.\u00a0\u00a0Click on the image below to view a Storify created by NPR&#8217;s Andy Carvin used to tell his story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/acarvin\/how-to-debunk-a-geopolitical-rumor-with-your-twitt2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3826\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2011\/08\/carvin_storify.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2011\/08\/carvin_storify.png 678w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2011\/08\/carvin_storify-300x253.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Storify also recently released an update which allows you to put your stories in a slideshow format. \u00a0This is very helpful when your site space is at a premium. \u00a0Your viewers can click and flip through slides instead of a long downward scroll, which allows all the pertinent information around you story to remain in sight for your viewers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/files\/2011\/08\/storify_slideshow.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3819\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2011\/08\/storify_slideshow.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2011\/08\/storify_slideshow.png 834w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2011\/08\/storify_slideshow-300x241.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Storify isn\u2019t for everyone and does require ample time to learn.\u00a0\u00a0Consider using it in your next blog post, journalism project or class lecture. \u00a0It&#8217;s an excellent way to seamlessly weave your opinion with the insight, reports, and eye witness accounts provided by others, both common citizens and esteemed experts. \u00a0 Click on the image below for a video on the basics of Storify and try creating one for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/20651530\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3816\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2011\/08\/storify_video_image-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2011\/08\/storify_video_image-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2011\/08\/storify_video_image.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/20651530\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is flooded with real-time streams of information from the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and the many other social media platforms which allow people from around the globe to provide eye witness accounts and information on any topic\u00a0imaginable.\u00a0 These streams of information can be valuable to journalists gathering crucial eye witness accounts, but 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