My Beck Pages http://mybeckpages.posterous.com Most recent posts at My Beck Pages posterous.com Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:21:00 -0800 Snow storm vs. the D.C. commute. Well told using @storify by @tbdonfoot http://mybeckpages.posterous.com/snow-storm-vs-the-dc-commute-well-told-using http://mybeckpages.posterous.com/snow-storm-vs-the-dc-commute-well-told-using

Here's a more advanced use of Storify. D.C. online news site TBD used the tool to build a snow-storm-vs.-the-commute post. It's a great way to blend old-time reporting with crowd sourcing on a story that is experienced by a large cross-section of people.

 

 

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Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:28:00 -0800 Test case: Storify-ing a Twitter reaction blog post http://mybeckpages.posterous.com/test-case-storify-ing-a-twitter-reaction-blog http://mybeckpages.posterous.com/test-case-storify-ing-a-twitter-reaction-blog

Here' a screen grab (click through to see the original) of our blog post about celebrity reaction on Twitter to President Obama’s State of the Union address:

Below is a re-creation I did in Storify. It took me about 10 minutes, and I didn’t have to deal with messy formatting details or copy-pasting hyperlinks. Of course, being a family-newspaper-type website, we couldn’t have included Vinny’s tweet in the Storify portion, but that’s a small price to pay, in my opinion. Plus Storify builds in tools that make it easy to share your post (on Twitter) with the people you quoted (from Twitter). It’s feedback-loop building genius.

Tweeters' Digest: What TV celebs tweeted during the State of the Union speech

It takes a special kind of celebrity to let go of their daily self-promotional twitter rituals and involve themselves in the political news of the day. Here's what a handful of actors, commentators and reality stars tweeted last night:   

Creating an account with still-beta Storify is dead simple. Just sign onto your Twitter account, go to Storify, and hit the *Login* button. The tools are drag drop and very intuitive, but if you have specific questions feel free to ping me.

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