Curation 101

Mandy Jenkins @mjenkins

#norcalsoc April 2012

What is curation?(n) The act of organizing and maintaining a collection of media and information around a particular subject or area.

Museum curator:•Studies topic•Chooses relevant content (other sources & museum collection)•Authenticates•Groups related items•Provides context•Presents exhibit

Journalism curator:•Studies topic•Chooses relevant content (social media, blogs, staff)•Authenticates•Groups related items•Provides context•Presents collected content

What to Curate

•What you're reading to inform your work

•Tweets, Facebook posts, videos and other content from other sources and your readers

•Items you may want towrite about

•Stuff to read later

How to find it• Keep open searches on

search.Twitter.com for local keywords

• Establish a hashtag for readers to send you info/photos

• Make keyword alerts for content: Google.com/alerts

Curate Via Your Social Feeds

• Share relevant info and links from you and others

• RT others' tweets on the subject (pending verification)

Social Bookmarking

Storify.com

Publish from Curation

Storify

• Can pull in tweets, public Facebook comments, photos from Flickr & Instragram

• Pulls in video from Youtube or via some embeds

• Embeds story previews with links• Can import other Storifys (or parts of

them)

Use the Storify Plugin

• Easiest way to save specific tweets and Facebook updates

• Save specific passages to Storify• Save stuff for later, for research• All things saved go to your Storypad

Your Storypad

• Easiest way to save specific tweets and Facebook updates

• Save stuff for later, for research• All things saved go to your Storypad

Other curation tools

•Twitter's Tweet embed feature•Chirpstory•QuoteURL.com

Step-by-Step Guide to Storifying

Via Deb Petersen, San Jose Mercury News

Getting Started

• Go to Storify.com• Create an account. It is easiest to link it to

your Twitter account.• Create a profile with your photo and a

description of your position/beat at the newspaper.

• Add editors: deborapetersen• Pick a topic and get started

Hit "Create Story" to reach this opening page. The searchable content is on the right, and your story is on the left.   

Type the main headline in the top box on the left section, and then type a short story description in the next box.  

You want your first slide to be a photo because this image will appear as its cover. Here, I clicked on the Twitter logo, and "images”.

Pick a photo by clicking on it, and then hold and drag to your story on the left. The cutline of the photo will come along too.  

Add each entry by searching the sponsored providers and dragging your selections to your story.  

Done? Hit the "Publish" button pictured below in blue. (Next to the 'save now" button which you should be clicking as you work your draft)   

Your page will look like this. Notice to the  right of the headline, the "embed" button. Click on that. 

Your embed code will appear in a box. Then, click on the 'Notify" button to the right of the published button.  

This is how the cover of your stories appear in Storify. It also tracks the total number of views.

 

Mandy Jenkins

mjenkins@digitalfirstmedia.com

@mjenkins

Blog: Zombiejournalism.com

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