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Closing speech for the IBBT iMinds 2011 conference. I'm telling my story and my journey from Belgium to Storify. It's a story of collaboration.

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StorifyCopyleft Xavier Damman- October 2011Xavier Damman - Storify - xdamman@storify.com - twitter.com/xdamman

Xavier Damman@xdamman

A story ofcollaboration

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

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

Social media

800M+ people

Social media

800M+ voices

Photo by ahmadhammoudphotography on flickr

“Everybody is a reporter”

New world

New opportunity

“Those voices are lost in the noise, quickly forgotten, wasted”

Capture the signal Amplify it

Social mediaA distribution channel

New content

New content

New content

Social mediaAs a source

New content

Publitweet

Copyright 2010 Publitweet.com, Kwenti, inc

http://lesoir.be

First Belgian Newspaper

4M visitors per month

Copyright 2010 Publitweet.com, Kwenti, inc

http://lemonde.fr/europe

300,000 monthly unique visitors

1.3M page views

“Ask for money, you’ll get advice Ask for advice, you’ll get money”

$10,000

Copyright 2010 Publitweet.com, Kwenti, inc

Northen California’s largest newspaper

3M monthly unique visitors

@burtherman @xdamman

@burtherman @xdammanFormer AP

reporterEngineer

entrepreneur

@burtherman @xdammanFormer AP

reporterEngineer

entrepreneur

Californian accent Belgian touch

Traction

Jan. 2010 Feb. 2010 March 2010 April 2010 May 2010 (est.)

1,397,176530,173

1,437,2672,754,571

18,844,250

News widgetsserved

and other sites

Current customers:

“People don’t resonate with algorithms”

“Algorithms enable people they don’t replace them”

How?

Capture Amplify

?

Storifyreinventing storytelling

with social media

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Search multiple sources

Drag and drop

elements

Attribution preserved

User added

text

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Typewriterfor social media

http://mountain-mafia.com/TypewriterScene.jpg

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“Come grab a free Belgian chocolate at our booth! #tcdisrupt

$2,000,000

“It takes time to become an overnight success”

Public Beta launched April 25

US news sites use Storify

the top 2018

of

40

SXSW startup competition winner

100 “brilliant companies” for 2011

Awards

“Scarcely a year into its existence, Storify has become so essential

the word storify has become a verb”-Citation on Storify’s Knight-Batten Grand Prize award for innovation in journalism

“We enable people to make sense of social media”

“We enable people to tell the stories that matter”

“We enable people to move information from people who share it, to people who need it”

Use casesReporting from the street

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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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Wallace Wilson@wallacewilson

http://yfrog.com/h28y1ywj - May 23rd, 2011

“This is where I got married. And my best friend's kid went to school. St. Mary's in #Joplin. Crazy.

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Low empathy High empathy

Low system

High system

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Use casesSteve Jobs

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Use casesLive blogging

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Live blogging #DSK fromNew York

Paris

Top politicians and NGOs use Storify

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Top brands use Storify

Use casesCovering conferences

September 13th, 2011

THE #TCDISRUPT DAILYThe Conference's Best Social Media

Is your tweet included here?Stop by the Storify booth to pick up your $10 Apple or Starbucks gift card!

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

Use casesPersonal

Users are makingStorify personal

Imagine Imagineall the peopleon twitter

A story ofcollaboration

Between people who share informationand people who need it

Successful entrepreneursopened me their doors

Decision makersgave me the opportunity to experiment, fail and learn

People on the streetwho share pictures, videos, quotes

New world

800M+ people

connected

You are part of this new world

Be part of the story,

Be part of the story,share

Free exchange of information

has a positive impacton the world

“Hackers are able to accomplish so much in so little time because they come from a community that's built upon sharing knowledge

David Kadavy@kadavy

September 29th, 2011

Share knowledge

Share knowledgeOpen your door

Share knowledgeOpen your doorMeet

Share knowledgeOpen your doorMeetShare

Now go excite some electrons

Now go excite some electrons

change the world

and

Thank you@xdamman

#storify

Copyleft Xavier Damman- October 2011Xavier Damman - Storify - xdamman@storify.com - twitter.com/xdamman

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