curation tools 2014
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Curation tools Tools used to gather and organize content
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Curation
• Aggregate and share content from front lines, blogs, social networks , mainstream media, etc.
• Curators are like editors because they select the content
• Verification and accuracy are key
• Transparency is crucial
• With shrinking newsrooms, curation is key to serving our readers better
• Sometimes content accompanies a story and sometimes it serves as the story
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Storify
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What is Storify?
• Social network that allows journos to curate stories using social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
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Storify
• Create account at www.storify.com
• Once signed in, you can create a story
• Click the green square at the upper right beside your name
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Storify
• Create story on left
• Search for content on right
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Storify
• Create name for your story, hit save (this prompts autosave)
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Storify
• Click on the source you want to search ie. Instagram
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Storify
• Enter hashtag, search term etc. into search field, hit enter
• Click on the photo (tweet, etc.) you want and drag it across to your story area
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Storify
• You can click on the space between your items type whatever text you want
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Storify
• Continue building your story via the various sources (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Tumblr, etc.)
• Hit “save now” as you go along
• When you’re done building your story, click on the blue “Publish” button
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Storify
• You will get a prompt asking you if you’re sure you want to publish your story
• If you’re sure, click “Publish story”
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Storify
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Storify
• To share your story, click on the “share” button
Storify
• You can share via Twitter, Facebook and Google+
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Storify
• To get embed code, first decide on the template you want
• Click template for options
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Storify
• Have three options: Story, grid, slideshow
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Storify
• Choose template
• Click “Save Template”
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Storify
• Once you’ve saved story, get embed to copy and paste onto website or blog
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Storify
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Storify
• You’re done!
Storify
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Storify
• Click on the ellipsis next to the Template icon and get a drop down menu. You can:
Make story private
Change url
Export (PDF, HTML, XML, JSON)
Delete
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Storify
• Make sure you add the Storify bookmarklet
• Go to the tools page (access from bottom of any page on Storify)
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Storify
• You can drag button to bookmark bar OR
• Get Chrome extension
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RebelMouse• Social media aggregator
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RebelMouse
• You can either auto-publish or manually curate
• Add content to your RebelMouse page by using bookmarklet
• Aggregate by pulling in Facebook and Twitter streams, including specific searches, users, hashtags and RSS feeds
• Filter content according to the rules you set up
• Choose from different templates
• Curate around topic (Tom Wolf, Tom Corbitt)
• Embed on Website or blog
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RebelMouse
• Go to rebelmouse.com
• Sign in with Twitter, Facebook, Google+ OR create username and password
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RebelMouse
• Choose site name
• Launch site
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RebelMouse
• Click on dashboard tab in upper left
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RebelMouse
• Grab bookmarklet
and drag to tool bar
• Hit bookmarklet when you want to add content to your page
• If you have multiple RebelMouse pages, select the one you want to add the content to
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RebelMouse
• Click on “Content sources”
• Fill out fields for: Twitter, Facebook, Facebook search, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, Tumblr, RSS, Pinterest, etc.
• Can sign in with Linkedin, Flickr
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RebelMouse
• Once you set up what you want to appear on your front page, you can move posts around
• You can “freeze” a post in a position for a certain amount of time or until you decide to unfreeze it
• You can edit posts and add tags
• Other buttons include remove, repost, etc.
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RebelMouse
• Get embed code and add to blog, website
• Can embed whole story or individual sections
• Can customize
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RebelMouse: Gettysburg 150th
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RebelMouse
• Promote your site
• Go to the Goodies menu on dashboard
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RebelMouse
• Goodies to help you link to your RebelMouse page from your blog, website, etc.
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• ‘Social news magazine’ (RSS reader)
• Personal curation tool
• Also public functionality via magazines
• You create Flipboad magazine by going to https://editor.flipboard.com
• Add articles to your magazine by clicking on + icon next to any article in the Flipboard app (which you can also use to create a new magazine) or by using browser bookmarklet
• Can share your magazine via email, Twitter, Facebook, Google+
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• Add article to FlipBoard magazine by clicking on FlipBoardbookmarklet
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• Added 42 articles to my magazine
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• Choose cover photo for magazine (can change anytime)
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• Each article in magazine sends reader to website to read the story. Great way of getting traffic to your website.
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Spundge
• Collect, curate and publish digital content
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Spundge
• Free to collect information and store in “notebooks”
• Pro service ($9/mth.) allows ability to “write” stories in the platform and syndicate them
• Users can collaborate
• Adds annotation
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Spundge
• Grab content and store in notebook(s) via Spundge bookmarklet
• Great for curating content on a certain topic (medical marijuana) OR a beat (health and fitness)
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Spundge
• Sign in/up at www.spundge.com
• Click on button in upper left to access dashboard
• Click “create
notebook”
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Spundge
• Fill out fields for notebook
• Can make the notebook public or private
• When done, click green “create notebook” tab at bottom
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Spundge
• Notebook created
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Spundge
• Once you create a notebook, you can choose sources
• If you have pro version, you get more source choices
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Spundge
• Choose filters (language, time period, location, social engagement)
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Spundge
• Select keywords
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Spundge
• Click/upload image for
notebook cover
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Spundge
• You can add contributors to the notebook if you’re going to collaborate with someone
• Note you will also see how many people are following your notebook (if it is public)
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Spundge
• Start adding to notebook
• Can highlight section to add, then click Spundge bookmarklet
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Spundge
• When you click on the bookmarklet, it will ask you to select the notebook you want to add the content to
• Click on the notebook you want and then click on the “Add to Notebooks” tab on the lower right
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Spundge
• Next screen shows what you’ve added
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Spundge
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Spundge
• To add items generated by the sources, filters and keywords you selected, click on the “stream” button.
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Spundge
• If you see an item you want to add to your notebook, click on it
• Click checkmark to save, click > for more details about item
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Spundge
• You can see the saved items in your notebook by clicking on the “Saved items” tab at the top
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Spundge
• You can edit notebook title
• Grab embed code
• Share via social networks
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Spundge
• If you have pro account and you want to create story, click on “create story” in dashboard
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Spundge
• Title your story
• Add cover image
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Spundge
• Viola!
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Spundge
• Click on “add saved items” at upper left
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Spundge
• Choose notebook you want to get items from for story
• Can also use search bar to search for items
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Spundge
• Once you select a notebook, you will see all content you have saved in that notebook on the left
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Spundge
• Drag and drop the content you want to include in your story over to the right
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Spundge
• You can click on teardrop icon for edit options (insert image, edit text, etc.)
• You can also open the item in the notebook if you need to copy and paste additional information into your story
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Spundge
• When story finished, publish by clicking green button in the upper right
• Grab embed code to add to website or blog
• Syndicate via Twitter, Facebook
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Listly
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Listly
• Allows you to curate, crowdsource and engage readers via embedded list
• When you add item to list, can include url, description, tags
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Listly
• Favorite teachers
• Best pizza shops
• Area parks
• Favorite ride
• Halloween costume ideas
• Favorite band
• Favorite books
• Etc.
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• You can customize your list
• Formats include: List, gallery,
magazine, minimal and badge
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Listly
• List
• People can embed, share and like your list
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• Gallery
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• Minimal
Listly
• Badge
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Listly
• Magazine (Big photos)
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Geofeedia
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What is Geofeedia?
• Geofeedia is a location-based search tool that allows journalists to aggregate publicly shared social media
• Data sources = Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, and Picasa
• Content comes from GPS-enabled smartphone and digital photos with coordinates embedded in image file
• Search area can be as large as a city, as small as a building
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Search by place name
• Searched for “The White House”
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Search by city
• Searched for “York, Pa.”
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Search by address
• Searched for 1891 Loucks Road, York, Pa.
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Search anywhere in the world
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Central York High School
• Type in address to find “target”
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Central York High School
• Draw geofence around target
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Central York High School
• Click on the social media sources you want to draw from
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Central York High School
• Can look at results in map view
• Hover over icons to see content
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Central York High School
• Click on collage to see collage view
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Uses: Breaking News
• Boston bombing
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Uses: Breaking news
• Hurricane Sandy
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Uses: Breaking news
• Empire State Building shooting
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Uses: Breaking news
• Found photos of local barn fire
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Events: National/World
• Award shows (Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, Golden Globes, etc.)
• Sporting events (Olympics, Super Bowl)
• Conventions (New York Comic Con)
• Elections
• Etc.
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Uses: Local events
• Concerts
• Fairs
• Car shows
• Graduations
• Tailgating
• Sporting events
• Parades
• Etc.
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Sporting events
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Concerts
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High school graduations
• You can’t cover all high school graduations, so why not curate via Geofeedia
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Local elections
• Think outside the box
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Farm show
• When you do find cool photos, you can ask permission to use in print. People usually say yes.
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Re-enactments
• Gettysburg re-enactment (Big one coming up this year.)
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Geofeeds
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Geostreamer
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Geostreamer• Share geostream via url
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ScribbleLIVE
• Real-time engagement platform
• Real-time content creation, publication, and syndication
• Use for live coverage of news and events (ie. Olympics)
• Able to publish content as an event unfolds and share information instantaneously as it happens
• Automatically updates
• Content can include tweets, videos, photos, etc.
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ScribbleLIVE
• Log in at client.scribblelive.com
• If it says previous session did not log out, just click the Log Out of Previous Session button and it will log you in
• On Events at the upper left, click Create a New Event
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ScribbleLIVE
• Add a title (will be visible to readers) and description
• Ignore category and language
• Change to your time zone
• On the right, use scheduling ifyou’re setting it up in advance.
• Toward the bottom, look over thedefault options. Depending on the situation, you might want to changehow commenting etc. is handled.
• Click next step to set up template at the bottom of the page.
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ScribbleLIVE
• On the Template setup page, click the Embed option toward the top
• Click the first date and then copy the embed code to the right. There’s also a link to “old code” near the embed code that gives you an embed code that you can manipulate by size. The old code must be used for FlipSide.
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ScribbleLIVE
• Click Next Step – add writers. Select people from the list if you need to add people as writers on the Scribble.
• Click Next Step – Syndication. On this page, toward the upper right, just click Skip this step. It will take you directly to the ScribbleLIVE blog you just set up.
• If you click Social on the left navigation and Twitter, you can add hashtags or users to pull in automatically.
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ScribbleLIVE
• You can also write updates directly into the live blog, using the write screen.
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Contact
Buffy Andrews
Assistant Managing Editor
Features and Niche Pubs
Social Media Coordinator
York Daily Record
Email: Buffy@ydrcom
Phone: 717-771-2052
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