The document discusses various tools that can be used for curating and aggregating online content, including Storify, RebelMouse, Flipboard, Spundge, Listly, Geofeedia, and ScribbleLIVE. Storify allows users to curate stories using social media posts. RebelMouse is a social media aggregator that can auto-publish or manually curate content. Flipboard acts as a personal news magazine where users can curate articles. Spundge allows users to collect and organize content in notebooks and write stories. Listly enables users to create and embed lists. Geofeedia is a tool to search for social media posts based on location. ScribbleLIVE is used for live blogging

1. Curation tools
Tools used to gather and organize content
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2. 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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3. Storify
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4. What is Storify?
• Social network that allows journos to curate stories using social
media, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
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5. 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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6. Storify
• Create story on left
• Search for content on right
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7. Storify
• Create name for your story, hit save (this prompts autosave)
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8. Storify
• Click on the source you want to search ie. Instagram
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9. 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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10. Storify
• You can click on the space between your items type whatever
text you want
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11. 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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12. 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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13. Storify
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14. Storify
• To share your story, click on the “share” button

15. Storify
• You can share via Twitter, Facebook and Google+
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16. Storify
• To get embed code, first decide on the template you want
• Click template for options
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17. Storify
• Have three options: Story, grid, slideshow
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18. Storify
• Choose template
• Click “Save Template”
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19. Storify
• Once you’ve saved story, get embed to copy and paste onto
website or blog
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20. Storify
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21. Storify
• You’re done!
Storify
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22. 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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23. 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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24. Storify
• You can drag button to bookmark bar OR
• Get Chrome extension
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25. RebelMouse
• Social media aggregator
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26. 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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27. RebelMouse
• Go to rebelmouse.com
• Sign in with Twitter, Facebook, Google+ OR create username
and password
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28. RebelMouse
• Choose site name
• Launch site
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29. RebelMouse
• Click on dashboard tab in upper left
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30. 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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31. 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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32. 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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33. RebelMouse
• Get embed code and add to blog, website
• Can embed whole story or individual
sections
• Can customize
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34. RebelMouse: Gettysburg 150th
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35. RebelMouse
• Promote your site
• Go to the Goodies menu on
dashboard
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36. RebelMouse
• Goodies to help you link to your RebelMouse page from your
blog, website, etc.
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37. Flipboard
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38. Flipboard
• ‘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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39. Flipboard
• Add article to FlipBoard magazine by clicking on FlipBoard
bookmarklet
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40. Flipboard
• Added 42 articles to my magazine
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41. Flipboard
• Choose cover photo for magazine (can change anytime)
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42. Flipboard
• Each article in magazine sends reader to website to read the
story. Great way of getting traffic to your website.
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43. Spundge
• Collect, curate and publish digital content
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44. 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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45. 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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46. Spundge
• Sign in/up at www.spundge.com
• Click on button in upper left to
access dashboard
• Click “create
notebook”
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47. 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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48. Spundge
• Notebook created
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49. Spundge
• Once you create a notebook, you can choose sources
• If you have pro version, you get more source choices
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50. Spundge
• Choose filters (language, time period, location, social
engagement)
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51. Spundge
• Select keywords
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52. Spundge
• Click/upload image for
notebook cover
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53. 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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54. Spundge
• Start adding to notebook
• Can highlight section to add, then click Spundge bookmarklet
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55. 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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56. Spundge
• Next screen shows what you’ve added
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57. Spundge
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58. Spundge
• To add items generated by the sources, filters and keywords
you selected, click on the “stream” button.
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59. 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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60. Spundge
• You can see the saved items in your notebook by clicking on
the “Saved items” tab at the top
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61. Spundge
• You can edit notebook title
• Grab embed code
• Share via social networks
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62. Spundge
• If you have pro account and you want to create story, click on
“create story” in dashboard
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63. Spundge
• Title your story
• Add cover image
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64. Spundge
• Viola!
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65. Spundge
• Click on “add saved items” at upper left
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66. Spundge
• Choose notebook you want to get items from for story
• Can also use search bar to search for items
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67. Spundge
• Once you select a notebook, you will see all content you have
saved in that notebook on the left
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68. Spundge
• Drag and drop the content you want to include in your story
over to the right
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69. 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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70. 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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71. Listly
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72. 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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73. Listly
• Favorite teachers
• Best pizza shops
• Area parks
• Favorite ride
• Halloween costume
ideas
• Favorite band
• Favorite books
• Etc.
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74. • You can customize your list
• Formats include: List, gallery,
magazine, minimal and badge
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75. Listly
• List
• People can embed, share
and like your list
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76. Listly
• Gallery
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77. Listly
• Minimal

78. Listly
• Badge
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79. Listly
• Magazine (Big photos)
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80. Geofeedia
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81. 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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82. Search by place name
• Searched for “The White House”
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83. Search by city
• Searched for “York, Pa.”
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84. Search by address
• Searched for 1891 Loucks Road, York, Pa.
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85. Search anywhere in the world
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86. Central York High School
• Type in address to find “target”
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87. Central York High School
• Draw geofence around target
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88. Central York High School
• Click on the social media sources you want to draw from
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89. Central York High School
• Can look at results in map view
• Hover over icons to see content
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90. Central York High School
• Click on collage to see collage view
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91. Uses: Breaking News
• Boston bombing
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92. Uses: Breaking news
• Hurricane Sandy
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93. Uses: Breaking news
• Empire State Building shooting
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94. Uses: Breaking news
• Found photos of local barn fire
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95. 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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96. Uses: Local events
• Concerts
• Fairs
• Car shows
• Graduations
• Tailgating
• Sporting events
• Parades
• Etc.
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97. Sporting events
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98. Concerts
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99. High school graduations
• You can’t cover all high school graduations, so why not curate
via Geofeedia
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100. Local elections
• Think outside the box
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101. Farm show
• When you do find cool photos, you can ask permission to use
in print. People usually say yes.
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102. Re-enactments
• Gettysburg re-enactment (Big one coming up this year.)
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103. Geofeeds
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104. Geostreamer
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105. Geostreamer
• Share geostream via url
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106. 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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107. 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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108. 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 if
you’re setting it up in advance.
• Toward the bottom, look over the
default options. Depending on the
situation, you might want to change
how commenting etc. is handled.
• Click next step to set up template
at the bottom of the page.
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109. 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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110. 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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111. ScribbleLIVE
• You can also write updates directly into the live blog, using the
write screen.
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112. Follow me
• Buffy’s World:
http://www.yorkblog.com/buffy/
• Buffy’s Write Zone:
http://buffyswritezone.blogspot.com/
• Author website:
www.authorbuffyandrews.com
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Buffyandrews
• Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/buffy.andrews
• Google+:
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113. Follow me
• Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/buffyandrews/
• Tumblr: http://www.tumblr.com/blog/buffyandrews
• Storify: http://storify.com/buffyandrews
• Instagram: buffyandrews
• Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=40047960
• RebelMouse: https://www.rebelmouse.com/Buffyandrews
• Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7370309-
buffy-andrews
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114. 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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