Tips and ideas for journalists to use their skills to curate their expertise for an audience using an assortment of online tools, including a step-by-step guide to Storify.

1. Curation 101
Mandy Jenkins @mjenkins
#norcalsoc April 2012

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

3. Museum curator: Journalism curator:
•Studies topic •Studies topic
•Chooses relevant •Chooses relevant
content (other content (social
sources & museum media, blogs, staff)
collection) •Authenticates
•Authenticates •Groups related
•Groups related items
items •Provides context
•Provides context •Presents collected
•Presents exhibit content

4. 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

5. 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

6. Curate Via Your Social Feeds
• Share relevant info and links from
you and others
• RT others' tweets on the subject
(pending verification)

7. Social Bookmarking

9. 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)

12. Other curation tools
•Twitter's Tweet embed feature
•Chirpstory
•QuoteURL.com

13. Step-by-Step Guide to Storifying
Via Deb Petersen,
San Jose Mercury News

14. 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

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

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

17. 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”.

18. 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.

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

20. 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)

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

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

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