Each year the social media world grows and expands to include new sites and ideas. And each year The Feather staff sets out to learn the up and coming social network site.
Previously, the staff launched an all-staff Twitter campaign, where the staff began pushing their Twitter feeds to encourage readership through social network means.
This year, the staff hopes to go a step further by introducing Storify into stories. Storify allows users to combine posts for any and all social networking sites into one fluid scrolling window.
Other news sites, such as The New York Times, incorporate various posts to support a topic explored in text. For example, The New York Times used Storify to collect tweets about the New Hampshire primary in 2012.
In order to begin creating stories, a user must create a Storify account. Then, the user must log into their various social networking accounts such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Instagram, etc.
Then, the user selects posts from sites to create a collection. The user can also give the collection titles and descriptions.
Then, the user can utilize the “Distribute” button to change the outlook of the story from default, slideshow or grid. The embed code also allows the story to be placed within an web page as shown below.
Below, The Feather has published its first Storify based off of Editor-in-Chief, Tynin Fries’s account. This collection features the first week of Night of the Stars (NOTS) excitement through the slideshow setting.
This author can be reached via Twitter: @TyninFries. Follow The Feather via Twitter: @thefeather.
For more news, read the Jan. 7 article, BREAKING: CSPA releases Feather critique, Gold Medalist (UPDATE).
The illustration was created using Storify.com images.