An interesting, relatively new, way of telling stories is by using Storify. Creating a story on Storify allows you to curate an event by using multiple platforms. Storify creates a webpage that resembles the popular new method of storytelling covered earlier, What They're Saying pages.
In my page about the State of the Union Address there were far fewer tweets and rather than telling one story the goal was to provide many different angles about the same event. The curation page about the SOTU was not as much about what happened as it was how people reacted to it. The goals of the stories were quite different but the way the aggregation of the media looked in the end was quite similar. Using Storify was a bit difficult at first but after getting familiar with the interface it became quite simple. My recommendation for anyone creating a story on Storify would be to lay things out on paper first. Creating a layout of the story you want to tell is key. Have all the tweets you want to use picked out (and favorited) ahead of time. This way when you begin working in Storify the hard work has already been done. Storify is a neat aggregating program that has loads of potential. For #loweclass we used Storify to tell the story of Mission Week at Marquette University but it could be used to tell all kinds of stories. An interesting thought was that you could start building a Storify during a game, update the page throughout the game with good tweets, comments from live threads and vines of the game. Then it would be rather simple to wrap up the story with a few postgame summary tweets, the final score and a link to comprehensive recap. Watch out for plenty more Storify stories and some experimentation with a great program.
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