Unleash your curation creativity: 4 cool storytelling tools

Maddie Grant
May 31, 2011
10 comments

I’ve been playing with a slew of storytelling tools lately.

These are curation tools for publishing – in other words, not just curation as in filtering information for yourself, but curation in order to blog about some particular “story” or present content in a visually interesting way for other people to look at. For all of these tools, you pull content from your social streams and arrange them in a particular way, like…

1. STORIFY

(Click on this screenshot to see the full story. Topic: Champions League Final)


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Here’s how it works:

Here’s another one, which sends you links based on topic keywords which you then curate or “scoop”…

2. SCOOP.IT

(Click on this screenshot to see this in action. Topic: Autism)


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Here’s more on Scoop.It:

Or, you’ve probably already heard of this one, which we’ve seen used to great effect for conference dailies.

3. PAPER.LI

Paper.li pulls in tweets from hashtags or keywords, but you need a decent volume for it to look good, which is why conference hashtags work great. Note, though, if you use this please please please turn off the auto-tweet spam that paper.li sends out. Yuck.

(Click on this screenshot to see the Meetings Industry Daily)



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And finally, I used this one to create this post:

4. CURATE.US

Here’s more info on how Curate.Us works, but it’s basically a clipping service. It’s

a new service that lets readers go beyond the link to share content from around the web in a visually compelling way. Curate.Us maximizes the reach and impact of shared content for publishers by driving traffic back to the original site at more than 5x the industry average for traditional links.
From www.curate.us (share this quote)

Most interestingly, it has a slew of analytics where you can see clicks and views on everything that you “clip”.

Have you used any of these?  What do you think? Others to recommend?

Tagged as: cool tools

{ 4 comments }

Tia Marie May 31, 2011 at 12:27 pm

Hey Maddie!

Thanks for the Curate.Us mention! I’m glad you like it so much. The analytics are some of my favourite features, I use them for pretty much everything.

Curate.Us was really born from necessity and has evolved from user feedback, so if you have any feedback about it at all, let me know!

–Tia Marie
Community Manager

Francois June 3, 2011 at 2:38 am

Hi,
I think curation can adress many goals and story telling is one of them. With Pearltrees we have build a curation service and community that organizes the web. It would be interesting to present all the uses curation could be dedicated to.
Have a look at http://www.pearltrees.com

Maddie Grant June 3, 2011 at 11:14 am

I LOVE Pearltrees – thanks for stopping by Francois! p.s. When can I use it on my ipad…? ;)

Shaun Dakin July 30, 2011 at 11:07 am

Good stuff.

Storify is great.

Summify is interesting.

I still go back to Delicious for curating what maters to me and my business. Nothing faster and more usable.

Thanks,

Shaun Dakin
Founder @PrivacyCamp
Founder @EndTheRobocalls
CEO @ReverseRobocall (a dot com)

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