Stitching Together a Story Using Social Media

Nov 8, 2011 by jaymac    No Comments    Posted under: Embracing Each Day

In a previous post, I wrote about the number of ways to tell your story.  The Web constantly and rapidly evolves and offers new ways to reach your audience. I thought I’d take a moment to offer you a few more tools.

Lifestreaming, or social activity streams, “is a time-ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of your electronic life; every document you create and every document other people send you is stored in your lifestream,” according to Wikipedia.com.

Lifestreaming services are emerging as a viable way to tell a story. Snip.it and Storify.com are two different types of aggregators that are gaining credibility in the mainstream media.

Here’s a storystream about the Wall Street protests as journalists practice with Storify:

These kinds of tools allow you to engage your creative chops. Poetry or prose can all emerge.

Enjoy!

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