If you’re lacking inspiration with your company blog, why not try Storify.Com. ‘Storify helps its users tell stories by curating social media.’
In essence, Storify can be a useful tool for small businesses because it allows you to drag and drop relevant stories circulating social media. It enables you to create content that differs from your usual blog posts.
What is Storify?
‘Storify gives you a view of the world through the eyes of the people on the ground where news is happening. Our users bring together the best text, photos and video from social media to tell stories that help make sense of the world.’
Create your own stories
‘In the Storify editor, you can search social media networks for the topic you want to write about. Look through Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Instagram and more to gather material for your stories.’
How?
‘Drag and drop status updates, photos or videos to bring together the social media elements that will best illustrate your story. You can always reorder elements in your story, or delete them if you find something better. And you can always add more items later on. Your story is always editable, so you can pull in the latest from the social web.
Add your own content
A Storify story is more than just a collection of elements from social media. It’s also your opportunity to make sense of what you’ve pulled together. You can write a headline, introduction and insert text anywhere inside your story. You can even add headers, hyperlinks, and styled text. Build a narrative and give context to your readers.’
Embed
‘Storify stories can be embedded anywhere on the Web by simply pasting an embed code, just like embedding a video. You can also connect Storify to your WordPress or Drupal blog, publish to Tumblr or Posterous, or send an email newsletter through Mailchimp.’
Go Viral
‘Storify isn’t just about pulling media from social networks, it’s about spreading stories too. Storify helps your story go viral by making it easy to notify all the people quoted in your story, so they will know they are now part of something larger. These links are highly likely to be shared further on social networks and draw a response.’
