When Can You Use Twitter in Stories and Storify Curation?

First, let's define a few terms.

In the digital media world "curation" means the collection, archiving, and for us, the publication of trustworthy digital content.

"Aggregation" in the digital media world means gathering, categorizing, and presenting material from multiple sources to create a one-of-a-kind editorial experience for readers/visitors.

So how do you decide which tweet or which Facebook post to use?

Here's what the Storify editors think. We'll talk more about this in class.

Fast Company: Content Curators are New Web Superheroes

The print and online magazine that reports on what "fast companies (entrepreneurs and cutting-edge ventures) are doing has taken a look at the growing importance of curators.

"Curation is the act of individuals with a passion for a content area to find, contextualize, and organize information. Curators provide a consistent update regarding what's interesting, happening, and cool in their focus. Curators tend to have a unique and consistent point of view--providing a reliable context for the content that they discover and organize," according to a blog post by Steven Rosenbaum.

He goes on to list some best curation pratices and highlights some of the current curation tools (we used a couple that he mentions--Storify and Pinterest--in class this semester).

"One thing I'm sure of," Rosenbaum adds, "the web is going to keep growing fast. And the solution to making sense of the massive volume is a new engaged partnership between humans and machines."

Click here to read the complete post. 

KQED Radio is Experimenting is also Experimenting with Storify

Menlo's News Management and Production class isn't the only organization test driving Storify.

KQED Radio's Daily talk show, "Forum" is testing it, too.

Earlier this week, "Forum" host Michael Krasny led a lively discussion on going vegan and vegan cooking. The Forum team created a Storify story that collected recipes, recommendations and vegan cooking tips that listeners Facebooked, tweeted or posted.

Click here for the Forum page.

Click here to go directly to the Storify story (which includes a SoundCloud widget with audio from the show.