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Use Social Media to Tell Interactive Stories [INVITES] This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups.
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The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Storify Quick Pitch: Pull together content from social networks to create a cohesive story with tweets, posts, photos and videos that maintain their original functionality. Genius Idea: You can find information about almost any topic on social media, but it's not necessarily easy to put that information together into a cohesive narrative.
Users can search for content on social networks and create stories by dragging and dropping components onto a workspace without leaving Storify. All of the tweets, Facebook posts, YouTube videos, Flickr images, and other bits of information in the completed story maintain their links and functionality. The company launched its private beta at the end of September. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, jallfree.
Social Media + Innovation: When Is It a Business? Turning Fast G. Foursquare. 'True Blood' hits social networks. By Mike Snider, USA TODAY The new True Blood Season 2 Blu-ray Disc has a social networking feature that fans of the HBO series can really sink their teeth into: automatic updates to their Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Described as the most extensive Facebook-linking feature in a Blu-ray Disc so far, the True Blood Live Feed sends updates to Facebook and Twitter as viewers watch the episodes. Each of the 12 episodes has at least eight scenes that can be posted to Facebook, too, direct from the discs. One of HBO's most popular series, True Blood averaged 5 million viewers per first-run episode. The tale of vampires and other supernatural happenings in the Louisiana bayou has more than 1.5 million friends on Facebook, which now has a countdown to the June 13 third-season premiere. As viewers watch discs, an update such as "(your name) just came out of the coffin to watch Episode 1" would be sent to Facebook and Twitter. FaceTime - (Build 20100625223402)
YubNub - YubNub.org - (Build 20100625223402) Social Media Metrics Superlist: Measurement, ROI, & Key Statisti. Are you using content marketing as part of your digital strategy to grow your business?
If so, you're not alone. According to the Content Marketing Institute, the lion's share of marketers (some 92%) report using content marketing. In the fast moving world of digital strategy, things are always changing. What should you expect in 2014 to change in the world of content marketing? Hana Abaza of Uberflip has put together an infographic detailing five key content marekting trends for the coming year. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. AP Stylebook Adds 42 New Guidelines for Social Media - (Build 20. The AP Stylebook has released its new social media guidelines, including the official change from “Web site” to “website” (a move first reported back in April) and 41 other definitions, use cases and rules that journalists should follow.
Among the more interesting changes –- at least from a grammar and style standpoint –- are separating out “smart phone” as two words, hyphenating “e-reader,” and allowing fan, friend and follow to be used both as nouns and verbs. Beyond that, the AP has also defined a number of acronyms that are commonly used in texting and instant messaging. While most of them should be fairly well-known to regular web and mobile phone users (ROFL, BRB and G2G are among the definitions) one actually was new to me: POS. According to the AP, this stands for “parent over shoulder” (I’ve used POS to refer to something else occasionally, but I digress), and is used by “teens and children to indicate, in an IM conversation, that a parent is approaching.”
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