The CEO and co-founder of Storify Skyped with a Professor Steve Klein’s class at George Mason University on Thursday.
Burt Herman, the young entrepreneur, has his own personal Web site, his own Twitter and his own LinkedIn page. Such a tech-savy guy like this surely has the resources to create a Web site to create Storify, right? Absolutely.
Burt went to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, via a John S. Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists program when he realized that the Associated Press style wasn’t for him.
Instead, he claims to have combined Silicone Valley and AP style with his background in computer science and his various ideas to tell stories online. The product was Storify, a site dedicated to letting users tell stories use social media. Photos, videos, tweets — you name it, Storify can incorporate it into a compelling story.
Burt believes that not every journalist knows how to develop a story. Therefore, everyday readers/writers can help out to develop it, complete it.
Don’t get him wrong — it’s not to put journalists out of a job, but rather to tell more stories. Using Storify, anyone can be a journalist.
Whether or not it’s going to be a story worth reading is a different matter, though…
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