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5 Ways To Storify the Summer Olympics
Athletes are already tweeting, Instagrams are being posted, YouTube memes are bubbling up. Here's how to go for the gold with Olympics social media - and share it back out to Pinterest, Facebook, big publishing platforms, or your blog.
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1. Follow athletes on Twitter, and make a scrapbook of their London Games
“@carolinelind12: The full size version #gottawanttavomit #gottawantit http://pic.twitter.com/5HprccEY #nasty
@hunterkemper it feels a bit naughty voting for the Canadian flag bearer! Are we allowed to do that?!
Olympic team in Burnaby today! @brianprice2012 @willcrothers. #goforgold #holdyourfinish. http://pic.twitter.com/JYSXClOW- You can follow the athletes individually on Twitter, or via a list like the one from NBC below.
- Twitter / @NBCOlympics/All Summer OlympicsGet updates via SMS by texting follow NBCOlympics to 40404 in the United States Codes for other countries Two-way (sending and receiving)...
- To see all the tweets from this list on Storify, just type NBCOlympics/all-summer-olympics in the List tab of the Twitter search on our platform. It looks like this:
- Then you can pull into your story all kinds of great social media from the athletes themselves.
Sister @lizziemccabe1 after practice, grade 9 and sculling #cantstopwontstop #blisters #blood http://pic.twitter.com/vTv51C5x2. Storify the latest news about the Games.
Facebook Takes London Olympics PublicWith a little over a month to go before the opening of the London Olympics, Facebook has launched an official London Olympics page for fa...- There is so much (too much?) media around the Games every day. How can you make sense of it? You can collect stories about your area of interest, or a specific nation or event, and keep all those links in a great-looking Storify.
Is this the leaked setlist from London's Opening Ceremony?From the blog Fourth-Place Medal: The Opening Ceremony to the London Olympics will feature an eclectic mix of British music including The...Spencer bound for ring at London Olympics
With her cherished Olympic dream locked in the grip of some faceless bureaucrats, Mary Spencer did what.3. Collect beautiful photos and share them on Pinterest or elsewhere.
- There will be more photos taken at this Olympics than of any sports event ever. Many of them will be beautiful. It's easy to search for them on Storify -- just search Olympics on flickr, Instagram, Twitter image search or Google image search.
Some fantastic photography and editing by @jodiealicia27 at the Olympic Park http://pic.twitter.com/sSYvyfIk- You can share photos from your story - or from any Storify story - on Pinterest. Just click the share bar on any item, and pin to Pinterest.
