In this electronic age there is -- almost --no excuse for not keeping your presentation or speech fresh with new ideas and the latest information. But if you 're at all like me you're probably finding yourself just bit out to sea without a life preserver with constant gush of new information.
Yes Google and other searches are an excellent ways to gather new material and ideas about your specialty as a speaker or teacher -- making sure of course, that you verify all these shiny nuggets of new information with independent research.
And then there are all the other online ways you already know about to gather and share information about your interests: blogs, or other social media like Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin. And of course there are others you probably know about as well. But how do you sort through it all? It can all get pretty time consuming and exasperating to put it midly.
But there is one site you might not know about that could help us solve this problem and this is Storify, developed by Burt Herman to help writers and other awash in a deluge of information from online and other sources keep afloat as we try to pick through it all, capture those rare nuggets of useful information and make good use of it
I just clicked on it and have yet to explore it so can't tell you much about more about this site yet but according to to the article in the November 2011 edition of The Writer the idea behind Storify was, "to allow users to search multiple social-media streams at the same time, and then create new stories by pulling together the public content found on any or all of them."
It's definitely worth looking into as a much simpler way to do research.
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