Throughout the Iowa caucuses, I was charged with running our social media, push notifications for our app, text alerts and building this storify.
The Storify went on to be shared on 11 other news sites as well as our own, thanks to sharing through the Gannett network. The Storify was also prominently featured on the Storify roundup on Iowa Caucuses coverage on caucus night.
Total views, as of Wednesday morning, neared 3,486 from all sites.
Pulling this storify together, I realized the importance of lists, including this one from Storyful. Using that list, our own and having a working knowledge of Iowa-relevant people was crucial to cutting through the massive amount of tweets using #iacaucus.
Storify has added Instagram to Storify, but due to issues adding the service (screen resolution, maybe?) I was unable to scroll down to get it saved as a service. So I used Webstagram, signing in with our Instagram account, and did a hashtag search to find photos. (note: this paragraph added after initial post)
I also had the luxury of not having to worry about other site production, as digital editor Julia Thompson and homepage editor Yvonne Beasley were hard at work on the sites and other talented digital staff worked on the inner workings of the sites.
I was an early adopter of Storify (see my profile here), but I’m most proud of this Storify and its mix of multimedia and entertaining social media that I think represented the different color and conversation present throughout the process.
