Tool of the week for journalists: Timeline
A new tool for journalists created by a multimedia journalist and journalism professor
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Tool of the week:
What is it?
A wizard to enable you to create and embed a timeline of curated content.
How is it of use to journalists?
News sites often use a timeline for digital storytelling. This is a tool just released to enable you to do just that.
There are several examples, such as a Timeline of the Republican run-up . Mashable compares Timeline to Storify , a tool that enables you to curate web content by dragging and dropping tweets and other media to create a story.
Mashable's report states:
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Timeline does not offer the simplicity of Storify and although aimed at non-techies, it will require you to add some code to the head of your site and will take a quite a bit longer to create than a Storify.
One way you can create the timeline is by using a Google Doc. Timeline provides a template and you can simply add your links to the media.
For example, the below screenshot shows how we used the Google Doc template to create a timeline of some of the key phone-hacking moments, adding a Flickr photo, tweets and YouTube footage. <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-44031" height="280" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43911&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="Timeline-goole-doc" width="540">
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Sarah Marshall is VP Audience Strategy at Condé Nast. She leads distribution and channel strategy globally. She is also the former technology editor for Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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