Following last week’s ALIA Information Online, a task on my post-conferencing ‘to do’ list is to review my notes and pull out some key takeaways.
I took notes on my iPad into Evernote in most sessions I attended. Some presentations however, I couldn’t quite articulate key points in 140 characters or less or I just couldn’t tear my attention away for a split second to do so. In these sessions, other tweeters did a much better job than I and so I ended up with many ‘favourited’ tweets.
This morning I wanted to export my favourite tweets from the conference to incorporate and review with those notes I took offline. Logged into Twitter this morning and couldn’t find a tool to do this. Then I searched for one. What I found were a number of stats and analytics services, most requiring a monthly subscription. How annoying is that? I just wanted a one-off export.
Then my ‘ah ha!’ moment and I found a workaround. I thought I export and curate content regularly using Storify. I’ll give that a go. And it worked!
Here are the steps I took to export and save my favourite tweets from ALIA Information Online.
Logged into Storify and began creating a ‘new story’. (If you don’t have a Storify account, then you’ll need to register but it’s a really cool tool anyway, you’ll likely use it again.)
To pull out the tweets, I clicked on the ‘Twitter’ icon, then selected ‘Favourites’.
Entered my username then clicked on the search icon.
Search results for favourited tweets appeared in the right hand side window.
Scrolled down to bottom, then clicked ‘show more results’ a few times to bring up all my favourite tweets.
Clicked ‘add them all’ (as you would for any Storify).
Arranged tweets, added title and description, and published.
Viewed the published story.
Clicked on the ‘…’ button at the top, selected ‘Export’.
Selected the format I wanted to export.
Then voila! My exported document appeared in a new browser tab for download.
Hope others find this useful! Happy Friday!
