Tying my online presence together with Storytlr.com
By Cliff Aliperti
Set it and forget it, right? That’s the kind of simplicity we all want these days, and Storytlr.com has definitely filled that need for me in pulling together everything I do online.
Founded in 2008 Storytlr comes to us from two person team based out of Belgium and the Netherlands. From the Storytlr Presskit:
Storytlr is reinventing the personal page by bringing together life-streaming, blogging, and social interactions. It lets you create, aggregate and mashup web content into a highly personalized page. Link it to your own domain, style it, share it. This becomes the place where you define your online identity.
Prior to finding Storytlr I’d been pointing people to my Google Profile to show off all I do online. Now I definitely believe you should still have a Google Profile because, well, it’s Google, and no matter what you do online your Google Profile is always going to show up on page 1 when someone Googles you.
But that’s just a portal to what you’re doing. I’d also tried mashing together my online presence with a Tumblr site. While I like what Tumblr does I prefer the way Storytlr does it:
Beyond pulling in multiple blog posts, Tweets from multiple Twitter identities, my Stumbles, Google favorites, videos, and even eBay listings, what I love about Storytlr is that it allows me to arrange the page exactly how I want to present it to you.
It’s fast and it’s easy to set up. I think I mention I did mine in one night and it took me about an hour and a half. It imports all of your old info from the selected sites, allows you to organize it, archive it, and even back it up (worried about lost Tweets? no more).
Besides pulling in info from everywhere you are online you can also post links, videos, audio, blog posts direct to your Storytlr site. There’s simple Disqus integration for commenting and making your site itself more social.
You can even set it up with your own domain name, which gave me the excuse to break out the oh-so-vain cliffaliperti.com.
The most amazing part of Storytlr…it’s free! Actually, I even prefer the tabbing and organization to the price because (shh, don’t tell them) I’d definitely pay for this service.
The following video is just under 5 minutes, but it’s enough time to give you a quick walk through both the front and back ends of my Storytlr site. Have a look:
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Great post Cliff – looks like a cool site to play with!!
Pretty cool Cliff,
I will check it out. Thanks for the info. Keep up the great work here in ColderICE.com
All the best
JB
Thanks for the great tutorial, Cliff! I checked it all out on my iPhone and the site came through there, nice and clear. Social networking on the road.
Excellent, I didn't even think of that! Nice added benefit, thanks!
Oh my God, JB, did I beat you to one, no way! Seriously, I really just stumbled into this solution because the first ones I looked at were too techy for me. Luck, but I love it!
And thanks for the compliment, I'll try!
Mitzi, one of the best parts is you don't even have to play too long! With so many solutions for everything we do intuitive has become my favorite word, this did it all (for me) and quick and easy too.
Very disappointing, via Twitter link from Phaedra:
Storytlr will stop operating on December 31st 2009
Very disappointing, via Twitter link from Phaedra:
Storytlr will stop operating on December 31st 2009