Writing / Story-telling / Publishing Tools
Writing-focused /Assistance
SocialCuration
Document Revision /Collaboration
EnterpriseCollaboration
StoryCollaboration
Digital PublicationAssembly
Digital & Self-Publishing
SocialReading
Description
Tools focused on enabling non-professional writers to explore,develop and share their writing
& story-telling skills throughtext & other media, often in
collaboration with / input fromothers.
One person creates a story,possibly with some input from
others, but mostly blog +curation of available elements
on the social web.
Tools focused on managing thecollaborative creation andrevision of a single work
product (typically among a pre-defined group of contributors).
Business-targeted, enterprise-class tools primarily targeted at
collaboration and projectmanagement of documetns
and workflow.
Tools focused on creative storydevelopment with a very highdegree of collaboration, and
where a community of authors /creators / artists co-create andco-manage a work vs. any one
single artist.
Tools focused on assemblingdeveloped media into a
finished digital or phsyicalproduct.
Tools focused on self-publishing a work once it has
been written.
"Social Reading" & other socialconsumption tools focused onenhancing a core reading orconsumption experience withrelated/linked social content
and interaction.
Examples
- Libboo++ - Figment++
- InkPop (acq by Figment)- Writing.com
- HyperInk- Scripted
- CrowdProse- Cowbird (Images & Text)++
- Content.ly++- Storify++- Pinterest- Snip.It
- Zemanta
- Google Docs - WriteBoard- MixedInk++- PiratePad++- SocialText- ZohoWriter
- Zotero- Thumbscribes
- Adobe (Acrobat)- Atlassian Confluence
- Basecamp- Broadvision Clearvale
- Colaab- Chatter (SalesForce)
- Huddle- Sharepoint- Socialcast
- Tibbr- Wiggio
- Yammer- Zoho
- Sosius- nu+/Yooplus
- Podio
- AUTHORBEE- Hadza (Vids)++
- Ruckus Media (Kids)- BoxFiction (TV)
- HitRecord (Music)- BookRix SocialBook (Tweets)++
- LeanPub- Moglue- Adobe
- Woodwing- Webdoc
- PressBooks- Periodic Technology
- Pages- SmashWords
- Sigil- Scrivener
- KindleDirect- PubIT
- Pandamanian- MyStoryBook
- Composer- Moglue
- ActiveReader- Kwiksher
- InteractBuilder- Demibooks Composer
- Adobe- Woodwing- Aquafadas
- BookOnPublish- Publish88
- Red Foundry (apps)- Webdoc
- Blurb- Plyvore- Hype- Mixel
- Byliner++- Bookish- Amazon
- Outskirts Press- Tate Publishing- AuthorHouse
- aNobii- SmashWords
- Aventine Press- BookLocker- BookPros
- BookSurge Publishing- CreateSpace
- Creation House- Dog Ear Publishing- Infinity Publishing
- iUniverse- Llumina Press
- Lulu Press- Mill City Press- Morgan James- Outskirts Press
- Page Free Publishing- Pleasant Word
- Publish America- Tate Publishing
- Trafford Publishing- Universal Publishers
- VirtualBookWorm- Wheatmark
- WingSpan Press- Xlibris Corporation
- Xulon Press
- Scribd- KOBO Pulse++
- SubText++- BookGlutton
- Findings- Readmill- HuffPost
- Boston Pheonix- TheAmandaProject
- Findings- Readmill
- Copia- 24Symbols- OpenMargin- Broadcastr
Emphasis:Primary ("w/" indicates secondary)
Creation vs. Distribution Creation w/ Distribution Creation Creation Creation & Distribution Creation & Distribution Creation Distribution Distribution Creation vs. Consumption Creation w/ Consumption Creation & Consumption Creation Creation & Consumption Creation & Consumption Creation Consumption Consumption Professional vs. Amateur Amateur Professional w/ Amateur Professional Professional Amateur w/ Professional Professional Professional & Amateur Amateur Core vs. Meta Content Core Meta w/ Core Core Core Core w/ Meta Core Core Meta Original vs. Curated Content Original Curated w/ Original Original Original Original Original Original Original Document vs. Story Management Story Story Document Document Story Document Document Story Individual vs. Collaborative Creation Individual w/ Collaboration Individual w/ Collaboration Collaborative Collaborative Collaborative Individual Individual Collaborative Single vs. Shared Control Single Single Single w/ Shared Shared Shared Single Single Shared
For feedback tweet @StephenTBradley or email [email protected] Hash tags: #authorbee #socialstories
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