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What a Content Curator Needs To Know: How, Tools, Issues and Strategy
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An Inside Look At News Curation Apps from the RJI Futures Lab

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This short but quite interesting video update looks at emerging news curation apps designed to gather and select the most relevant news for their users. 

Circa's David Cohn, Inside's Jason Calacanis and Newsy's Jim Spencer provide key insight into what their news discovery services are offering and how they use curation to achieve this result.  


The video covers also the value of curation over original journalism and issues of copyright and fair use.


Interesting. Informative. 7/10


Original video: http://youtu.be/Gf3SYrt2Jgw 



Bob Boynton's comment, March 31, 2014 12:51 AM
I cannot use my scoop.it because I am following you and I do not have adobe flash installed, and I do not want adobe flash installed. But the video will not let me access my scoop.it.
socialcompany's curator insight, May 23, 2014 9:04 AM

stories behind circa, inside, newsy, good short videos.

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Curate and Publish Searchable Databases with freeDive

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freeDive allows anyone to use Google spreadsheets to build searchable databases that can be personalized, curated and published online.


Key features include: 

  • Results are presented in an interactive, sortable table 
  • Wizard walks you through creating a search widget
  • Customize the interface with your filters
  • Embed code to publish anywhere 
  • Open-source



Free to use.



Built by Len De Groot and Scot Hacker





Stephen Dale's curator insight, January 17, 2014 11:28 AM

Looks like a useful - and free to use - resource for the commited data analyst/researcher.

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Curate Your Social Media Magazine with NewzSocial

Robin Good: NewzSocial is a free iPad curation app which allows you to instantly create topic-specific channels and to easily curate the content stories that you deem appropriate for each.


Curators can work in teams and collaboratively organize one or more news channels.


From the App Store download page: "NewzSocial is a free social news reader app that allows you to follow, create and share broad and niche news streams on your topics of interest.


The app has unique social curation features using which you can tap into your network of ‘topic expert’ friends and get the news you want selected by the experts you know."


A reviewer on the App Store left this comment: "What blew me away is the number of great articles the app has. I just searched for latest fashion trends & got really great articles. With flipboard, after reading 5-7 articles, it's the same stories from yesterday. "


Free to use.


Find out more: http://www.newzsocial.com/


Introduction: http://www.newzsocial.com/quick-tour/


Other info: http://www.newzsocial.com/support/


Video intro: http://youtu.be/sD0pzSthVrA


Download NewzSocial in the App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id546527255



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Index, Search and Visualize What's Inside Large Documents Collections with Overview

Overview is a free tool for investigative journalists, researchers, and other curious people to explore large sets of text documents -- anything from PDFs to tweets.…
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Overview is a new free tool designed for investigative journalists and researchers interested in finding relevant information within large collections of text documents, from reports to social media tweets.


Overview greatly simplifies the task of analyzing, indexing and visualising large document collections in ways that can allow a journalist to identify relevant patterns and threads across thousands of different documents.


Overview is an open-source document mining system which allows you to upload thousands of documents either in PDF format, via the DocumentCloud or through a CSV spreadsheet file. These documents can be rapidly indexed, sorted and analyzed in order to present an organized visual overview of their contents. 


"Whether you are a journalist starting with thousands of pages of government documents, a reasearcher facing a huge archive, or a social media analyst starting with 100,000 posts, Overview will organize your documents into topics and sub-topics, and then visualize them -- so you can find exactly what you're looking for, instantly count the number of documents in each topic, or tag entire topics for further work."


Free to use. Open-source.


Try it out now: https://www.overviewproject.org/ 


Find out more: https://www.overviewproject.org/help 


Step by step instructions: http://overview.ap.org/blog/2013/11/step-by-step-instructions-for-using-overview/ 


Video overview: http://vimeo.com/71483614 


FAQ: http://overview.ap.org/faq 


The team behind it: http://overview.ap.org/team/ 


Overview is a project of The Associated Press, supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Knight News Challenge.


Overview is the result of the work of Jonathan Stray and Jonas Karlsson




HT Kate Herzog 


Stephen Byrne's curator insight, January 26, 2014 5:42 PM

Looks useful but haven't tried it ...

 

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Easily Curate Thematic Video Channels with Rockpack (iOS)

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Rockpack is a free iOS app for iPhones and iPads which allows you to easily clip and organize together video clips already published online.


Similar to Flipboard and Pinterest, it provides a one-click operation to add any YouTube video to one of your video channels.


Rockpack integrates with Twitter and Facebook and it allows you to follow your favorite channels easily. A browser bookmarklet is also availanle for desktop use.


My comment: A quick way to easily create thematic video channels based on existing published material. Easy to use.



Free to use.


App Store download: https://itunes.apple.com/app/rockpack/id660697542?mt=8&ls=1


Find out more: http://rockpack.com/


FAQ: http://rockpack.com/#/content-providers



Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's curator insight, July 6, 2013 8:50 AM
The app that makes it easy to create, share and subscribe to personalized video channels. Add your favorite videos from across the web with just one tap.

People are always looking for new ways to express themselves, especially online, and Rockpack provides a unique way for users to do so.

jspellos's curator insight, July 6, 2013 9:21 AM

Like it.  A Flipboard for video?  Perhaps.