Benjamin Yoskovits, author of "Lean Analytics", shares a few great examples of how, simple, but highly focused, content curation services, can indeed provide great value, while helping build great communities.

These include:

Product Hunt
Happy Inbox
AddonList
GrowthHackers
LaunchThisYear
Quibb
USV

Interesting overview and background info on each.

Definitely worth a check. Great resources. 8/10

Full article: http://www.instigatorblog.com/curation-of-the-web/2014/01/10/

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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com's curator insight, January 12, 2014 6:25 PM

I like this quote from the article

"Curation is about people. It’s about knowing what people want, when they want it, and how they want it. As smart as computers are (and will be), I think we all appreciate the front-and-center engagement of humans with high degrees of expertise in certain subjects, guiding the curation process."

Lori Wilk's curator insight, January 12, 2014 7:28 PM

Content curation will continue to grow and curators will get more help from computers to get the work done.

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From docs.google.com - January 4, 2014 8:07 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Snowfallen definition: "to publish a whopping great story online that’s stuffed full of integrated multimedia elements — in the manner of the New York Times’ Snow Fall, the epic report on a brutal avalanche that was released late last year to much acclaim."

(source: Matter)

Whether you think that the SnowFall-like journalism format is a great thing or not, this new storytelling format characterized by long narrative texts accompanied by many multimedia elements, seems to see no stop to its growth.

Bobby Johnson of Matter / Medium, is not quite convinced that this format is always the best way to go, but besides his interesting pros and cons for the use of the snowfallen format, he has done a fantastic job of curating a great an "open" collection of all of the "snowfallen" examples already published out there.

The collection provides in a chronological order, "snowfall"-like examples essentially for the last three years, though there are a few dating back as far as to 1996.

Excellent. 9/10

SnowFallen Examples Collection: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnWYxsUNHS4FdGVYMnpkdGdTNTU0RS1SXzktcnZwRWc&usp=sharing#gid=0

malek's curator insight, January 4, 2014 8:26 AM

A frowing different species in the Storytelling kingdom. Save it in your Google Doc, enjoy at your leisure.

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From maximizesocialbusiness.com - September 5, 2013 3:14 PM

Robin Good's insight:

If you are looking for some good inspiring examples of how content and news curation can be put to good use, Bob Geller has published this past spring a useful article reviewing five different content curation approaches

that are very successful.

The five sites reviewed in this article "have all been tremendously successful in leveraging third party content, optimizing it, adding value, and building audience. They range from the famous to the obscure. There are some common threads, yet each has a different formula."

Useful. Resourceful. Good examples. 7/10

Full article: http://maximizesocialbusiness.com/curate-content-like-a-pro-8535/

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Prof. Hankell's curator insight, September 6, 2013 11:46 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Useful. Resourceful. Good examples. 7/10

Full article: http://maximizesocialbusiness.com/curate-content-like-a-pro-8535/

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donhornsby's curator insight, September 7, 2013 11:18 AM

Are there any other sites that have provided good inspiration for your content curation?

Robin Good's comment, September 8, 2013 2:47 AM

Yes. Just stay tuned and you are going to see more good examples.

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From www.mindomo.com - July 26, 2012 5:10 PM

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From onlinejournalismblog.com - January 6, 2014 9:05 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Paul Bradshaw, author, blogger and reference point for anyone doing online journalism, illustrates with a rich series of examples, the different types of content curation tools and techniques that can be effectively used by journalists today.

The article covers basic curation principles and guidelines as well as offering a set of mini-tutorials on curating lists, playlists, image boards, maps and timelines, news magazines and more.

Informative. Resourceful. Examples-rich. 9/10

Full guide: http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2013/09/30/curation-tools-tips-advice-journalism/

rodrick rajive lal's curator insight, January 7, 2014 1:27 AM

How True! "Every act of journalism is an act of curation" - that is as long as what is being reported is accurate and unbiased!

Ennio Martignago's curator insight, January 7, 2014 3:58 AM

Giornalisti a scuola di Curation

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From mindymcadams.com - September 8, 2013 2:44 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Among the types of content curation that are broadly used, content aggregation has been one of the first and most popular approaches that has naturally sprung up.

Content aggregation itself can be carried out in many different ways, from a completely manual approach to a fully automated one, with many different shades in between.

If you are interested in learning more about these, and about how to aggregate content in the most ethical and professional fashion, I strongly suggest reading these two short articles written by two curation professionals:

The first, by Mindy McAdams is a curated version of the second one which was published more than a year earlier by Steve Buttry. Together they do an excellent job of clarifying to the non-expert what curation and aggregation are all about.

The two articles offer clear guidelines, real-world examples and recommendations on how you can make content aggregation provide true additional value to both the content sources used and to the readers alike.

Recommended. 8/10

Original article: http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/aggregation-guidelines-link-attribute-add-value/

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