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kitty de bruin's curator insight,
October 25, 2013 4:15 AM
co creating, such a nice way to work together
irene's curator insight,
January 10, 2014 9:16 AM
Perché il futuro del Crowdsourcing va in direzione della cura, sintesi e cose varie.
Prof. Hankell's curator insight,
August 11, 2013 7:27 PM
Robin Good's insight:
Motley's Fool contributor Andrew Marder has written about the critical importance that curation will have for the retail universe by citing as relevant examples Netflix and Amazon.
Netflix for example officially states: "...instead of trying to have everything, we should strive to have the best in each category."
In short, curation looks to provide customers with the best possible products instead of the most products possible.
"Amazon has dabbled in curation through itslists system, which allows other users to make curated lists, and through its "customers who viewed this item also viewed..." capability.
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The success of curation is going to come from the combination of massive selection and systematized suggestion. The model that Amazon is skirting the edges of gives consumers the ability to both drive their own choices and discover new ways to spend their money. As the algorithms that choose these recommendations become more powerful, the businesses will find higher strike rates with the suggestions.
My comment: Undoubtedly, a growing trend emerging for online retailers is the need to focus on selecting and curating the most relevant products, rather than all of those available, for their specific tribe. This is why those retailers capable of finding and hiring quality curators (or leveraging their users passions) to organize and showcase their product line-ups will be enjoying greater conversions and sales than those simply using algo-based selections.
Rightful. Insightful. 8/10
Full article:http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/05/23/the-future-of-retail-is-curation.aspx |
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.
Jennifer Moss's curator insight,
November 8, 2013 6:47 PM
This is like the 'Horizon Report' for museums.
Erica Bilder's curator insight,
November 15, 2013 7:11 AM
I have nothing to add to Robin Good's terrific insights: Robin Good's insight:
Picture these scenarios: The Freud Museum, in the spirit of its namesake, becomes a provider of mental retreat and therapy (I wonder if the docents will be licensed psychoanalysis?) These, according to the 40-page report “Museums in a Digital Age” from Arups, may actually be some of the likely new profiles of prestigious museums 25 years from now.
The report projects that:
"...future museums will see personalised content, new levels of sustainability and a visitor experience extended beyond present expectations of time and space." A rising desire among audiences to shape their own cultural experiences (“Collaborative Curation”) The opportunity for museum to become “curators of experiences” that extend beyond the boundaries of traditional exhibits or programs, or beyond the walls of the museum itself.
Source: http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.it/2013/11/museums-in-future-view-from-across-pond.html The idea of "collaborative curation" of museum collections by the actual users-visitors, is particularly fascinating. "Just as current consumer trends shift towards collaborative consumption, in the future, museums may employ new patterns of collaborative curation,allowing for individually curated experiences and giving the public greater control over both content and experience.Increased visitor participation will allow people themselves to reinvent the museum experience, enabling content that can adapt to the preferences of users in real-time."
My comment: If you are a curator and are interested in exploring and understanding what the future of large collections and museums may look like and which forces are going to be driving such changes, this is a good report to read.
Insightful. Inspiring 8/10
PDF: http://www.arup.com/~/media/Files/PDF/Publications/Research_and_whitepapers/2013_Arup_FRI_MuseumsintheDigitalAge_final_web.ashx
Julie Groom's curator insight,
October 23, 2013 4:48 AM
Curating - how to manage it. And curation experts already exist - they're called Librarians! |
Justin Fowler, co-founder of AudioPress, offers valuable insight into what the future of search and curation may be, by providing a relevant and sound pattern to look at: music.
He writes on TheNextWeb:
"Context is key for music, and that is where services like Songza and Beats Music are picking up tips from FM radio. These services are essentially using algorithms to help people discover new playlists, instead of discovering new songs. This allows for a marriage of both technology and human curation."
Accordingly, as time goes by, I expect to see search engines increasingly highlight and direct searchers to quality curators, hubs and on-topic collections and specialized resources, rather than to individual, one-topic-only pages.
Search engines will increasingly be gateways to curators and content collections rather than to individual tracks and pages.
This will be particularly true especially when you will query a topic, a theme or interest, or better yet, a musical genre.
In all of these situations, where you want to dive, discover and learn more about a topic, it is much better to be offered a selection of playlists, compilations, collections or hubs covering that theme rather than a specific song, product or artist.
That is, search and discoverability of content will rely more and more on intermediaries that will take on the load to make sense and organize in the best possible way, a specific realm of information (it can be a music genre, or the analysis of a biological topic) rather than - as it happens today - provide a linear list of individual web pages that is supposed to cover that topic.
If the music industry, is, like other times before, an early indicator of how things will work out in the future, it makes a lot of sense to expect that the future of content discovery and search will be increasingly in the hands of curators, greatly helped and supported by sophisticated, but hackable and adjustable algorithms.
What do you think?
Rightful. Indicative of things to come. 8/10
Full article: http://trove.com/me/content/Cc1qT
Reading time: 4':20"