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If you are new to content curation and you are wondering how you could use your WordPress or Tumblr account to get your feet wet in selecting and publishing the very best content available in your industry niche, here is a good introductory article by Nancy Messieh on MakeUseOf. From how to identify your niche, to picking your curation platform (though here the advice is quite shallow and tips are pretty limited - no mention of RebelMouse, Scoop.it or Lingospot among others) and keeping yourself up-to-date, this article provides some good basic advice on how to get the ball rolling. Quite useful is the list of seven curated blogs at the end of the article showcased as best examples of good curation at work. Useful for anyone starting out. A few good references. 7/10 Full article: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-create-a-successful-curated-blog/ Delete the scoop?
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If you want to create a "persistent search", that is, a recurring search on a specific set of keywords, and obtain a RSS feed that you can subscribe to, here is how to do it:
Just append &format=rss to the end of the url to turn any search results page into an RSS feed automatically.
Even better, you can combine the RSS feed parameter with the search by time parameter that Bing makes available so that you will receive new sites entering the search results more frequently in your RSS reader.
Creating RSS feeds out of persisten searches can be particularly useful for news curators who want to monitor search engines on specific topics without having to manually go and perform those searches.
For more info: http://www.ghacks.net/2013/03/23/bing-create-search-result-rss-feeds/
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Content curation has been part of my life for several years.
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Here is a slideshow by Cendrine Marrouat on Internet Billboards about what is content curation. It simple, clear and very understandable.
It covers this topics:
- What is content curation?
- Why content curation?
- Benefits of content curation
- Ideas to leverage content curation
- Examples of content to curate
- Examples of content curation tools
- Tips to become a great content curator
14 slides.
If you are new to content curation and want to get a gist of what this is all about, this is a good deck to go through.
If you are new, this is useful, and takes 2 mins to scan it all. 6/10
See it here: http://www.internetbillboards.net/2013/03/an-introduction-to-content-curation-slideshow/
Original slideshow: http://www.scribd.com/doc/125504044/Introduction-to-Content-Curation
AlGonzalezinfo's curator insight,
March 26, 7:33 AM
Great scoop Robin! The timing could not have been better!!!
Thanks!
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While content marketing quickly went from “what’s that” to “must have” in 2012, the biggest challenges marketers face are producing enough of the right type of content and having resources, both budget and...
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Heidi Cohen provides some good solid advice on where you should look if you are frustrated by how difficult it is to find relevant content to curate for your own audience.
From monitoring top blogs and subscribing to the best newsletters in your niche, what elese can you do to have super good, quality stuff to curate?
She writes: "Content curation provides marketers with the ability to extend their content offering by leveraging the power of other people’s content and putting it in the context of your brand. Understand that while content curation helps maximize your content marketing dollar, it still requires resources, both budget and personnel."
Useful. 6/10
Full article: http://heidicohen.com/9-amazing-content-curation-resources/
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Bill French has just released and made available for purchase a Google Docs based mini-app he has developed, which allows anyone to curate online content without needing to have a website or blog.
The app whic is called Qyurate, allows to capture and edit / curate content found on the web, to archive and store it by sending to a dedicated email, and to publish it via RSS.
More specifically:
Instead of emailing your annotated content items to a blogging platform such as Tumblr, email them to qyurate@gmail.com.
A running process at qyurate@gmail.com email address will see your posts, parse them into your available content for your feeds, and organize them by tags.
Tagging your posts is achieved by adding a name-value pair in parenthesis at the end of the email subject line.
Example:
The Art of QR Codes (qyurate:entconnect)
In the above example, this curated post will be categorized under “entconnect”. It is also possible to tag a post for use in multiple categories.
This makes it simple to dispatch curated items to more than one destination via separate RSS feeds.
Price: you name a price starting from $10
P.S.: Unfortunately the description and info about this new tool is quite concise and the "demo" provided on the landing page is accessible only by those who have previously bought an eBook by Bill French ($8).
* What I have done to get access without buying, is to provide a fictitious PIN when asked, and it seems you can go through it without problems.
Reference page: https://gumroad.com/l/qyurate
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March 18, 9:31 AM
Sites step up to take the floods of people looking for RSS feed curation services
Pippa Davies @PippaDavies 's curator insight,
March 18, 11:39 AM
If you don't have a blog and want to curate, here is another option using Google apps.
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So the really big news yesterday, outstripping that of a new Pope is the news that Google is Powering Down Google Reader, which for many people is a total disaster.
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Phil Bradley, a long-time curator of some of the best information and resources for digital librarians, has just published a helpful guide to the available alternatives to soon-to-be-defunct Google Reader.
While many of the tools and apps mentioned, do not really have the same functionality and features that Google Reader offers, they are nonetheless interesting alternative options.
Among the ones listed by Phil, my vote of preference goes to Feedly and The Feed, two excellent tools to manage all of your RSS-based feeds.
But, there's also a new breed of RSS readers under disguise and these are the new curation and social publishing tools such as those from Scoop.it to Rebelmouse and Paper.li, which not only allow you to do most everything you did in Google Reader but with the valuable addition of more visually interesting displays.
One notable absent from the alternatives mentioned is Bottlenose, a fantastic tool to find, monitor and discover relevant news online.
Very useful. Resourceful. 8/10
Full article: http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2013/03/20-alternatives-to-google-reader.html
P.S.: Check Phil's original article and find in the comments two more tools I suggested.
Jen Fuhrman-Kestler's curator insight,
March 28, 11:15 AM
Will be interesting to see how brands use the new version of Flipboard
Dennis T OConnor's curator insight,
March 31, 3:30 PM
I recently moved all of my Rss feeds over to Feedburner. However FB doesn't display results in any kind of sophisticated graphic format. It might be time for another change!
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It's clear that content curation is increasingly being talked about as an important role for learning professionals (in the context of self-provisioned learning, scaffolding, learing environment de...
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The thing that amazes me most when it comes to what is supposedly "news and content curation" on platforms like Scoop.it, is that some of the most popular and trafficked channels have nothing to do with curating a topic for a specific audience.
Why? Because if you look at the supposed "curation" done on these channels, it is nothing but simple and often very superficial picking and unrestrained sharing of links with absolutely no concern for checking, verifying or let alone reading what is being posted.
This is how I long lost trust for many such curators. Because they are literally doing the opposite of what a true content curator should do: vet, verify, analyze, explore, check, add, inform, contextualize and reference.
In this light, I am not actually despising their work, because without them even realizing it, they are slowly creating the best opportunity and conditions for whoever does quality curation to shine a million times brighter.
As noise-generators they provide tremendous opportunity to those who know for real how to filter noise out.
Catherine Lombardozzi writes: "Filtering is an early step in the curation process, but a critical one.
Our learners count on us to cut through the noise and find the most useful materials to support their learning.
If they find that we have collated material that is inaccurate, out-dated, or relatively useless, they’ll go back to using their own search methodologies for finding materials, and our attempts to support them will be for naught."
And I must holeheartedly agree with her about the importance for curators, to be true, effective filters.
In this article, she offers some valuable guidelines and suggestions to help anyone interested in curation and in learning how to become an effective filter.
Rightful. 7/10
Full article: http://learningjournal.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/the-curators-filters/
(Image credit: Polarizing filter - Shutterstock)
Lamccainreed's comment,
March 17, 2:44 PM
For now, I think I'm curating just for myself.I'd love to find the time to make my efforts more useful for other people. This article offers some helpful guidance.
Julie La Salle's curator insight,
March 20, 1:40 PM
Lorsque je le lis, j'ai l'impression de faire ce qu'il ne faut pas faire. C'Est un peu décourageant car je toruve le concept de curation très intéressant.
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Bringing curated book recommendations from thought leaders in tech, fashion, and food & wine to the masses. Launching at #StartupBusNYC #SXSW
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Startup Readin.gs is a new startup service devoted to connect avid book readers with curated monthly book subscriptions.
From the official site: "Over 10 curators’ reading lists are available for subscription, including Tony Hseih, Harper Reed, Baratunde Thurston, Aliza Licht, Erik Grimmelmann, PHD, Anthony Calsalena, Erin Quill, Liza Kindred, Ben Huh, and FAKEGRIMLOCK."
Readin.gs offers a monthly subscription that delivers curated books from influencers in industries like technology, entrepreneurship, food, and fashion.
Members pay $20 monthly to receive one ebook or paperback from a curator of their choosing.
For more information: http://readin.gs
Giuseppe Mauriello's curator insight,
March 12, 3:47 PM
From official website:
"At Readin.gs, we believe everyone deserves the chance to hit up their heroes for book recommendations. Once a month, we'll deliver a hand-selected book from a featured thought-leader from the worlds of technology, fashion, and food & wine."
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Lingospot for WordPress, a collaborative news curation platform that until now was specifically targeted at enterprise customers, has launched a new commercial service which allows anyone to monitor, filter, curate, share and publish news and stories on a number of specific topics at a reasonable cost.
Lingospot works in tandem with Wordpress, by making it easy to find, discover, tag, edit and curate the stories that you want to publish on your own website.
Lingspot allows you to create a number of channels monitoring specific topics, and it provides ready-made bundles of reliable news sources for many of these. You can edit in full the original content title, image and content of any story and assign it to specific categories and tags.
A unique aggregation and categorization feature organizes all incoming stories into three folders dedicated to "News", "Tips" and "Questions and answers" greatly facilitating the curators task.
A bookmarklet is also available to capture any story from any web page and there can be multiple curators invited to contribute to a specific channel.
From Lingospot you can discover and curate new content and then save it as a draft in Wordpress ready to be published. Lingospot communicates directly via API with your Wordpress site publishing only what you choose to publish when you want so. You can also schedule when a post needs to be published and share any story directly to Twitter.
The "Stand Alone" Lingspot for Wordpress account costs $49/mo and it offers support for one website, up to five content channels, unlimited filters and social sharing. A higher priced option, costs $99 and offers the opportunity to have your fully managed WordPress-based website with no limitations and a number of extra features such as daily backups, customizable themes and more.
14-day free trial available.
Pricing: http://wordpress.lingospot.com/
FAQ: http://edit.lingospot.com/static/docs/questions.pdf
More info: http://corp.lingospot.com/
Sign-up now: http://wordpress.lingospot.com/
Stan Smith's comment,
March 13, 4:27 PM
I've been using Scoop.it, RebelMouse and a RebelMouse WordPress plugin which works, but I have to watch it closely since Scoop.it can't seem to post the right pictures to RebelMouse.
Robin Good's comment,
March 13, 5:42 PM
Hi Stan, I hear your complaint there and I must say that you are not the only one seeing that issue.
I have been reporting interoperability issues with other services since at least a year but to no avail. Unfortunately new features and support for mobile devices seem to have a priority on fixing the foundations first.
I have been reporting interoperability issues with other services since at least a year but to no avail. Unfortunately new features and support for mobile devices seem to have a priority on fixing the foundations first.
Laura Brown's comment,
March 19, 9:06 PM
One of the good things about using Scoop.it is that it is not on my own site. I can link to my own post and get a back link.
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A news aggregation, curation and social media publishing commercial tool.
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ContentDJ is a commercial web app which allows you to easily monitor your favorite topics via keywords and to share the most relevant ones to your preferred social media channels (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIN) or to your self-hosted WordPress blog.
In addition to these core capabilities, ContentDJ integrates an excellent social media editorial calendar facility which allows you to schedule and organize your postings to different social media according to your preferences, as well as a clean-cut and well orgamized dashboard of stats covering your social media activities.
ContentDJ has an excellent user interface making easy and intuitive to set up and configure your account in minutes. The app can notify you via email, according to your preferred scheduled time slots, about new content being available for your review.
Pricing starts at $6.75/mo where you get:
- three trackable keywords ($14.25/mo gives you five)
- one social account connected ($14.25 gives you two)
- social media editorial calendar
- daily email digest
P.S.: ContentDJ promises also a Playlist page, a public web page in which you can organize and showcase your best stuff, but it looks like as this feature has yet to be released, or is not part of what you can presently access through the free trial.
Key strengths:
- easy-to-use
- intuitive interface
- aggregates and visibly rank incoming stories
- easy to pick or reject content stories
- publishes directly to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIN
- posts directly via XML-RPC to self-hosted Wordpress sites
- create a post from scratch feature
- free trial - no credit card required
Limits:
- no free base level account available
- no editing for selected stories (possible in editorial calendar)
- no possibility to input selected RSS feeds or sources to monitor
- no bookmarklet
- unclear billing options on purchase page
- no in-depth tutorials or videos
Review: https://lonelybrand.com/blog/curate-content-more-efficiently-with-content-dj/
Free 14-day trial available.
Find out more and try it out now: http://contentdj.com/
Dennis T OConnor's curator insight,
April 11, 1:59 PM
I always pay attention to Joyce Valenza's recommendations.
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In Professional Learning in the Digital Age: The Educator's Guide to User-Generated Learning, Kristen Swanson shows educators how to enhance their pro...
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Professional Learning in the Digital Age: The Educator's Guide to User-Generated Learning, Kristen Swanson shows educators how to enhance their professional learning using practical tools, strategies, and online resources.
This infographic focuses on curation and identifies ways educators can start curating content in order to harness information and become lifelong learners in the digital age.
For more visuals about content curation please check my board here:
http://pinterest.com/robingood/content-curation-visualized/
Rajashree Basu's comment,
April 3, 3:47 AM
good that curating in a community is helping all of us so much....
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If you re looking for examples of content curation platforms outside of the popular ones, you may want to give a look to what appears to be the most popular curation platform in Japan: Naver Matome.
From what I gather and can see, this is something very similar to Tumblr, providing an intuitive publishing platform supported by easy-to-use features to easily grab, capture, credit and republish most any kind of content or social stream.
"Naver Matome is a very simple curation platform that launched back in July of 2009. To date it has accumulated over 41 million users and over 1.2 billion page views per month. The platform is now operated by NHN Japan (perhaps best known as the company behind the Line chat app) after a merger with Naver in November of 2011.
On the site, users are able to create pages that bundle images, links, and videos under a topic of their choice, ranging from dieting, to politics, to web services.
There are many reasons behind the platform’s sucess including its friendly user interface, the wide genre of topics curated, compatibility with different social networks (especially Twitter), and strong SEO for both Yahoo and Google with 70% of its traffic coming from the two search engines."
Source: http://www.startup-dating.com/2013/03/navermatome-curation
Check it out: http://matome.naver.jp/
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Get the actual answers to 100s of Matt Cutts Web Master videos: The Short Cutts
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Here's a good real-world example of good content that could become one hundred times more useful and valuable for readers if it was just "curated" a bit more.
A company called ClickConsult has had in fact the great idea of culling together all of Matt Cutts' videos (the Google Spam team evangelist), in a one-page collector, while complementing all clips with a summarized text answer.
Great idea and cool execution: http://www.theshortcutts.com/
but...
It's impossible to find what you are looking for or to browse in some kind of intelligent way, because all of those 100 video clips are all mixed together. Yes you can search, sort by newest, but there are no groups based on common questions and topics (and there are a lot), no sets, no playlist on any of the hot topics covered.
This is why I thik this is a perfect example of a some good content where if you only add a simple layer of curation, by organizing and grouping related items, this same collection becomes instantly one order of magnitude more useful.
Original collection: http://www.theshortcutts.com/#
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Neil Ferree's curator insight,
March 25, 1:54 PM
Robin is Right → this is good content to curate and syndicate to your top socials so your (Authorship) is credited for the social signal + shares and your http://bit.ly/RichSnippet is present when your page Get Ranked on Page 1 of Google
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"Learn from others. Start your library today."
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Kippt is a web app which allows you to easily capture any type of content from the web (images, articles, video clips, etc.) and to organize them into visual collections that can be shared publicly or be set to remain private.
Readers can comments, fave, save, share and report any content they find in your collections.
Kippt can automatically import all of your existing booksmarks from an extended number of services and browsers, including:
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
- Safari
- Delicious
- Diigo
- Google bookmarks
- Instapaper
- Pinboard
- Historious
Kippt can be used by as a collaborative visual communication to review project drafts and updates as well as a library in which to save work resources or important reference work. It is also possible to write and post your own notes next to the items you collect.
Kippt can therefore be used as Pinterest-like visual library organizer of all your bookmarks, references, resources, sites and content, in which you can both private, collaborative and public items.
The Pro version, which costs $25/year, offers an ad-free version and a full text search feature across all of your libraries content.
Free to use.
Browser extensions: https://kippt.com/extras/ (Chrome, Safari)
Import bookmarks tool: https://kippt.com/import/
Try it out now: https://kippt.com/
wanderingsalsero's curator insight,
March 27, 4:56 AM
I have an account with these guys but haven't really used it. But....if it'll help be combine my 'favorites' from two different computers, I'll take another look.
Víctor V. Valera Jiménez's curator insight,
April 12, 8:24 PM
Crear una excelente biblioteca visual de tus mejores fuentes de contenidos ahora es posible con Kippt, una herramienta que te permitirá importar tus marcadores favoritos de bastantes aplicaciones com Delicious, Diigo, de navegadores como Chrome, Firefox, Safari... y organizarlas de una manera muy visual al estilo Pinterest.
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Swayy gives you the content that engages your audience
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Swavy is a new web app which allows you to easily find the best content available in one of your categories of interest, and to share with your network of contacts on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIN.
Similar to Rallyverse, it alows you to connect to your Facebook Profile or to one of your Facebook Pages, and in a future version you will be able to manage multiple dashboards where you monitor and find content for different sets of social accounts.
Swavy allows you to schedule your social media posts and it suggest the most relevant hashtags and @handles to utilize in each one.
Swavy integrates powerful and easy to understand analytics highlighting your key best sources, content types, trending keywords, and stats for all of your posts.
Swavy also allows you to invite other team members to work on fnding and curating the best content on your selected social media channels.
Check out this review on TheNextWeb: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/03/21/swayy-discover-curate-content/
Free to use.
Try it now: http://www.swayy.co/
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March 27, 1:17 AM
Forgot?Want to try Swayy out without having to wait? Go to this secret URL and enter the promotion code thenextweb . The first 300 people to use the code will get access.
Drew Carter's comment,
April 4, 7:51 PM
Coming soon to a link near you. I see Swayy as a tool that will help guide me in how to deliver content. I need all the tools I can get to help me navigate and select the things most relevant to my professional needs.
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Jump straight to the demos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGe8RKJw-Ec#t=30m20s When it comes to managing content for your organization's blog, Twitter strea...
Via Beth Kanter
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Content Curation is King - a speech by Shannon Harvey - duration 1:11' - if you have the time, lots of good useful info if you are just starting out. Focus is on the real-time stream and Twitter.
Gayle Carney's curator insight,
March 26, 10:25 PM
So much to think about. Techniques tools and tips. Take notes!
Gayle
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"Historically, there have been only two ways of making money in travel - huge volumes of content (TripAdvisor, Google) or control of inventory (Expedia, Airbnb, Viator).
..., a ‘third way’ is emerging. “You’d see start-ups like Utrip, Citybot, Touristeye and us battling it out with stalwarts like Yahoo Travel and Lonely Planet to be the first to solve this pain,..."
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...customer interviews revealed that creating an itinerary is a ‘meta’ level problem that most travellers struggle with.
By [curating by hand] and combining the data sources we were able to generate a new type of knowledge (ie: what’s the best trip to take when I’m travelling with kids to south of France?) that hadn’t been possible before.
This is a game-changer. It allows even start-ups to create proprietary knowledge that is not beholden to the industry giants."
Here's what Mygola’s co-founder Anshuman Bapna says: "The most intriguing battle to me is between curation and choice.
The trajectory for the past decade had been that more is better - more flight options, more hotels to choose from.
However, there’s a competing narrative building up now where editorial judgement reduces the choices to a much more manageable few - sort by ‘agony’ filter (Hipmunk), stay at these handchosen places (HotelTonight).
I find this very interesting as an entrepreneur because neither the existing industry leaders (Priceline) nor the pretenders to the throne (Google) excel at this kind of stuff.
This requires human judgement (not collaborative filtering, which is just a proxy for it) at scale."
Interesting. Right on the mark. 8/10
Full interview: http://www.eyefortravel.com/mobile-and-technology/less-more-online-travel-needs-curated-itineraries-based-human-judgement
Check the Mygola service here: mygola.com
(Image credit: Compass and shells - Shutterstock)
Giulio David's comment,
March 25, 10:56 AM
http://www.scoop.it/t/freshnet-it Grazie a te, che mi hai fatto conoscere questo strumento, ho ottenuto buoni risultati. Mi sa che quando scendo a Roma vengo a trovarti per imparare ancora..
wanderingsalsero's curator insight,
March 27, 4:51 AM
I haven't read this article but I knew right away, when I saw the title, that it was a valuable subject. I think that if more business people knew who much curation helps their 'don't have time' problem, they'd really be enthusiastic about it.
There's a tendancy, I believe, among business owners to think that people who read their blog, or website (or any other content) expect it to be Pulitzer Prize quality. I don't think that's true at all. Nor do customers expect a LOT of content. They just want to know what the business owner thinks and (in many cases) what they're 'up to'.
Curation makes it so easy for business owners to give them that info.
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April 6, 7:43 PM
Add curation in with mobile video and travel blogging and I think you've got a winning combination.
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Publicate.it is a multimedia content curation platform, which allows you to collect and organize into visual collections your favorite content, images and video clips you find on the web.
You can easily include any content or web page by using the dedicated bookmarklet, or you can upload your own documents, images, video and pdf files.
All of the content you find and collect with Publicate.it can be easily shared and republished on any one of your favorite social media (Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Pinterest and Tumblr).
Publicate.it collections resemble Pinterest boards but with larger images and can be nested into other collections. In addition Publicate.it can also act as a social magazine front page as it allows you to pick and republish any content you want coming from Twitter.
Publicate pages are fully compatible with all types of devices and screens, from mobile to desktop.
Free to use.
More info: http://publicate.it/
Check this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQabJkRAtSE
Sylvia Crozemarie's curator insight,
March 29, 2:47 AM
A essayer pour comparer avec Pinterest (la taille des images notamment). le clip vidéo donne une idée rapide du fonctionnement.
Céline Barriol Décot's curator insight,
March 30, 11:16 AM
Encore un outil à découvrir... pour collecter des documents.
Víctor V. Valera Jiménez's curator insight,
April 5, 6:47 PM
Publicate.it: Herramienta de Curación de Contenidos que te permite recolectar todos los contenidos que te interesen así como añadir los tuyos propios, organizarlos y publicarlos para todos tus seguidores de una manera muy visual.
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If you are a journalist and you are using Twitter to pick and share relevant news for your following, you may want to check out these straightforward suggestions on how to best manage your news curation process.
The Twitter blog team has analyzed back in September of last year, thousands of tweets from over 150 news companies and individual reporters, to distill which are the most important traits of good news curation.
In essence:
- Tweet content related to your beat; live-tweet
- Use hashtags for context and @cite your sources
- Share what you're reading with your Twitter followers
- Use the Retweet button to curate
To the point. Useful. 8/10
Original article: http://blog.twitter.com/2012/09/best-practices-for-journalists.html
Additional resources at http://bit.ly/TwitterForNews
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Michaela Hackner and Leah Stern have written a useful article on how to use curation to nurture the growth and cohesion of an online community.
Quality curated content is a means to enrich the community and to help it grow while becoming a natural point of reference for keeping all of its members informed and up-to-date.
From the original article: "Creating and supporting a great community is costly and time-consuming, but it can provide a fantastic opportunity for people to learn from each other and get to know each other.
...the key to a great community is great content. When a community has new and useful content that’s specific to the needs of its user base, people will keep coming back because they will see its value for their work and their lives.
Thoughtful and deliberate content curation is the best way to ensure that you can find, highlight, and share great content within your community, and help your community thrive."
Curation is support of a community must also take into serious account the specific needs and interests of the community members, placing them as the key topic drivers of the content being curated.
"Curators must be super familiar with what their audience is looking for, so they can serve that content up to users without the users needing to go in search of the right materials.
In particular, curators of online communities have to know their members, the community’s brand and purpose, and the content available in the community at any given time."
The article highlights three different approaches for curating content when you have an online community alongside a set of useful recommendations for bringing the good theories in immediate action.
Valuable. Inspiring. 7/10
Full article: http://www.nten.org/articles/2013/serve-it-up-frameworks-for-curating-content-in-communities
Tom George's comment,
March 15, 7:44 AM
Robin I just watched Harlan Kilstein Interviews Robin Good on Curation. I want to say thank you. Thank you for your love of curation, your honesty and integrity. I imagined some of your references to parks and street people and I am someome who like you sees the much larger picture, but first we must set the stage. You are one of the best. If I could bestow the distinction of Master Curator on someone, you come to mind. Also looking forward to your university in the states, or in English I should say as I do not speak Italian.
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This is great news for Scoop.it curators: a newsletter functionality is now available in all Scoop.it accounts which allows instant integration with Mailchimp and the ability to select which of your curated news you want to distribute via email.
The new "Create a newsletter" feature allows you to decide also how many stories to include in each email, if to link directly (bypassing Scoop.it) to original articles curated, whether to show social sharing buttons, and an option to personalize the look of the newsletter with your own logo.
To try this new feature out, go - once logged in your Scoop.it account, go to "Manage" -> "Create Newsletter" or go to the equivalent of this URL: http://curation.masternewmedia.org/exportByEmail
A very welcome addition.
antonbundle's curator insight,
March 12, 4:00 PM
L'intégration mailchimp et scoop it... Que du bonheur !!!
Luciano Giustini's curator insight,
March 12, 8:46 PM
Distribute Your Curated News via Newsletter: Scoop.it Integrates Mailchimp Functionality
Kim Flintoff's curator insight,
March 31, 8:01 PM
An effective way of distributing reading lists - for focussing students attention on current/relevant/conected issues... a range of uses for creative educators.
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YouTube has just made available a new way to present, organize and curate your own YouTube channel presence. The new feature set allows any YouTube channel owner to:
- Set up a "trailer" video to be shown to all thos epeople who are not yet your subscribers.
- Display his YouTube One Channel page across all kinds of devices and resolutions without a problem.
- Organize and present your clips and selected ones from others the way you want.
From the official site: "Take greater control over how you present your videos and playlists on your channel.
You can now curate content — your own or others’ — into highly visible sections for your fans to discover what to watch. With multiple layouts for videos and playlists, you can arrange your channel to best highlight your content.
Now, when your subscribers click on your channel from the guide, your full channel appears instead of just your activity feed. Your fans see exactly what you want them to when they click on your channel."
Examples: http://www.youtube.com/onechannel#see-how-its-done
Channel art guidelines: http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=16630&answer=2972003
More info: http://www.youtube.com/onechannel
(Thanks to Ranvir Singh for his kind help in suggesting this)
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March 16, 10:56 AM
Great possibilities for students to publish all their content to one place.
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We've heard the argument that everyone's a curator online by means of blogging and reblogging, but what about the professional curators who are responsible for producing major physical exhibitions ...
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Lindsay Howard provides a much needed insight into the value of sharing the curatorial process, as a way to help others learn from our thinking and mistakes.
Too many times, curation is victim of its own desire to impress and surprise by preparing collections and galleries for extended periods of time for a final showcase or exhibition.
But the process through which all this work is done is often hidden from view, both for fear of showing our own failures, mistakes and changes of heart, as well as for providing greater expectation for its final release.
But managing curation work in this fashion deprives everyone from the opportunity to discover, understand and learn deeper by seeing the curation process evolve from beginning to end.
"...the paradox of failure: while the human impulse is to evade it, the only way to improve is to learn from our experiences and the experiences of others. We share as a way to understand, but even more importantly, we share in order to..." learn more.
This is why anyone who wants to curate should seriously consider becoming more transparent about the way his curation process is carried out.
For curation is not, as falsely promoted, a means to gain fast visibility and authority, but rather an approach to organize, make-sense and help others understand what is not immediately visible (which, as a positive consequence when done right, can gain you the extra visibility and authority you may be seeking).
Insightful. 8/10
Full article: http://hyperallergic.com/66581/the-way-we-share-transparency-in-curatorial-practice/
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March 13, 4:33 PM
Check out Robin's comments below. Once again, Thank You Robin for a great review
Crystina Castiglione's curator insight,
March 30, 11:29 PM
This article really brought to light what being globally connected can do for not just artists, but curators as well and how it can be used to create an entirely new type of exhibition. It also describes a new age of art that infuses the way we use technology, especially within social media networks.
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With the amount of information online, it often becomes hard to cut through all the noise and get straight to the stuff that you’re interested in.
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Nancy Messieh on MakeUseOf has a good introductory article for those interested in find out more about personal content sharing and content curation.
If you are new to these topics and are wondering what picking out good content and sharing it with others truly involves, this article showcases four different approaches and seven tools that can be used to get your feet wet.
From RSS to link bundles, Storify, Clipboard, Annotary, Pinterest and Scoop.it this is a very basic but nonetheless useful introduction to these approaches and tools.
Informative. 6/10
Full article: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/curation/
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Content curation is as important as finding the information in the first place. Blogs possibilities for co-ordinating digital content curation.
Blogs can be excellent curation tools. Ask me, the woman who is saying goodbye to over 20+ Posterous blogs (public, private, shared) as Posterous shuts down at the end of April.
Thinking through curation with excerpted content and your composition on these two platforms is helpful. ~ Deb
Interesante artículo de Nancy Mesias en "MakeUseOf" que puede servir como buena introducción para los que estén comenzando en este apasionante mundo de la Content Curation.