A new frontier of opportunity is in the ways news is being developed, packaged, and transmitted.
Curated filters are becoming more interactive. From the New York Times offering personalized news recommendations, to this past week's launch of TheDaily, a subscription-based app for the iPad indexed by Andy Baio on the Web, and the upcoming release of News.me.
Personalization has been around for a while. However, there is some increasing experimentation on listening to and picking up or playing the news as it happens. Increasingly, the opportunity is in the field, where the news is developing -- commentary, expertise, imagery, first person accounts, and so on.
Are you a content consumer or creator? Thoughtful critique of content curation by @BrianSolis - You’ll soon learn why I’m posting shorter, but more frequent posts…In the mean time, I wanted to share with you something I’ve been thinking quite a bit about these days. Think about the generation or two before us. A significant portion of free time was spent consuming media. From print to broadcast, everyday people simply digested information and content presented to them. But then, everything changed. We were gifted with the ability to share what we think, feel, and experience, on demand. The democratization of information was finally upon us and we the people would ensure that our voices would be heard and felt. This was our time, quite literally as Time Magazine named “us” as the person of the year.
This post explains the top reasons why business should consider content curation - topic pages, social media highlighting and web content augmentation (Top 3 Business uses for curation http://bit.ly/gy3f0g)
Curation is a person or persons, engaged in the act of choosing and presenting things related to a specific topic and context.
An example of curation: the San Francisco De Young museums is exhibiting post-impressionist masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay’s permanent collection.
Aggregation is the collection of as many things that can be found related to a topic.
Aggregation would be a collection of any or all, post-impressionist masterpieces from Musée d’Orsay’s permanent collection.
Curation is about choosing what’s in a collection. Aggregation is just collecting.
Thriving businesses understand that the success of their brand depends as much on the creation of valuable content, as it does on creating products or services that solve problems.
That’s because more consumers are relying on additional information or content from trusted sources to make their purchasing decisions. ‘Trusted source’ content includes opinions of friends, family and peers (as seen on their social media channels), expert blogs, preferred business blogs etc.
The rise of social media has led to an exponential proliferation of content online and widespread demand for tools to filter that information. Popularity and relevance are the most common metrics through which to filter that content - but are they the best?
We asked three people building cutting-edge social software what they think the relationship between relevance, popularity and filtering is going to be in the future. They offered three very different responses. What do you think the future of information filtering will look like?
This site is just about scratching an itch. I wanted to be able to filter tweets from a list based on a hashtag or keyword so I built something simple to do that.
Those who follow news online know that it can be hard to sift through the cruft to get to the good stuff. Not only that, it can be frustrating to read in a million different formats while not being able to easily access content on every device you use. But what if one service picked the best articles from the best news organizations for you and formatted them in an easy-to-read manner?
A short while back we gave a brief overview of how DataSift could be used by Journalists as a way of researching stories and for finding news at a particular location. Today we are going to show you exactly how you could do that using DataSift.
We’re going to split the demo into a five distinct areas:
This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Infotention Filters, RSS feeds filtered for quality through Feeds from Postrank, other services, Infotention Filters include NewsRadars...
I've been following cMap and Compendium (and a small flock of similar systems) for years. Many years. What they have now is very, very much what they had at the beginning. FWIW I abandoned this approach in the late 90s. (I was using VRML for my maps.)
A good case study of how one company uses summaries of externally-created content to keep their new content site full of valuable content daily. (How to Curate Content for an Aggregated Content Site http://dlvr.it/FkHQl #content #curation)
Back from 2009 - a great collection of content aggregation ideas - As the pace of content being added to the web increases, the value of aggregating the best of it goes up. If you're a content producer of any variety... (Content Aggregation For Links, Traffic And Buzz http://dlvr.it/FkfFT #content #curation)
Curation seems to be all the rage these days and lots of new tools are popping up and attracting the attention of journalists. Among them is Bundlr, from
Tom Webster discusses the role and opportunity of content curation for corporate social media strategies in light of the gap in use and technologies available.
y definition, content curation is the act of continually identifying, organizing, and sharing the best and more relevant content on a specific topic or issue online. When evaluating which content curation tool to use, there are three primary areas of consideration:
1. The Inputs – Where does the content curation tool get information from? What type of content will this allow me to curate? Will it help identify and recommend relevant content?
2. The Organization – What does this tool offer in terms of organizing content once it has been identified? What type of data models does this represent content as? In a simple chronological list, or an inter-linked structure? Does it let me annotate and editorialize the curated content?
3. The Venue – How and where can I share the content once I have decided to curate it?
Content curation can be a powerful way to serve those in your market, and establish a unique brand position that differentiates you from your competitors. Today, I want to explore that challenges of curation, and compare how it differs from (@danblank 's post Digital Publishing: Curation vs Collection vs Experience http://dlvr.it/FJB7w)
There seems to be three forms of search emerging as Internet users try to deal with the tsunami of information and the increasingly effective techniques of spammers.
The first form of search is Google, and this will continue to be important, as much from habit, and as much as there isn't much of a choice.
The second is tapping into your own socal network to find what you need. This is limited to the subjects that your social circle knows about and depending on its size, and the time of day, it might not yield much.
Our online social networks are a key source of information and increasingly influence what we read, share and buy. However, if we do not filter out the mundane we risk missing the information that is most important to us and becoming a victim of information overload.
Yutzu is a new multimedia content curation tool capable of producing collections of images, text, links, audio and video clips on any subject. Collection can be created in a collaborative fashion with selected teammates.
To get content containing either thought or leadership enter:
To get content containing both thought and leadership enter:
To get content containing the expression thought leadership enter:
You can enter several keywords and you can refine them whenever you want. Our suggestion engine uses more signals but entering a few keywords here will rapidly give you great content to curate.