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Content Curation World
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What a Content Curator Needs To Know: How, Tools, Issues and Strategy
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Robin Good
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Robin Good: In an ocean of possibly relevant information, what interests us most beyond the infinite stories and gossip inside our social graph, is what is relevant and close to our own specific interests. Excerpted from Bari's blog at Netsquared: "It seems we may finally be ready to acknowledge that we are already too bloated to gorge on what the Internet can and will feed us non-stop if we let it. Like my two-year old son, I am forced to accept that I will have to get some structure and discipline in my life (online). And like my son, I may at first resist that structure, in my case due to some vague but deep-seated notions of freedom, liberty, democracy and whatnot. But at the end of the day, I know it’s good for me. Might I actually like the structured rabbit hole with some guiding lights on its walls? It does give me some sense of control and direction about where I am going." Right-on-the-mark. 7/10 Full article: http://www.netsquared.org/blog/bari/look-down-rabbit-hole-interest-based-dis 
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Robin Good's insight:
Sauna.io is a social curation platform allowing you to easily pick the best content, images and video from your social media connections coming from Facebook and Twitter. Categories of interest available: http://o7.no/11lB3zp (screenshot) You can create as many dashboards as you like and feed them with specific Twitter user accounts and/or RSS feeds of your choice. Sauna.io lets you also comfortably read any potential interesting story by sliding in a side panel in which you can read the content in detail. You can vote each story, or select to edit / curate it, by working on the title, description, image and tags associated to it, and then easily share it on your Facebook or Twitter accounts. Free to use. My comment: A good social discovery and sharing tool for anyone interested in having a pleasing discovery experience and an easy way to also edit and curate each story selected. Categories are still very limited and broad at the moment. Good UI and usability. Definitely worth trying. Request an invite here: http://www.sauna.io/
Ken Dickens's curator insight,
April 19, 2013 1:33 PM
Revisiting content curation for non-profits. Still the way to go.- Ken
Ron VanPeursem's comment,
April 20, 2013 12:27 AM
Looks like Sauna also uses an intelligence algorithm to improve its filtering over time. A VERY helpful feature!
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From the paper abstract: "Social media such as microblogs have become so pervasive such that it is now possible to use them as sensors for real-world events and memes.
While much recent research has focused on developing automatic methods for filtering and summarizing these data streams, we explore a different trend called social curation.
In contrast to automatic methods, social curation is characterized as a human-in-the-loop and sometimes crowd-sourced mechanism for exploiting social media as sensors."
The paper attempts to analyze curated microblog data and to understand the main reasons why people "participate in this laborious curation process".
It also looks at "new ways in which information retrieval and machine learning technologies can be used to assist curators" and it also suggests "a novel method based on a learning-to-rank framework that increases the curator's productivity and breadth of perspective by suggests which novel microblogs should be added to the curated content."
The paper contains valuable information for anyone interested in having more statistical data about social curation activities and patterns on Twitter, the use of lists and the typical reasons why individuals want to do this.
Interesting. 7/10
Full original PDF paper: http://cl.naist.jp/~kevinduh/papers/duh12curation-long.pdf