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Robin Good's insight:
Newscron is a local news aggregator gathering the most relevant stories across multiple areas of interest from the major newspapers in Italy, Germany and Switzerland.
The user can select the categories of news he wants to be exposed to and how many news he would like to receive for each one, and Newscron aggregates and groups together similar news stories.
Newscron works across mobile (iOS and Android) and desktop devices.
More info: http://www.newscron.com/welcome/index.jsp
Try it out now: http://www.newscron.com/app/
(Suggested by Fulvio Colasanto)
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Robin Good: Postano is a social media content aggregation and curation platform that can be integrated in your web site or Facebook page. Through its internal dashboard it can be set to agregate coming from any of your social media channels. From Wordpress or Tumblr blogs to Facebook Pages, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest accounts, Postano offers a comprehensive array of social media sources to tap into. Additionally you can add any RSS feeds that may be relevant to you. Postano allows you to pick and select which content you want to publish and how you want to it look and appear. Your curated channel can be finally integrated as a full embed in your website and/or added as a tab to your Facebook page. One great key feature available as a WordPress plugin but also usable with any other publishing platform allows for all of the content and links "embedded" in your site via POstano to be also fully indexed by standard search engines. Examples: http://www.postano.com/gallery/ Pricing: http://www.postano.com/pricing/ More info: http://www.postano.com/ (Opening image from Glassislife.com) (*I have added Postano to http://bit.ly/ContentCurationUniverse tools-map) Delete the scoop?
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Robin Good: JISC provides a very well documented guide to the use of Creative Commons licences (also referred to as CC licences) which can greatly facilitate the copying, reuse, distribution, and in some cases, the modification of the original owner’s creative work without needing to get permission each time from the original rights holder. In addition to this the correct use and embedding of CC license may greatly help in the effort to make original sources more transparent to the final reader, in many context, including news and content curation efforts of many kinds. Creative Commons licences can be embedded into a variety of resources, such as PowerPoint, images, Word docs, elearning resources, podcasts and other audio visual resources. While specifically prepared for UK public sector organizations this document can be quite useful for anyone interested in the use of CC licenses to distribute digital content online. Key Benefits of embedding CC licences for content curation and attribution:
More info: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2011/scaembeddingcclicencesbp.aspx (Thanks to Amber Thomas for finding this resource) Delete the scoop?
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This is a cool idea. The app creates a Paper.li out of local newspapers. They haven't come to USA yet (that I could see), but the move to hyper-local will be led by apps like this.
I Scooped it NOT because it is right for the USA yet, but because the mashup of read the feed produce the magazine similar to Paper.li and Scoop.it is worthy of some serious thinking. The app is VERY mobile and that too is worthy of emulation.
The other great lesson for Starups is what NOT to do such as:
* Don't talk secret club talk on your About page.
* About pages are ABOUT the opportunity.
* About pages are ABOUT the team.
* About pages are ABOUT the customers.
* Be inclusive everything you do is inclusive or exclusive.
* If your team is highly technical, HIRE PR or Marketing help.
I think these are very smart people who don't fully realize being smart in one field doesn't mean you are granted similar smarts in every field. Surprising how many times I see this non-humble approach to marketing.
If I were to dabble in the land of PhDs they would rightfully have a FIT. So why is it okay for anyone to presume they know how to market a product. To say this team is clueless about marketing is a VAST understatement.
Just once I would like an engineer or PhD to recognize that marketers work as hard at our chosen profession as anyone doing anything in a lab, but no way that ever happens (lol).