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What a Content Curator Needs To Know: How, Tools, Issues and Strategy
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Gaurav Mishra has authored an outstanding piece on social curation, as Part 6 of the Future of Engagement series being published by the MSLGroup.
Check the PDF / presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/mslgroup/6-social-curation-ten-frontiers-for-the-future-of-engagement
In this extended article, the author:
a) introduces the concept of social curation
b) explains how social curation works
c) talks about social curation for brands
d) provides an extended set of social curation case studies in which Pinterest, The Fancy, Curators of Sweden, Pepsi Pulse and IQ by Intel are taken as social curation examples and analyzed.
e) hints at the future of social curation
while providing a truckload of relevant links.
Interesting. Useful. Resourceful. 8/10
Full guide: http://gauravonomics.com/future-of-engagement-6-social-curation/
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Here's an inspiring short article by Elia Morling on the role of curators in storytelling. Elia reports of a discussion he has had with netnographer Olga Kravets, in which she suggested that: "...curators serve their tribe like dumpster divers. But here, is the most compelling part as Elia really seems to have distilled and illustrated here the three key and most valuable traits of a modern content curator: a) Curators represent a new type of tribal leadership that operates bottom-up and peer to peer. c) Within a tribe they are not only appreciated for leveraging their insider skills, but for sustaining and developing their culture." Definitely worth reading. Inspiring. 8/10 Full post: http://tribaling.com/blog/2013/05/15/curators-and-tribal-currency/ 
Ken Morrison's comment,
May 21, 10:14 PM
My favorite quote in this video:
"Our role as curators is to find the most interesting things in this massive onslaught of messy information." -Rex Sorgats
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May 21, 10:17 PM
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Getty Images touches people in a new campaign created by AlmapBBDO.
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A new promotional campaign for Getty Images, created by AlmapBBDO, showcases an excellent example of video curation at work. In this case, Getty Images and its partner agency have decided to gather, distill and juxtapose some of the most beautiful video clips available from the stock image giant, into a "short" (less than 2 mins) capable of telling a simple, human story with no voice-over or dialog. By curating the best video clips from the Getty Images stock library into a simple but truly engaging visual story, the authors have not only created something that naturally engages human viewers, but have also realized a fantastic showcase of Getty quality images and video, without ever talking or mentioning it in any way. Excellent work. Hats to Marcello Serpa, Luiz Sanches, André Kassu, Marcos Medeiros, Renato Simões e Bruno Prosperi. Original video clip: http://youtu.be/iGgqEKP0oPc Do not miss to check out the original "From Love to Bingo" clip, done a year ago, but utilizing only still photographs. Amazing. Delete the scoop?
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I have rehearsed this scenario before, but try to imagine we live in a world where printed media had not been invented, and our only source of information and entertainment was the Internet.
Robin Good's insight:
"Give me the cheeses that matter, offer me a wine list that's manageable. And put all the information that's raining down on us from cyberspace in a convenient, easy-to-handle form." That's the essence and the relevance of content curation in today's world. To put it down in such simple and clear words is Simon Kelner on the Independent, who provides some great real-world example and reminds us later of the total non-personality of search engine results, He shares this wonderful short story: "Opposite my office is one of Britain's most celebrated cheese shops. Once through its doors, you are greeted by the cheeses of the world. The varieties of sheep's cheese are in double figures, and there's Cheddars of all sizes and provenance. It is completely over-facing, to the extent that a colleague of mine has been to the shop three or four times and has walked out without buying anything, so baffled was he by the complexity and range of the offering." He concludes his article by writing: "I'd like the sense that someone of taste and discretion and experience has already whittled down the choices. (That's the problem with search engines, by the way - no taste!) The world needs editing..." To the point. Great examples. Easy to understand. 7/10 (Image credit: Cheeses from Shutterstock) 
donhornsby's curator insight,
May 15, 7:37 AM
(From the article): I'd like the sense that someone of taste and discretion and experience has already whittled down the choices. (That's the problem with search engines, by the way - no taste!) The world needs editing - and yes, I use that word advisedly. Give me the cheeses that matter, offer me a wine list that's manageable. And put all the information that's raining down on us from cyberspace in a convenient, easy-to-handle form. Sorry, I never intended to be a defence of newspapers! Delete the scoop?
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Robin Good's insight:
What's the difference between "collecting" and "curating"? How can Twitter be used as a "curation" tool? What are some examples and ideas to put real-time news curation to effective use for those working as educators? In this good article by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano (published 1/2012) of Langwitches.org, you can find lots of useful info about the use of Twitter as a curation tool. Here for example are a few key benefits of using Twitter for picking, selecting and organizing content on a specific topic: "
I think that she's right on the mark. Well presented article and info. Useful. Good examples. 8/10 Full article: http://langwitches.org/blog/2013/01/03/twitter-as-a-curation-tool/ PDF file reference: http://langwitches.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Twitter-Curation-Tool.pdf 
Víctor V. Valera Jiménez's curator insight,
May 17, 8:03 PM
Siempre pensamos en Twitter como una red social de microblogging en la que compartir información de una manera rápida. Sin embargo y como nos cuenta esta infografía, también puede ser una excelente herramienta de curación de contenidos. 
Andrea Walker's curator insight,
May 17, 10:56 PM
By using lists lists and hash tags effectively twitter can be u useful curation tool. Storify another mentioned in this article could also be a useful tool to curate twitter content Delete the scoop?
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Robin Good's insight:
Ping.it is a new web app which allows you to create custom newsbots that automatically aggregate and filter news according to your own search and popularity criteria. Such user-engineered custom feeds are called Probes, and you can create or subscribe to, to as many as you want. Such custom Probes can, for example, scout a selected set of sites/RSS feeds and distill from them only posts that contain certain keywords, and/or that have reached a certain popularity on social media (Facebook or YouTube). Check some cool "probes" here: https://ping.it/MariusLian#tabs/Probes Notably, on Ping.it, not only you can create "probes" that work for you, but the "probes" you create are also useful for others as well, who can put them to their own service. "pings" example: https://ping.it/MariusLian#tabs/Pings "news collection" example: https://ping.it/MariusLian#tabs/Collections Ping it is the first news discovery and curation app that has finally introduced more control for the user in building and customizing, easily, the way news are found, discovered, filtered and aggregated. Not only, it has introduced the idea that such customized bots/search-algos, can be re-used by others effectively. Hats to Ping for introducing this feature, with the wish that they will further refine it and improve it as to make it really flexible and usable for many different types of needs. Review on TheNextWeb: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/05/10/ping-it/ Free to use. Try it out now: https://ping.it/ 
ghbrett's curator insight,
May 15, 11:57 AM
Have a look at Robin Good's extensive comments about Ping.it. They are very helpful and detailed. Delete the scoop?
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Accuracy is fundamental to journalism, but it’s a challenge to verify information when it flows at digital warp speed from so many sources. This presentation
Robin Good's insight:
Craig Silverman, my "reference point" for everything about "accuracy" in online journalism, has published almost two years ago a truly useful slide deck full of valuable suggestions, tips and recommendations on how to go about detecting crap and BS when dealing with online news and social media sourced content. Specifically the presentation includes valuable info on:
The 10-item reading list on the slide is worth by itself the ticket price. Useful. Pragmatical. Resourceful. 8/10 Full deck: http://www.slideshare.net/craigsilverman/bs-detection-for-digital-content Full complement: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/171713/8-must-reads-that-detail-how-to-verify-content-from-twitter-other-social-media/ 
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
May 9, 5:09 AM
Some useful tips on how to rebalance the Timeliness vs. Accuracy and Quality equation for information dissemination. A must-read for any user of social media! 
Jo Paoletti's comment,
May 9, 7:19 AM
Crap detection for content curators. Is it time for everyone who shares stuff they find on the Internet to think of themselves as content curators. Beats being a rumor monger or Typhoid Mary of misinformation.
Sarah McElrath's curator insight,
May 10, 8:14 AM
Could be used when teaching evaluation of online content / critical thinking skills. Delete the scoop?
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Robin Good's insight:
If you are interested in what could be a good workflow and set of tools to use to curate content on your own WordPress blog, Nathan Weller has a must-read article for you. In it, he dissects and explains the tools he uses to curate content on WordPress, from how he aggregates and browses RSS feeds, to how he filters, edits and actually curates the content of each post. Interestingly his focus is on quality, not on having his site populated by lots of "somewhat relevant" content pulled in automatically by one of the many "content marketing"-oriented curation tools available today. I think you will find several interesting ideas that you may have not considered on how to approach your curation workflow, let alone checking the several insightful comments at the end. Lost of valuable information, resources, examples and advice. 8/10 Full article: https://managewp.com/wordpress-content-curation 
Gaurav Pandey's curator insight,
May 6, 10:01 PM
Robin Good's insight:
If you are interested in what could be a good workflow and set of tools to use to curate content on your own WordPress blog, Nathan Weller has a must-read article for you.
In it, he dissects and explains the tools he uses to curate content on WordPress, from how he aggregates and browses RSS feeds, to how he filters, edits and actually curates the content of each post.
Interestingly his focus is on quality, not on having his site populated by lots of "somewhat relevant" content pulled in automatically by one of the many "content marketing"-oriented curation tools available today.
I think you will find several interesting ideas that you may have not considered on how to approach your curation workflow, let alone checking the several insightful comments at the end.
Lost of valuable information, resources, examples and advice. 8/10
Full article: https://managewp.com/wordpress-content-curation 
Robin Martin's curator insight,
May 15, 10:30 AM
Working on our first WP site...integrating a blog, publish newsletter w/MailChimp...thanks for the info! Learn learn learn! Delete the scoop?
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Overview of how Avoca's education search engine lets students, teachers and parents search, manage and share millions of education resources and online lessons
Robin Good's insight:
The Avoca Learning platform is a web service which facilitates the finding, collection and organizing of vetted learning resources from dozens of the leading educational sites. The platform already offers over 20,000 resources from over 35 leading education sites. In the near future new educational resources in the fields of of Language Arts/Reading, and History/Social Studies will be added. Users can search the already vetted and curated resources and then collect and organize them into specific "albums" dedicated to specific topics. From the official site: "The Avoca Learning Platform brings together thousands of online learning resources that students, parents and teachers can search, manage and share. Whether you’re looking for a very specific resource for a single concept (equivalent fractions, for example) or a collection of content that’s aligned to an entire course, the Avoca Learning Platform provides a powerful curation engine to bring you the resources you need, when you need them." "Avoca Learning helps to solve that problem by finding and indexing the best digital content, allowing users to organize and save that content, and then making it easy to share that curated content with other users." Curated results can also be filtered by subjects, topics, resource type, media type and grade level. Free to use. Try it out now: http://avocalearning.com Video tutorial on how "search" works in Avoca: http://vimeo.com/63171301 How it works: http://www.avocalearning.com/how-it-works/ 
Raquel Oliveira's curator insight,
May 2, 2:56 PM
Ferramenta para filtrar as informações relevantes da net e aprimorar a curadoria de conteúdo para fins de estudo ! Vale a consulta . Delete the scoop?
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Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education
Robin Good's insight:
Paul Mihailidis, has an interesting essay on "Exploring Curation as a Core Competency in Digital an Media Literacy Education" in which he offers "a prospective attempt to build curation into the media literacy conversation..." by analyzing the analyzing effective curation practices, and six highly relevant teaching points for using a news curation tool like Storify in the classroom. His essay "seeks to encourage instructors, particularly on secondary and tertiary education levels, to bridge the gap between informal learning outside of the classroom with formal learning to create a more dynamic place for students to advance critical inquiry, dialogue, and engagement through new forms of content creation, curation, and dissemination." He writes: "Through student-driven, creation-driven, collective and integrated teaching approaches to curation, the framework aims to build towards savvy media consumption and production, critical evaluation and analysis, and participation in local, national and global dialog. The framework also addresses the ability to see diversity and civic voice as core competencies in the curation process. As students learn to build cohesive stories and ideas from a wide variety of sources, they can learn about the diverse types of content that inform a story, and the avenues they have-through social media tools and platforms-to be part of the discussion." Curation can be an extremely effective approach to develop critical thinking skills and practices, as it forces students to evaluate, vet, verify and decide what really matters. "When students develop a credible list of professional and personal sources around an issue and/or event, they must acknowledge how much subjective weight they place on a tweet, a blog, or a Facebook post and in relative comparison to an advocacy group, cable television operation, or news service. Arguing for the credibility of a myriad of voices online forces students to build valuable justifications for what they choose to believe, and why." Informative. Examples-rich. Educationally useful. 8/10 Full essay: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/viewArticle/2013-02/html 
PaolaRicaurte's curator insight,
May 12, 8:49 AM
Robin Good's insight:
Paul Mihailidis, has an interesting essay on "Exploring Curation as a Core Competency in Digital an Media Literacy Education" in which he offers "a prospective attempt to build curation into the media literacy conversation..." by analyzing the analyzing effective curation practices, and six highly relevant teaching points for using a news curation tool like Storify in the classroom.
His essay "seeks to encourage instructors, particularly on secondary and tertiary education levels, to bridge the gap between informal learning outside of the classroom with formal learning to create a more dynamic place for students to advance critical inquiry, dialogue, and engagement through new forms of content creation, curation, and dissemination."
He writes: "Through student-driven, creation-driven, collective and integrated teaching approaches to curation, the framework aims to build towards savvy media consumption and production, critical evaluation and analysis, and participation in local, national and global dialog.
The framework also addresses the ability to see diversity and civic voice as core competencies in the curation process.
As students learn to build cohesive stories and ideas from a wide variety of sources, they can learn about the diverse types of content that inform a story, and the avenues they have-through social media tools and platforms-to be part of the discussion."
Curation can be an extremely effective approach to develop critical thinking skills and practices, as it forces students to evaluate, vet, verify and decide what really matters.
"When students develop a credible list of professional and personal sources around an issue and/or event, they must acknowledge how much subjective weight they place on a tweet, a blog, or a Facebook post and in relative comparison to an advocacy group, cable television operation, or news service. Arguing for the credibility of a myriad of voices online forces students to build valuable justifications for what they choose to believe, and why."
Informative. Examples-rich. Educationally useful. 8/10
Full essay: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/viewArticle/2013-02/html
Nancy White's curator insight,
May 13, 9:12 AM
I am very excited to find this work to share with my teachers. I continue to get pushback as I try to encourage them to allow time for students to curate. The fact of the matter is that true curation takes time, but the skills gained by students cannot be ignored, and research and critical analysis are found throughout the Common Core Standards. Curation is also a pathway to personalized learning as students pursue their own areas of interest through the art of curation. 
AnneMarie Cunningham's curator insight,
May 21, 7:51 PM
Great to see this analysis of role/importance of curation as literacy
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Robin Good's insight:
Thanks to From the newest ones such as Waywire and Moziy, to the classics such as Topsy or Devour, you'll find here 20 alternative video discovery tools that you can start to use right now. If you want my personal advice go first to check out Frequency and you will not be disappointed. Full collection: http://clipboard.com/RobinGood/boards/video-discovery P.S.: If you know of additional dedicated video discovery tools that are not listed here please feel free to suggest them in the comments section. 
Lutz's comment,
May 10, 5:27 PM
Thanks again for the great collection. Please be mind that clipboard will soon switch off this great page.
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Twitter-RSS allows you to get in RSS format the latest news of the twitter users choosen by you.
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Twitter is a new free web service which allows you to get the RSS feed for any active Twitter account. Highly useful for news and content curators wanting to subscribe with their RSS reader or content curation tool to specific Twitter accounts. From March 2013 Twitter has in fact disabled its own RSS feed service. See: http://mashable.com/2012/09/05/twitter-api-rss/ http://sociable.co/social-media/twitter-puts-rss-on-death-row-can-topsy-save-it/ Free to use. Try it out now: http://www.twitter-rss.com (Thanks to Ana Cristina Pratas for discovering it)
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
April 24, 5:31 AM
Glad to see that RSS is not dead, despite waht Google think! 
DJ Halp's comment,
April 24, 7:26 AM
anyone remember when it was easy to discover an RSS feed right from any twitter page? the source would just be based on some unique id...a string of like eight or nine numbers. that ability went away last october. this looks a lot cleaner, and it's a great find...still i wonder why simpler feed discovery isn't possible anymore.
wanderingsalsero's comment,
April 25, 12:17 AM
I'll admit I'm not really skillful with twitter and I know almost nothing about RSS but it does instantly seem apparent to me that most Twitter feeds just have so much total crap on them that saving/collecting is totally a waste of time.
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RSS Reader Reimagined; Everything you want to read - news, your favorite blogs, art and more - in one convenient place designed for you.
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Developed by Kosmaz Technologies, MultiPLX is a truly excellent web-based RSS newsreader, that is worth, together with Feedly, the crown of best Google Reader alternative. The great thing of MultiPLX is that you don't have to know anything about RSS to be able to extract immediate value from it. For example, by using the available bookmarklet, you can easily subscribe to any web site that you want to follow, without having to find its RSS feed. You click on the bookmarklet as you vist the site that interests you and from that moment on, anytime they publish something, you are going to get it inside MultiPLX. Just like in Google Reader you can create folders and use them to group together relevant feeds / publications / sites. Better than G Reader each folder and its set of sites / feeds can be visualized as a Pinterest-like dashboard that you can easily browse to scan incoming news. News that you have read get a fade-out look that makes it easier to look for what you haven't read yet. You can visualize entire folders as a visual stream of news as well as individual feeds by selecting exactly what you are interested into from a drop down menu. Like Google Reader you can "like", "favorite" or "share" any news story to any social media channel among Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIN, Tumblr, Pinterest and Instapaper or send it directly to any email. Each story can be read properly in a clean, unclettered interface (whether windowed or in full-screen) allowing the information curator to dive into specific stories without many visual distractions. It is also possible to add any number of additional RSS feeds by specifying their URLs, as well as importing your full set of existing Google Reader subscriptions directly as an OPML file. Export functions are also fully available for all types of items shared, favorited, liked or subsscribed to. N.B.: Managing folders and deleting stuff you don't want may still be quite a bit more cumbersome than it used to be in Google Reader, but hopefully this part will be improved soon. Note: I have just checked again the latest release of Feedly, and - no doubt about it, Feedly interface, backend management, features, display options and UI are a step above the excellent Multiplx good traits, but still, this is a great alternative to be supported. More info: http://multiplx.com/support/help.html Coming Soon features: http://multiplx.com/support/google-reader.html Highlly recommended for serious information scavengers and hunters. Request an invite now: http://multiplx.com/ Delete the scoop?
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Waywire is a new video curation tool which allows anyone to clip, collect, share and organize into video channels. You can edit the information relative to any video including title, description and relevant tags/hashtags. Waywire lets you also clip any video you find on the web through a dedicated bookmarklet, upload any video you have on your computer or record your own clips right while you are logged in. Channels, which are called "wires", are presented as Pinterest-like video boards with the unique advantage of being editable (you can move and position your video pins as you like), can be played back as a full continuous stream, and you can create as many of them as you want. Every video clipped as well as you "wires" can easily be shared on your Facebook or Twitter social media channels, and you can follow individual curators and "wires" that interest you. Waywire works also as an excellent video search and discovery tool. Free to use. Eaxmple: http://waywire.com/users/RobinGood/playlists/5958-untitled-wire More info: http://waywire.com Disponibile anche per iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/waywire-zap/id552916177?mt=8 Delete the scoop?
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Ditto is a FREE, automated weekly backup of Twitter, Facebook and Gmail with integrated search capabilities. To curate, means also ability to archive, preserve and safely store the data/information/content available in your newsradar/collection/lineup. As a matter of fact, if you decided to follow-up on an academic pursuit of your data-curation interests, you would be immediately confronted with the learning of the best methodologies, tools and workflows utilized to preserve and archive digital data. In addition, given the times we are in, and who controls our data, you can never know what happens next, and whether you are always going to be able to access both your account and the data that's in it. For these reasons I think it is relevant for anyone involved in professionally managing content / data, such as a content curator does, to have the ability to easily and automatically backup all of his Twitter / Facebook data as well as his own Gmail. With Ditto, you can export all of your backed up data from Facebook, Twitter or Gmail, into a handy PDF file. Free to use. (max 3GB of archive space can be used - if you leave out your Gmail, that's plenty of space.) Find out more: https://ditto.norton.com/ Try it out now: http://ditto.norton.com/services 
Dr. Michael Simmons's curator insight,
May 20, 3:30 PM
Daunting, but probably the direction in which we need to go. Delete the scoop?
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Why do you curate content? Are you doing it because you didn't know anymore what to write about or are you doing it because it feels like you can save a lot of time by curating instead of writing? What drives your desire to republish, mention or introduce other people's content? The ever-growing need for fresh content? The desire to become more visible on seach engines thanks to more content and on-target use of relevant keywords? What is it really that makes you curate? Cendrine Marrouat has a short but stimulating article, where she invites you to do just that. Stop and think why curation is something that you value so much? I don't know what your reasons may be, but I have decided to stop and list at least my five top reasons for curating content as I do. You can read them in the comments of Cendrine stimulating article, right here: http://www.creativeramblings.com/reasons-content-curator/ Stimulating. Valuable questioning and modelling. 7/10 (Image credit: Thinking man - Shutterstock) 
OMP Digital's curator insight,
May 16, 11:24 AM
A fantastic article on why you should curate content, share it and give your personal touch on the matter. 
Carmenne K. Thapliyal's curator insight,
May 19, 11:24 AM
This short article provides five solid reasons why one needs to curate. Needless to say, I've bought into the idea anyway
ghbrett's curator insight,
May 19, 6:08 PM
Read the other comments, they are better that what I could write. See below. Delete the scoop?
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EdCanvas is a web service which allows you to search, find, clip and collect any kind of content, from text to video clips and to organize it into visual boards for educational and learning purposes. Differently than Pinterest, EdCanvas is specifically targeted at the education world and at schools and teachers, and it makes possible not just to collect "images" from web pages, but to collect and organize whichever content elements you want, including full web pages. EdCanvas boards also offer the ability to easily reposition each item in the collection according to your preferences and it provides a number of pre-set layout options for displaying content in your boards. The strongest feature for EdCanvas is an integrated search engine, which allows you to search for images, websites, video clips across Google, YouTube and Flickr, and lets you grab and drop any relevant result into anyone of your collections. Furthermore Edcanvas can connect directly to your Dropbox or Google Drive giving you access to all of your personal library files. Similar tools: www.Learnist.com Free to use. Try it out now: http://www.edcanvas.com/ Help / support: https://edcanvas.uservoice.com/ Examples of collections: http://www.edcanvas.com/ (scroll down)
Dr. Michael Simmons's curator insight,
May 20, 3:28 PM
Curation seems to be the new challenge/opportunity. I appreciate the influx of tools, but have to admit my head is spinning from the sheer volume. Sensemaking? 
Therese Torris's curator insight,
May 21, 1:30 AM
YACC = yet another content curation tool No idea how these tools can get any traction, even less so survive, when there are already so many other options Delete the scoop?
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You can now curate your own Flipboard magazine directly from your preferred web browser, thanks to the release of the new Flipboard Editor, which allows you to modify, delete and check stats for your magazines and individual clips. To add new content to your magazines you can install the "Flip it" bookmarklet which allows you to grab any web page, video or other piece of content you find on the web and that you want to be added to one of your Flipboard magazines. Free to use. Flipboard Editor: https://editor.flipboard.com/ Bookmarklet: https://share.flipboard.com/ FAQ: https://editor.flipboard.com/faq Content Curation World sample on Flipboard: http://flip.it/Q4i5d
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
May 16, 11:13 AM
Love Flipboard. This new feature opens up a whole new world for content curation.
Víctor V. Valera Jiménez's curator insight,
May 17, 7:31 PM
Ahora ya no hace falta disponer de un Ipad o una tablet o smartphone para realizar nuestra propia revista en Flipboard, ya que con el nuevo editor online en la web de esta conocida herramienta, podremos realizar nuestra propia curación desde nuestro ordenador.
Este vídeo nos da una pequeña introducción de como empezar a usar este editor en la web de Flipboard, mediante el botón o "bookmarklet" que se puede instalar en la barra de favoritos de nuestro navegador para ir capturando los contenidos que nos parezcan interesantes para nuestra publicación. Delete the scoop?
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Discover, collect, play, and share your favorite online media with CratePlayer.
Robin Good's insight:
CratePlayer is a web app which allows you to create compilations of video (and audio) clips coming from all your social media accounts as well as from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Soundcloud or from any other website (a standard bookmarklet allows to easily grab video and audio content you find on the web.) While it is not possible to upload your own files, it is possible to apply a visual cover, a description and relevant tags to each collection, which can be set to "private" or "public" depending on your needs. Furthermore you can invite additional persons to contribute to curate a specific collection. Final collections can be easily shared on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, via email, or can be embedded on any web site or blog. Free to use. More info: https://www.crateplayer.com FAQ: https://www.crateplayer.com/about/faq Examples: https://www.crateplayer.com/crates
wanderingsalsero's curator insight,
May 8, 10:32 PM
This is a great idea although I don't see where, from just reading the description of what it does, where it's any different than Reel Surfer or Keeeb or probably even a few others.
There's no doubt, however, that curating and aggregating video content can be a beneficial service to lots of niches.....etc. specific styles of cooking, auto repair, golf tutorials, dancing (e.g. videos on 'cross body lead').
I'll definately subscribe to the site and try it out. I'll sell you what I wish I cold find: I wish I could find a tool that made it really easy to insert notes that would display at specific points in vidoes. A lot of times I see videos where most of it it not interesting but a certain portion of it is. 
Alexander King's comment,
May 9, 8:16 PM
@wanderingsalsero: Simple. Reel Surfer and Keeeb do not allow you to have a persistant, global playlist. Also Keeeb isn't just focused on playable media.. it's a lot of different things. The "liner notes" that you are referring to are a feature that is coming soon to CratePlayer!
GIANFRANCO MARINI's curator insight,
May 10, 5:04 PM
CratePlayer è una web app o un webware, come preferite, che consente la creazione di compilation audio e video dai numerosi social network e social media del web (youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, ecc.) e dai vari siti web. E' possibile farlo anche attraverso un apposito bookmarklet che consente di catturare il video desiderato in modo molto semplice.
E' inoltre possibile, per ogni raccolta creata, inserire una caportina, predisporre una descrizione, aggiugnere dei tag, configurarla come privata o pubblica, condividerla (Goggle+, Facebook, Twitter, ecc.), incorporarla.
Molto utile per la didattica in quanto consente di creare raccolte di video e/o audio da fonti diverse e su un deterimnato tema / argomento da fornire agli studenti per approfondimenti e per lo studio, senza dover fornire loro lunghe liste di link. Utile anche come esercizio da far svolgere agli studenti fornendo loro un tema sul quale ricercare fonti audio e video da oprganizzare e integrare in una raccolta
per ulteriori informazioni: https://www.crateplayer.com
FAQ: https://www.crateplayer.com/about/faq
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A new wave of sites based on topic curation, both human and algorithmic, are creating opportunities to reach targeted audiences.
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Anthony Kosner on Content.ly analyzes three different news discovery services in order to illustrate the different types of approaches available today to gather and filter streams for a specific audience. He takes as examples Fuego, Upworthy and Prismatic, which utilize three very different solutions to aggregating and filtering the news in order to provide a relevant stream to their readers.
Overall, the article tries to illustrate how different can be the approaches utilized to filter and suggest content to a specific audience. Interesting. Informative. 6/10 Full article: http://contently.com/blog/2013/04/29/the-evolution-of-curation-puts-tools-in-marketers-hands/ 
Dennis T OConnor's curator insight,
May 6, 10:49 PM
The more sources of information you tame, the more well rounded your curation becomes. 
Deb Nystrom, REVELN Consulting's curator insight,
May 7, 5:13 AM
There can be filter bubbles (blind spots), and THEN there's just plain getting the best on a topic using the best tools. Content curation and Robin Good's insights help. ~ D Delete the scoop?
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If you are still looking for a Google Reader alternative, I have put together a growing and useful reference of all the tools I have identified myself, that could be valid replacements when, on July 1st 2013, Google Reader will be retired. So far there are over 30 tools that I have identified as valid alternatives to the original Google Reader. I have not yet provided additional information, specs or comments for each tool I have put aside, as I have simply collected, after having verified each, those that were active and interesting enough for my needs. P.S.: Google is closing down Reader because in my view, Google Now and Google+ replace fully all of the services offered by Reader while building the foundations for a social, community-based information ecosystem. Full list: http://clipboard.com/RobinGood/boards/google-reader-alternatives-rss-readers P.S.: Feel free to suggest additional tools that should be part of this list in the comments. Delete the scoop?
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Harold Jarche has a good post about curation and PKM on his blog. Nonetheless is from a year back or more, it is definitely worth a read. And the key point Harold Jarche wants to make, is that, anytime there is some kind of human intervention to pick, select, re-title, contextualize or introduce some information, then, we are actually "curating" something. Not so, when we strive to automate, simplify and abbreviate the time needed to produce some valuable info. He writes (read the word "PKM" as if it said "curation"): "...sense-making, or placing information into context, is where the real personal value of PKM lies. The process of seeking out information sources, making sense of them through some actions, and then sharing with others to confirm or accelerate our knowledge are interlinked activities from which knowledge (often slowly) emerges. ...The act of writing a blog post, a tweet, or an annotation on a social bookmark all force you to think a bit more than clicking once and filing it to an automated system. Other sense-making routines, like a weekly review of Twitter favourites and creating Friday’s Finds, encourages reflection and reinforces learning. Automating sense-making is antithetical to the rationale behind PKM." Rightful. Insightful. Useful. 8/10 Full post: http://www.jarche.com/2012/03/the-pkm-value-add/ Delete the scoop?
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Carrie Whitehead, Product Manager at Zappos Labs writes about curation in the online retail shopping space, while providig some very useful examples of companies already using it effectively. She writes: "The largest online retailer, Amazon.com has a vision to be the ‘Earth’s Biggest Selection.’ But is this vast selection too overwhelming for shoppers? A search for ‘black dress’ in Clothing & Accessories on Amazon.com brings back 65,529 results! For consumers, this large number of choices can lead to confusion, exhaustion and dissatisfied purchases, or worse, no purchase at all." ...Zappos recently launched Glance, a shopping experience allowing users to discover the most exciting products from Zappos through curated collections... ...Niche retailers such as Warby Parker (retro-inspired eyewear) and Frank & Oak (quality menswear) are providing a boutique experience with a price tag that’s accessible. ...Social shopping site OpenSky taps celebrities and influencers to select the products they love. Fancy, a social photo site similar to Pinterest, puts curation in the hands of the community." Informative. Resourceful. 7/10 Full article: http://www.psfk.com/2013/04/online-retail-curation.html 
Farid Mheir's curator insight,
April 26, 6:18 PM
Absolutely a huge trend. Recent NRF show in NYC, curated commerce was very popular topic. Not only are brands and websites positioning themselves, newcomer companies are starting to prepare platforms to facilitate the creation of curated commerce. For example, Dell unveiled a special curated commerce project that will provide the platform for others to enable curated commerce on their website. 
Lee Tonitto's curator insight,
April 28, 3:03 AM
Fashion SKU curation is the solution to reduce consumer anxiety: A search for ‘black dress’ in Clothing & Accessories on Amazon.com brings back 65,529 results! For consumers, this large number of choices can lead to confusion, exhaustion and dissatisfied purchases, or worse, no purchase at all." 
Mr Branson's curator insight,
May 8, 5:15 AM
I believe, online consumers of all ages now want more than a shopping experience. They want price, place, promotion, people and ACTION. http://www.infogurushop.com Without the above they will simply continue to click, browse and surf away.What do you think? Delete the scoop?
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Pinterest meets Evernote. Every day you surf and find amazing things on the internet. With Keeeb you can save sentences or paragraphs, single images and vide...
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Keeeb is a Pinterest-like content curation tool, which allows you to clip individual text passages, images you find on web page or video clips into visual collections that you can organize according to your preferences. Within Keeb visual boards, which can be set to be public or private (default), you can in fact drag and re-arrange individual items as you prefer. Collected items can also be easily copied or moved to other "pages" (collections) you have and can be shared directly on your Facebook or Twitter social media channels. You can also work collaboratively with other teammates on a collection by inviting them to contribute to any Keeeb page you have created. A unique feature of Keeeb called Groups allows to tie together multiple items in a collection by dragging them on top of each other. Groups in turn, can be nested into other groups. Keeeb makes it very easy to clip multiple parts from a web page or set of pages and to collect them in an orderly manner inside a page. Keeeb offers much better functionalities than Pinterest, allowing serious content curators to create valuable collections of multimedia excerpts on specific subjects. Definitely worth trying. Free to use. Try it out now: http://keeeb.com/ Tutorials: http://keeeb.com/info/en/help/ (HT to Ana Cristina Pratas for first discovering it) 
Susan's comment,
May 9, 2:28 PM
I would say it's more of a replacement for Symbaloo or other bookmarking tools.
Karen Johnson's comment,
May 9, 3:48 PM
I would agree with Susan's comment. I think it is something to try instead of Netvibes.
Elizabeth Hutchinson's comment,
May 9, 4:52 PM
I think like all curation tools, you need to find what works for you. If you have time investigate the next thing if not, stick with what you know.
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FeedWax helps you curate sources covering things happening in your local area right now.
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Feedwax is an outstanding free service allowing you to create RSS feeds from Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, YouTube, Google and Bing News, Daylife and other sources that comply with specific keywords or jashtags you specify. Additionally you can use FeedWax to generate a RSS feed that includes only stories and items happening around a specific location. Be that an event, a concert, a festival, a sport event or your own party, Feedwax allows you to intercept all relevant images, clips, messages and stories sent out from that specific location. The available FeedWax Geocoder (http://feedwax.com/rss.php) can add relevant latitude and longitude info to each and every item in your RS feed. See also: http://feedwax.com/rss-precise.php Both for those news curators having a need to generate a persistent search RSS feed on any of the major content publishing services, as well as for those who specifically need to aggregate and curate location-based stories FeedWax is an indispensable tool to have. Free to use. Try it out now: http://feedwax.com/ 
Adam Donkus's curator insight,
May 9, 1:38 PM
Curration is a hot trend now for social media and seo..local curation..never saw a tool for that..
Adam Donkus's curator insight,
May 9, 1:39 PM
Local content curration too cool..will be giving it a try.. Delete the scoop?
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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, 1:33 PM
Revisiting content curation for non-profits. Still the way to go.- Ken
Ron VanPeursem's comment,
April 20, 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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This is definitely a major role for a community manager which is why I love learning about these two topics: community management and curation. They are inseparable. I think this is what makes the difference between a community that has members and a community that has ACTIVE members, which, of course, is the POINT! Enjoy!