ContentGems, formerly Intigi, is a web platform that allows you to gather, filter, edit and curate the most relevant content in your field of interest.
ContentGems makes it easy to set up your own custom sources or to find for you the most relevant content based on your keywords and it can publish/share both to all major social media as well as to your own WordPress site.
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Content curation is, in a nutshell, picking and choosing content from around the Web, and sharing it with your followers. Running a curated blog is not just about finding interesting content to share.
Robin Good's insight:
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you’re doing any reading about Content Curation as part of an overall content marketing strategy, you sometimes see writers referring to this as something
Robin Good's insight:
Ron VanPeursem does a great job at Business2Community to trace back the evolution of content curation, and in search of the "seed thoughts" he collects and organizes some truly avluable info.
He writes: "I certainly cannot prove that I’ve found the earliest ‘seed thoughts’, but I believe I’ve found some of them, and want to record them here for those of us that wonder about the beginnings of something that’s become a powerful, mainline trend in the overall scope of content marketing."
For now his research unearths relevant stuff dating only as far back as 2007, while in my view, both the signs (in the form of ideas) and the tools to do curation had already started to appear a few years earlier.
Scoble himself has been a very early curator and evangelist of such approach, and he himself wrote back in 2004: "It's the new marketing, er trolling. Instead of being desperate and saying "look at me look at me" you tell your readers to get lost. Go someplace else.
What's the philosophy? Those sites will take you to the coolest stuff on the Internet. with is post about "sending your readers away".
Robin Good: If you have been resisting the idea of curating news content on your web site because you are afraid of being penalized for having "duplicate" content, this article will shed some light on what is best to do to avoid it.
By working with titles, writing intros and commentaries to curated posts, linking out to relevant and credible sources, you have many variables at your disposal to make curation work for you, rather than against you.
Just follow the good advice contained in this good article by Josh Cunningham (author of the WP-Drudge for link and news aggregation) and you will be OK. It's the same approach I use to curate all my news channels. It does work.
Robin Good: PublishThis is an enterprise level full content curation and publishing platform allowing news and content discovery, topic monitoring, full editing and curation capabilities as well as social media sharing and monetization options.
It joins Onespot, Lingspot, Daylife, Aggregage, Eqentia, CIThread and a few other ones in the group of enterprise news and content curation tools inside the http://bit.ly/ContentCurationUniverse tools-map.
Robin Good: StoryCrawler is an upcoming news and content curation platform which allows you to easily track an unlimited number of topics / keywords and to curate selected ones for publication, both on the web, via RSS feed or email.
Selected news stories can be, tagged, categorized and fully edited in each and every aspect before being published.
Inside the Storycrawler backend, a curator can configure and save an unlimited number of persistent searches monitoring online mentions of events, people, brands inside specific types of content sources (e.g.: social media, news, blogs, etc.).
Storycrawler makes your curated news stream available as a RSS feed, as an embeddable javaScript or iFrame code snippet, besides publishing your content directly on your account pages and providing direct sharing options for Facebook and Twitter.
From my own limited experience in testing an "unofficial" early Beta version of Storycrawler, it looks like the basics features are all in place while the UI, usability and final output formatting options still having some work to do.
P.S.: The platform seems to be targeted at medium to large size, enterprise companies and does not provide for now indications of its pricing plans. You can contact a StoryCrawler representative here: http://www.storycrawler.com/contact/
Robin Good: I have just received an invitation to test the new content curation platform Zeen, and here I am with some early impressions on what I have seen.
Zeen is a content curation tool designed to create good-looking magazines on a specific topic or theme. Setup and configuration is very easy and straightforward and it allows you to connect your Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Once you are in, you can immediately set up a Zeen magazine, by selecting a title, a description and a cover image. From there on you are free to use the integrated search feature to find web articles, news, images, video clips or tweets relevant to your magazine. You just start a search after having selected what kind of content you are looking for and Zeen presents you with a set of relevant results. One-click on any of them and they are inserted instantly in your magazine.
You can also create as many "tags" (Zeen calls them "labels") as you like and assign each content item to a specific label.
The final magazine issue offers an automatic visual table of contents, in which you can organize by dragging and dropping the order of your selected contents.
A Zeen magazine can be made of multiple issues, instead of being like Scoop.it, a continuously growing content holder. You select the content items and you produce an issue (which can be still edited after publication).
N.B.: There is no way to edit or modify the content picked and added to your magazine, including the use of images.
You can't create new content but only pick and organize existing resources.
Robin Good: Digging back into my article archives I have just run into a special gem, dating back to 2006.
Thanks to the curious and entrepreneurial spirit of Marshall Kirkpatrick, in this short audio interview (6':21"), I get to explain what was my vision then (six years ago) for what we now call "news curation".
Missing any better term for something that had no previous history of practice, at the time I had labelled "newsmaster" the news-curator professional, and "newsradar" the final output (a finely-tuned thematic news channel bringing you the best from many different sources).
Update: Right after I had posted this short story, I went to check a bit how my old friend Marshall Kirkpatrick, author of the above interview, was doing, and headed to his blog... and what I discovered left me startled and enthusiastic at the same time. Read it by yourself: http://marshallk.com/were-entering-a-golden-age-of-news-geekery
Robin, that is too funny that we were both thinking of that old interview! I still love your vision from back then of curation specialists inside companies. Hope you're well, old friend!
Robin Good: If you want to question your well-established assumptions about how we may want to satisfy our insatiable craving for news in the age of filters, algorithms and personalization, this is an article I highly recommend you to read.
Jonathan Stray, on NiemanLab, looks into a tough question: assuming we really need to keep ourselves updated via the news, in this age of superabundance of information, "who should see, what, when?".
In his effort, he does an excellent job of clarifying two very critical points, that both journalists and media tend to easily overlook when they try to look at the future of news journalism and its business models:
1) There is more than one audience. The internet is not about broadcasting to a mass audience, but rather a medium to precisely intercept a group of people characterized by a common interest or by an issue that affects them.
2) The news isn't just what's new.
"...journalism came to believe that only new events deserved attention, and that consuming small, daily, incremental updates is the best way to stay informed about the world.
It’s not.
Piecemeal updates don’t work for complex stories.
Wikipedia rapidly filled the explanatory gap, and the journalism profession is now rediscovering the explainer and figuring out how to give people the context they need to understand the news."
Indeed the context and the level of personalization does determine the usefulness and value of any news service to its end users. Thus,
as he rightly writes, "Journalism could be a reference guide to the present, not just a stream of real-time events." and it is hard not to agree with such a vision.
Mr Stray suggests then the use of three specific criteria to identify which news we should be exposed to. He writes: "Three key words should determine who gets served what: Interest, effects, and agency" and then provides a detailed explanation of the "why" behind these.
Finally, he goes on to suggest that: "...we’ll need a combination of human curators, social media, and sophisticated filtering algorithms to make personalized feeds possible for everyone.
Yet the people working on news personalization systems have mostly been technologists who have viewed story selection as a sort of clickthrough-optimization problem.
If we believe that news has a civic role — that it is something at least somewhat distinct from entertainment and has purposes other than making money — then we need more principled answers to the question of who should see what when."
Robin Good: What are the downsides to riding the curation wave by auto-aggregating and filtering the most relevant content on a specific topic on your company portal?
Mark Schafer at Business2Community has some good points to make on this. He writes: "I recently attended a conference where a major financial institution proudly displayed its new automated content curation system.
Basically, their answer to the content marketing dilemma every company is facing is to use an outside company to skim off the best financial-services content around the web and present it on their site as a value-added customer service.
On the surface, this seems like a very elegant solution. I mean, why spend the time and money to create original content when you can curate unlimited content from the web and present it as your own customer portal? An intoxicating idea."
And the answer to it is a good set of questions to ask yourself before embarking your organization on this content strategy path, such as (in my own words):
1. If the news you curate are automated how trustable are you?
2. Can you really address a specific problem if you automate curation?
3. Can you talk the language of your listening tribe if you automate?
Robin Good: How do you escape the filter bubble vortex? How do you expose and encounter new, valuable and relevant information if news services pick always from the same sources?
Jonathan Stray, has something interesting to say on this. He writes on the Nieman Journalism Lab site: "The filter bubble is a name for an anxiety — the worry that our personalized interfaces to the Internet will end up telling us only what we want to hear, hiding everything unpleasant but important.
It’s a fabulous topic of debate, because it’s both significant and marvelously ill-defined. But to get beyond arguing, we’re going to need to actually do something.
I have five proposals."
Among them he suggest journalists and newsroom editors to look more seriously at "curation". He writes: "...if there has been a decline in the power of editors to set the agenda for public discussion, maybe that’s because the world has gotten a lot bigger.
A news editor has always been a sort of filter, making choices to cover particular stories and selecting their placement and prominence.
But they filter only the product of their own newsroom, while many others are filtering the entire web. How can users depend on a filter who ignores most of everything?
Editors could become curators, cultivating the best work from both inside and outside the newsroom.
A good curator rewards us for delegating our attentional choices to them.
We still like to give this job to people instead of machines, because people are smart, creative, idiosyncratic, and above all personal.
We can form a relationship with a good curator, sometimes even a two-way relationship when we can use social networks to start a conversation with them at any moment.
...
There are many possible reasons why linking and curation have not been more fully adopted by traditional news organizations, but at heart I suspect it boils down to cultural issues and anxieties about authorship."
Excellent insight. And there's a lot more in this article that relates back to curation (see Don't Just Filter, Map) 9/10
Robin Good: Third article in a series analyzing great examples of curated content at work. This time is the turn of two great curated web magazines, Intel's recent IQ and Adobe's established CMO.com.
Excellent review and analysis by Justin Lambert on the Intigi blog.
If your company is considering taking on content curation these are definitely good examples to look at.
Your Social Magazine. Available for iPad, iPhone & Android.
Robin Good's insight:
FlipBoard, the iOS app that allows you to find, discover and subscribe to the news you are interested in, is now ready to make everyone a publisher / curator too.
FastCompany reports: Flipboard is opening the floodgates and enabling any user to create a collection of media. The new version of Flipboard, says Flipboard CEO Mike McCue, "allows anyone to effectively build their own magazine on Flipboard. They can pull together content under any topic they're passionate about--[and share] other articles, photos, videos, music--pretty much anything."
"It's simple to start your own magazine on Flipboard. Just hit the app's new + button to create a digital rag, give it a title and description, and select a category.
From there, as you browse Flipboard, it's easy to add an article or YouTube video or photo to your own magazine; a cover image will automatically be created for your custom magazine, too.
Other Flipboard users can subscribe to your magazine, and you'll get notifications for when a user comments on a piece of content and also will receive stats such as how many page flips your magazine is seeing. "A community starts to build around this content," McCue says."
Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world.
Robin Good's insight:
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
RebelMouse may be one of the best free tools out there to do news, social or content curation for your personal brand, company or organization.
Beneath the appearance of a social media aggregation app, lies a super-powerful curation and publishing infrastructure which allows you to aggregate and monitor any social media stream from Facebook to Instagram and Pinterest, and lets you import RSS feeds and add specific filters to get exactly what you want.
While most reviewers will see RebelMouse as a tool to "quickly assemble a Web page populated with links from your Facebook and Twitter streams, using a slick graphical presentation that looks quite a bit like Pinterest" (source: HuffPo), I think this social aggregation and publishing has indeed a lot more to offer and it has all of the required features to become a great content curation and publishing solution.
With RebelMouse you can do seven key things. You can:
pick any content you find on the web and you can curate it and post to your rebelMouse site by using the freely available bookmarklet
aggregate any number of Facebook and Twitter streams, including specific searches, users and hashtags, as well as any RSS feed you want.
filter this content according to your own rules
auto-publish any of this content, or
set individual sources to be manually "curated" by you.
"embed" your RebelMouse generated site on your website or "map" (by paying a small fee) your own domain to it.
create multiple sub-pages with RebelMouse and a dedicated navigation system that can point also to your own existing web properties. Each of these sub-sites can be customized to focus on a specific topic or event.
On the design and "look and feel" front, RebelMouse provides a set of alternative templates, but the look is basically the same across the board with variants relating to the font styles and colors.
It is also true that you can personalize your RebelMouse site and alter the design however you'd like with the custom CSS option that is already available.
But it is certain, that providing a set of advanced, professional-looking templates, where users could for examples decide manually the size of certain tiles, would provide enormous added value to users who would see RebelMouse as a possible direct gateway to publishing their own site.
RebelMouse was born to build a social media hub, but it does have strong aggregation, filtering and curation capabilities. SEO-wise it is not a great choice, but also Scoop.it has quite a few limits on this front. <br><br>Rebelmouse doesn't offer all of the extras Scoop.it has, from scheduling, to sharing to an extended number of social networks, to integration with newsletter and to the backend dashboard. <br><br>Scoop.it has also a better, cleaner and more legible format, that better lends itself to more in-depth reading than just browsing titles, images and tweets.
While I still use RebelMouse I have disconnected all inbound links because it posts it wacky and I was always having to go back and edit stuff. Now that I post stuff manually with their applet it isn't so bad. I still prefer Scoop.it though.
I use Rebelmouse for a while now, and I like it as a complementary tool to other Social Media tools. You can have a look at it on https://www.rebelmouse.com/Terheck/
Hats to Susan Mernit, who has an excellent piece on Knight Digital Media Center about how to do effective news curation and storytelling with Storify.
She brings in lots of relevant stories and examples showcasing how other individuals and journalists have been effectively using this news curation platform.
"The most successful creators of Meograph and Storify pages are united by one thing: they’re skilled editors and curators who know how to look at content posted on multiple social networks and pull out the pieces that will best help them to tell a story."
“Storify is the best way to gather tweets, comments, snippets and images from all around the Web and put them into one post. It's a new way of blogging that lets all your Internet friends participate.”
Brava Susan, great job and superglad to have intercepted you again.
Hats to Susan Mernit, who has an excellent piece on Knight Digital Media Center about how to do effective news curation and storytelling with Storify.
She brings in lots of relevant stories and examples showcasing how other individuals and journalists have been effectively using this news curation platform.
"The most successful creators of Meograph and Storify pages are united by one thing: they’re skilled editors and curators who know how to look at content posted on multiple social networks and pull out the pieces that will best help them to tell a story."
“Storify is the best way to gather tweets, comments, snippets and images from all around the Web and put them into one post. It's a new way of blogging that lets all your Internet friends participate.”
Brava Susan, great job and superglad to have intercepted you again.
Robin Good: NewzSocial is a free iPad curation app which allows you to instantly create topic-specific channels and to easily curate the content stories that you deem appropriate for each.
Curators can work in teams and collaboratively organize one or more news channels.
From the App Store download page: "NewzSocial is a free social news reader app that allows you to follow, create and share broad and niche news streams on your topics of interest.
The app has unique social curation features using which you can tap into your network of ‘topic expert’ friends and get the news you want selected by the experts you know."
A reviewer on the App Store left this comment: "What blew me away is the number of great articles the app has. I just searched for latest fashion trends & got really great articles. With flipboard, after reading 5-7 articles, it's the same stories from yesterday. "
Robin Good: Launch.it is a web-based news service that curates only "new" product releases in a visual format similar to a Pinterest board.
New products launches are categorized into "technology", "mobile", "consumer electronics", "fashion", "media", "medical& pharma", "services" and more.
Entreprenuers and PR pros can pin their new peoducts, but is the readers who vote what gets most visibility.
From the official site: "Unlike traditional media outlets, Launch.it is a community-sourced site with content exclusively from those who know their products best: public relations professionals and entrepreneurs.
...
In an open and transparent world driven by social proof, our top stories on our home page are dedicated to our launchers, but determined by our discoverers."
Robin Good: Here is a collection of curated news sites that I have put together over the course of the last few months.
It contains over 30 news sites that utilize human curation to pick and showcase the most relevant stories in their area of coverage.
From early examples to news curation like Arts & Letters or the Drudge Report to the most recent examples of news curated sites for both big brands (Pepsi, Adobe), NGOs (FAO) and independent publishers (Techmeme, MediaGazer) you can find a broad range of examples to study, research or get inspiration from.
The collection is ony visual with a minimum of reference info.
Robin Good: NextMags is a new content curation platform that allows you to publish a free and well designed online web magazine on a topic of your choice.
Born out of the curated search app Searcheeze, NextMags offers the typical browser bookmarklet to clip and collect any relevant content you may find on the web, as well as the option to write your own posts / articles.
With NextMags it will soon be possible to import and integrate in your topic-specific web magazine specific content coming from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and from other social networks.
Very similar in concept to Scoop.it and similar content curation tools, NextMags is uniquely characterized by its ease of use, good navigation options, clean and white-based look and for a very affordable and competitive pricing approach (kudos to NextMags for getting this in the right track).
Lacking instead for now from this curation platform is a set of features allowing the curator to gather and aggregate raw content coming from different sources in an effective way. While there is the possibility to use the "Suggestions" area to gather some raw content, for now this is limited to tapping only Google News, Twitter and your readers. It is possible to subscribe to other NextMags and to receive direct contet suggestions from other curators, but, as far as I have seen, there is no back-end for news discovery, aggregation and filtering, typical of such curation tools.
NextMags offers multiple service options. From a free level which allows you to create up to five web magazines, but wit the ability to elect only one other editor, import images, schedule posts, check analytics, or use alternative design themes, to a paid one, costing only €44.99 a year (!) where not only you can access all of these extra features but you can also have an unlimited number of web magazine and more than one co-editor.
N.B.: Curated article content imported from other sources CANNOT be edited. That's a "first" on this front, but I am quite doubting that this conservative approach will bear much fruits.
Stefano Passatordi's comment August 10, 2012 6:26 AM
Hi Robin,
Thanks for covering us, it’s always a pleasure to receive feedback from people like you.
I’d like to make some clarifications:
- The social clipping feature (Facebook,Twitter, Google Plus, etc) will be available after the summer;
- In the “Suggestions” area, we already have a suggestion engine based on keywords. For now, suggestions are limited to Google News, Twitter and your readers. We’re working to improve it, in order to give you an effective news discovery engine;
- A FREE user can also have one collaborator for each magazine. We decided to give this opportunity to the free user because we truly believe that collaboration is a key feature for us;
- Other important features such as: custom domain and custom layout (currently not listed in the pricing page) will be available in the next months;
- Regarding the fact that imported content cannot be edited, we think that whenever a curator decides to clip content it’s because he wants to promote it or discuss it. In both cases, he doesn’t need to modify the original content, he may want to add personal comments or images to that content and we give him the opportunity to do so. At the end, the original content plus the curator’s comments look like a new article in which everyone takes credit for its own contribution.
We’ve just launched a few days ago and we’re working very hard on improving the service to make it the best choice for a content curator. Stay tuned, there will be great new features and improvements in the near feature!
Robin Good: Zeen, the new app from the original founder of YouTube is finally coming, and it has opened its doors to private beta users.
On paper and by looking at the first screenshots, Zeen promises to be a curation-publishing platform similar to the new Paper.li, Storify and Scoop.it, but without any new revolutionary feature or improvement over those existing platforms.
While I am waiting to get in and start testing it myself, I share with you the official launch news as picked up by Giuseppe Mauriello from TheNextWeb review:
"YouTube founders launched a teaser for a new project called Zeen.
It’s similarly based around the idea of content curation, but whereas Delicious is about tags and bookmarks, Zeen is a more developed version of the ‘social newspaper’ services like Paper.li.
After connecting your Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts, you get the option to create your first magazine, choosing from a number of template styles and color schemes.
You then dive into creating the magazine, without quite so much guidance about what you’re doing or why. Tools along the top of the magazine allow you to add content from the likes of Google searches, YouTube content, Instagram photos, Twitter, RSS feeds (you have to enter the feed URL) – or content you’ve clipped from around the Web using a blookmarklet.
Once you’ve added as much content as you like, one piece of content per page, you can publish your magazine to share with others..."
Robin, good question, as your original scoop has been reScooped several times in this thread. I was thanking RPattinson-Daily for reScooping my reScoop, and so on, down to your original scoop. So thanks for this scoop, and for all the great scooping you do!
Robin Good: Paper.li one of the early players in the news aggregation, discovery and auto-curation space has been significantly improving its service which now offers also a $9/month Pro version.
Paper.li allows you to set a number of search queries on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube and to import specific RSS feeds to "aggregate" the most relevant on a certain topic or theme.
You as a curator can "preview" your yet-to-be-published news magazine and can manually pick and decide which "stories" to publish and which ones to drop by simply hovering your mouse on anyone of them.
"Editions" can be auto-scheduled and Paper.li can automatically announce on Twitter and via email to your subscribers when a new one is out.
PRO users get to have the last word before any edition gets published, by way of a "preview before promotion" feature that lets you control when notifications go out and gives you time to make changes, can add promotional banners, standard ads or other marketing materials in a set of predefined hot spots on their news page, and can "brand" their magazine with their own banner, background image and personalized colors.
Robin Good: Steve Buttry, who has already written several articles on content curation (see the end of his original article), just published this in-depth essay celebrating the launch of a new curation team at Digital First Media and pointing to many of the critical factors neeeded for a content / news curator to be effective.
He covers a lot ground while giving a particular emphasis to the importance of linking and attribution. He writes: "Where you can’t learn much about the source of content you’re curating, consider crowdsourcing the question: Note the name and organization, tell readers what you’ve found and that you’re continuing research and ask them what they know about the source.
Where the source of online content is unclear, you should be clear about what you know and where you found the material."
and...
"Sometimes the name of a person or organization is not sufficient attribution.
If the person or organization is not well-known, do a little research (Google will provide quick answers in many cases; sometimes an “about us” page will help).
Especially in political content, you want to note whether you are linking to partisan sources. A liberal or conservative think tank or political action committee is an entirely different kind of source from a professional media outlet or an independent fact-checking site."
Steve Buttry also includes some valuable key guidelines on "how to add value" when curating content and suggests several types of curation approaches that can be used in the newsroom.
Robin Good: I agree and I have said it before: Curation has nothing to do with personal expression or sharing nor with collecting links, tweets or blog posts that you may find interesting.
Curation is all about "taking care" of something in the sense of helping someone "else" be able to dive in and make sense of a specific topic, issue, event or news story. It is about collecting, but it is also about explaining, illustrating, bringing in different points of view and updating the view as it changes.
Adam Schweigert captures the essence of it elegantly: "...[curation] it almost certainly involves broader responsibility than just tracking a big story and putting together a Storify of how it unfolded.
It’s more than blogging a daily roundup of the stories our audience cares about but our publication is not going to do original reporting on.
It’s more than becoming the Twitter account that people look to because we’re not afraid to retweet our competitors if they have a story that matters to our followers before we can report it ourselves.
Naturally we should continue to do all of those things as well, but I would argue that it is important that would-be curators of news go at least one step further.
Part guide and collector, part interpreter, part researcher, part archivist, the curator of news does all of the above:
a) collects and organizes information,
b) places it in a broader context,
c) mines the archives to surface bits of historical information, advances our understanding of the story and the driving forces behind it and, perhaps most importantly,
d) takes care to ensure that a story is properly maintained and told in the best possible way for our audience to take it in.
...
Curation is not really about reducing costs and operating more efficiently (although aggregation certainly is).
Curation is about taking care to ensure that our audience has the best possible information, context and presentation for that information."
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