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September 24, 2013 9:30 AM

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From growthdevil.com - September 24, 2013 9:30 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Good introductory article to content curation for startups: what it is, why and how to do it and what to focus on.

The advice is good as well as the few examples provided.

An excellent definition of content curators is also included: "Essentially, a content curator acts as a go-between publishers and readers. Think of them as personal trainers who not only tell you what to eat, but also deliver the best foods right to your doorstep."

Good reading for startuppers. 8/10

Full article: http://growthdevil.com/content-curation-grow-your-startup/

Randy Bauer's comment, September 25, 2013 9:56 AM

Robin Good comes through with another great find, delivering the "Good's" to the door. Thanks

Robin Good's comment, September 25, 2013 10:05 AM

Thank you Randy, happy you found this one useful too.

Sambaseck's curator insight, September 1, 2014 10:44 AM

Content curation solves one of the biggest online problems today: discovery.

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September 21, 2013 3:34 PM

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From zeef.org - September 21, 2013 3:34 PM

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Zeef is a new web service which allows you to create top link lists on any topic and to group them into useful resources pages.

Each Zeef page contains multiple link blocks, which you can edit and customize to cover different set of resources for your selected topic. Not only you can simply add a URL and have it instantly added to a link block, but you can also search Google inline, see all the relevant results, and flag all the relevant ones for instant import into any link block.

Link items can be easily dragged and dropped in different positions, and link blogs can be also be easily repositioned on the page in your preferred order.

Text blocks can also be created, to create information modules in which you provide textual information only.

These link lists can then be shared and embedded on other sites, and have been designed to behave in a fashion similar to Google AdSense ad blocks. More specifically: link block content would be triggered by the page context and link blocks can carry affiliate or commercial links.

Finally, a supercool feature allows you to import any web site site structure into Zeef, and to have it auto-organized into link blocks, which you can further edit and arrange as you wish. Powerful.

My comment: Useful tools need not be very complicated. Zeef is a very simple but extremely useful tool as it leverages true experts in competition among themselves (there can be more than one page and more than expert for any topic) and crowdsourced metrics (what people click on) to provide highly curated selections of the best resources on any possible topic.

Zeef is excellent for:

a) experts wanting to share and showcase their competence in specific sectors while providing a useful service

b) bloggers wanting to enrich the value of their content by providing contextually relevant top-ten link lists

c) companies / advertisers desiring to leverage this tool to provide a highly effective access map to their best content, offers, info and services. See: http://apple.zeef.com

d) affiliate marketers and affiliate networks desiring to select categories / lists of links rated by experts and wanting to place them on their pages

I highly recommend using Zeef to rapidly organize the best resources on any topic in an effective, useful fashion.

The only addition I'd make to Zeef, would be an optional description-opinion one-liner that an expert can associate to each link he provides. This short info, even within 144 characters, could provide a lot of additional value to the already useful link blocks.

I sincerely hope that the commercial / revenue-making component of Zeef doesn't corrupt on otherwise very promising tool.

Free to use.

Find out more / try it out now: http://zeef.org/

FAQ: http://zeef.org/faq/

Benefits: http://zeef.org/benefits/

Vision: http://zeef.org/vision/

Review: http://startupbeat.com/2013/09/19/featured-startup-pitch-zeef-id3454/

My first Zeef page on Content Curation Tools (in progress): https://contentcuration.zeef.com/robin.good

Klaas Joosten's comment, September 22, 2013 4:33 PM

Hi, indeed this is a risk, we will offer this download this is very good feedback. But there are not many curated directories with a real business model. Because we are going to use the links blocks on external websites (blogs) like widgets and fill them with affiliate links we give people the opportunity to make money. Most curation websites don't have any way of monetizing their traffic. Our business model is based on a dutch competitor how does 20 million of revenue only in the dutch (Netherlands) market. So if people use your subject page to make their purchasing decision you have helped them and earn some money to keep the platform alive.

Rick Boerebach's comment, September 22, 2013 4:54 PM

Brian, white labeling is on our roadmap, but not yet implemented, what type of features would you like to see?

Gianfranco Marini's curator insight, November 4, 2013 1:06 PM

Zeef è una applicazione web che genera categorie e sarebbe piaciuta molto ad Aristotele e a Kant.

Il suo utilizzo è semplicissimo, basta indicare il nome della nostra collezione di Link, dedicata a uno specifico tema, e quindi procedere a creare, all'interno di quel tema e argomento delle categorie, che sono rese graficamente come blocchi di liste di indirizzi. Aggiungere ai blocchi nuovi indirizzi è altrettanto semplice, basta copiare e incollare l'URL del sito o della risorsa che ci interessa.

I blocchi possono essere collocati nell'ordine che preferiamo semplicemente trascinandoli con il mouse nella posizione che più ci piace ed è sempre possibile aggiungere nuovi blocchi.

Le liste di Link possono essere condivise e incorporate in altri siti. L'utilizo di questo servizio web è gratuito previa registrazione.

Si tratta di unos trumento utilissimo per organizzare i propri indirizzi in relazione a un tema/argomento specifico in modo da disporre di un archivio specifico, disponibile online, cui poter sempre fare riferimento.

Le applicazioni didattiche sono numerose:

1. creare archivi ordinati di risorse web su arogmenti disciplinari o transdisciplinari

2. far realizzare tali archivi dagli studenti in modo da abituarli alla ricerca delle fonti sul web

3. realizzare raccolte di risorse per l'apprendimento di una disciplina o di argomenti di una disciplina da utilizzare in ambito blended learning o flipped learning

4. Si possono creare raccolte, stile top ten, di risorse rilevanti su un dato argomento per arricchire il processo di insegnamento/apprendimento

LINK UTILI

INDIRIZZO: http://zeef.org

FAQ. http://zeef.org/faq/

ESEMPIO: la pagina Zeef realizzata da Robin Good relativamente alle risorse per la content curation https://contentcuration.zeef.com/robin.good

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September 18, 2013 3:02 PM

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From www.typographicposters.com - September 18, 2013 3:02 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Conceived and created by andré felipe back in 2008, Typo/Graphic Posters is a curated collection of "inspiring" quality posters with a strong focus on typography and expressive graphical compositions.

The works represented come from artists and graphic designers from all over the world and which "challenge type, colors and shapes to express a message".

For each selected author you can see an horizontally laid out collection of his visual posters, which can be clicked and enlarged, and commented via a Facebook plugin appearing at the end of the set.

Comments. A great curated visual collection, where you can truly find inspiration at every step. Every single set included in it, has been rigorously vetted before being accepted. This is not something you can check, but if you look contained in this collection, you can tell right away that the quality you see is not fruit of an accident.

This type of content is so good and valuable, it stays evergreen even if it's not updated.

When curating content, even if it is not of a visual nature, a curator should strive to achieve the same level of quality and long-lasting value of such collections.

Free to access.

Curated gallery: http://www.typographicposters.com/

Favorite sets:

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September 15, 2013 12:44 PM

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From www.theschooloflife.com - September 15, 2013 12:44 PM

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Though you may have not heard about "bibliotherapy" before,"lovers of literature have been using novels as salves – either consciously or subconsciously – for centuries."

Bibliotherapists, are expert book curators, who can, depending on your ailment or pain, suggest a specific set of books to read. And in 2008 an official Bibliotherapy Service was born.

"When the School of Life opened its doors in 2008, we began to see clients – in person, by skype, in London, in Bognor Regis, Barcelona, Bangkok – for individual 40-minute sessions, after which we sent them a tailor-made eight-book prescription.

We became so busy we took on a third bibliotherapist, ex bookshop-manager, Simona Lyons.

Five years on, having tried and tested our cures, we have written an alternative medical reference book, The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies*

Whether you are "...moving house, looking for Mr/Mrs Right, or having a midlife crisis... ...losing a loved one or becoming a single parent... ...Whether you’ve got the hiccups or a hangover, a fear of commitment or a sense of humour failure..." in The Novel Cure there is a selected novel or book that can help you.

The Novel Cure is not a medical reference book but a curated selection of what to read to heal any pain: physical or psychological without ever suggesting any traditional remedy or medicine.

The suggested readings include anything from Apuleius to the contemporary Ali Smith embracing over two thousand years of world literature.

Thanks to Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin, for having shared their wonderful story and for providing such an inspiring and useful resource for many.

Quite an inspiring story. 8/10

Original article:

http://www.theschooloflife.com/blog/2013/09/the-novel-cure/

see also: thenovelcure.com

Sepp Hasslberger's curator insight, September 15, 2013 3:02 PM

Who would have thought it that reading could be curative ... but apparently it is!

shelbylaneMD's curator insight, September 16, 2013 11:41 AM

Brilliant concept in a unique package. I'm better already just from reading the introduction. And no nasty side effects.

shelbylaneMD's curator insight, September 30, 2013 6:51 PM

This is amazing, since I read all the time and I frequently prescribe a book and a joke. Great works. Not easy to get in America.

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September 13, 2013 2:32 PM

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From www.dezeen.com - September 13, 2013 2:32 PM

Robin Good's insight:

When I read the excellent opinion piece on DeZeen by Kieran Long and his 95 theses for contemporary museum curation, I could not restrain myself from desiring to see, how inspiring and useful some of his theses would be if applied to the world of content curation.

What happened if I took some of Kieran Long's most inspiring theses and replaced the word "museum" with the word "content curator"?

The results were more than surprising. Here my set of favorites:

» Nothing should be out of bounds for a content curator. Everything is potentially relevant.

» Content curators have a special role in presenting topics neglected by other institutions and the media.

» Content curators should be topical, responding quickly to world events when they touch our areas of expertise.

» Content curators have as much in common with investigative journalists as they do with university academics.

» Like journalists, content curators have political views, and should not pretend to abandon them when they show up to work.

» Also like journalists, content curators have a responsibility to contextualise their opinions.

» When a content curator checks out and reviews something new, it is revealing as much about himself as it is about the object.

» Content curators should take intellectual risks.

But there is a lot more to be inspired from, by reading through this excellent list of 95 guiding principles for how museums and curators should approach their mandates.

Very inspiring. 9/10

Full article: http://www.dezeen.com/2013/09/12/opinion-kieran-long-on-contemporary-museum-curation/

Robin Good's comment, September 13, 2013 3:49 PM

Thank you Gilbert and Raj for stopping by to say thanks. I think there is a lot of good stuff in those 95 items indeed.

Witmer Group's comment, September 15, 2013 11:51 AM

Great share, thank you!

David Baker's curator insight, September 16, 2013 1:54 AM

This idea of curating is of interest to me as I contemplate how to help teachers create digital learning spaces and digital teaching ideas.

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September 10, 2013 5:12 PM

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From www.youtube.com - September 10, 2013 5:12 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Here's a great curation story. Derek Vincent Smith also known musically as Pretty Lights has published a video album that is a curation masterpiece since its very inception. To create a uniquely personal sound and style Derek has brought to the recording studio tens of musicians to record and master 25 vinyls from which he would then sample, remix and curate the final tracks of his new album.

The videos of the tracks, (here is a short playlist I've created of some of the most representative ones) are equally impressive, as they have been produced by capturing imagery that would be otherwise be considered utterly useless and curated with graphic and visual effects of all kinds as to generate some truly visual masterpieces.

Check the story of the making of the video here: http://youtu.be/jOZtWO7P6-g

The results, in my humble view, are truly stunning.

See this video to get an idea of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RlcrCRSY4Y&feature=share&list=PLCoh11EkrUagtT06Dlv4ayybfF1BlHNHc

Here we have a music artist who has not simply written music and recorded it, but has conscioulsy produced musical content to the curate from it something new and unique.

Curation at its best: 10/10

The making of Color Map of the Sun: http://youtu.be/C402fprLRDw

Download free album: http://www.prettylightsmusic.com/therecordlabel/

Download free video and audio tracks via BitTorrent: http://bundles.bittorrent.com/prettylights-a-color-map-of-the-sun/

Color Map of the Sun playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCoh11EkrUagtT06Dlv4ayybfF1BlHNHc

Ra's curator insight, September 12, 2013 12:17 AM

I don't even understand half of what he has done in this film but it is captivating. The music is pretty, the composition of the images is clever and there are moments of levity to break it up. A new slant on curation to create something new. Interesting watching.

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September 5, 2013 3:14 PM

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From maximizesocialbusiness.com - September 5, 2013 3:14 PM

Robin Good's insight:

If you are looking for some good inspiring examples of how content and news curation can be put to good use, Bob Geller has published this past spring a useful article reviewing five different content curation approaches

that are very successful.

The five sites reviewed in this article "have all been tremendously successful in leveraging third party content, optimizing it, adding value, and building audience. They range from the famous to the obscure. There are some common threads, yet each has a different formula."

Useful. Resourceful. Good examples. 7/10

Full article: http://maximizesocialbusiness.com/curate-content-like-a-pro-8535/

(Image credit: Creative stylized web design by Shutterstock)

Prof. Hankell's curator insight, September 6, 2013 11:46 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Useful. Resourceful. Good examples. 7/10

Full article: http://maximizesocialbusiness.com/curate-content-like-a-pro-8535/

(Image credit: Creative stylized web design by Shutterstock)

donhornsby's curator insight, September 7, 2013 11:18 AM

Are there any other sites that have provided good inspiration for your content curation?

Robin Good's comment, September 8, 2013 2:47 AM

Yes. Just stay tuned and you are going to see more good examples.

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September 3, 2013 2:46 PM

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From newshunt.com - September 3, 2013 2:46 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Newshunt is a news aggregator for smartphones, much like Flipboard or Pulse, but with the unique ability of being able to work with 12 different regional Indian languages that utilize special characters.

NewsHunt aggregates content from over 100 newspapers in 12 languages from India, Bangladesh and Africa.

Newshunt is capable of rendering different language characters across devices and OSes without requiring the specific device to support that language.

"It serves as a very helpful tool to get regional language newspaper especially for those users who dont have access to their favorite home town newspapers and want their content on the go."

NewsHunt works on all platforms and devices including J2ME, Symbian, Blackberry, Android & iOS. You can also access it directly on http://m.newshunt.com

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://newshunt.com/

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September 2, 2013 5:09 AM

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From www.scoop.it - September 2, 2013 5:09 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Out of total serendipity I noticed this morning an <embed> button now available below every single story curated on Scoop.it. The link, labelled "Embed this Scoop" provides a code snippet which can be copied and pasted into any web site or blog, much like what you can do Storify.

The feature should is available to all Scoop.it users.

Try it out now by clicking the "Share" button below any scoop and you will see this: https://dl-web.dropbox.com/spa/782adzfe036gp2y/l-v3szom.png

Scoop.it: http://scoop.it

Neil Ferree's curator insight, September 3, 2013 4:51 PM

This give us even more reason to give thought to the Insight we add to our Scoop.it Stories. Not for the convetional SEO link juice dance rather being able to give your Reader a summary and compeling CTA on who, what, when and why they should take time to click through to read your submission and maybe add you to their social sphere

Robin Good's comment, September 4, 2013 3:11 AM

a CTA is a "Call to Action". Something you ask your readers to do specifically.

Treathyl Fox's comment, September 4, 2013 11:14 AM

You noticed the embed button. I just noticed the Thumbs Up button. :)

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September 1, 2013 3:24 PM

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From feed2email.net - September 1, 2013 3:24 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Feed2email.net is a useful free tool for anyone needing to track and monitor specific web sites or RSS feeds. Just provide any web site URL, or RSS feed url and an email address and Feed2email takes care of the rest. Without having to register, pay anything or login, it will automatically forward any updates of your favorite websites and RSS feeds into your email inbox.

An extra useful option allows you to export all of your subscribed feeds / websites into an OPML file by simply replying to any email from Feed2mail with 'export' in the subject line and you'll get instantly an OPML file with all of your subscriptions which you can import in many dedicated RSS feed readers.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://feed2email.net/

FAQ: http://feed2email.net/faq.html

*Added to the RSS Feeds Management section of the Content Curation Tools Supermap

Stephen Dale's curator insight, September 2, 2013 10:56 AM

RSS is dead.....long live RSS!

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August 29, 2013 3:55 PM

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From en.support.wordpress.com - August 29, 2013 3:55 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Automattic, the company behind WordPress has just released a tool which allows WordPress users to curate real-time news coming from Twitter and YouTube video clips without ever leaving the standard WP posting dashboard.

From TheNextWeb: "Akin to having Storify right in your WordPress platform, users can click on the “Add Media” button while they’re editing a post and see options to insert either a tweet or a YouTube video.

Being able to embed social content like this isn’t new — both Twitter and YouTube have made it possible for a long time, but WordPress is now streamlining it so that you can simply query based on keyword, hashtag, user, or geographic location, and it will populate the relevant content."

My comment: Sign of the times. Soon most publishing tool will integrate curation facilities that allow easy searching and integration of excerpts from articles, videos and other content types into original content. The WordPress Media Explorer confirms this trend while providing thousands of small independent publisher with ready-to-use simple curation facilities.

N.B.: At present the Media Explorer is available only for WordPress.com users, but it will be soon available as a Jetpack also for self-hosted WordPress sites.

Find out more: http://en.support.wordpress.com/media-explorer/

Stephen Dale's curator insight, September 1, 2013 5:53 AM

Looking forward to when Media Explorer is available for self-hosted Wordpress.org users. Currently limited to WordPress.com users.

Mark McMahon's curator insight, September 5, 2013 1:13 PM

this sounds like really useful stuff......

Mariska Botha's comment, September 11, 2013 8:23 AM

Have to be honest that I love this...

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August 26, 2013 9:54 AM

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From searchenginewatch.com - August 26, 2013 9:54 AM

Robin Good's insight:

I really think that Eric Enge of SearchEngineWatch did not have to go out of his way to post such an excellent analysis of what traits curated content should have to be appreciated by Google.

But given the amount of content marketers adopting curation as the latest magic wand, his work provides a very useful warning for the many attempting to substitute curation for good quality content.

As in real-life, when it comes down to giving more exposure to different curators, both humans and Google will attempt to select those that:

1) put a lot of effort into their curation

2) have a strong editorial voice and

3) a distinctive point of view

and which heavily rely on:

4) recognized expert analysis7cmmentary and reviews

5) access to data otherwise not accessible

6) freshness

Rightful. Useful. 8/10

Full article: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2290885/Content-Curation-SEO-A-Bad-Match

ManufacturingStories's curator insight, August 27, 2013 10:33 PM

Robin - Another valuable and outstanding summary!

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August 25, 2013 3:20 AM

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From www.toprankblog.com - August 25, 2013 3:20 AM

Robin Good's insight:

A growing number of big brands have started to utilize social media tools to aggregate and curate the best and most relevant voices talking about their products and offers and to bring them together into one unique online social media hub.

From Cisco to Intel, IBM and DELL, the understanding that both the customer and employees are the true, trusted voices of a company, will gradually replace the artificious, paid for and detached advertising heritage is slowly, but steadily growing.

Lee Odden writes about it: "Growing social participation is motivating many companies to aggregate content produced and curated by the brand’s own employees.

This is a compelling opportunity to harvest the brand’s own collective wisdom. A single destination for curated social content fuels a brand publisher model that supports brand storytelling, content marketing, PR and even SEO objectives."

In this article you can find 10 real-world examples of social media hubs from big brands. Go explore them and see what are the traits and characteristics that make them so valuable to these companies.

Resourceful. Good examples and resources. 8/10

Full article: http://www.toprankblog.com/2013/06/brand-social-media-hubs/

*Check what other "social media hubs" technologies exist out there, by checking this section of the Content Curation Tools Supermap.

Prof. Hankell's curator insight, August 26, 2013 4:52 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Lee Odden writes about it: "Growing social participation is motivating many companies to aggregate content produced and curated by the brand’s own employees.

Resourceful. Good examples and resources. 8/10

Full article: http://www.toprankblog.com/2013/06/brand-social-media-hubs/ ;

Sally Katsuta's curator insight, September 24, 2013 1:57 AM

Its great topic and I learnt the importance of social hubs with lots of examples. I also agree that social hubs are essential and key to gain more funs. I also enjoy to seeing those sites with blogs, pictures. thanks

Robert M's curator insight, August 2, 2014 7:55 AM

Its amazing how important social media has become in today's business world.

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September 22, 2013 4:37 PM

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From pugmarks.me - September 22, 2013 4:37 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Pugmarks is a Chrome web extension which allows you to get in-context references and complementary reading suggestions to any web page you are viewing.

Pugmarks leverages your network of Twitter, LinkedIN and an optional set of RSS feeds (which you must provide in OPML format) to filter and select the most relevant reading resources that it will suggest to you.

When you are on any web page you can click the Pugmarks footprint icon on the Chrome browser extension bar and a strip of relevant information is displayed over the top (or bottom) of your screen.

The extension can be paused and the user has the option to select whether to see the Pugmarks bar appear on top or on the bottom of his browser screen.

When you open a new empty tab Pugmarks suggests relevant content items to check out.

My comment: Useful to find additional, relevant content resources just-in-time, as you browse.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://pugmarks.me/

Intro video: http://youtu.be/v4rGEu0hsGQ +

http://youtu.be/tfR1xIRNIoo

more info: https://pugmarks.me/pugmarklet

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September 19, 2013 4:34 PM

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From www.youtube.com - September 19, 2013 4:34 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Wibki is a free web app which allows you to easily organize a series of visual "start pages" from which to access your favorite web sites, resources and apps.

Wibki does an excellent job of making it very easy to add and edit new sites to your visual start pages, and it automatically fetches the logo of each one.

You can create as many "start pages" (or tabs) as you like, so that you can keep your favorite web sites organized into different thematic categories. Individual cells can be easily edited, removed or dragged nto different positions.

My comments: An excellent tool to keep and organize in a handy way your favorite web sites. The web site icons and the simple and clean organization make this apparently simple visual bookmarking tool a very effective start page builder and web destinations manager.

Free to use.

In private beta.

Request your invitation here: http://www.wibki.com/

Read also the story behind Wibki here: http://www.wibki.com/blog/say-hi-to-wibki-the-future-of-browsing/

Related sites: www.startme.com

Tyler Wall's comment, September 20, 2013 3:24 PM

@Robin Good I never thought about the social aspect and that is relevant enough to make it useful for that aspect.

Tyler Wall's comment, September 20, 2013 3:25 PM

@Robin Good As far as the links all you have to do is bookmark it to your bookmark bar and then navigate to teh tab page and drag that link (in your bookmark bar) to the page and it adds it. Not exactly straightforward but it is simple and works.

Robin Good's comment, September 20, 2013 3:30 PM

@Tyler Wall: thank you for clarifying this to me. I was scratching my head quite a bit to find a way to do it. Got it now. ...and glad to have been of help in surfacing the importance of the social sharing aspect.

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September 17, 2013 4:41 PM

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From brandsavant.com - September 17, 2013 4:41 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Tom Webster illustrates clearly why content curation is not a backup solution for those looking for a content marketing strategy that saves them time and resources.

Content curation, according to Tom Webster, "is even harder--and rarer--than quality creative output".

and

"...the ability to create value through curation is uncommon."

And the solution, notwithstanding what conferences and events may appear to suggest, is not simply in having new fancy tools. The real difference is in how me and you curate the content we select.

"And the learned skill (through pattern recognition) that both the content curator and the content docent must share is the ability to discriminate."

Humans can "discriminate" in much more subtle ways than computers can, and this ability, if refined, is going to become a very valuable asset in the near future.

This is why content curators as well as content "guides" (from museum docents) will play an increasingly important role to their audiences, especially when compared to those who are just passing on "interesting links".

He further writes: "It will be increasingly difficult, in this age of declining content arbitrage, to build an audience through curation—to get new people to gravitate to your content if you are just passing along other people's content.

But if you build an audience first—if you are known for something—then your curation has meaning."

The author also points to two excellent examples of content curation: John Gruber (Daring Fireball) and Chris Penn (christopherspenn.com).

A good reading for anyone interested in better understanding what content curation is all about.

Rightful. 8/10

Full article: http://brandsavant.com/brandsavant/curation

(Image credit: Guy choosing a place to go by Shutterstock)

Prof. Hankell's curator insight, September 18, 2013 2:18 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Tom Webster illustrates clearly why content curation is not a backup solution for those looking for a content marketing strategy that saves them time and resources.

Content curation, according to Tom Webster, "is even harder--and rarer--than quality creative output".

and "...the ability to create value through curation is uncommon."

And the solution, notwithstanding what conferences and events may appear to suggest, is not simply in having new fancy tools. The real difference is in how me and you curate the content we select.

"And the learned skill (through pattern recognition) that both the content curator and the content docent must share is the ability to discriminate."

Humans can "discriminate" in much more subtle ways than computers can, and this ability, if refined, is going to become a very valuable asset in the near future.

He further writes: "It will be increasingly difficult, in this age of declining content arbitrage, to build an audience through curation—to get new people to gravitate to your content if you are just passing along other people's content.

But if you build an audience first—if you are known for something—then your curation has meaning."

The author also points to two excellent examples of content curation: John Gruber (Daring Fireball) and Chris Penn (christopherspenn.com).

A good reading for anyone interested in better understanding what content curation is all about.

Rightful. 8/10

Full article: http://brandsavant.com/brandsavant/curation

Sally Tilley's curator insight, September 18, 2013 5:56 PM

A timely reminder of how your friendly Teacher Librarian can hopefully give you a hand with sorting through resources and content available for you curriculum areas, thank you for sharing this :-)

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September 15, 2013 5:45 AM

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From www.youtube.com - September 15, 2013 5:45 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Gooru is a curated search engine focusing on K-12 free learning resources which allows teachers and educators to easily find relevant materials on most topics and to organize them into shareable collections, quizzes and customizable playlists.

"Quickly and easily pinpoint the exact resources for your teaching needs by filtering search results by grade level, resource type, and Common Core State Standard."

"...drag and drop pre-existing collections to save them in your personal library. Once saved, you can customize collections by uploading your own resources, adding narration to resources, and inserting questions to test for understanding."

Classpages, which can be password protected, allow to assign collections and quizzes to students in specific classes. In Gooru it's possible to create multiple Classpages and to manage assignments across different sections all in one place.

"As students study collections and answer questions, teachers receive direct feedback on their mastery and progress, allowing them to personalize instruction to individualized learning preferences."

My comment: A great tool for teachers and educators working with the need to find pre-screened quality learning guides and with the desire to customize to a deeper degree their students learning resources path. Also another solid example of where the future of search is happily headed.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://www.goorulearning.org/

Find out more: http://about.goorulearning.org/product/overview/

Intro presentation of what Gooru is: https://docs.google.com/a/goorulearning.org/presentation/d/1TWpEWcliK3nOXrh9jnApgHNpcGEuCx1PaEBjFi9e4mk/edit#slide=id.geac2c7dd_2182

More useful info here: http://about.goorulearning.org/community/

Olga Boldina's comment, September 17, 2013 1:36 AM

Thank you Robin!

Robin Good's comment, September 17, 2013 3:08 AM

You are very welcome Olga.

ManufacturingStories's curator insight, September 18, 2013 9:59 AM

Robin - Another great analysis. Thanks for all of our hard work & curation.

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September 13, 2013 10:13 AM

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From www.hypebot.com - September 13, 2013 10:13 AM

Robin Good's insight:

People want recommendations from people that have their same tastes and values. Human curation is going to make a big difference in how people are going to discover, appreciate and get in love with new music and artists.

From the original article: "In this episode of the Deep Dive, Cortney Harding and Kyle Bylin discuss music curation with outspoken tech exec and startup founder J Herskowitz."

"Curation is a topic that just keeps coming up in the press. Spotify buys Tunigo. 8tracks revamps its website. Songza introduces a paid tier. And Beats Music poaches several high-level people in preparation for a U.S. launch. Meanwhile, Rhapsody and Google Play are talking about how they have been using humans to curate all along.

What does all of this mean? Where might music streaming services take curation next?"

Takeaways:

Individual curators may have an edge over crowd-curation.
Many different types of curation being used.
It remains to be seen whether expert music curators will win over talented unkown amateur curators.
Likely, these different approaches may live all side-by-side, satisfying different needs.
Mood- and experience-curation is a strong emerging trend besides traditional music styles and genres
Curated music playlists to enhance specific life activities

Interesting discussion. Recommended listening. 7/10

Listen to the podcast here: https://soundcloud.com/upwardspiralpodcast/deep-dive-4-curations-long

Ref post: http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/09/music-curations-long-history-many-challenges-w-j-herskowitz-upward-spiral-deep-dive-4.html

David Raimbaud's curator insight, September 19, 2014 2:44 AM

Les gens veulent des recommandations de personnes qui ont leurs mêmes goûts et valeurs. La curation humaine fera une grande différence dans la façon dont les gens vont découvrir, apprécier et acquérir de la nouvelle musique.

De l'article original: "In this episode of the Deep Dive, Cortney Harding and Kyle Bylin discuss music curation with outspoken tech exec and startup founder J Herskowitz."

Spotify achète Tunigo. 8tracks refond son site Internet. Songza introduit un niveau d'abonnement payant. Et Beats se prépare à dominer le monde de la curation (slogan: "Music by human for human"). La curation rentre dans une nouvelle ère.

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September 8, 2013 2:44 AM

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From mindymcadams.com - September 8, 2013 2:44 AM

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Among the types of content curation that are broadly used, content aggregation has been one of the first and most popular approaches that has naturally sprung up.

Content aggregation itself can be carried out in many different ways, from a completely manual approach to a fully automated one, with many different shades in between.

If you are interested in learning more about these, and about how to aggregate content in the most ethical and professional fashion, I strongly suggest reading these two short articles written by two curation professionals:

The first, by Mindy McAdams is a curated version of the second one which was published more than a year earlier by Steve Buttry. Together they do an excellent job of clarifying to the non-expert what curation and aggregation are all about.

The two articles offer clear guidelines, real-world examples and recommendations on how you can make content aggregation provide true additional value to both the content sources used and to the readers alike.

Recommended. 8/10

Original article: http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/aggregation-guidelines-link-attribute-add-value/

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Prof. Hankell's curator insight, September 8, 2013 10:23 AM

Robin Good's insight:

http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2013/aggregation-and-curation-in-journalism/ ;
http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/aggregation-guidelines-link-attribute-add-value/ ;

The first, by Mindy McAdams is a curated version of the second one which was published more than a year earlier by Steve Buttry. Together they do an excellent job of clarifying to the non-expert what curation and aggregation are all about.

Recommended. 8/10

Original article: http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/aggregation-guidelines-link-attribute-add-value/ ;

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Stephen Dale's curator insight, September 9, 2013 4:29 AM

A useful introduction to the mechanics of "curation"

Linda Allen's curator insight, September 9, 2013 9:15 AM

Thank you for sharing Robin, excellent read and your insights

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September 3, 2013 4:30 PM

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From www.youtube.com - September 3, 2013 4:30 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Ginko is an outstanding idea-outliner, editor and visual organizer at once, allowing you to rapidly jot ideas, content, images and to organize and position them visually though easy to move info-cards.

Ginko allows you to organize your thoughts, script or story into three levels and to link info-cards across them as you please. Commands are very simple and intuitive, the interface is minimal and you can start working in no time at all.

It is possible to create private or public trees and to invite other individuals to collaborate on them with you in real-time.

If you are familiar with Workflowy, this is even better. Ginko allows you to see both the forest and the trees at the same time.

Free for up to three text trees: https://gingkoapp.com

(Thanks to Ana Cristina Prats for finding this gem)

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky's comment September 3, 2013 4:57 PM

Hypercard lives!

Ignasi Alcalde's curator insight, September 4, 2013 4:58 AM

A explorar

Michael Sabah's curator insight, September 4, 2013 8:41 AM

CoCreation Tool for Design Thinking

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September 2, 2013 2:14 PM

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From teachkiwi.wordpress.com - September 2, 2013 2:14 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Kirsten Wilson analyzes three different levels of content curation presently in use and describes accurately the differences between these.

"In regards to levels of curation it is much like Blooms. There is knowledge level curation- it is done for remembering and understanding (the “Learner Level”).

Another level is applying and analyzing- it is curated for use or been used and is a proven tool for using whether it be your tool or a tool you have discovered from your global connections via Social Media, blogs or simple internet searches (the “Facilitator Level”).

Finally, there are curations that go to the level of evaluation and creation… these are the curations that become invaluable tools to others. It takes the most work, but the result is most thorough and the resource it provides to others can be invaluable (the “Designer Level”)."

He concludes by reminding all would-be curators the importance of attribution and the amount of effort that the "designer level" of curation requires: "In this world of immediate access and available content make every effort to honor the source of your curation, inspiration and/or springboard for design.

Those that do curate at a “Designer” level and in many cases are the first in their field of expertise to find a new “method” put hours into the development and design."

Rightful. Instructional. 7/10

Full original article: http://teachkiwi.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/content-collaboration-and-curation-part-2/

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Ra's curator insight, September 8, 2013 6:17 PM

Explanation of levels of content curation - sets aspirational goal. Relevance to students as a pathway for their development. See Robin Good's great summary.

Alfredo Corell's curator insight, September 22, 2013 6:36 PM

Robin Good opinion:

Kirsten Wilson analyzes three different levels of content curation presently in use and describes accurately the differences between these.

"In regards to levels of curation it is much like Blooms. There is knowledge level curation- it is done for remembering and understanding (the “Learner Level”).

He concludes by reminding all would-be curators the importance of attribution and the amount of effort that the "designer level" of curation requires: "In this world of immediate access and available content make every effort to honor the source of your curation, inspiration and/or springboard for design.

Those that do curate at a “Designer” level and in many cases are the first in their field of expertise to find a new “method” put hours into the development and design."

Rightful. Instructional. 7/10

Full original article: http://teachkiwi.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/content-collaboration-and-curation-part-2/ ;

(Image credit: Three trophies by Shutterstock)

Zhang Meilan's curator insight, October 7, 2013 1:16 PM

Robin Good把内容策展分为三个层次：策展的学习者，策展的设计者，策展的促进者。

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September 2, 2013 3:33 AM

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From ping.it - September 2, 2013 3:33 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Ping.it (review), a web app which allows you to monitor and discover relevant news in your areas of interest, has just introduced a new powerful feature with makes it possible to track any relevant content being published around a specific keyword.

Just specify the set of keywords or keyphrase you want to track, and almost instantly Ping.it provides you with a preview of relevant content items.

Probes can be tailored to your specific needs, by applying specific search parameters and social popularity filters. It is also possible to exclude specific keywords.

I find Ping.it and its keyword monitoring facility very effective and capable of bringing me only high quality results in my field of interest. I would not hesitate to recommend it to those who need to seriously monitor any topic.

Find out more about this feature: http://ping.it/blog/go-beyond-rss-with-keyword-probes/

Free to use.

Try Ping.it: http://ping.it/

Howard Rheingold's curator insight, September 4, 2013 1:29 PM

As usual, Robin Good is tracking the cutting edge in info-discovery. In addition to RSS feeds of persistent news searches and other kinds of searches and social media monitoring services like talkwalker.com, Ping.it looks like a potentially useful infotention tool (off to test it...)

mtmeme's curator insight, September 5, 2013 11:22 AM

cool curation tool!

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August 31, 2013 6:27 AM

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From www.thesocialmediahat.com - August 31, 2013 6:27 AM

Robin Good's insight:

January 1920 saw the birth of the first modern age content curated magazine: The Reader's Digest.

The magazine, conceived intuitively by an American army soldier, Dewitt Wallace, who had been wounded in France during world war I, wanted to be a critical selection of the best articles that had come out in print recently, which were also edited, reviewed and summarized.

"...when Wallace was sitting in that hospital, reading old American magazines, he began to envision a new publication.

He noticed that many of the articles were interesting, but too long or poorly written. He devoted his hours to removing superfluous words and other editing, working to summarize, review and revise the articles.

Once discharged, Wallace retuned to St. Paul and spent six months poring over the magazines and articles within the Minneapolis Public Library. He looked for "evergreen" content - articles that, even ten years later, would still be applicable and interesting to readers."

The official tagline for the Reader's Digest read: 31 Articles Each Month From Leading Magazines, Each Article of Enduring Value and Interest, In Condensed and Permanent Form.

"The first issue of Reader's Digest, which appeared in February, 1922, was printed on plain white paper stock, and included no illustrations or advertisements.

Inside, the opening article was "How to Keep Young Mentally." This was followed by such diverse selections as "Love--Luxury or Necessity?" "Watch Your Dog and Be Wise," "Whatever Is New for Women Is Wrong," and "Is the Stage Too Vulgar?" The enormous success of this issue, and those that followed, demonstrated the thirst readers had for interesting and succinct articles and information."

Read more about the story of the Reader's Digest here: http://www.thesocialmediahat.com/blog/was-content-curation-born-french-hospital-95-years-ago-08142013

Michael Ehline's comment, September 3, 2013 9:04 AM

Great piece and it has prompted me to read more about the story of the Reader's Digest here: http://www.thesocialmediahat.com/blog/was-content-curation-born-french-hospital-95-years-ago-08142013

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August 27, 2013 2:13 PM

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From contentsmagazine.com - August 27, 2013 2:13 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Here's an inspiring and insightful article by Sally Whiting on ContentsMagazine analyzing the role of the archivist and the traits and responsibilities that make his work so valuable to content producers.

She writes: "Applying archival principles to content strategy makes for solid content—I can demonstrate this, and I exercise it in my work."

As content curators will increasingly need to learn more about archiving, organizing and preserving what they curate, this article provides an inspiring set of considerations about the key value of context and provenance.

In addition she poses some important questions about what could actually be done by better curating our own content archives:

"Archives are accustomed to a passive role, asking reflectively what their patrons want to find.

As they work to help researchers tell their stories, it’s easy for archives to forget to keep shaping their own."

Inspiring. Rightful. 8/10

Full article: http://contentsmagazine.com/articles/digital-archives-the-content-strategist/

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Prof. Hankell's comment, August 28, 2013 10:33 AM

Thank you for sharing!

Nancy White's curator insight, August 29, 2013 8:48 AM

Excellent post - importance of context & provenance.

digitalassetman's curator insight, August 30, 2013 8:15 AM

Since graduating from library school, I’ve fielded occasional questions about archiving “as a professional in the field.” Then comes the second question, “So, what kind of archive do you work in?” But I don’t. Although I was trained as an archivist and care deeply about archives, I’ve been an editor or a content strategist on most of my recent projects. And though I sympathize with archivists’ anxiety about their continuing relevance, I’m also excited for them, as I am for anyone who has content worth sharing

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August 25, 2013 9:28 AM

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From www.scoop.it - August 25, 2013 9:28 AM

Robin Good's insight:

I always say: "Traffic is worth zero". In fact, unless I am skilled enough to convert the one million page views that Scoop.it reports on my profile into loyal readers and paying customers this figure by itself could be worth nothing.

What it does say though, to the many of you wondering whether you can reach people interested in your specific topic by curating other people's content is that, Yes, it is very possible to reach a very targeted audience in this way. By using a publishing platform like Scoop.it and having a regular, systematic posting schedule does bring extra visibility, credit and reputation. And the more focus you have, the better.

Robert Scoble was right when he suggested, way before than anyone was even thinking about curation, to send visitors off to other sites by curating the best that is out there.

But don't look at me as the example to follow. For one thing, I do not think it is a great idea to cover these many different topics like I do. I have now over ten curated channels I maintain on Scoop.it and I really don't think this is a great idea (nonetheless I am very interested in all of them).

In the beginning you always feel constrained, and needing a ton of channels, but then, as you go along, you learn that to maintain even two of them, at a very high level of quality, requires a lot of manual effort and time.

I am very thankful to Scoop.it as I would have not been able to get all of this extra exposure and credit for my work, if I had been doing this curation work exclusively on my own site.

Being showcased inside a social platform, where other people are continuosly looking for new, valuable content, has its own advantages.

As a matter of fact, I will not get tired of saying that Scoop.it HAS its key greatest opportunity for improvement, not so much in adding new features or refining its mobile versions but in really starting to effectively curate and showcase its own treasure trove of stuff and by doing that, modelling for its own larger group of users how to elevate their curation work.

By doing this Scoop.it would not only become a true content destination of its own sake but it could also become a model for quality curated content for its own users, by cultivating and exposing outstanding quality over quantity.

http://www.scoop.it/u/RobinGood

*If you are a subject matter expert and are interested in contributing to the curation of one of my Scoop.it channels, step up and let me hear from you (Robin.Good@masternewmedia.org)

Robin Good's comment, August 30, 2013 7:25 AM

That's right David!

David Bennett's comment, August 30, 2013 7:37 AM

I put up a post in Light Reading (a WP.com blog) and gave you attribution and a mention:

http://photographworks.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/say-it-with-a-tweet/

Michael Ehline's comment, September 3, 2013 9:04 AM

Man this one has gone viral. I see it everywhere.

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