Curation
- Creating vs. Curating Social Media Content For Your Business | Social Media Today
Creating unique social media content for your business, and curating relevant content for your audience, are both valid approaches to filling your content pipeline. This said, there is no single approach that will yield the best results.
- Magnify is a video curation platform that raised $1M on it’s way to $7M
Magnify calls themselves "The Video Curation, Publishing, & Monetization Platform." Another layer of monetization on top of YouTube?
- Three Reasons Content Curation is Overrated in B2B Marketing — B2B Digital Marketing
An important article, in my humble opinion... Eric addresses thought leadership, taking shortcuts, and differentiation. I agree that curation does not a thought leader make. I also think, though, that there is more value to be had than just "leading the conversation."
- Bundlr repositions towards curated media
Another day, another curation-based social network. In this case it's extra meta, a site that curates curated media. Very clean site, though, worth at least a look.
- 17 ways to become a better curator
An "all killer and no filler" post on how to do what you're doing better. I see posts like this all the time but this one had some great content. I'm a big fan of alerts and RSS, I love Buffer, and I try very hard to avoid the obvious.
- Content curation: usually a bad idea?
I liked Frank's honesty on here. Content curation is such a buzzword these days, it's getting used to mean "anytime you use someone else's content." Some great points on how to do it right.
- Soon: Flipboard for Android
The popular curated news app, Flipboard, is going to become available on Android. I'm an, iOS user but I definitely prefer that apps are available cross-platform because it (a) makes the apps better for everyone and (b) makes sure certain companies don't sit on their laurels!
- Mashable: Tips for Content Curation
Mashable says: "Be Part of the Content Ecosystem; Follow a Schedule; Embrace Multiple Platforms; Engage and Participate; Share. Don’t Steal."
- The Curators Code
A important movement of folks looking to standardize attribution and connect the web in a more semantic and human way. Also one of the best-looking sites I've seen in a while!
- Content curators as superheros?
Stand tall, curators! This is a familiar statement - there's too much information so we need humans to filter - but Fast Company provides some great numbers on how big the data deluge really is. "The web needs you."
- 4 tips for great curation “from” the master, Ken Burns
Storyboard First, Filter Intelligently, Don’t Become Part of the Problem, Know When to Create and When to Curate ... good stuff! Long article but worth it.
- Curisma is Pinterest for tech
Not a bad idea, really. Browse through what's there and indicate what you "want" and what you "have."
- 4 Steps to Take to Go Forth and Curate
4 good tips for content curators just getting started
- Curated Collection of Mid-Century Furniture
Not the usual thing we post... but curation happens everywhere. Look at the apartment in this story. There's more stuff than you could imagine fitting in one apartment but, somehow, it works. This is the difference between just gathering and actually curating.
- Content curation is one of 2012′s top ten emerging marketing trends
Also included: experiential marketing, unplugging, authenticity (being "real" is back in fashion)
- Huge Content Curation Guide from SEOMoz
I'm a big fan of everything that SEOMoz puts out and this one promises to be incredibly useful for the curation fanatics out there!
- Music Curation Video by PBS
Really good video on how music, music reviews, and music blogs are getting curated to help people find new artists and tracks.
- Robin Good, the “Curation Guru,” sharing curation tools
Robin Good has been doing this stuff for quite a while and seems to really understand a lot about this culture and where it's going. Here's his giant mind map of the tools out there to help with this task.
- Is Pinterest’s Push-Button + Boards Formula Really Going to ‘Change the Web’?
"It’s the social content curation, stupid." I guess but is that what Pinterest offers above all else? You can certainly do the same thing elsewhere. I think it's the pretty pictures... stupid.
- On Quora: where does content curation start?
Russel Wright says it starts "in the grey area."
Aggregation
- New news aggregation service by Amazon vets
They’ve created an easy-to-use automated news recommendation service called Goldfinch that picks up the best stories, videos and photos rapidly moving through your personal social networks.
- Can LinkedIn Today Be a Real Player in the Social Aggregation Space? | Search Engine Journal
A quick one about LinkedIn's "Today" section and the role it plays in content aggregation.
- The Future of News (hint: it belongs to the smart curators)
Great Forbes piece on where news is going, specifically surrounding personalization and smart aggregation. Smart filters! It's certainly been said before...
- [Video] Doing it wrong in news aggregation
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A short video on Elizabeth Flock and the Washington Post. Great professional piece on what happens when you're just chasing page views. For the record, this is an organizational problem, not just a rogue blogger.
- Wavii is like a Facebook timeline of news
Looks interesting so I signed up. Interface is great but "Justin Bieber was asked to prom by a high school sophomore on YouTube" is not related to news about Google, IMHO.
- Huge Content Curation Guide from SEOMoz
I'm a big fan of everything that SEOMoz puts out and this one promises to be incredibly useful for the curation fanatics out there!
- Aggregate and get sued
The Associate Press is suing Meltwater News for charging customers to aggregate and provide content. As much as I'm all for re-use, I have to side with the AP a bit on this one, though it sounds like the lawsuit was a bit premature.
- The Guardian’s N0tice could be a great replacement for local newspapers
"N0tice is essentially an online community noticeboard, upon which news, details of events, and local special offers can be posted for other users." It's a local news aggregation service, essential, powered by users. Big potential.
- Welcome to the Huffington Post era
Riding the line between aggregation and curation, how is The Huffington Post helping or hurting the news business?
- TrapIt – a personal news aggregator
Comes from the same folks that put together Siri. Here's a nice review.
- The Early Edition 2 iPad news aggregation app
Sold as an "iPad newspaper," looks like a fancy RSS reader
- The 5 Best News Aggregators (LifeHacker)
Just to ruin it... Feedly, Google News, Fark, Pulse, and News 360
- How to aggregate news like a pro
What to know before you get started in news aggregation
- News aggregator comparison chart
Compares 8 popular news aggregation sites
- RSS News Aggregation Website using WordPress or Similar
Related
- Are we just a “curated self” online?
An interesting piece on our virtual selves and how they are managed and displayed.
- New aggregation and filtering to improve public health
Just stumbled across this fascinating use of RSS aggregation and text-filtering algorithms to track potentially impaction human biological events. "The BioCaster system has two major components: a web/database server and a backend cluster computer equipped with a variety of text mining algorithms which continuously scan hundreds of RSS newsfeeds from local and national news providers." Very cool!
- How healthy is your news diet?
Sums it right up: "The ability to personalize our news diets has given rise to fears that we'll end up inside echo chambers of the like-minded, gorging on brownies and ignoring the broccoli we need to function as informed citizens."
- Little Printer is a content curator?
I saw this device under the headline "waste paper and create clutter" which colored my first impression. Then, I took a closer look and it seems like a pun little gadget. It never occurred to me that this thing is doing personalized content curation.
- The future of online advertising
Felix Salmon says that the future of online advertising is, basically, content curation. Brands can act as a "pointer" towards content that supports their message.
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Tools
- A WordPress Theme for Writers
A new theme coming soon for those who make their living with words.
- Using Evernote For Content Curation
Get started using Evernote for content curation. Always good to try out new tools!