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Pinterest Founder Ben Silbermann Live Speech From L2. 25 ways to use Facebook, Twitter & Storify to improve political coverage. Social media has become a powerful tool for journalists covering elections.

25 ways to use Facebook, Twitter & Storify to improve political coverage

It’s given journalists a way to see how politicians and campaign staffers are interacting with voters and sharing news. And it’s helped them find local voters and get a better sense of what their audience wants in election coverage. As the Republican primary season intensifies, here are 25 tips on how journalists can use Facebook, Twitter, Storify, Google, LinkedIn and other tools to improve coverage leading up to — and on — Election Day. Facebook See how politicians are targeting local voters.

Twitter Keep up with politicians. Storify Highlight voters’ reactions/politicians’ posts from various social networks. Additional Tools Tap into Google. Jeff Sonderman, Rachel Stassen-Berger and Theodore Kim contributed to this report as part of a McCormick Foundation Specialized Reporting Institute on social media and politics. 8 Tweetable Facts from Curation Habits Report 2012. IBM Exec Talks about Content Curation for IBM Intranet. Content Strategy: Pinterest & Storify Turn Content into Commodity. Ah, the Holy Grail of content strategy: content as a commodity.

Content Strategy: Pinterest & Storify Turn Content into Commodity

For years, those of us in digital strategy have known that content is both king and a commodity. But it’s been difficult to get others to see our point of view. However, two new interesting social sites make content feel like a commodity by the very nature of the way they present said content. About Pinterest Pinterest, the newest form of social media craze sweeping the early adopters’ nation, is starting to achieve critical mass. Pinterest is an image-centric website designed to allow users to swap content, like collectors trade baseball cards or stickers. The Tracker. Cmnoguer: Fun hangout with @DR4WARD... Do Organizations Need a Chief Content Officer? Content curation is King. Brittany Morin: The Curated Web. It all started with the printing press.

Brittany Morin: The Curated Web

The printing press was the first piece of technology that enabled information to pass rapidly to the world's people. Because of it, books and newspapers were created that inspired uprisings and cultural transformations in religion, government and society. It was at this time that the first "editors" were established to help create and and deliver information to people in their communities. Further down the line, information was distributed via media like radio, television and magazines, each meticulously curated by trusted editors in a field or community. Over the last couple of decades, we saw the birth of the Internet, which enabled hundreds of years of information from all of these platforms to be digitized and made searchable online. Today, the Internet is, in fact, fairly well organized. But, what if they don't know what they're looking for?

I beg to differ. Curation Plugin for WordPress Does It All: Curation Traffic. Robin Good: CurationTraffic is a new WordPress plugin that allows anyone to curate a newsradar, a thematic channel or any other type of curated format directly from within Wordpress.

Curation Plugin for WordPress Does It All: Curation Traffic

The first thing that stroke me about CurationTraffic is its output template similarity with Scoop.it own magazine format. Very close. See it here for example: CurationTraffic utilizes a bookmarklet to allow the curator to pull in any content from any web page article, video or even pin. The curators dashboard resembles very much the typical Scoop.it editing panel, though there are now many tools and services using that very same approach. Sharing functionalities have been integrated by utilizing providing a link to Hootsuite, AddThis and Pinterest from within your dashboard, and scheduling ones with a link to Buffer. CurationTraffic offers a lot more control in terms of design and customization of your final layout, by providing several base templates that can be further personalized to the last detail. Introducing Your Customer’s 7 Triggers of Fascination [video] Why Curation Is Just as Important as Creation [OPINION]

Digital Content Curation Is Career for Librarians. By John Farrier A cherpumple is a cherry pie, a pumpkin pie, and an apple pie each baked within separate cakes, then assembled and iced.

Digital Content Curation Is Career for Librarians

I found a picture of one on a food blog, posted it on Neatorama.com, and from there the cherpumple went viral. That one post brought hundreds of thousands of readers to Neatorama, and eventually the cherpumple was featured by mainstream news organizations such as ABC News. Sometimes all it takes is a librarian to shake the Web. Clay Shirky put it simply: “It’s not information overload. 3 Rules for Driving Thought Leadership with Content Curation. Photo by Vanessa Dean The term “curation” might conjure an image of a white-gloved person carefully preserving the past by maintaining ancient books, famous paintings, or archaeological artifacts for a museum.

But the idea of content curation for social media is rooted much more firmly in the present. Manifesto For The Content Curator: The Next Big Social Media Job Of The Future ? Every hour thousands of new videos are uploaded online.

Manifesto For The Content Curator: The Next Big Social Media Job Of The Future ?

Blog posts are written and published. Millions of tweets and other short messages are shared. Brands Want Content Curator Jobs. Digital media has emboldened many brands to consider themselves publishers.

Brands Want Content Curator Jobs

After all, American Express has credibility on financial matters and Coke has a network 36 million Facebook fans. Who needs publishers to serve as intermediaries? The problem is publishing is a lot harder than it looks, or rather it’s a lot harder to do it with the consistency, day after day, that’s needed to build a long-term audience. That’s leading some brands to hook onto the idea that their role lies more in the curation of content. Curation is the vogue digital term for the ability to not only aggregate and distribute carefully selected information, but also to provide a unique voice on top of the original pieces of information.

Brands are trying to establish themselves as trusted sources of information. “If a brand is an expert in a certain topic, their reputation might make them a credible source of information,” said Neil Chase, svp of editing and publishing at Federated Media. No Time to Write Thought-Provoking Blogs? Try Content Curation. Editorial Roles Have Changed Content curation? Not content creation? Even the word processor we use thinks the word is spelled wrong. The Curated Web. Three Examples: Content, E-Commerce & Social Commerce. Content curation. Content curation is the process of selecting, sorting and arranging content on a specific topic or theme, adding value and meaning to what has been curated for your users.

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Contents Defining content curationWhy curate contentPartnerships in curating contentWho can benefit from curated contentFurther reading. Earth Knowledge is a Great Example of Content Curation. Popular Today in Business: All Popular Articles Earth Knowledge takes curation to a new level. The site was conceived as a way to promote a concept called “Reliable Prosperity,” or decisions that contribute both economic and ecological value. Founders Julia and Frank D’Agnese enlisted dozens of content partners like Alternative Energy News, BBC Earth Explorers, The Christian Science Monitor, European Environment Agency, the US Forest Service and the US Geological Survey to contribute content, which is summarized on “knowledge portals” and linked back to the original source.

One of the really innovation features of Earth Knowledge is a Google Maps mashup that delivers selected content contributed by partners in a striking visual style. The view below shows the location of natural and glacial aquifers in the U.S., and that’s only one of many options for seeing where natural resources exist and how they’re changing.

The 50+ Best Ways to Curate and Share Your Favorite Social Media and News Content. There’s so much information online just begging to be curated: news, social media, images, video, websites… the list goes on.

The 50+ Best Ways to Curate and Share Your Favorite Social Media and News Content

Reading great content from my favorite blogs and websites is one of my favorite down-time activities. It’s also an important part of my job as an IT Director because I need to stay on top of the latest trends, announcements and tech news. Just a few years ago, the tools I used to use for reading and consuming content were Google Reader, StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious… you know all the big names.

More recently I’ve discovered some great new tools to read and share my favorite content which I’ve included here in this list. Whether you are a person who just likes to stay on top of the latest news, a blogger like me who needs a way to organize the vast amount of information that comes my way or a person who just enjoys sharing what they find with others you’ll love this list.

Wikipedia Content Curation Infographic. Social content curation – a shift from the traditional. The notion of content curation is one that has traditionally been associated with libraries, archivies, galleries, or organisations working with objects or data in some way.

Social content curation – a shift from the traditional

For example, in the DCC Curation Lifecycle (UK) you will see a complex flow of the “appraise and select” activities which requires data managers to “evaluate data and select for long-term curation and preservation”. So ‘selection’ or ‘acquisition’ is then closely linked to a repository or institutional policy on collection development. Now the extraordinary thing is that the term ‘curation’ has become one of the latest buzz-words in the social online sphere, which has been transformed into an activity that is both about marketing and about organisation of the vast information flow that is delivered via social media.

Social networking has definitely provided us with main channels for information flow. It comes down to organizing your sources, knowing which of them are trust worthy, and seeing patterns. Five Functional Approaches to Content Curation - Automated WordPress Sites Built For You. “Aggregation” sometimes is contrasted to “curation” as a content marketing approach. As with all taxonomies, that sometimes is not the best way to approach the classification process, much less provide much insight on the activities a business-to-business marketer “should” be undertaking as part of a content marketing effort using content curation. The point is that “value” can be created in any number of ways when subject matter experts organize material.

Perhaps the real objection to algorithm-driven “aggregation” is that it doesn’t add enough value. But all curation necessarily involves creating a collection, which might be called “aggregation.” In that sense, one cannot separate the “collecting” function (aggregation of related items) from the “curation” function (imparting meaning to the collection).

Search Engine Optimization Techniques and Positioning Tips from SEO Experts at SeoZap.com - get the insider tricks to get high search engine positioning and small business seo. No more Content Aggregation – let’s do Content Curation to bring value to readers along with search engine position Content Aggregation (which is just a fancy term for the automated gathering of links and content from the web) can be viewed on sites like Google News and several other news kind of websites. Generally, this kind of aggregation may be seen being a good thing for content creators and content publishers and uptill recently, it was upto the technology to do this – meaning – automated scripts or bots – that could help fill up content from different sources. The Lazy Person's Guide to Facebook Page Content Curation.

Photo by halseike Creating or curating content for your Facebook Page can sometimes feel overwhelming. CONTENT CURATION & BEYOND. Content curation: Best practices. Content Curation is it Real or Just Another Sleazy Marketing Ploy? Pinterest for brands : opportunity or fad? Is Content Curation Just Reinventing the Wheel? Five models of content curation. Content Curation: How To Curate Content For Your Blog And 6 Useful Tools. 6 Content Curation Examples Illustrated. Chief Content Officer. Content Curation to Build Trust. 1 Flares Twitter 1 Facebook 0 StumbleUpon 0 Google+ 0 LinkedIn 0 inShare0 Buffer 0 Reddit 0 Pin It Share 0 Email -- Email to a friend 1 Flares × Content Curation in 45 minutes a day... and FREE - YouMoz. Content Curation Primer. Photo by Stuck in Customs. Maybe It’s Not the Actual Topic of Our Content, But The Perspective Of It. The 5 Levels of Digital Storytelling.

Editor’s Picks: Content Curation Tools. The Art of Social Image Curation And Visual Linking. Brands are Media Companies. Is Your Content Worth Tuning In? This is the line that sums it up nicely: Creating content for a brand feels a lot like you’re running a daily news program. Bang on. Content Strategy: The Appeal of Curating Online News. When we last debated content v. context, the word curation came up. For some it was an inaccurate term, best reserved for art historians and museum directors than online web strategists. Yet, it’s not surprising that many content curators can be found among the news industry. Curating Online News.

Content Strategy: Exploring Content Curation Tools. Content Curation: The Next Big Thing? Pearltrees - Visual Content Curating. Content Curation with PearlTrees. Pinterest: When Curation Becomes Meaningful for Anyone. How Educators Use Pinterest for Curation. #1 Relay Challenge. Student newspapers struggle to survive amid tough economy, digital era. Does More Time Spent on Social Media Equal Higher Social ROI? Only Selfless Social Media Curation Matters. The Great Social Media Curation. Storify brings social media curation tool to the iPad. Content curation is King. Social Media Content Curation. Is Content Curation the New Community Builder? Content Curation ~ Are you curating effectively? Audience Specific Social Media Content Curation. THR Poll: 9 out of 10 Call Social Media New Form of Entertainment; Young People Want Texting in Movies. Social Media Fitness – Aerobic Endurance and Content Curation. Use Content Curation To Build Readers’ Trust.

Social Media World, Content Curation, SEO and More – Speedlink 46. Pearltrees Finds its Natural Home on the iPad. Pearltrees: 3 years and €8.5 million later, there’s finally talk of a business model. Pearl-ing with pearltrees (A Spectrum of Reviews) Which is More Valuable – Content Aggregation or Content Curation in Social Media? Social media content curation with Raven. Are You Making These 2 Cardinal Sins as a Blogger?