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.
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. Also read: The top 100 Twitter Tools of 2012 (Categorized). More recently I’ve discovered some great new tools to read and share my favorite content which I’ve included here in this list. Content Curation Tools: The Newsmaster Toolkit by... Curation - Effective Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom. Curation - Digital curation, broadly interpreted, is about maintaining and adding value to a trusted body of digital information for current and future use. ( Definition taken from the Digital Curation Center Web site ) Scoop.it - newly out of beta, is one of the most popular and fastest-growing tools for curating an online magazine.
Scoop.it curators regularly select, discard, and annotate automatic scoop feeds managed by keywords. Paper.li - is probably the easiest strategy for creating a media-rich newspaper of tweets and feeds and hashtags. It is also easily searchable. Delicious Stacks - Delicious introduced Stacks to its social bookmarking features back in September. 30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use. As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, “information overload” is something we all seem to suffer.
It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the “stuff” out there and pluck out the best, most share-worthy tidbits of information, especially if your topic is niche. Let’s face it, Google definitely has its shortcomings when it comes to content curation and the more it tries to cater to all audiences, the less useful it becomes. The demand for timely, relevant content that is specific to our unique interests and perspectives has given rise to a new generation of tools that aim to help individuals and companies curate content from the web and deliver it in a meaningful way.
These new tools range from simple, application-specific types such as social media aggregators and discovery engines, to more complex, full-blown publishing solutions for organizations. Comments(65)