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How to Archive Your Twitter Chats and Conference Hashtags Using Keepstream.com Plus Eight Other Twitter Content Curation Tools. InShare Are you participating in Twitter chats and want to archive the content?

How to Archive Your Twitter Chats and Conference Hashtags Using Keepstream.com Plus Eight Other Twitter Content Curation Tools

Or perhaps you want to save content that you or others share on Twitter as a list of great resources, for example when attending a conference? Curating content has never been easier – you no longer have to take a screen shot of content and then add it to an article or blog post. Yes Twitter has enabled a way to embed Tweets using their Blackbird Pie functionality which you can see in action here from back in 2010 when they released this tool.

You can also use these additional ways to embed Twitter into your blog or website: Curation Tools - The Hindu : Business News : Content curation tools: a means for information collation. A new class of products called content curation tools has appeared in the highly volatile search service segment.

Curation Tools - The Hindu : Business News : Content curation tools: a means for information collation

This edition of NetSpeak discusses yet another trend blooming in the cyberspace. Current information retrieval tools can be broadly categorised in terms of tools based on computer search algorithms and the ones linked to human expertise. As you are aware, search engines (Google et al) belong to the former category. Here the search index/database is populated by computer programs (crawlers) and in response to your keywords, based on a search algorithm, the search service displays a set of web pages, supposed to contain most relevant/authentic content. This model can easily accommodate any kind of content explosion. However, as the final search output is based on a set of rules, webmasters capable of mastering the fundamentals of a search engine's algorithm could cheat on the service easily and make his site rank better in the search results pack.

Bookmarking services New tools. Keepstream - Collect, organize, and share the best of the web. What are the best content curation tools for daily use. Tattler (app) Montage. Content Strategy: Exploring Content Curation Tools. Content curation has been getting a lot of attention recently.

Content Strategy: Exploring Content Curation Tools

4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web. Steven Rosenbaum is a curator, author, filmmaker and entrepreneur.

4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web

He is the CEO of Magnify.net, a real-time video curation engine for publishers, brands, and websites. His book Curation Nation is slated to be published this spring by McGrawHill Business. As the volume of content swirling around the web continues to grow, we're finding ourselves drowning in a deluge of data. Where is the relevant material? Curated.by. Percolate! 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. Create stories using social media - storify.com.

Montage.cloudapp. Welcome to Amplify.com - Enjoy the conversation. Digital curation. The term curation in the past commonly referred to museum and library professionals.

Digital curation

It has since been applied to interaction with social media including compiling digital images, web links and movie files. Real Time Twitter Curation. Real-Time News Curation, Newsmastering And Newsradars - The Complete Guide Part 1: Why We Need It. The time it takes to follow and go through multiple web sites and blogs takes tangible time, and since most sources publish or give coverage to more than one topic, one gets to browse and scan through lots of useless content just for the sake of finding what is relevant to his specific interest.

Real-Time News Curation, Newsmastering And Newsradars - The Complete Guide Part 1: Why We Need It

Even in the case of power-users utilizing RSS feed readers, aggregators and filters, the amount of junk we have to sift through daily is nothing but impressive, so much so, that those who have enough time and skills to pick the gems from that ocean of tweets, social media posts and blog posts, enjoy a fast increasing reputation and visibility online. Photo credit: dsharpie and franckreporter mashed up by Robin Good "What we need to get much better at is scaling that system so you don't have to pay attention to everything, but you don't miss the stuff you care about... "Ev Williams at a Girls in Tech event at Kicklabsvia Stowe Boyd's blog The Problem That is the the essence. The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators. I keep hearing people throw around the word “curation” at various conferences, most recently at SXSW.

The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators

The thing is most of the time when I dig into what they are saying they usually have no clue about what curation really is or how it could be applied to the real-time world. So, over the past few months I’ve been talking to tons of entrepreneurs about the tools that curators actually need and I’ve identified seven things. First, who does curation? Bloggers, of course, but blogging is curation for Web 1.0. Look at this post here, I can link to Tweets, and point out good ones, right?

But NONE of the real time tools/systems like Google Buzz, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, give curators the tools that they need to do their work efficiently. As you read these things they were ordered (curated) in this order for a reason. This is a guide for how we can build “info molecules” that have a lot more value than the atomic world we live in now. A curator is an information chemist. 1. 2. 3.

Squidoo’s Introduces Social Media Curation Through Brands in Public. Brands in Public is a collection of interesting, accessible, public-facing dashboards for your favorite brands – from Zappos to Virgin America to In-n-Out Burger.

Squidoo’s Introduces Social Media Curation Through Brands in Public

Each dashboard organizes a hot list of what’s being said about the brand around the web, via Twitter and blogs and YouTube and Google Trends and more. As well as polls and debates and commenting for people who want to do more than just watch. – is how Squidoo welcomes visitors now, promoting its latest feature calledBrands in Public. Squidoo of course is marketing maven Seth Godin’s product which falls somewhere between aggregation, article writing and blogging. In fact Squidoo defines itself simply as a free space on the internet to use as you wish.

Anyone can make a lens (a page like this) and have exposure on the internet. However, while it had its share of users, Squidoo in my opinion could never create the same buzz that most of Godin’s books did and still do. Content Strategy: How and Why to Curate Content. Most of us understand the value of sharing information.

Content Strategy: How and Why to Curate Content

But when the information belongs to others, we wonder “what’s the point?” Yet, as massive amounts of information abound, the art of content curation can help us provide resources to our audiences while positing ourselves as an authority. Here’s how. The Content Strategist as Digital Curato. The term “curate” is the interactive world’s new buzzword.

The Content Strategist as Digital Curato

During content creation and governance discussions, client pitches and creative brainstorms, I’ve watched this word gain traction at almost warp speed. The real-time curation wars (exclusive first look at Curated.by) Back in March I wrote a post about the seven needs of real-time curators. Over the next week or so no less than three companies are shipping services that will fulfill that dream with tools that comply with all seven needs.

What are they? 1. Curated.by. 10 Tips For Effective Content Curation. 10 Tips For Effective Content Curation Posted by John Verity on Mon, Jul 25, 2011. International Journal of Digital Curation. Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 2: Aggregation Is Not Curation. Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 6: The Tools Universe. Real-Time News Curation: Part 6 - The Tools and Technologies In this part of the guide you will find: 1. A Brief History of News Curation Tools 2. The 15 Basic Traits of a News / Content Curation System 3. 4. 5. Curation - The Next Web Revolution.