Teacher's Guide to Digital Curation. What is digital curation ? Digital curation or content curation " is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets "(Wikipedia). The purpose of the digital curator is to compile and provide a high quality resource around a given topic by filtering what he'/ she perceives as worthy of curation. The curators act on the basis of their discretion and personal insights. They embrace the role of a judge. Tools for digital curation For the selection, preservation, and maintenance of high quality digital content , digital curators require access and use of a wide variety of tools.
Scoop.it This is one of my favourite content curation tools. Flipboard This is a tool that allows iPad users to access the content of their curated sites in a magzine like format. Paper.li Paper.li is a content curation tool for Twitter. Storify Pinterest This is a visual bookmarking platform that allows you to organize and sort your digital content into pin boards. Livebinders Zite. News360. Trapit, un agrégateur "intelligent" new look, vraiment ? Depuis Digg (dont l’audience continue de s’effondrer), nombre de startups américaines sont à la recherche du nouveau Graal de l’agrégation « intelligente » d’actualités.
Dans un web dont la masse de contenus croit de façon exponentielle (il s’est créé plus de contenus en 2010 que durant la totalité des 15 années précédentes cumulées), le tri de l’information est un enjeu de plus en plus crucial. De nombreux projets voient le jour régulièrement et promettent de vous apporter toujours plus d’informations fraîches et personnalisées. Dans ce grand supermarché de l’agrégation et de la curation, le petit dernier, celui qui fait le buzz sur les gros blogs US, s’appelle Trapit. Le fonctionnement est fondé sur un algorithme apprenant, qui détermine les informations qui sont censées le mieux convenir à vos attentes en fonction de quelques paramètres que vous aurez déterminés lors de votre première connexion. Personnalisé… et asocial (sources : Mashable et RWW) 5 Tools to Curate Content like a Pro. Have you noticed more content curation sites popping up in the last few months?
Would you like to learn a content curation strategy that can help you share valuable content and generate social media engagement? In this article I will teach you how to use 5 of the most popular content curation platforms and how to integrate these into a daily content curation campaign. Trap.it More than a social platform, Trap.it is a discovery engine. By typing in keywords, trap.it will search for authority articles from the web. If you like or dislike the articles, the algorithm learns the type of content you like and will serve more of the same type of content. You can also click on “Share” to get a shortened URL that you can then schedule through Buffer or Hootsuite to share with your networks. In Google Reader, you get articles from the same sources over and over again. RebelMouse.com Instead of searching the web for content to discover, RebelMouse is a social aggregator. Scoop.it Paper.li Storify.com 1. The Hootlet: Find And Share Anywhere. Hootlet lets you quickly & easily share content to your social networks from anywhere on the web.
Never before has social media been so well-integrated into your everyday browsing experience, thanks to Hootlet, HootSuite’s free Chrome extension. From the business owner who wants to schedule Tweets a day in advance, to the blogger looking to share interesting content with their followers, Hootlet makes all of these social media activities simple and straightforward. The versatile functionality offered by Hootlet means you will only need one extension to perform all the researching, sharing and posting you do while in your browser. The extension gives you social media functionality where and when you need it, including the ability to: Whether you’re searching Google or sharing a new blog post, the Hootlet is a one-stop shop for all things social. Bring social media with you while you browse and take advantage of the information and sharing opportunities it provides.
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