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Content Curation: If You Can’t Be the Source, Be the Resource - Engage. The Age of Curation - Paper Buff. In the beginning, there was the Internet. Soon the sheer number of webpages became overwhelming, and people needed a way to navigate it. So on the first day The Web created Google. It solved the fundamental usability problem of the time: it found webpages. On the second day ("web 2.0"), there was a new challenge: user-generated content. As individuals started publishing things online (as opposed to just organizations), there emerged a need to organize this content created by fellow Internet users.

So The Web created Facebook (and YouTube, and Twitter, etc.). But we've arrived at another impass. Once again web users are feeling overwhelmed. The answer? Few things carry as much weight as a friend's recommendation. The next wave of web filters will be powered by social recommendations. There are a lot of technical challenges to doing this well, but we are already seeing some exciting apps emerge. The New Rules of Content Creation & Curation - MyTechOpinion.com. Blogging Is Dead (Again) Did you read the news? Blogging is dead. Mostly because young people are just not that into it. Why go through the hassle of thinking up unique thoughts, trying to formulate them into sentences and paragraphs, and then pull it all together in a text-based Blog post?

Why go through that, when you can tweet your life away in 140-characters (or less) on Twitter, update your Facebook status, shoot a quick video with your webcam and upload it to YouTube or just post whatever is going on in your life to a tumblr lifestream? In a surefire way to draw attention and traffic, The New York Times' latest piece of linkbait is an article titled, Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter. And, of course, yours truly fell for it: hook, line and sinker... Blogging isn't really dead. Big shocker there? So, is Blogging truly waning? Blogging isn't dead. It's too bad that journalists, certain individuals and even some brands don't see/understand the value and merits of Blogging.

Blogging is hard. De perfekte nyhetene. Alle hindringer til side - hva er den optimale måten å presentere nyheter på? Nylig ble brettavisen The Daily lansert. Det kostet 30 milloner dollar for Rupert Murdochs News Corporation å sparke dette igang sammen med Apple, og resultatet er nå å finne på amerikanske iTunes. Dette skal være framtidens nyhetspublikasjon, powered by Apple. “We believe The Daily will be the model for how stories are told and consumed in this digital age.” Rupert Murdoch Store ord. Men verden er ikke helt overbevist ennå. Og det har han helt rett i. Det førte meg til følgende tweet: Det er egentlig norske VG+ som har fått denne tanken til å modnes hos meg. Altså: Konseptet "utgaver" er ikke optimalt for nyheter. Det har fungert hittil, som dagens papiravis eller Dagsrevyen på TV. Noe som bringer meg til kjernen for denne bloggposten. Jeg tror de perfekte nyhetene må: For å synliggjøre bedre: Tenk en dagsrevy som alltid er oppdatert og prioritert når jeg skrur på TV´en, ikke bare kl 19.

Hva vet jeg fra før? Magnify's Rosenbaum Talks Curation in NY. Content Is No Longer King: Curation Is King. Curation is the New Search is the New Curation. In the beginning there was curation, and it was good. People found interesting things on the web, created directories of those things, and then you found what you were looking for inside those curated lists. That was the origins of the original lists and directories, from Yahoo on outward. But then that got too hard. The web got bigger faster than anyone could keep track. Curation steadily gave way to algorithmic search, which at first was just spidering of the web, and then more intelligent spidering with keywords.

And then it became Google, with ranking algorithms that placed websites into a hierarchies of keyword-related relevance based on things like authoritativeness, as defined, in part, by links from other sites — by those original hand-curated lists, ironically enough. That model has now begun to give way too. What has happened is that Google’s ranking algorithm, like any trading algorithm, has lost its alpha. There are two things that can happen now. Yes, that sounds mad. The tipping point: Media turns a key corner. There is a chance that we may look back on the first few months of 2011 as the moment in time that things turned around for the news business. Suddenly we are seeing bold moves on several fronts. Chances are being taken again. Investments are being made. New revenue models are being implemented. Competition is heating up. Let’s take a look at very recent developments in the massively shifting news media landscape.

–AOL bought Huffington Post for $315 million. –The Daily Beast merges with Newsweek. –Comcast takes over NBC Universal. –Both Apple AND Google unveiled their systems to allow media companies to sell subscription products using their devices or hardware using their operating systems. –JP Morgan announced it’s setting aside a billion dollar fund to put into digital media efforts. –Rupert Murdoch’s New Corp. finally launched “The Daily,” the first tablet-only news publication. Each of these steps are significant and important. (For more from Larry, visit his blog.

Content Curation On Networking And A Peek Inside A Digital Curators Toolbox. Why Content Curation Could be the Best Marketing Idea in 2011. Why Content Curation Could be the Best Marketing Idea in 2011 Posted by Greg Elwell on Tue, Jan 04, 2011 It's widely accepted that creating compelling and relevant content and publishing it on a consistent basis can lead to a bevy of benefits for the digital marketer. Namely, increased traffic, links, SEO authority, leads, thought leadership status and sales growth.

"Content is King," we hear. And creating content is at the center of any inbound marketing plan. SEO you might say begins and ends with content; without it we'd have no reason to search. How do marketers deal with the mantra of creating more and more content? 9 in 10 B2B organizations market with content51% report they plan to increase spending on content marketingMore than a quarter of their marketing budget, on average is spent on content marketing With modern web technologies everyone can be a content creator and publisher. So, where does that leave us? Content Curation Rising Content Curation Defined.

The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators. I keep hearing people throw around the word “curation” at various conferences, most recently at SXSW. 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. 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. So, what are the seven needs of real time curators? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 1. 1. Content Curation for Brands. It’s a rare morning that I don’t start out by looking at the news. No, I no longer get the newspaper delivered (it’s been years, actually), and I don’t usually flip to the front page of nytimes.com either. These days I’m most likely to grab my iPhone (often while still in bed, if truth be told) and log on to smartr. This cool app brings me my Twitter stream, but curated to only include links and to strip out Foursquare checkins and other non-news stuff. Smartr then presents those links to me as a news feed. Smartr is just one of many tools helping end users manage their ever-growing content streams.

Understanding and utilizing content curation is important for brands too. I recommend that my clients go “beyond the broadcast” and provide content in Facebook and Twitter which becomes a valuable resource to followers – going beyond only news or specials from the company. Do you have tips and thoughts on content curation? Related articles. TOC 2011: Steve Rosenbaum, "CURATION: Beyond The Buzzword" Why Content Curation Could be the Best Marketing Idea in 2011. Egypt curation on Twitter shows opportunities, challenges for journalists | Curious on the Road.

During the uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa, Twitter has become a major source for news from the region. One of the most noted Tweeters on the topic is Andy Carvin, senior strategist at NPR (see stories on the Nieman Lab and the New York Times, for example). From six in the morning to 11 at night, he collects, shares and follows tweets about the region, often from eyewitnesses.

With this flood of information, how does he filter what to pass on and where to research further? In an interview with PBS Newshour (above), Carvin explained that he knew bloggers in Tunisia and Egypt before the protests, and thus was able to follow the narrative from the beginning. He “pulled together a list of people I knew … a base of maybe half a dozen people that I had known and followed for a number of years so I knew they were reliable,” he told the Newshour’s Hari Sreenivasan.

Building a network While not immediately reliable, Carvin says at least you know who is talking to whom. Social Curation is in high demand. A great article I previously highlighted defines curation as a person, or a group of people, engaged in choosing and presenting a collection of things related to a specific topic and context. On the other hand, aggregation employs software (algorithms) and machines (servers) to assemble a collection of things related to a specific topic and context.

Social Curation is just another genre of content curation for our ever blossoming social world via platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Myspace, YouTube and on and on. I am a social curator and have been watching it since last year closely. As time goes on, I see more and more that Social Curation has become in high demand. Just yesterday NY Mag published an article stating that YouTube will be starting a new program for celebs to curate their own YouTube channels with original content further driving the already extremely popular YouTube site which is all user curated video content.

Twitter you can argue is curated content. IS CURATION THE NEW BLACK? Everything you need to know about web curating in 5 minutes | We are the Free Radicals.