The Problems With Content Curation Tools: Part I. Content, content and more content.
People consuming more information nowadays than ever before. Every day the web is flooding with new and interesting content waiting to be consumed, shared and remixed. But how can we reach it in a rational and fruitful way? There are many tools/services nowadays trying to solve this content overload problem, but none of them makes me happy. Future Of Web Publishing And Journalism Online: Key Trends For 2014 And Beyond. What is changing?
What should you as a communicator, evangelist, news journalist, or blogger prepare, train and get ready for when looking at the future of publishing online? Photo credit: Businessman hand working with the new computer by Shutterstock The key changes and transformations that I have been able to catch sum up to a publishing ecosystem that is much less difficult to use, and where interfaces gradually disappear to become a "just-in-time" utilities. Gautam Ghosh sur Twitter : "Filter The Noise: Finding The Signal in an Information Overload World:... Nidhi Sand sur Twitter : "Personal Learning Networks all the way! Michelle Ockers sur Twitter : "#socialcuration tips from @catspyjamasnz ping @justine_jardine #EduTECHAU...
The 21st century curator. Career Management - These Five Essential Habits of Curators Will Make You a Smarter Marketer. Note: This article is based in part on the book Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas and Predict the Future.
. * The 21st Century Curator. You are the content you publish. Why do you curate? The 3 intents of curation and how they create value - Trends in the Living NetworksTrends in the Living Networks. 23 Tools for Repurposing Content. Yael Or, Everything You Need to Know About Repurposing Content That Buzzfeed Hasn’t Seen Yet Today’s guest post is from Yael Kochman, marketing manager at Roojoom – the content marketing platform that lets you connect and publish pieces of content into an engaging story.
Research by Chloe Sehati. Repurposing is the reincarnation tool of the marketing world; it’s the recycling of your hard work; it’s the key to productive production; it’s the ultimate method for mass outreach. Repurposed content is a reminder of the VALUE of your past ideas and the FUEL for your present ones, which is why it’s so powerful… And most importantly, repurposing content is why your hard work will never go to waste. However, here’s the catch: to repurpose your content successfully, you need the right tools. The 21st Century Curator. If Web 1.0 was about online access and Web 2.0 is about social nets, Web 3.0 will be coring down to content that really matters.
~wrote Martin Smith in the post, Curation - The Next Web Revolution. As mentioned by Harold Jarche in the slide share presentation, NetWork, the internet changed everything—in volume, velocity, virtualization and variability. The Role of Content Curator in Workplace Learning. Last week I wrote about content management and content access for on-demand learning, as described by Mark Vickers of Bersin and Associates.
As a subset of this, I’d like to raise the role of content curator in workplace learning. Who is a content curator? A good content curator is someone who: Is keeny interested in a niche topic and is willing to share with others the information they gather Has formidable skills in information search, retrieval, synthesis and management Content curation is often a role taken up voluntarily by an individual for altruistic or other reasons. The curator scours the web, including social media, for breaking news, discoveries and opinions. They gather the information and make it accessible, helping time poor people stay on top of what’s going on in their field of interest or expertise.
What tools are needed? Generally speaking, the content curator requires access to the internet and all social media platforms, including Twitter. Mindful or Mind Full Social Media? I am doing the ending key note at the Social Media 4 Nonprofits Conference in Silicon Valley today.
Here’s the description: How nonprofits can stay focused given all the distractions inherent in today’s attention economy? Social media doesn’t have to be overwhelming– you can take control back. NTEN Webinar Reflections and Resources: The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation. Yesterday, I did a free NTEN Webinar called “The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation: Reducing Information Overload” based on my feature article in the NTEN Change Journal in June with the same title.
The Content Strategist as Digital Curator. The term “curate” is the interactive world’s new buzzword.
During content creation and governance discussions, client pitches and creative brainstorms, I’ve watched this word gain traction at almost warp speed. As a transplant from museums and libraries into interactive media, I can’t help but ask what is it about this word that deserves redefinition for the web? The 21st Century Curator. Net Smart: How To Thrive Online. NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book.
It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? Lately, I have been working in far flung places which means long, very long airplane rides without Internet access! This book has been my companion lately – not only because it is so rich (check out the table of contents) but it has given me a lot to think about and reflect on in terms of my own social media use – and how to be a lot of smarter about it. If you are going to purchase one book about using social media, this is the one to read. It’s for people who want to go deeper and get practical know how, improved productivity, and integrate physical and virtual lives. Twitter Email Digest: Social Network Will Send Best Of The Week To Your Inbox.
If the worst thing about being sick is that you were too tired to check Twitter, fret no more. It just became easier for you to stay involved with your network. Twitter on Monday unveiled a weekly email digest option that sends the best of Twitter to your inbox. The digest email will include the most relevant tweets in your network along with the most engaging tweets seen by people you follow, Othman Laraki, director of Growth and International, revealed in a blog post today. Laraki further explained the layout of the email: Stories feature a design similar to the recently updated Discover tab, emphasizing who shared each story beneath summaries to help you decide which ones matter most to you.
‘Free-Range Learners’: Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Content Online - Wired Campus. Milwaukee — Digital natives? The idea that students are superengaged finders of online learning materials once struck Glenda Morgan, e-learning strategist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as “a load of hooey.” Students, she figured, probably stick with the textbooks and other content they’re assigned in class. Not quite. The preliminary results of a multiyear study of undergraduates’ online study habits, presented by Ms. Content Curators are the New Superheros of the Web. Steven Rosenbaum has an interesting article on Fast Company, outlining the reasons why curation is here to stay and the importance that curators will play in your information consumption diet.
He writes: "...So anyone who steps up and volunteers to curate in their area of knowledge and passion is taking on a Herculean task. They're going to stand between the web and their readers, using all of the tools at their disposal to "listen" to the web, and then pull out of the data stream nuggets of wisdom, breaking news, important new voices, and other salient details. It's real work, and requires a tireless commitment to being engaged and ready to rebroadcast timely material. While there may be an economic benefit for being a "thought leader" and "trusted curator," it's not going to happen overnight. Which is to say, being a superhero is often a thankless job.
He also has some pretty straightforward advice on what, as a curator, you should never do: "1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Recommended. 7/10. IBM: Communication and Curation go hand in hand. Learning Professionals and Their Roles as Curators. In my first post for Learning Circuits, I explored how I use Twitter as a professional development tool. Over the past two weeks, we've looked at Filtering: A Challenge and Responsibility for Learning Professionals, and Curation: A Core Competency for Learning Professionals. In this closing post in my Learning Circuits series, I want to dig into curation in greater detail, describing what role technology plays in the curation workflow, and what it looks like for learning. Content Curation: Truths, Threats, Motivations and Opportunities. This is a cross-post from Altimeter Group Researcher Jaimy Szymanski’s blog. Follow her on Twitter here.
Curation is taking over the digital content scene. The Verge interview: David Carr on curation, crowdsourcing, and the future of journalism. The Future of Collaborative Social Video Curation Is Here: Zeeik Paves The Way. Robin Good: Zeeik is a new web-based video curation site with a unique slant and some very innovative ideas. Its key features provide some very stimulating ideas on how in the future you may go about curating, navigating and collecting video to create a guide or make sense of a specific topic. 1) Collaborative Curation First of all, Zeeik is designed in a way that puts the topic of curation at the center, while allowing multiple users to contribute, search, find and select which video clips would be most appropriate for it. What Comes First, Content Creation or Curation? The Information Diet: Not Just A Book, A Movement For Conscious Consumption of Information.
I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. I first became interested in the topic after reading David Shenk’s “Data Smog” in 1998 using the metaphor of environmental problems to talk about the dangers of having too much online information, primarily email. Curation: A Core Competency for Learning Professionals. In my first two posts for Learning Circuits, I explored how I use Twitter as a professional development tool, and last week we looked at Filtering: A Challenge and Responsibility for Learning Professionals. This week we're going to explore filtering further, and explain how learning professionals will provide filtering services on an increasing basis. Content Curation Is Listening and Engaging.