5 "Rules" for Journalists Using Storify · girljournalist. Social media curation is what Storify's all about.
It's a hot topic right now, and many news organizations and bloggers are experimenting with this new kind of storytelling involving the curation of content published via social media. So what is content curation? It's the act of searching for content on a specific topic then organizing, publishing and sharing it. "It is such a powerful idea because curation does NOT focus on adding more content/noise to the chaotic information overload of social media, and instead focuses on helping any one of us to make sense of this information by bringing together what is most important," writes Rohit Bhargava, SVP of Global Strategy & Marketing at Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence and Adjunct Professor of Global Marketing at Georgetown University on his Influential Marketing Blog. VCs Looking For "Curation" Startups - Is A Curation Bubble Forming? Posted by Tom Foremski - March 31, 2011 As the subject of curation takes off VCs are funding more "curation" startups which could likely lead to a bubble in this sector.
VCs are beginning to talk publicly about "curation" which means they are telling startups what type of companies they are looking to fund in the hopes that someone will create those companies. How To Use Content From Other Blogs Without Violating Copyright. By Jason Keath on Jul 11, 2011 See top industry experts speak at Social Fresh 2016 in Orlando, Aug 18-21:Weather Channel, Time Inc, HubSpot, Citrix, Peter Shankman, Mitch Joel, Sarah Evans, The Economist, Red Cross, AlaskaAir, USC and more.
>> Reserve your seat today Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This post is not intended as legal advise. If you have real concerns that you MIGHT be violating someone’s copyright, do not use it. Or ask permission first. Let’s Talk About How to Start Curating Content. InShare6 One of the great things about my particular community, I’ve discovered, is that people aren’t afraid to ask me questions.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been writing a lot about curating content online both here and at 12most.com. Martina McGowan tweeted me and said, “This all sounds great. How do I get started though?” That’s a pretty good question, and in fact, Martina’s question sparked the idea not just for this post but also for the entire “Let’s Talk About” series. How I got started curating content. 10 Tips on Curating Social Media Content for Your Nonprofit or Foundation « Aquifer Media & Will Coley: Social Media Content & Curation Strategy.
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Lessons in Curated Crowdsourcing: The YouTube Movie, Google News, and More. In 2006, when Jeff Howe hailed “The Rise of Crowdsourcing,” the phenomenon was unfamiliar even to his Wired audience.
Five years later, “crowdsourcing” is an overused buzzword and websites are swarming with free content. To restrain the masses, many of them are applying filters: it’s the rise of curated crowdsourcing. Released in theatres in July, the YouTube-National Geographic documentary Life in a Day is curated crowdsourcing on a grand scale: about 1,000 clips were chosen from 80,000 submissions from 192 countries to chronicle one day on Earth. YouTube is also packaging videos for the media: YouTube Trends “aggregate[es] the wisdom of top curators across the web” with posts like 4 at 4—the four hottest videos released at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. and available by email—and CitizenTube, which focuses on news. Companies can solicit YouTube videos as part of their own curated crowdsourcing, from contests like the Environmental Protection Agency’s Rulemaking Matters! Three Tips for Curating Your Audience - John Sviokla. Creation, Curation, and the Ethics of Content Strategy.
Joseph Bachana's Blog. I recently had a nice state-of-the-book industry chat with a friend who works at a higher education book publisher.
Her job is essentially to think up and implement new products with existing content that her company retains the intellectual property rights to. During the conversation, we started reminiscing about college days when we needed to go to the reference section of the university library to check out a packet of photocopied ancillary material that the professor selected to augment the core texts. Mastering curation: Sam Decker, King of Curation, lays it out. Comments (3) Share: Sam Decker is a brilliant marketer who is now the CEO of a company called Mass Relevance .
The company is less than a year old, but was recently the curation engine behind the Presidential Twitter town hall and tweets on NBC's The Voice. Before founding Mass Relevance, Sam was the founding CMO for Bazaarvoice , the leading social commerce & reviews platform company which recently filed for an IPO. I have always liked and respected Sam.
I think of him now as the King of Curation. First, the Presidential Twitter town hall. We're ideally suited to have pulled this off. Curation. We largely invest in consumer web services with a large number of engaged users where the users create the content.
Services like this can become messy and hard to navigate. There is always a signal to noise issue.