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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. Aggregating, analyzing, providing context and insight is an important part of journalism today.

Bhargava suggests five (potential) models for content curation: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 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.

For example, Fred Wilson, the New York-based VC recently wrote about curation: I'm a big fan of curation in these services. Twitter has lists. Etsy has favorites. Tumblr has tag pages. Steve Rosenbaum, author and founder of Magnify, a curation service, recently pointed out that Yuri Milner, the superstar Russian investor, told the Wall Street Journal: "I think the next big theme is basically curation. " It's becoming a wise strategy to add "curation" to your pitch deck. But "curation" can be applied in a wide number of ways. Mr Wilson's examples of curation are basic features that can be easily to virtually any web service. 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. Sharing quotes, facts, and images from other blogs is something many content creators do instinctively, without thinking about whether they are doing anything wrong. The importance of copyright online is ever increasing. If you find yourself wanting to pull a quotation from another website or blog, use one of their photos, or re-publish an entire blog post, here are a few rules of the road to guide you down the path of content curation copyright. Fair Use Allows You to Use The Content Of Others If… The Common Sense Approach to Copyright Are You Helping Them?

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 I’ve said it before, and I’ll very probably say it again, but I feel curating content is very much like generating content in that everyone needs to find their own way to do it.

The fact is, I started gathering posts because I felt like I was really slacking when it came to reading peoples’ blogs. At first, I tried to go the newsy route. At my wit’s end, I decided to start something I called “30 Thursday.” My advice to you 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Now it’s your turn. 10 Tips on Curating Social Media Content for Your Nonprofit or Foundation « Aquifer Media & Will Coley: Social Media Content & Curation Strategy. Installation by Os Gêmeos at MOCA's Art in the Streets Exhibit in Los Angeles Everyone, including me, needs help sorting through today’s “data tsunami” as Steven Rosenbaum calls it. In his recent book Curation Nation: How to Win in a World Where Consumers are Creators, Rosenbaum writes that Curation replaces noise with clarity. And it’s the clarity of your choosing; the things that people you trust help you find. And I would argue that when organizations offer clarity amidst the noise, they build trust among supporters.

I recently realized that I have been curating content for several years now. I’ve discovered that curation is the best way to build an organization’s following and it’s often the first step in engaging supporters: first as audience members and then as contributors. Below are a few things that I’ve learned in my gathering and organizing. Scan and monitor the web for relevant content every day. Let me know what you think of these tips and if you have any of your own. 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. Curating Content | 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. I remember how unpleasant an experience that was, principally since only several copies were ever made available and if they were checked out, you had to wait. Other professors were a bit more generous if not ecologically deficient by allowing us to purchase packets of those copies at the beginning of the semester.

Today, much of what we call ancillary material may be found readily available online. 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. I interviewed him recently to see what he could teach us all about curation. First, the Presidential Twitter town hall. We're ideally suited to have pulled this off. We usually provide curation services on a subscription basis, but we've also been behind real-time social integration for individual events such as the Golden Globes, the Oscars, Fashion Week for Pepsi, and the Royal Wedding for CNN and ABC.

How do you define curation? Yes, there's a linear growth of content. Yes. Yes, that's right. 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. I'm a big fan of curation in these services.

Twitter has lists. Etsy has favorites. Recently Kickstarter launched their own version of curation called Curated Pages. Here are some of my favorite Curated Pages: The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund – The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund provides grants to photographers who are documenting social and political issues around the world. NYU's ITP Program – NYC's "media lab" and one of the most impactful and important pieces of NYC's tech community. Creative Commons – The Creative Commons organization evangelizes for technology and legal frameworks that facilitate sharing and creativity. The Sundance Institute – A curated page promoting Kickstarter projects from Sundance supported artists.