Paper.li. Vertical Acuity. Swift River. PSFK. Frequency. Memolane Video. CurationSoft. Timelines. Choosito. Beans. LearnFizz. Scrible. Curatr. Silk. Whit.li. Storination. Comparison of Curation Tools. Google Plus. Curata. PearlTrees. Scoop.It. The Surprising (Content) Future of Google+ 7 Content Curation Tools to Keep up With (and Share) Industry News. Guest post by Courtney Seiter Show of hands: Who has enough time every day to read up on your industry’s news? Oh, and everything new you need to know to market your business? Yeah, me neither. But knowing what’s going on in your space is critical for content creation, competitive intelligence and social media efforts. To cut through the glut of information to make sure the good stuff rises to the top, I employ a lot of help in the form of content curation tools. These gadgets sift through your feeds, tweets and more to bring you just the news you need in just the way you need it. Here are 7 of my favorite content curation tools and a little information about how they can make you more efficient.
Tool: Google ReaderUse with: Blogs, news sites, Google Alerts, Facebook, TwitterWhy it’s great: This isn’t exactly a groundbreaking tool, but I would be lost without Reader. Tool: SummifyUse with: Blogs, Facebook, TwitterWhy it’s great: Summify is my secret weapon. The world's first Content Logistics Platform | Vertical Acuity. Intel AppUp and the problem of content curation. Home » News Intel held its annual AppUp Elements conference in Seattle last week. Amongst the announcements including that of Tizen , one of the more relevant topics touched upon was content curation. The session led by Peter Biddle , GM AppUp Products , was a fresh look at the app curation model and how AppUp could innovate. The problem of app discovery is not one to be overlooked.
To take an example , sorting through and finding the app you need from over 425,000 available on the iTunes store is a herculean task. Add in the problem of gaining customer interest and you have another big task on your hand. The idea here is to allow consumers to build their own sub app-stores. Dhruv Bhutani is a technology enthusiast who is always in sync with the latest and greatest in tech. Subjot: A Twitter alternative that lets you curate content. Do we really need more social networks? Looking at New York based Chris and Becky Carella’s latest venture, Subjot, the answer could well be ‘yes’. Twitpic founder Noah Everett just launched his own Twitter clone, Heello, which has been met with raised eyebrows and confusion.
Heello feels far too much like a barebones version of Twitter, at least for the time being. Subjot, on the other hand, makes a decent effort in terms of setting itself apart. Subjot is not just another Twitter clone. There’s no denying that there’s a ton of similarities but there is one feature in particular which is pretty interesting – and that is the ability to curate the content you follow from other users. So instead of following all of their status updates, you can view a list of the topics they ‘jot’ about, and select only the ones that are of interest to you. How does it work? When sending an update, which is limited to 250 characters, you can accompany that update with a ‘subject’ of your choice. Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders. Exclusive first look: Pearltrees iPad app enables new kind of content curation. Utopic.me launches new design and visual bookmarking to help discovery.
Curating and sharing links on the web is a hot space. Delicious has relaunched, and services we’ve written about like Snip.it are trying to get you to share all of your links on its service. Utopic goes a step further in helping you discover and share links, videos, music, and pictures that are relevant to you with its brand new gorgeous design and visual bookmarking launch. Utopic had this to say about its new visual bookmarking feature: With one click you can now save, tag, share and later quickly recover anything on the internet that you find interesting. The same goes for your favourites and links already shared on social networks. Utopic allows you to automatically import and publish those links in a beautiful visual profile. Discovery When you sign-up for Utopic, you can connect your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google reader accounts.
Once you’ve connected your accounts, Utopic takes about a half hour to go through your links. Sharing is caring. Curation tool Scoop.it adds topic discovery and Tumblr-style following. We first covered Scoop.it back at the very end of 2010. The site lets you create topic-based pages, pulling in content from around the Web and featuring submissions from other users if you choose. Since then the social curation service has opened up support to a wider variety of content and now its rolling out new discovery features. The idea is that there are lots of interesting Scoop.it pages that get missed.
The new features provide you with new options for uncovering new ‘scoops’ and keeping up to date with the pages you like. A new ‘Explore’ button offers site-wide search to uncover pages you might be interested in. If this all sounds a little Tumblr-esque, it shouldn’t be surprising. Scoop.it’s new features are rolling out to all users today. See Percolate In Action [Video] SendTheTrend Allows You To Create A Curated Online Store of Accessories. Send the Trend, a recently launched e-commerce site that brings personalization to the world of fashion accessories, is launching a new way for shoppers to curate their favorite items and make money at the same time, MyStyle.
For background, Send the Trend offers its customers personalized, affordable accessories such as fashion jewelry, sunglasses, scarves and more. The site takes you through a very short survey of what kind of accessories you may want, and it then provides stylist-curated customized recommendations for five different accessories for you. You can then buy any of the items for $30, with free shipping included for U.S. customers. The startup, which just raised funding from Battery Ventures and Founder Collective, was founded by Divya Gugnani, Mariah Chase and Project Runway winner Christian Siriano.
The key to Send The Trend is the element of curation and personalization. Explore The Scoop.it Community. Microsoft FUSE Labs releases CompanyCrowd – a social content aggregator for businesses. Microsoft FUSE Labs just released a brand new project – called the “CompanyCrowd”. This new research project is aimed at businesses or individuals which helps them easily aggregate social and media content from around the internet about a particular company or topic they’re interested in. Below is a description from the official project page: CompanyCrowd automatically collects stories, media, and social content to create a living newspaper about the companies that are most important to you and your business.
It’s fast, easy, and crowd-curated.CompanyCrowd makes this easy by first finding all the social data into one search index and then leverages the wisdom of the crowd to curate the right topics, experts, and personalities for the company or product in question. We gave CompanyCrowd a try, and while it is primarily aimed at businesses, it works perfectly fine for individuals as well who may be interested in a particular business or topic. (Thanks to LiveSino.net for the heads up!) Yahki :: Compose | Contribute | Discover | Engage. Add a Personal Touch To Any Webpage With BO.LT. BO.LT | Save and Share Interesting Content. Ingenic - Save and share useful information. Bookmarklet for Curation with Audience.
Flockler Bookmarklet is now available for your favorite web browser. Bookmarklet automatically finds title, description and picture for the link you want to share in Flockler. How to use Flockler Bookmarklet? 1) Login to Flockler and click "Bookmarklet" on the top of the page 2) To install bookmarklet, simply drag and drop button to your bookmark toolbar 3) When you find something interesting on the web, click the bookmarklet and curate content to your topic Also adding YouTube videos to post will now be easier.
Just copy and paste the link to YouTube video and let Flockler do the rest. Squrl: The best place to watch and discover video. How to set up your Shareist.com Website. Got content? Curate it with these top 20 websites — TechChi. A new Austin-based startup, Give As You Get, wants to make it easy for people to support their favorite nonprofit organization while shopping for items online. “We’ve gotten a great response from the community,” said David Sandal, who launched the site late last year. More than 50 organizations have signed up and Give As You Get has raised more than $2,200. Sandal keeps a running total of all funds raised updated on the site. So far, Emancipet has raised the most money with $349.37.
Give As You Get operates through what’s known as an affiliate program with a variety of online retailers. Give As You Get has affiliate programs with BestBuy, Amazon, iTunes, PetSmart, Barnes and Noble, Sears, Sam’s Club and others. The organizations signed up include Austin Partners in Education, Austin Planetarium, Austin Police Operation Blue Santa, Cancer Connection, Central Texas SCPA, Colin’s Hope, Family Eldercare, Girl Scouts of Central Texas, Girls Rock Camp and others. How to BO.LT! Howard RheingoldScoop. Our Lord of Curation series presents to you some of the great curators on Scoop.it. They are here to share their insights and advice with you. Howard Rheingold is a critic, writer, and teacher; his specialties are on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (a term he is credited with inventing).
Check him out at and “Rheingold U! What it is —> is —>up to us.” -What is curation to you? Curation, like making a website, is an act of self-interest that enriches the commons and benefits everybody. -What is your best curating secret? I have a number of persistent news searches on Google, Bing, and Yahoo that I scan as RSS feeds, along with other feeds.
-How has curation enriched your social media experience? It helps turn a personal interest into a community of interest. Stroome Brings Easy Video Collaboration and Social Sharing to the Cloud at DEMO Fall 2011. Free Service Will Let Video Content Curators Dip Into World's Largest Rights-Cleared Clip Pool for Fast Video Creation SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 13, 2011) - Stroome, the free, cloud-based video platform that lets users quickly edit, remix, discover and share video, will be demonstrating onstage at the prestigious DEMO Fall 2011 conference being held this week at the Hyatt Regency Silicon Valley. Journalists, filmmakers, musicians, students, sports enthusiasts, travelers, activists, bloggers -- basically anyone who wants to create original content -- can use the Stroome service. Stroome users can work alone or find like-minded collaborators to create and share video.
The Stroome cloud-based platform gives editors the option of keeping their video private or sharing it with everyone across the web and on social media sites. There is nothing to download -- it all happens in the browser. What Can Video Content Creators do? Put a little LO.VE into Your Pages. Social curation with Pinterest. It’s tool time, so today’s post is about Pinterest, a social curation tool. Pinterest is a curation platform with a specific focus: to help users collect visually rich web pages or uploaded images (“pins”) on pages called “pinboards,” connecting objects to associations meaningful to the user. In their About page, the folks at Pinterest describe how people ” use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes.” But people also use Pinterest to organize design inspirations, illustrations, paintings, tech tools, favorite books, among other “objects,” which is why it has its place as a learning tool as well.
A pinboard by Pinterest user Sha, collecting design inspiration for his work at Trulia. The technology (or what are my powers?) Pinterest is in beta, so the tool is evolving. As you begin pinning, you’re guided by suggestions about possible pinboards you might want to create. My final pinboard looks like this (right now). Instructional strategies. Tweetdoc: Document your twitter event. 30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use. As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, “information overload” is something we all seem to suffer. It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the “stuff” out there and pluck out the best, most share-worthy tidbits of information, especially if your topic is niche.
Let’s face it, Google definitely has its shortcomings when it comes to content curation and the more it tries to cater to all audiences, the less useful it becomes. The demand for timely, relevant content that is specific to our unique interests and perspectives has given rise to a new generation of tools that aim to help individuals and companies curate content from the web and deliver it in a meaningful way.
These new tools range from simple, application-specific types such as social media aggregators and discovery engines, to more complex, full-blown publishing solutions for organizations. Comments(65) Susan Kistler on Content Curation Part II: Comparing Curation Tools Using the Same Content Items. My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. This week, I’m running a short series on content curation: Thursday: Content Curation for EvaluatorsFriday: Comparing Content Curation ToolsSaturday: Participating in our Content Curation Project I’m in search of tools that may be leveraged by evaluators in their own practice (see yesterday’s post) as well as used by the association to curate and organize.
I wanted to find curation tools that allowed for identifying, organizing, and sharing resources through a webpage. Towards that end, I tried four free tools recommended or used by colleagues. To compare apples to apples to the extent possible, I tested each of these and timed how long it took to sign up, get started, and curate approximately 10 items – links to various AEA-related resources such as AEA’s LinkedIn group, career center, twitterfeed, and a video from one of AEA’s Coffee Break Webinars. Stay tuned for more! Photovine Lets You Publicly Share Photos Based on Specific Topics. Searcheeze - Search collaboration made easy! Ungoogling the Web. Content Curation with Google+ Snipi Bookmarklet. Wikipedia to Add Research Mega-Tool for Hot News Article Editors. Wikipedia pages about big news events are edited so fast and furious it's hard to keep track of why decisions were made, to make sure the editing is really optimized and to ensure that the most trustworthy sources get trusted and cited.
A new experiment with crisis mapping organization Ushahidi is looking to change that. Ushahidi announced this morning that it has launched a new project called WikiSweeper, a new version of its open source hybrid of Tweetdeck and Google Reader called Sweeper that's built for Wikipedia editors. Sweeper aggregates all kinds of multimedia streams into an analytics-rich, real-time curation interface.
As Wikipedians use the tool, analytics will be gathered to help Wikipedia study how high-pressure editing is being performed and to help Ushahidi further build out Sweeper. "Sweeper can also be configured to be a passive filter for data," Ushahidi explains, "meaning you can set it to aggregate content, then automatically perform certain tasks around that. ex. Whit.li social curation technology, interesting people discovery tech. We’re Curating Cool Curators (and Want More!)
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