Buzzing with Social Curation Tools! Today, we are all facing information overload, and it is often difficult to find what we are looking for, especially if we are looking for updated collections of resources to support a topic, issue or idea. Major search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo don't exactly do a great job in assisting either, which might also be partially due to the growing influence and spam of 'Search Engine Optimization (SEO)' gurus, engines and companies. It is amazing how much spam comments I get on this blog alone (10 - 20 spam comments a day!)
, thanks to SEO strategies. Amazingly annoying! As Yahoo is trying hard to kill (sell) off Delicious gently, it is perhaps time to find and explore other alternatives to sort out my management of juicy learning resources and discoveries (URLs). Well, we still have Diigo, Stumble Upon, Digg, and a bunch of other cool social bookmarking tools to use. WOW! Easy-to-Use Drag-and-drop and please minimize the clicks and loads... Storyful. Session chair was Margot Bloomstein, and below you’ll find her slides.
Posting them baldly would be rather meaningless, however, unless you were either present at her panel discussion or had someone to give you the greatest hits, with a little extra colour. That’s where the curators come in. Below is a curated thread of that discussion, which focused on human curation and the things that set it apart from automated content selection or mere aggregation – context and perspective. So, what is curation, exactly? For us here at Storyful, it’s the process of sifting the news from the noise. Twitter, YouTube and all the other social platforms produce so much content, that it can become incredibly overwhelming.
We work hard to pluck out the choicest morsels of news, group them together and give them added context, so that the story becomes ever clearer. Curating requires a curator. Note the tone used in this quote from the ‘next chapter of news’ session. What should the curator do, so? 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. 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: Trunk.lyUse with: Twitter, FacebookWhy it’s great: Sometimes you want the social media news without all the social media noise. Tool: SummifyUse with: Blogs, Facebook, TwitterWhy it’s great: Summify is my secret weapon. The News and Content Curation Tools Universe Real-Time News Curation, Newsmastering Tools to Aggregate, Filter, Edit, Curate and Distribute Any Type of Content.
Peartrees: Multi-dimensional Curation. A few weeks ago now, I posted an opinion piece on Technorati titled, 'Why Social Media Curation Matters'. Following this I received quite a lot of feedback and it’s thanks to one of these comments – posted by on my blog – that I was led to Pearltrees. In addition to this, I was also motivated to re-evaluate my position on the subject of curation and take a closer look at what I perceived that to be.
At first I made the rather naïve assumption that the difference between Pearltrees and the services I’d discussed in my previous articles both here and on my blog, was purely aesthetic – Pearltrees has a beautifully designed Flash interface. However, as I delved further into the service, and further contemplated readers' feedback, I began to realise that there were actually some fundamental differences both in the approach of the developers and in my perception of curation. Nonetheless, they are just lists. The answer can be summed up in one word, depth. Scoop.it. 9 content curation tools that better organise the web. Content curation is a huge deal on the web today. As content on the web grows exponentially, our ability to make sense of it is inversely proportional.
In other words, we are fast sinking under the sheer amount of content pouring onto the web every day. The social web hasn’t made life any easier on content production either – in fact its lowered the barrier to entry. According to Facebook, 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news blogs etc) are shared each month on the social network, with no sign of slowing.
Right now it seems that content curation, and curation platforms are going to be an area of growth on the web. This collection of new and existing curation tools provide us with some organisation in the chaos; particularly when search algorithms fail. URL: Redux has over the past year grown organically to become one of the web’s best places for finding great content. URL: URL: URL: Paper.li – read Twitter as a daily newspaper. Storify -- make stories. Welcome - curated.by. Redux.