TEDxNYed: This is bullshit « BuzzMachine. Here are my notes for my talk to the TEDxNYed gathering this past weekend. I used the opportunity of a TED event to question the TED format, especially in relation to education, where — as in media — we must move past the one-way lecture to collaboration. I feared I’d get tomatoes — organic — thrown at me at the first line, but I got laugh and so everything we OK from there. The video won’t be up for a week or two so I’ll share my notes. It’s not word-for-word what I delivered, but it’s close…. This is bullshit. Why should you be sitting there listening to me? Don't be a factory; be an incubator. Five models of content curation.
Brave New World: Debating Brands' Role as Publishers. 6 Content Curation Examples Illustrated - HiveFire on Content Curation. The Mesh by Lisa Gansky - Why the Future of Business is Sharing. Ten Steps To Build A Basic Content Hub. Using the Web to build your brand is less and less about creating destinations, and more and more about creating content useful to the people you want to reach, then empowering them to access that content wherever and however they like.
The key to this is creating something we call a “content hub.” A content hub is more than just a standalone site or application, it’s both the heart of a distributed network of information, and a destination for those that share the interest it supports. Rather than explain the theory of a content hub in detail, it’s best to just build a quick-and-dirty one, and use it. Here’s the process I’d recommend to do exactly that: If you don’t have a GMail account, create one, say acme@gmail.com. The “hub” of the system is your new GMail account. To distribute original content through the system, just use the Posterous account. “Curating” content is even easier.
You can also access your brand “listening station” in Google Reader. So what happens now? Start posting. Content Strategy: How and Why to Curate Content. Most of us understand the value of sharing information.
But when the information belongs to others, we wonder “what’s the point?” Yet, as massive amounts of information abound, the art of content curation can help us provide resources to our audiences while positing ourselves as an authority. Here’s how.
Story: Curation And Social Media. Signal, Curation, Discovery - John Battelle's Searchblog. This past week I spent a fair amount of time in New York, meeting with smart folks who collectively have been responsible for funding and/or starting companies as varied as DoubleClick, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Federated Media (my team), and scores of others.
I also met with some very smart execs at American Express, a company that has a history of innovation, in particular as it relates to working with startups in the Internet space. I love talking with these folks, because while we might have business to discuss, we usually spend most of our time riffing about themes and ideas in our shared industry. By the time I reached Tumblr, a notion around “discovery” was crystallizing. It’s been rattling around my head for some time, so indulge me an effort to Think It Out Loud, if you would. Since its inception, the web has presented us with a discovery problem. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Google exploited the human-created link as its cat-herding signal. Credit Twitter for that move. Jonathan Stray: In 2011, news orgs will finally start to move past the borders of their own content. Editor’s Note: We’re wrapping up 2010 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring.
Today, our predictor is Jonathan Stray, interactive technology editor for the Associated Press and a familiar byline here at the Lab. His subject: the building of new multi-source information products, and whether it’ll be news organizations that do the building. 2011 will be the year that news organizations finally start talking about integrated products designed to serve the complete information needs of consumers, but it won’t be the year that they ship them. News used to be more or less whatever news organizations published and broadcast. Teaching Online Journalism » ‘Curation,’ and journalists as curators. Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay.
Steve Rosenbaum is the CEO of Magnify.net, a video Curation and Publishing platform.
Rosenbaum is a blogger, video maker and documentarian. You can follow him on Twitter @magnify and read more about Curation at CurationNation.org. For website content publishers and content creators, there's a debate raging as to the rights and wrongs of curation. While content aggregation has been around for a while with sites using algorithms to find and link to content, the relatively new practice of editorial curation — human filtering and organizing — has created what I'm dubbing, "The Great Creationism Debate.
" The debate pits creators against curators, asking big questions about the rules and ethical questions around content aggregation. In trying to understand the issue and the new emerging rules, I reached out to some of the experts who are weighing in on how curation could help creators and web users have a better online experience. The Issues at Hand Who are curators? Where We Stand Now.