MasterNewMedia curation guide
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" I’ve spent a good deal of time searching for a word other than “Curation” in part because of the connection to museums (which I feared sounded elitist and historic). But the fact is that it is the right word, with the right results. The biggest shift from mainstream media publishing to curation is that the expert curator has no obligation to rely on ‘expert’ or ‘professional’ sources. In fact, very much the opposite.
Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 6: The Tools Universe
I have received a lot of emails from readers asking to illustrate more clearly what the actual typical tasks of a news curator are, and what are the tools that someone would need to use to carry them out. In Part 4 and 5 of this guide I am looking specifically at both the workflow, the tasks involved as well as at the attributes, qualities and skills that a newsmaster, or real-time news curator should have. Identify your specific topic-theme. The more specific, the better.
Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 4: Process, Key Tasks, Workflow
Where Is The Real Value? The real value is in the fact that the effective widespread application of this filtering and redistribution process would be a highly valuable social endeavour and one that not only can enrich our rapidly evolving global culture but one which can also give sustainability to those who have the will and skill to ride it. General categorization of sources too limited.
The Birth Of The NewsMaster: The Network Starts To Organize Itself
Part III: Curation Types and Real-World Examples There exists many types of curation , and many ways to interpret what curation really is. As I have attempted to illustrate in Part II of this guide, in my own view, aggregation is automated and it is not the same as curation.
Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 3: Types And Real-World Examples
Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 2: Aggregation Is Not Curation
We are no longer just consumers of content , we have become curators of it too. In Part 1 of this Guide I have introduced why we really need real-time news curation and what is the basic idea behind it (Part 1 - Real-Time News Curation, Newsmastering And Newsradars - The Complete Guide Part 1: Why We Need It ). In Part 2 I want to continue illustrating what " real-time news curation " is all about, and more specifically why it differs from automatic aggregation, and why you really need a human being to do it. As I see it: " Aggregation is automated, curation is manual.
Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 7: Business Applications And Trends
News channels in the near future will have no reason, incentive or advantage in trying to replicate what they do now: giving coverage to a handful of topics and stories out of the whole spectrum of news out there. The very goal of trying to satisfy the greatest number of readers while keeping an often undisclosed political and business agenda will give enormous competitive advantage to new independent content sources which have built their following on deep trust, full disclosure and opinionated dedication to a very specific topic, issue. As demand for quality, topic-specific news and information becomes the real of every individual and not just of those operating in the stock market, a universe of opportunities for monetizing high-quality and high-value topic-specific information will likely appear.
Real-Time News Curation, Newsmastering And Newsradars - The Complete Guide Part 1: Why We Need It
Photo credit: dsharpie and franckreporter mashed up by Robin Good “ What we need to get much better at is scaling that system so you don’t have to pay attention to everything, but you don’t miss the stuff you care about... ” Real-time news curation , or what I call " newsmastering ", is the art of finding, aggregating, filtering, selecting, curating and republishing high-quality news stories on a very specific theme, topic, or for a particular audience interest, problem, passion. It grows out of the need to make sense of this very need to filter and make sense of the enormous amount of information that is available out there and that keeps increasing by the hour.
What skills do I need to have if I want to be an effective real-time news curator ? Can I just pick the best headlines and links on my topic of interest or do I need to do know / do more? What makes a great news curator stand out from those who do automatic aggregation or from bloggers who create simple news stories lists?