The Curation Economy and The 3C’s of Information Commerce Brian Solis. InShare1 Several years ago I had the privilege of working with Steve Rosenbaum, author of Curation Nation. Back then Steve was already vested in the future of online curation and his grande conquête was playing out with Magnify.net, a realtime video curation network. At the time, he was also a staple at some of the tech industry’s most renown conferences sharing his vision for social, video, and curated content. As Steve was completing his new book, he asked if I would write the foreword. At the time I was finalizing the new version of Engage! And as a result, I couldn’t make his deadline. I share this digital foreword with you here… The Curation Economy and The 3C’s of Information Commerce I always appreciate when a very complex and important subject is simplified to ease understanding.
Forrester Research tracked how people adopt and use social technologies through its Technographics research. Creating original content, consistently over time, is daunting. Let me explain. More Thoughts On Curation And Rescuing Content From The Obscurity Of The Timeline... Posted by Tom Foremski - April 29, 2011 Last week I wrote about the tyranny of the timeline and how good content disappears once it is pushed off the home page and into the archives.
[How Curation Can Rescue Great Content From The Tyranny Of The Timeline - SVW] Of course, the content is still there in the archives, it is reachable, and it is searchable; but only if you know it is there. Search is an awkward instrument for retrieving content in an archive, simply because you often don't know what is in the archive. Search is great for finding specific items but it is terrible at surfacing great content. Maybe one of these days we will be able to ask a search engine to find "which are the best articles about curation? " But in the meantime there is no sense in waiting when we have the curation tools to do it now. Last week I wrote about how to use Pearltrees to collect your own content and save it from the obscurity of your archives. And you don't have to be a professional curator to do it.
News curation: finally, social media's killer app? FORTUNE -- Even the most casual social network user will admit that the Facebook or Twitter experience can be overwhelming -- that merciless stream of status updates and shared content, which sometimes feels less like a stream and more like a deluge, waits for no man, woman, or Web crawler. Of course, there's good reason to feel that way: Facebookers share 30-billion plus pieces of information each month, and Twitter users output 1 billion tweets weekly.
There's a tremendous amount of digital information floating around and few great solutions for filtering it, making sense of it, and consuming it. That's changing. Nicholas Negroponte foreshadowed the current state of things back in 1995 with the "Daily Me," a customized news experience, but it's only been over the last 18 months that his idea has manifested itself via mainstream products and services. They all work differently. That same concept is at the core of the Twitter-focused start-up Sulia. More from Fortune: 3 Reasons Curation is Here to Stay. Perhaps you won't believe me since it's my job to spread the gospel of curation as the Chief Evangelist of Pearltrees, but I think curation is here to stay.
These are the reasons why I believe this is the case. This year there has been a tremendous amount of buzz in Silicon Valley about curation. Magnify.net CEO Steven Rosenbaum recently published a book, Curation Nation that has sparked a tremendous amount of conversation on the topic. Likewise a post by Brian Solis has been retweeted thousands of times.
Oliver Starr is the Chief Evangelist for Pearltrees. With all the attention curation has suddenly received, people are probably wondering if this is just another fad or is it something bigger? First, curation is one of the underlying principles of the Web. Allow anyone to access any type of documentAllow everyone to disseminate his or her own documentsAllow everyone to organize the entire collection of documents The graphic above illustrates this process of democratization. I can haz Curation ? | Web Content & Digital Curation. MediaWatch: Curation and Verification In Journalism - New Methods In News Gathering. Posted by Tom Foremski - May 23, 2011 Last week I wrote about the Oriella survey of journalists that found that the majority do not use social media or blogs for verifying and sourcing stories.
[Oriella Survey: Most Journalists Shun Social Media And Blogs - SVW] No one is asking journalists to throw away the tried and true ways of researching and verifying stories but to add new skills that will improve their reporting. Those new skills include curation and the use of media technologies to tell stories in ways that haven't been told. How to source a video A great example of how journalists can verify social media sources and put together different types of content comes from journalist Mark Little, one of the founders of Storyful, a site that offers curation tools and a publishing platform. Mr Little has written an excellent post that draws on his 20 years experience as a reporter and he explains how he approaches the tricky issue of verification. LinkedIn for scoops A reporter is a curator... Myrstad's Blog » Blog Archive » Content Curation – Growing Up and Coming of Age. The impetus to this blog post (developed via curation and creation), was my fascination when I came across the following story that broke in the middle of May: ”Man tracks stolen laptop hundreds of miles away, calls thief”. – A very real example of what is going on in the content curation space today.
@seanpower (Sean Power), an Ottawa, Canada native living in New York, was on a visit to Canada (without his laptop), when he discovered, through his Prey software, that his laptop was in the hands’ of a stranger back in New York. Immediately, the tweeting began. As the story evolved, Sean Power managed to follow his travelling laptop as a victim, as a private person, with an alias, eventually identifying the person who had stolen it and moving a potential criminal case to its conclusion and positive solution – all through communication via social media and with the help of various different stakeholders.
Something is happening. Content Curation is evolving. Let’s look at some key figures: And. 5 Ways Curation and Content Automation Increases Engagement. Guest blogger Chase McMichael is founder, president and CEO of social intelligence company InfiniGraph. A veteran of realtime collaboration technologies at companies such as Oracle, Sprint and Chase Manhattan Bank. McMichael has been awarded numerous patents and is a frequent speaker on social media technologies. I recently attended the book release party for “Curation Nation: How to Win in a World Where Consumers are Creators” by author Steve Rosenbaum.
It was mentioned at the party, and by some reports, that every two days we now create more content than was created from the beginning of time until 1993. I’m not entirely sure of the validity of that claim but, even if it’s an exaggeration by an order of magnitude, we’re still talking about an insane amount of content being created every single day. The major challenges are how to sort and filter through all this content to make sense of it. Enter crowdsourcing. Your customers know what they like. Ok! Facebook is not the same as Twitter. Maria Perez > Blog > Curating Content on Twitter for Thought Leadership. This is the first in a series of recaps from RealTime NY (formerly TWTRCON).
The one-day conference, held at B.B. King Blues Club in New York, was jam-packed with sessions, workshops, and case studies on mobile, social and real-time Web. In this workshop, Angela Dunn (@blogbrevity) talked about how to curate content on Twitter for thought leadership. Content Curation Content curation is the art and science of finding, organizing, and sharing information that adds value and encourages engagement for the audience you’re hoping to influence. It is a cyclical process: What you find and what you post influence what people search and find about you. “Your goal is to grow a community,” said Dunn. According to Dunn, almost 80 percent of companies are curating content for thought leadership.
There are three main principles to content curation: Expertise with a point of view. Your network has a value. Dunn also shared three professional topic spheres for content: Starting Out Clearly define your niche. Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship. Editor’s Note: Maria Popova is the editor of Brain Pickings, a curation of “cross-disciplinary interestingness” that scours the world of the web and beyond for share-worthy tidbits. Here, she considers how new approaches to curation are changing the way we consume and share information. Last week, Megan Garber wrote an excellent piece on whether Twitter is speech or text. Yet despite a number of insightful and timely points, I’d argue there is a fundamental flaw with the very dichotomy of the question. While Twitter can certainly be both, it’s inherently neither. And trying to classify it within one or both of these conventional checkboxes completely misses the point that we might, in fact, have to invent an entirely new checkbox.
I, of course, make no claim to using Twitter as it “should” be used. Twitter as discovery Like any appropriated buzzword, the term “curation” has become nearly vacant of meaning. And lest we forget, text itself is an invention, a technology. Flipboard 1.5 Integrates LinkedIn, Adds A Content Guide For Curated News Browsing. Flipboard 1.5 Integrates LinkedIn, Adds A Content Guide For Curated News Browsing An update to social news viewing app Flipboard goes live in the app store today, with a new souped up 1.5 version that optimizes the reader experience even further. Earlier this week we had the chance to sit down with Flipboard CEO Mike McCue and did a demo of the new features, above.
McCue tells me that the redesign focused on three core changes. 1. People can now navigate to an infinite number of feeds (previous limit was 21). 2. Navigation through content is much more efficient via a Content Guide. 3. Users can follow their LinkedIn graph through added LinkedIn integration. The biggest shift from the previous version is the Flipboard Content Guide, which separates curated content streams like Science and Tech and Design to easily connect first time and repeat users with the topics that they’re most interested in, similar to competitor app Pulse’s curated streams. The Five Rs of 21st Century Content Curation. Why do I constantly update my Google Reader RSS feeds? Adding categories, fine tuning reading lists, then upsetting them all over again when I stumble upon several great sites.
That's because I rely on information discovery to push my own thinking. The more I broaden and diversify my reading, chasing tangents, listening to, and verifying opposing views, the sharper my ability to see and make sense of trends. Saying we have filter failure is not capturing the depth of the challenges we face. Defining the problem Real time streams and social graphs are training people to react. Reacting to information is the exact opposite of critical thinking. It will not help you or your business understand why a trend may be emerging, what it means to you, and how to reorganize your thinking about it. Curation, as in making sense, also has a prominent role in how organizations develop and transmit news. Five activities that pay dividends on content curation Research Rotation Recurrence Readability Recall.