Twitter Stories: 3 Free Tools To Curate Tweet Collections. Note: If you do not see three tweet collections below, please hit the “refresh” button. Are you active on Twitter? Do you wish you could keep some of your tweets for future reference? Good news – There are a few tools available that will help you do that! First Things First You need a Twitter account set up and in use in order to use these tools. Assuming you have a Twitter account, you also need to have tweeted recently, or the tools will not be able to help you curate your tweet story – a collection of your tweets. You will also need to know a few vocabulary words: Tweet – A post to your Twitter account.Hashtag – A keyword or code used as a topic of conversation on Twitter.URL – A web address; shortened or full-length.RSS Feed – Really Simple Syndication. Don’t have a Twitter account but want to try it and the tools described here?
Why Curate A Tweet Story? On occasion, it has helped me share valuable information on my blog. 3 Free Tools To Curate Tweet Collections 1. 2. RSS Feed. 3. PressJack | RSS Aggregator | Create social magazines for iPad. RSS Aggregator | Create social magazines for iPad. FiveFilters.org. Zinepal | Online eBook Creator.
Getting your head around curation and Scoop.it! « NovaNews. Curation versus aggregation represents human web versus machine web... Curation is becoming an increasingly important term and for good reason: the online world is increasingly messy, muddled and full of blind alleys. Search used to be the best way to navigate online but today it is only one part of an Internet user's dashboard. Finding things is fine if you know what to look for, but search is increasingly less effective in judging the quality of links, or putting those links into a context. Blekko, the recently launched search engine tries to provide a context for search terms but it's still not curation but aggregation So what is curation? Here is my definition: Curation is a person or persons, engaged in the act of choosing and presenting things related to a specific topic and context. An example of curation: the San Francisco De Young museum is exhibiting post-impressionist masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay's permanent collection.
Aggregation is the collection of as many things that can be found related to a topic. - Pearltrees is sharable and embeddable. Brittany Morin: The Curated Web. It all started with the printing press. The printing press was the first piece of technology that enabled information to pass rapidly to the world's people. Because of it, books and newspapers were created that inspired uprisings and cultural transformations in religion, government and society.
It was at this time that the first "editors" were established to help create and and deliver information to people in their communities. Further down the line, information was distributed via media like radio, television and magazines, each meticulously curated by trusted editors in a field or community. Over the last couple of decades, we saw the birth of the Internet, which enabled hundreds of years of information from all of these platforms to be digitized and made searchable online. It's no wonder Google was born -- there was an infinite amount of information to organize out there. Today, the Internet is, in fact, fairly well organized. But, what if they don't know what they're looking for? The Best Online Tools for Content Curation. A content curation tool lets you pull videos, images, presentations, tweets, blog posts and other web content into a bundle which you can then easily embed and share on the web.
Let’s say your team has just launched a new product at some conference and they have asked you to collate all the conversations and buzz happening around that product on various websites, blogs and social sites. You have to act fast because the stuff that gets shared on the real-time web often gets buried almost as quickly. So how should you go about collecting stuff around the Internet? Should you just save everything that’s being said to your browser bookmarks? There are umpteen ways to do this but what you should really look at is a dedicated content curation tool that is designed to capture web content with minimal effort.
The way these content curation tools work is quite similar to Evernote’s web clipper. The first tool that I tested is Bundlr available at gobundlr.com. Why Content Curation Is Here To Stay | brandpilgrim. In a labyrinth of content, consumers have always looked to opinion leaders who could edit content for them and direct them towards relevant information. Oprah‘s book club moved masses of people towards her recommended list of books and authors. The web is facing the very same crisis today. A plethora of information that is strenuous to navigate through, we rely on peers and opinion leaders to direct us to safe ports, where we can find the supplies that we seek. In every market research that I have conducted, recommendation by peers is the single largest influencing factor. I believe the definition of ‘peer’ has changed drastically. This is the environment that has made space for the Content Curator. Conventionally, a search would be performed in a search engine like Google.
On the other hand, a content curator collects the best of information and showcases it at a single place. In a sense, content curation is an offshoot of the minimalism trend. Get to the Point: Hot New Tools to Provide Hot New Blog Content. One way to build trust is to position yourself as an authority on topics associated with your product or service. Blogging helps, but any blogger knows that expert blogging demands research, dedication of time, community management, consistent cross-marketing—and it can take months, even years, to gain an appreciative audience. So you say you're not ready to commit to hardcore blogging? Or (even worse), you're not sure what subject you might focus on with real expertise? Here's some help. Scoop.it lets you launch a page on a subject, then simply grab interesting links to populate your page. Media (videos, photos) are instantly added and resized. Your page appears newspaper-style, easy on the eyes and reminiscent of paper.li, another social curation service that won LeWeb's Virality Award.
You can easily test lots of topics and see which ignites passion over time, while you maintain a professional shine and social activity. Watch the demo. The Po! BagTheWeb. Web Curator Tool. The Web Curator Tool homepage: The Harvest queue, showing two running harvests: The Target search page: The Target editor, showing the list of seed URLs: The Harvester status page, with two harvesters installed: The Harvest Authorisation search page: 10 iPad Apps for Web Curation. Curation vs. Aggregation? Curation is such a necessity these days. The overwhelming wave of information we are exposed to is drowning us in facts and opinion. Not only do we need to be curating the information that we are consuming but we need to be insisting that our students have the skills and necessary tools in which to curate their own world.
I have listed a number of capable curation apps that can help to do just that. I tend to use more than one of these and in fact there are days that I would use three or four. Pearltrees: FREE Pearltrees is a place to collect, organize, discover everything you like on the web. Flipboard: FREE Flipboard creates a personalized magazine out of everything being shared with you, from Instagram photos and Facebook updates to Tumblr posts and articles from your favorite publications.
The Tweeted Times - personal newspaper generated from your Twitter account. Topsy - Real-time search for the social web. With iOS 9, Search lets you look for content from the web, your contacts, apps, nearby places, and more. Powered by Siri, Search offers suggestions and updates results as you type.
There are two ways to use Search on your iOS device. Quick Search Drag down from the middle of the Home screen and type what you're looking for. Siri Suggestions Drag right from the Home screen to show Search and get Siri Suggestions. Get Siri Suggestions Siri Suggestions include apps and contacts that you might be interested in. You can use Siri Suggestions with iPhone 5 and later, iPad Pro, iPad (4th generation) and later, iPad mini (2nd generation) and later, and iPod touch (6th generation). Change search settings Go to Settings > General > Spotlight Search.
From here, you can turn Siri Suggestions on or off and choose which apps to include in your searches. If you don’t want Siri or Spotlight to suggest nearby locations, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services. Last Modified: 30 Twitter Search Alternatives & Tools. (Editors note: With the sad demise to Topsy on the 15th of December, we thought it a pretty good time to update our list of alternative tools for searching Twitter. The original was written back in April 2010 by Tad Chef, and sadly, it’s not just Topsy from our original list of 30 alternatives that has since disappeared or stopped being updated).
Back in 2010, Twitter added a mechanic to it’s then creaky search mechanism that added the most popular tweets as well as the latest, but it’s fair to say it didn’t impress. So, we collated 30 of our favourite Twitter search tools as a handy reference. Now, Twitter has vastly improved it’s internal search tool in the proceeding five years, and also offers some basic analysis tools such as Twitter Analytics ( I personally have been recommending Topsy for several years to clients, colleagues and peers. Twitter search alternatives: Twitter Advanced Search – Huh? Twitter user search: Summify - Summary of Your Social News Feeds. Content Curation 411. About Storify.
Paper.li – Be a publisher. The New paper.li Bookmarklet | Content Curation 411 | Scoop.it. Welcome. Worth a Look: Scoop.it Digital Content Tool (September 28, 2011) | Opinion Blog. Scoop.it makes it easy to share the things you're reading, talking about, and interested in without adding a whole new platform to your daily work. For over a year now, I’ve been moderating and facilitating a monthly online discussion for people working as community builders and for those looking for feedback on community building efforts. It’s called the #CommBuild chat and was born out of a facilitated monthly Twitter chat called #4change. Often in these chats, participants discuss the online tools they are using and new platform functionality, all with the hope of finding ways to increase community engagement.
For example, this month’s online chat, normally coordinated via the text chat platform CoverItLive, tried out a new platform, Google+ Hangout. So when Scoop.it, a new content curation platform, hit the web recently, the #CommBuild network seemed like the perfect place to try it out. How It Works Scoop.it has an impressively intuitive interface for just being in a beta launch. Scoop.it Community.
Since the beginning of the Scoop.it adventure, we have envisioned our platform as a new way to share and to be heard on the web in the Age of Information Abundance. We are thrilled by the intelligent content you have collectively built. Scoop.it does not simply contain absolute knowledge. It is a place where different viewpoints and opinions collide, where mutual expertise shapes information, where the power of collaboration gives you a picture drawn by humans.
The page Google+ Project on Scoop.it has become such a great resource, not only because it provides an overview on an event submerged by a deluge of sources, but also because the curator receives suggestions from his followers and readers. Day after day, they become increasingy engaged and interested in the topic, suggesting their own discoveries. The Google+ project is a great example of a collaborative creation with a curator guaranteeing the coherence. Curation is a powerful mechanism. The Social Web is not a concept. Introduces the Scoop.it ScoreScoop. “Quality is not an act, it’s a habit.” -Aristotle said. What makes your topic more relevant than any filter or aggregator? Your insights, your point of view, your editorial choice. In short, your personal engagement in the content you curate. Scoop.it was born from the strong belief that human curation is truly different from automated aggregation or algorithm-powered filtering and creates great value to the Internet.
Curators are becoming the gatekeepers controlling the overflow of online content. We knew we were building a community when the expectations of our users met our vision: The Scoop.it community is relying more and more on qualitative criteria to explore and dig into topics. Indeed, we have always encouraged our users to focus on quality: to select only the most relevant content from the web and edit it and give it a perspective. The more qualitative your topic is, the more your audience will count on you, on what you curate and share. Scoop.it Review - Create Topic-Centric Web Pages. KB Spotlight: RSS Feeds to Public Notebooks. Ebook Glue | Turn your blog into a downloadable ebook. How do convert a whole RSS feed into a PDF. RSS Feed To PDF Newspaper. RSS feeds are a great way of keeping up with the contents that are posted on a website. They basically inform the user whenever a new post was published on the website which makes it more comfortable for the user to stay up to date.
RSS feeds to require a reader that is capable of managing and displaying the feeds. Most modern web browsers come with that option but there are also online and offline RSS readers like Google Reader or RSS Owl that can be freely used for that purpose. Your Own News Maker is a very specialized form of RSS reader as its main purpose is not to inform the user of new posts but to turn those posts into pdf or fb2 format for offline reading. Multiple RSS feeds can be added to the program as sources. If you would hit the make pdf or make fb2 button right now you would create a file that only contains titles and links to the articles but not the articles itself.
It is furthermore possible to clear all html tags in the output and define the parser rules. Yourownnewsmaker - Creating pdf or fb2 file from rss, atom feeds and web-pages. Описание на русском What is YourOwnNewsMaker? YourOwnNewsMaker is a simple application was written on Qt4/C++ licensed on GPLv3. It allows you to grab rss and atom feeds and just simple web-pages and covert them to pdf or fb2 files.
You can get it from here current version is build for Windows and Linux(src, rpm и deb packages). Why do I need this application? If you want to reed news offline using your e-book reader or just from the paper or if you want to create a nice book from several html pages you have to convert your content to some readable and printable format. What application supported platforms? It works on Windows and Linux systems.
What can I do if I do not like fb2 or pdf format? You can easily convert from fb2 format to any other using Calibre application, it's also allows to upload your books to e-book readers. What are the main features of YourOwnNewsMaker application? Supporting of any rss, atom feeds. Where can I find help for this application? This FAQ is simple help. You Publish. FeedJournal - The Newspaper You Always Wanted.