3 Storytelling Hacks | Curation Tools Here are three curation tools I've been using to help tell stories online. I'm still figuring some of them out, but I'm sharing them them here for your feedback and insight. Make Your Story a Scoop: Scoop It is one of a handful of curation tools to emerge from the Web 2.0 fire hose they're designed to mitigate. Scoop It helps you curate links, and even suggests links for your topic. You can add descriptions to each link for context and Scoop It serves them up nicely on a permalinked page. Here's my work-related example. Send a Video Snippet: BlipSnips is a sophisticated option for deep linking to YouTube videos. Crowdsource a Story with Flickr: Flickr allows you to crowdsource your story. After posting my content to the group, I searched for photos tagged with relevant keywords like “Facebook + sign” and “social media + retail". Transmedia Meal vs. Less really is more. Sunday Paper uploaded by Brendan Lynch
Curation Nation: Where Curation Matters Most Yammer: Will viral work in the enterprise? I work for a very large company and at some point or another someone started a Yammer account based on our email domain. Starting on whatever day that was, Yammer commenced its viral expansion and its spread has really been quite impressive and rapid. Last time I looked we were approaching 3000 users. The usage demonstrates all the free-scaling behaviors you’d expect though, so not everyone is yammering away. I think Yammer has done so well because it’s a really good product with well thought out features that make Twitter seem kinda retro. However, despite all that, I’m bummed to say I don’t think they are going to make it. The question of data privacy and ownership comes up over and over in our Yammer discussions. This point was demonstrated to me in a personal and compelling way during my first week on Yammer. Despite that kind of hiccup, I don’t think data privacy is the death knell.
Twitter: Digital Content Curator During Mike Masnick’s terrific keynote during mesh, something that grabbed my attention was something he said about Twitter becoming a tool to receive curated content. For example, he’s following someone who’s an expert on copyright, and provides a steady stream of interesting information on stories related to the topic. Masnick’s take on Twitter resonated with me because it’s exactly where I see the real power of Twitter. While Twitter is certainly great way to connect with people, it’s been a personal online game-changer as a way to access great content that I would have never likely seen. In many ways, Twitter has become a way to build an effective and interesting team of personal content curators, who comb the Web for interesting, insightful, valuable and entertaining content. Twitter’s role as a content curator affects how I use Twitter. If this approach has any weaknesses, there needs to be a more diversified view of the world. More: You can see Masnick’s keynote on meshTV.
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.
News Is A Lousy Business For Google Too Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 3: Types And Real-World Examples 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. This does not mean that curation does not need or can do altogether away of any form of automated aggregation or social-based filtering. That is, curation for me, is by definition human-based. 1. 2. 3. 4. But I also do recognize I am venturing in some uncharted new grounds and I am therefore open to question and evaluate my own above viewpoints also from other perspectives. "I believe that there is a role for trusted curators of news, people who have unique access or unique insight, who can get to news more quickly than anybody else, or dive into it more deeply. Again, I am not pretending in any way to provide a fully comprehensive catalog, nor to claim any best of category awards for these selections I have made. 1.
Shaping the Future: 7 Predictions for the Creative Community At the start of every year, it’s fun to think about what's next. However, for the creative professional community, considering the future is not just a casual exercise. It's a necessity. Do you rely on the web for inspiration, feedback, or any other part of your creative process? If you answered yes, get ready. Thoughts on the Road Ahead for Creative Professionals In recent years, I believe that technology has been a little reckless with creative professionals. But my team and I at Behance see the tide turning. Here are some of our predictions (and hopes) for the creative professional community in the near future [and full disclaimer: our inherent bias is that we think about this full-time and are developing Behance with these thoughts in mind!] 1. The advertising agency of the future will consist of account managers, administrative staff, and a tiny leadership team that provides creative direction. In the past, resources for finding and managing top talent were extremely limited. 2. 3.
New Vertical Coming From News Aggregator Techmeme: Mediagazer | It took just two years for Gabe Rivera to have four verticals, including tech “front page” Techmeme, running off his algorithm for discovering and highlighting news. The fourth site, BallBug, launched for opening day in 2006. It took four years to add one — Mediagazer, a site launching today to aggregate news about, you guessed it, the media. (The name’s a little more straightforward than memeorandum, the political site that came first, or WeSmirch, the unfortunately titled gossip site.) In the interim, in addition to finessing the algorithm, Rivera added an editorial element to Techmeme that will carry over literally to Mediagazer: Techmeme’s first editor Megan McCarthy — it has three now — edits the new site, which has the ambitious aim of offering the day’s “must read media news” on a single page. McCarthy, who joined Rivera in late 2008, explained the delay between verticals. As for staying standalone, “We’ve never raised any money — everything is bootstrapped.
Curation - The Third Web Frontier Posted by Guest Writer - January 8, 2011 Here is a guest article by Partice Lamothe - CEO of Pearltrees (Pearltrees is a consulting client of SVW.) This is a lightly edited version of "La troisième frontière du Web" that appeared in the magazine OWNI - Digital Journalism - March 2010. The article argues that the founding pricinciples of the Internet are only now being implemented and that the next frontier is in organizing, or curating, the Internet. By Patrice Lamothe Everyone realizes that the web is entering a new phase in its development. One indication of this transition is the proliferation of attempts to explain the changes that are occurring. Although these explanations are both pertinent and intriguing, none of them offers an analytical matrix for assessing the developments that are now underway. The "real time web," for example, is one of the clearest and most influential trends right now. In contrast, other explanations are far too broad to serve any useful purpose.
Micro Persuasion: The Digital Curator in Your Future The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press clips. It seems downright archaic now but that’s how I learned about the press - by cutting, pasting up and photocopying clippings. My fascination with the media never abated. Today my role is to form insights into how the entire overlapped media landscape - the pros, social channels, and corporate content - is rapidly evolving and to help Edelman clients turn these learnings into actionable strategies. Today I am re-launching my Tumblr site with a new name, a new focus and a new format. It all kicks off today with a 15-page installment of The Clip Report.