Tumblr Does Its Own Curating With New Storyboard Project Aiming to help curate the site's vast array of content, Tumblr has launched a new initiative called Storyboard, billed as "tales from behind the dashboard." The micro-blogging platform and social networking website will be posting regular features from those within the Tumblr community with an interesting story to tell. Whether it's highlighting content from writers and musicians to animators, scientists and comedians, Storyboard will highlight one new story each day and become a hub for in-depth conversations within its community. "We could never possibly tell everyone's story, even if we told 100 stories a day," Tumblr Editor-in-Chief Chris Mohney said in a video post via Storyboard.Tumblr.com. "But we can help bring people to light that one sector of the community may never encounter through their natural organic reading of Tumblr." Tumblr is looking for submissions, as well. Tumblr has grown drastically since its launch in 2007.
5 essential WordPress plugins for your blog | Bubble Jobs Blog Content Published on July 25th, 2012 | by Amy Edwards 10inShare By Amy @BubbleJobs So, you’ve finally heeded our words of wisdom and gone and got yourself a fancy new WordPress blog – good for you! Think WordPress is just a useful blogging platform? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Tags: 5 essential WordPress plugins, blogging tips, starter WordPress plugins, WordPress blogging advice About the Author Amy Edwards Amy Edwards is the SEO Manager for Bubble Jobs. So what is SolarCurator and why should you care? | | Solar CuratorSolar Curator Expert curation: a fresh antidote to content proliferation On recent road trips to the SolarTech leadership summit and PV America West show, I started telling folks about SolarCurator.com and the concept on which this new site is based: “content curation.” What became clear is that apart from many of the marketing and publishing professionals I spoke with, few knew what the hell this curation stuff was all about. Simply put, content curation is the process of carefully hand-picking the good (or the bad), the interesting, the amusing, the in-depth, and the provocative about a specific topic or topics streaming from the multitude of independent and corporate media and information sources. Curation is much more than algorithm-aided aggregation or really stupid syndication—any programmer can set up a widget to go out and grab content based on keywords and SEO tricks. So enough about content curation: what is SolarCurator, why should you care, and who is the chief curator? Curationally yours,
A Beginner’s Guide To Blogging – Very Easy | Internet Mastery Center Blog Setting up a blog is much easier than a lot of people make it out to be. However, there’s so much information out there that it can seem quite daunting to a beginner. Well, I know some guys who made it really simple. To make it better, they have a set of 10 free videos available where you get to watch Leslie as he sets up a blog from scratch, and it is done in such an easy way that anyone can follow. So, I recommend for you to head on over there and check them out! Those free videos have been downloaded over 250,000 times; that’s enough proof for me that when these guys speak, people stop what they’re doing, and listen. It’s no secret that Yaro makes a VERY comfortable living from his blog. Leslie’s the one who actually leads out with the free videos and has set it up as one of the training programs where you can ask questions and get answers, so I know you will enjoy it. But really, you should check it out for yourself. Related Posts:
What is Content Curation Content Curation, in simple terms, is to discover, gather and present web content based on their specific subject matter. The concept is age old – we are prone to collect and catalogue the best of human inventions and have looked at those as the right sources of knowledge to solve our needs. Content Curation has become essential in the age of Internet. Content Curation is classified into five categories: Aggregation – This practice involves curating the most relevant content into one single location. A large number of tools and sites provide content curation service. Coming back to Content Curation, there are several sites and tools to help you in the process. Now if you are thinking why you should consider curating content in the very first place, keep your eyes open for our next post.
Publications 9 Reasons to Quit Social Media Now 08/08 That may seem like a strange headline for a blog devoted to all things social media-related, but several news stories about social media have finally pushed me over the edge: I have to share my own growing skepticism about social media from a purely personal perspective. Yes, social media represents an amazing advance in communications technology, which has opened whole new worlds of possibility in news, opinion, politics, entertainment, art, and activism -- not to mention marketing and advertising. And no, I don’t think anyone is coercing us to use social media, nor do I agree with people who claim that technology is “reshaping our brains” or “changing the way we think.” But there are still plenty of good reasons for limiting or even ending your involvement in social media. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
What Makes A Great Curator Great? How To Distinguish High-Value Curation From Generic Republishing Today content curation is "sold", promoted and marketed as the latest and trendiest approach to content production, SEO visibility, reputation and traffic building. But is it really so? Is it really true that by aggregating many content sources and picking and republishing those news and stories that you deem great is really going to benefit you and your readers in the long run? Is the road to easy and effortless publishing via curation tools a true value creation business strategy, or just a risky fad? How can one tell? Photo credit: theprint Let me clarify a few key points: 1. 2. 3. 4. For these reasons, I think that much of the apparent new curation work being done is bound to be soon disappointed by the results it will gain. Highly specific news and content channels, curated by passionate and competent editors will gradually become the new reference and models for curation work. Here's is my official checklist, to identify value-creation curation, from everything else. Why Curation?
iMedia 25 - 2011 East Coast Agencies to Watch The most captivating stories are usually told around campfires, so with a name like Campfire, expectations are naturally high. Thankfully, the folks at this agency really know what they're talking about, and -- even better -- they're willing to share their insights to help lead digital forward. Here's a clip of Mike Monello, co-founder and executive creative director at Campfire, speaking at length about transmedia story telling: Babies, Buns And Buzzers: What 100 years of experiential entertainment can teach us about transmedia storytelling from Campfire on Vimeo. Of course, it's not just about lecturing at Campfire. Verizon My Home 2.0 Case Study from Campfire on Vimeo. Campfire is located in New York, but its stories exist everywhere.
5 Tips for Great Content Curation | Yes, They Apply To Curated Email Newsletters | FlashIssue Blog byPhil Hill - Founder & CEOFollow me on Twitter here. From one of the big voices of content curation, Steven Rosenbaum is the CEO of Magnify.net, this article has some good pointers, especially for curated email newsletters. I was on a panel yesterday talking to a group of small business owners and they all had pain in their eyes when talking about what content to use in newsletters and how to technically get it into their campaigns. Tapping into curated content for these newsletters was my one big tip for them. You’ve heard the buzz word — curation — being thrown around like it’s a gadget we all know how to work. Be part of the content ecosystem, not just a re-packager of it. Continue Reading: 5 Tips for Great Content Curation. Related Articles About the author: Phil is a successful serial internet entrepreneur with a passion to fix problems.
A step-by-step guide to curate your company's news There's plenty of evidence that business is adopting content curation, but the practice hasn't been around long enough for organizations to innovate more targeted, results-focused uses. Business takes many of its lessons from how everyone else makes use of social tools. To start applying content curation, communicators need to pay attention to how others are using the crop of curation tools that have found acceptance online. Curating news that the media isn't covering can lead to media coverage. Back in November, college junior Ben Doernberg assmembled a Storify story chronicling the New York Police Department's eviction of Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park. In reporting the impact of Doernberg's effort, ReadWriteWeb noted that The Washington Post ran the Storify story, made easy through Storify's embed feature, something missing from other free curation options. The process would look something like this: Identify opportunity Select curators Monitor conversation
Incorporating Personal Learning Networks into Course Projects Last semester I introduced a brand new project into my social media class which I’ve been meaning to report on for a while now. I decided to set 25% of the final grade aside for an assignment the students were allowed to design themselves (the project is described in detail here). The idea was to help students develop independent learning skills by teaching them how to use social media tools to create a personal learning network (PLN) capable of supporting their project goals. Students were able to tailor the assignment to their own learning needs by: identifying an area of social media or PR they wanted to learn more aboutoutlining a plan of study, anddeciding on appropriate learning deliverables to demonstrate their mastery of the material. The projects the students created ranged from doing PR work for real-world clients to designing their own digital portfolios and social media resumes. Let’s hope that this epiphany hit the student before filling out the end of semester evals
The Fallacy of Information Overload inShare381 Some of you know me through my work in studying how social media and disruptive technology impact business and culture. Others have worked with me in translating insights into action and change within the enterprise. Every now and then, I share another side of myself that evokes the aspiring social scientist in me as I explore how all of this is affecting us as individuals and human beings. Not a day goes by when I’m not asked about whether or not the social media bubble will finally burst. This isn’t a new phenomenon by any means. Social media has gifted us a new democracy. Indeed, there is a very real human cost of social connectivity. The challenge lies not in the realization that we are empowered to curate our social streams and relationships, but in the consciousness of what is and what could be. Where do we fall in the contrast of where we are and where we want to be? Like in anything, there’s a dark side to all of this. Access to information and people is intoxicating.
8 must-reads detail how to verify information in real-time, from social media, users Over the past couple of years, I’ve been trying to collect every good piece of writing and advice about verifying social media content and other types of information that flow across networks. This form of verification involves some new tools and techniques, and requires a basic understanding of the way networks operate and how people use them. It also requires many of the so-called old school values and techniques that have been around for a while: being skeptical, asking questions, tracking down high quality sources, exercising restraint, collaborating and communicating with team members. For example, lots of people talk about how Andy Carvin does crowdsourced verification and turns his Twitter feed into a real time newswire. Some things never go out of style. At the same time, there are new tools, techniques and approaches every journalist should have in their arsenal. From the post: So, already you have three must view links about verification (1,2,3). Verification must reads 4. 5. 6.
Embedding creative commons licences into digital resources - SCA briefing paper Download the briefing paper1 Creative Commons licences (also referred to as CC licences) can facilitate the copying, reuse, distribution, and in some cases, the modification of the original owner’s creative work without needing to get permission each time from the rights holder. Overview of creative commons licences 2There are a number of different types of these licences. Across the UK’s public sector, CC licences are increasingly used to provide access to cultural heritage and teaching, learning and research outputs. This briefing paper accompanies further information on Creative Commons licences3 (PDF), produced by the Strategic Content Alliance4, which demonstrates how the terms of Creative Commons licences can be embedded into a variety of resources, such as PowerPoint, images, Word docs, elearning resources, podcasts and other audio visual resources. Benefits of embedding CC licences Considerations before embedding CC licences How to embed CC licences into resources For blogs