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The curator attributes and skills

The curator attributes and skills
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? Photo credit: thesuperph In the previous parts of this Guide to Real-Time News Curation I have looked at what are the key problems giving way to the emergence of real-time news curation, at the differences between automatic aggregation and filtering and human-powered manual curation. In Part 4 I have gone through the newsmaster workflow, the tasks and specific responsibilities and in Part 5, I am covering the key attributes, qualities and skills a successful real-time news curator must have. Here is what I have discovered: Key Attributes - Qualities of a Real-Time News Curator 1) Subject Matter Expertise Source Familiarity - Good connections network 2) Relevance 3) Trust

TechCrunch Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 6: The Tools Universe Real-Time News Curation: Part 6 - The Tools and Technologies In this part of the guide you will find: 1. A Brief History of News Curation Tools 2. 3. 4. 5. "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). 1) A Brief History of News Curation Tools The first news curation tools that I am aware of came out in late 2004 - early 2005, reflecting from the very beginning a growing need for both small publishers as well as for medium and large content publishers to be able to aggregate, filter and manually re-order and select the specific content items to be published in a news channel. MySyndicaat, whose parent company, Kipcast has now grown into a multi-faceted service providing advanced news aggregation and republishing widgets for online brands and media companies, has been the true pioneer of this space. With both tools the hard part is knowing "how to do" things. b. filter and

(1) What are the best content curation tools for daily use Blog Archive » LeWeb10 and the curation topic Looks like curation has been one of the keyword of LeWeb10. Exactly one year after Pearltrees beta release, the activity we used to call human organization of the Web has not only find its word but also its way. Sure, Pearltrees is steadily growing, reaching 100.000 uniques and more. But it goes far beyond that: masses of new startups are quickly populating the curation field. Bloggers, thinkers and journalist begin to frame, to question, to define the curation topic. Outside the circles of early adopters, people “get it” even quicker. What’s more on LeWeb? Hell, no. … so here is their great pearltree! Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 7: Business Applications And Trends Real-Time News Curation: Part 7 - Business Opportunities 1. Where Is The Money 2. 3. 4. 5. 1) Where Is The Money? "So here's a prediction. 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. 4) Business Applications: The News

Pourquoi la curation va faire partie des prochains grands usages du web ? Sous titre: En tout cas, pour les anciens producteurs de contenus. Avant : l’histoire du 2.0 Je vais vous raconter rapidement l’histoire de ce qu’on a appelé le 2.0, du côté du créateur de contenu. Avant produire du contenu était techniquement difficile. Toutes ces sortes de plateformes permettaient aux gens qui avaient quelques choses à dire, qui pensaient avoir quelques choses à dire, qui avaient envie de partager quelque chose, de l’intime, une passion, en ont eu la possibilité. On a crée un blog parce qu’on avait quelque chose qui nous intéresse, qu’on voulait partager, parce qu’on voulait un espace du web rien qu’à soi,…J’ai à ce moment là crée tristanauquotien.blogspot.com puis tristanauquotidien.com (fonctionnant sur WordPress). Mais on commence vite à découvrir que le web est grand on découvre que ce qu’on dit, d’autres le disent aussi, et mieux. Mais où se crée alors le besoin de la curation dans le 2.0 ? Oui, mais la frustration demeure. Qu’est-ce que la curation ?

Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 4: Process, Key Tasks, Workflow 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. 1. Identify NicheIdentify your specific topic-theme. Sequence your selected news stories to provide the most valuable information reading experience to your readers. There are likely more tasks and elements to the news curator workflow that I have been able to identify right here. Please feel free to suggest in the comment area, what you think should be added to this set of tasks. Photo credits:1.

Cratyle.net 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.

Comment veiller et faire de la médiation numérique efficacement avec Google reader et Diigo Cet article a été publié il y a 3 ans 3 mois 10 jours, il est donc possible qu’il ne soit plus à jour. Les informations proposées sont donc peut-être expirées. J’ai déjà fait quelques billets sur ma manière de veiller, mais ils datent et mon dispositif a évolué alors voici une petite mise à jour en cette nouvelle année. Mon dispositif de veille et de médiation est désormais stable et efficace. Il pourra peut-être vous intéresser pour mettre en place le votre. 1. J’utilise Google reader, pas très original, mais il est toujours plus efficace et souple que Netvibes quand on dépasse un certain nombre de sources. Actu web : sources autour du web en général, des médias et des industries créatives et des médias avec des incontournables comme Owni, Numerama, Pcinpact, Descary, Internet actu, Electron libre ou RWW (etc.) et aussi des petits nouveaux comme INA Global. Actu biblio : ma sélection de blogs et de sites en information-documentation élargie. 2. 3. 4. 5. Auteur : Silvae (1100 Posts)

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