Why Social Media Curation Matters - Technorati Blogging Over the past few weeks I've raved about the current raft of social media curation start-ups. I've rambled on and on about all of the new features that are being added to sites like Curated.By, Storify and Keepstream. What I haven’t explained to my friends, family, Twitter followers and just about anybody I engage in tech conversation with for more than a couple of minutes, is why it all matters. With registered Twitter users numbering somewhere in the region of 150 million, their fire hose is pumping out tens of millions of tweets a day.
La fabrique des images - Blog LeMonde.fr 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.
Why Impresarios (Not Algorithms) Will Rule Web Video According to a number of predictors, and my friends, 2011 is going to be the year of curated video. The old, algorithmic approach is out, and instead we'll see audiences flocking to videos selected for your viewing pleasure by friends (in the case of Facebook) and experts (maybe even from YouTube). Yes, it looks like "curation" is bound to be the first big buzzword of 2011. But when it comes to video, before there was curation there was programming. The kind that big network honchos would do. Take Fred Silverman, for example. Back when he was curating network TV, there were only three networks to watch. Even though many of the principals are similar, what worked for network TV won't drive web video to success. We're going to see a lot of blather over the next months about video curation, but remember that it's really just an extension of network programming. It's about the audience Silverman changed the face of Saturday morning programming by understanding, and super-serving, the kids.
Scobleizer — Searching for world-changing technology Social Learning: Answers to 8 Crucial Questions I’ve got an odd relationship with the notion of social learning. Whilst I’m often at pains to remind people that social learning is nothing new, I’m acutely aware that the term is today a much broader one than it has been in years gone by. Influenced by a score of theorists dating back centuries, the idea that our individual learning is influenced by both our circumstances and by other people seems to be a naturally easy assumption to make. But ’social’ is something of a pariah in the corporate learning world, at least increasingly so it would seem. Recently I worked with a partner on a pitch to a global multinational as we sought to enable more collaborative learning in the organisation. Such broad brush strokes clearly underscored a lack of shared understanding in terms of what we were proposing – this wasn’t some fancy ‘add on’, this was it! Personally, I class this under the ’social’ umbrella. What does ’social’ learning mean?
But What About the Content? Curation, Aggregation, and Creation Perhaps the biggest pain point for many organizations isn’t getting their video online, but rather getting their video created in the first place. Fear not; whether you need to create your own content, have your customers or employees create it for you, or collect it from other sources, there are ways to get high-quality video content on your site without breaking the bank. At the Online Video Platform Summit, our session, "But What About the Content? Curation, Aggregation, and Creation", will examine the growing field of video curation and aggregation services, as well as offer pointers for getting your own content made quickly and inexpensively. Confirmed speakers for this session include: Paolo Tosolini, Social Media and Online Video Consultant, Enterprise & Partner Group and Microsoft Services, Microsoft (Moderator) Paolo is an Enterprise Social Video consultant with a passion for people and creative ideas. Bruce Alfred, President, Cobblestone Inc.
Lancement de LOCITA Jeremy Benmoussa vient de lancer Locita, une source d’informations sur le web, les réseaux sociaux et les nouvelles technologies. J’ai accepté de faire partie des nombreux contributeurs de ce webzine. 45 contributeurs au total : journalistes, blogueurs, experts, enseignants, auteurs,… Vous avez vous aussi la possibilité de participer à cette aventure si vous avez des choses à dire. Locita vous informe sur les entreprises, les services en ligne et les réseaux sociaux en publiant quotidiennement des articles d’actualité, des analyses de fond et proposant des guides pour vous aider à mieux exploiter les réseaux sociaux et les sites web 2.0. Locita s’adresse à la fois aux novices, aux experts, aux entrepreneurs, aux agences web, agences en relations publiques et agences de communication, aux journalistes et tout simplement aux passionnés. Voici le site de Locita : Bravo Jeremy, longue vie à ce nouveau site !
The New York Times Compendium Overview: President John F. Kennedy was informed about the deployment of Soviet medium-range missiles on Cuba shortly after 8 a.m. on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 16, 1962. His first reaction on hearing the news from National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy was to accuse the Soviet leader Nikita S. 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.
Ouinon.net Content Strategy: The Philosophy of Data Not that familiar with “content strategy?” That’s ok. It’s in my job title, and I struggle every time I’m asked what I do for a living. Many people have no idea what it means, but even more people bring their own (wrong) assumptions to the conversation. Usually they think it has something to do with writing copy. That’s not entirely false, but it’s kind of misleading. The analogy I’ve been using recently is that content strategy is to copywriting as information architecture is to design. The irony of this communication challenge is that the main goal of content strategy is to use words and data to create unambiguous content that supports meaningful, interactive experiences. So, why has it been so hard for us to communicate what we do? Perhaps the problem is that, because content is so pervasive, everyone thinks they know all there is to know about it. Everything is content Everything is content? The question “What constitutes sameness?” Critical mass Time to get practical
Monsieur Dream (point com) Curating the Best of the Web: Video The Internet is awash in content — and a whole lot of it is junk, spam or inane status updates. How do you begin to navigate through the zillions of news articles, Web sites, tweets and other stuff online to find content that matters to you? You need digital curators. To see the full article, subscribe here. Screen shot of Nizmlab, a site that sifts through online videos. Screen shot of Chunnel.tv.