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Loud3r - Content Curation & Optimization for Publishers, Brands and You NetVibes Buzzing with Social Curation Tools! Today, we are all facing information overload, and it is often difficult to find what we are looking for, especially if we are looking for updated collections of resources to support a topic, issue or idea. Major search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo don't exactly do a great job in assisting either, which might also be partially due to the growing influence and spam of 'Search Engine Optimization (SEO)' gurus, engines and companies. It is amazing how much spam comments I get on this blog alone (10 - 20 spam comments a day!), thanks to SEO strategies. Amazingly annoying! As Yahoo is trying hard to kill (sell) off Delicious gently, it is perhaps time to find and explore other alternatives to sort out my management of juicy learning resources and discoveries (URLs). While the buzz word of 2010 was 'Social Media', don't be surprised if 'Curation' or 'Social Curation' (attempted definitions) will be the buzz word for 2011 (signs). WOW!
6 killer presentations from #a4uexpo: Advanced Analytics, Information Architecture, Negative SEO & more - A4U Expo, Presentations At A4UExpo this week there were many many sessions. Most of the presentations which you could see were very high level presentations. Today we have collected six of the best presentations at A4U Expo for you. There were many other great ones (see our event page for more) but we highlighted these six for you: Tom Critchlow about Advanced Analytics for Affiliates Kevin Gibbons about 40 Social Media Tools & WordPress Plugins Bas van den Beld (@basvandenbeld) about Social Marketing: from offline to Universal Search Richard Baxter (@richardbaxter) about Successful Information Architecture Dush Ramachandran about Avoiding the Google Slap Paul Madden (@seoidiot) about Negative SEO and Patrick Altoft (@patrickaltoft) about Advanced Link Building Strategies for Affiliate Sites Tom Critchlow: Advanced Analytics for Affiliates Kevin Gibbons: 40 Social Media Tools & WordPress Plugins Bas van den Beld: Social Marketing: from offline to Universal Search Richard Baxter: Successful Information Architecture
Aggregage storyful MySyndicaat Guest post: Why this could be the moment for the curators This is a guest post by Guillaume Decugis, CEO, also the company behind Scoop.it. Over the past few months, there’s been an interesting number of new developments with regards to Web Curation, following several predictions that this would become a hot topic or even a billion dollar opportunity. What’s this all about? A definition I like for web curation is Rohit Bhargava’s: A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online. How can you sort out signal (information) from noise (pointless babbles) in the social Web? How can you organize and editorialize content? Bloggers have been the Web 2.0′s journalists and writers, curators could be its editors. There’s been several innovation layers on curation. First, some thought on how Twitter would provide this necessary curation. The other idea was to use algorithms. - Algorithms are gamed, people are not. What’s in it for curators then?
Storify’s best uses turn news into conversations Mid-term elections, cities crippled by snow, a homicide epidemic, and hundreds of bicycles materializing in the middle of late-night traffic — they’re not just news stories, they’re ongoing experiences. That led Burt Herman, a former AP bureau chief and correspondent, to re-evaluate the way that news organizations research and assemble their stories. The result is Storify, a tool that allows editors and reporters to integrate social media into their stories faster and more interactively than ever before. Rather than copying and pasting status updates, tweets, and Flickr photos, reporters can use Storify to rapidly compile dynamic social media elements that readers can retweet or reply to by clicking within an article. It was the unfolding, increasingly citizen-reported nature of contemporary news events that inspired Herman to create the tool, along with co-founder Xavier Damman. Throughout its private alpha, Herman and Damman have kept a close eye on how reporters put Storify to use.