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KBucket 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

Scoop.it: Content Curation Platform Review; 13 Things I Like and Three I Don’t This post is the second in a series on content curation and deals with content curation platform Scoop.it. In subsequent posts, I will examine two other such platforms: Rebelmouse and Paper.li. NOTE: The first post in this series dealt with curation fundamentals. Lately, I’ve been testing three different content curation platforms: Scoop.it, Rebelmouse and Paper.li. Thirteen Things I Like About Scoop.it Scoop.it offers many features that commend it as a highly useful curation platform. Visual format – Scoop.it makes use of graphics to draw attention to each article shared, which is in keeping with a shift toward the Pinterest/Instagram inspired visual orientation of the web.Two column layout – By presenting stories in a simple two-column format, Scoop.it offers a more orderly layout than does its competitor Rebelmouse, which, aside from the featured post, I find a tad too cluttered. Those are the features I particularly like. What I Don’t Like About Scoop.it Conclusion Scoop.it Video

Listal Free Personal RSS Reader & Aggregator For Everyone Scoop This: A Comprehensive Guide to Scoop.it for Content Curation We’ve been hearing (and talking) a lot about curation and how helpful it can be for companies. As you all know, I’m sure, great content is one sure thing in today’s marketing arena; it takes the front seat to anything and everything else. When you do a search, what are you using? Content. When you look for the closest restaurant to eat, how do you search? Before I get deep in to the hows, wherefores and whys of curation and Scoop.it, I deeply feel that it’s important to touch on the what. Content curation, on the other hand, is much like museum curation. As a content curator, you should be treating the content you display with the same amount of exactitude. As an article in the Silicon Valley Watcher states, “…curation online also has to demonstrate: mastery, passion, knowledge and expertise. Well said. When I was introduced to Scoop.it a year ago, it was still beta and invite only. The Bit.ly’s and paper.li’s out there curate content, true, but not quite in the same way. 1). 2). 3).

Unmark - The to do app for bookmarks. 9 Content Curation Tools For Better Web Organizing Content curation is a huge deal on the web today. As content on the web grows exponentially, our ability to make sense of it is inversely proportional. In other words, we are fast sinking under the sheer amount of content pouring onto the web every day. The social web hasn’t made life any easier on content production either – in fact its lowered the barrier to entry. According to Facebook, 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news blogs etc) are shared each month on the social network, with no sign of slowing. URL: Redux has over the past year grown organically to become one of the web’s best places for finding great content. URL: A new startup still in Beta, Scoop.it again allows you to create topic centric information, and share with others. URL: Curated.By offers twitter integration right from the get-go, although you can signup without an account. URL: URL: URL:

2/2, The Future Of Content Curation Tools -> continued from Part I - Future of Content Curation Tools 8) Preservation Contrary to popular belief, the nature of the web is quite volatile. A large percentage of the overall content available online, is moved, taken down, deleted or disappears on a daily basis, at times only because the website owner has no more money to pay his hosting bills. If you run a check for broken links on your web site you will see what I am talking about. How many times have you run through a list of tools on a blog post, only to find that a bunch of them were not available anymore? How many startups are created and how many them survive after one or two years (and with them their websites and blogs)? Even without you as a publisher doing anything wrong, the links you create, pointing to other sites, tools and information, do disappear. This is the life of content on the Internet. Unless you save it on the Internet Archive or on some similar service. a) fully photograph, b) archive and More will follow. I don't.

+ Anything, Anywhere [4] - ZOMDir + The Future Of Content Curation Tools - Part I Content curation tools are in their infancy. Nonetheless you see so many of them around, there are more new curation tools coming your way soon, with lots of new features and options. Existing content curation services will in fact need to start rolling up their sleeves as the next wave of offerings will significantly go well beyond what is possible with present day tools Photo credit: 3D Flower by ShutterStock In this last few years I have looked at, signed up for and tested over 400 content curation tools, which I have gradually collected and listed first here: The NewsMaster Toolkit and hereBest News Curation Tools for Independent Publishers then here on Mindomo: Content Curation Tools: Newsmaster Toolkit 2012 from July 2013 here on Pearltrees: Content Curation Tools Supermap and from September 2013 a simplified version here: Content Curation Tools Directory As a small independent author and publisher, I curate content on a daily basis, since 2005. 2) Slicing and Dicing 3) Micro - Macro

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Scoop.it: Content Curation Platform Review; 13 Things I Like and Three I Don’t This post is the second in a series on content curation and deals with content curation platform Scoop.it. In subsequent posts, I will examine two other such platforms: Rebelmouse and Paper.li. NOTE: The first post in this series dealt with curation fundamentals. Lately, I’ve been testing three different content curation platforms: Scoop.it, Rebelmouse and Paper.li. In this post, I review what has become my curation platform of preference, Scoop.it. Thirteen Things I Like About Scoop.it Scoop.it offers many features that commend it as a highly useful curation platform. Visual format – Scoop.it makes use of graphics to draw attention to each article shared, which is in keeping with a shift toward the Pinterest/Instagram inspired visual orientation of the web.Two column layout – By presenting stories in a simple two-column format, Scoop.it offers a more orderly layout than does its competitor Rebelmouse, which, aside from the featured post, I find a tad too cluttered. Conclusion

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