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Curating curation topic on Scoop.it
Content curation tools are designed to assist the process of searching, collating and sharing existing content. Content curation differs from simple content aggregation in that curators screen for the most relevant content, and often edit or comment it. By curating content on a topic close to them, brands can position themselves as a go-to expert on that topic and embed their communication into the richer context of external content sources.
Content curation tools are multiplying like wild mushrooms. Category leaders, like Pinterest, tumblr and Scoop.it are growing impressively fast.
At the same time, other tools from social media, blogging and search, such as Twitter, Paper.li and Google are strengthening their curation functionality.
Observer (like me) are starting to make distinctions among subcategories like Search Curation (Topsy, Feedsquares), Video Curation (Magnify.net), Content Trends curation (Zemanta, Parse.ly), Corporate Curation (Curata, CurationSoft, Digimind), Content Relationships curation (Pearltrees, Mind.it).
The most popular category is Social Curation. Social Curation enables users to clip and publically share content (mostly pictures, graphics and video) in the form of attractive personalized mood boards (typical of Pinterest, Bundlr).
Reviewed from experience by Matt Hopkins - Reeder - News360 - Buffer
Note: Found it via Sccop.it via Curata ! 
You don’t have to be a lifestyle-type site to win on Pinterest, you merely need to make your brand fun and create interesting, shareable images. Pinterest offers other benefits, including social links generated from content shared on Pinterest. Micro-blogging website dynamo Twitter announced today that it will allow visitors to enable the Firefox Browser’s Do Not Track feature, allowing users who don’t want any info gathered about them to visit the site anonymously. 
With the rise of social platforms and emergence of new mobile and connected devices, we have seen an explosion in the amount of information being created and consumed. It is not a surprise that we have quietly entered the post-search world... [... ]...Twitter is trying to solve what my colleague Mathew Ingram calls its “filter” problem. It isn’t the only one... Content curation has been a hot topic over the past several months with potential for being the next wave in the evolution of social media. 
By using part automated information relay extraction process, and with no added value to the original content, curation leads the web into an excessive expansion logic damaging the whole ecosystem, his users and the one ...
Comment: lots of truth in the original post but curation is not only that. Proof is: that post got more readers from being curated than from its original publication. I certainly would never have discovered if it had not been curated by several people. Direct link to the post: http://www.actulligence.com/en/2012/04/11/curation-its-shit/ 
This post is part of the Twitter for Brands Series, which features winning strategies from the top brand pages on Twitter and provides tips on how to emulate their successes.
Over the past few years I must have heard the phrase ‘everyone is a publisher nowadays’ a thousand times or more. It’s largely accurate, due to the rise of social media, but I think we are mainly ‘curators’, as opposed to ‘publishers’.
Comparing public user engagement suggests that Google+ is still a niche pursuit, despite Google claiming it has 170 million people signed up - while Pinterest's attraction remains high.
Comment: the content on this page is old but I scooped it because it's interesting to look at a Shareist page. Looks quite like Scoop.it 
SeeSaw, the new visual content discovery and curation tool developed by New York-based Internet Media Labs...
Note: I was unable to find a websitefor SeeSaw... 
[... ] Are you a content consumer or creator? Some might say both, but in reality, most serve a role between creation and consumption. Not quite creator and far from solely consuming content, social curators introduce a new and important role into the pyramid of Information Commerce....
Comment: I can't remember whether I already scooped this April 25th 2012 post by Brian Solis. In any case it's always worh repeating. Very interesting graphics, too. |
... Microsoft is hoping to take advantageof the fact that Google failed to integrate multiple social services into its social search, and instead tried to recreate the social componentwith Google+.Google’s social ... 
This one-day event is designed to help attendees leverage the possibilities of curated commerce and consumption.
Note: Direct link to the Visual Communities & Commerce July 31, 2012 | New York :City http://www.mediabistro.com/socialcurationsummit/ 
Comment: As usual from Social Media Examiner, 6 very practical and effective tips for pratictoners. Original post May 14 2012 found through Nigel Ohrum on Quora. The large Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten has confirmed it is leading a US$ 100 million investment in Pinterest, which will help the network expand to more international markets and solidify its business model.
Comment: Original post May 17 2012. Don't know how I could overlook that one! Original post May 17, 2012 Buffer is a service that lets users schedule tweets or Facebook updates ahead of time — essentially letting you "buffer" your updates. With its acquisition of rival service ShareFeed, Buffer gets insights into user data along with a few other benefits. 
Why does the verb 'curate' suddenly have so much currency?
Columnist Michael Gross makes fun of the buzzword 
Comment: I probably overlooked this article by Steven Rosenbaum in Fast Company and thank Things I grag... for pointing it out again. It's hard to tell whether I already scooped it, because Scoop.it does not allow to acurately search through my own topic -- which I find a major limitation.
Anyway the article explains why content curation is hard, how to do it right, and why it's useful then. I agree. It also talks about attribution and the Curator Code.
Direct link to original article in Fast Company dated April 16 2012 http://www.fastcompany.com/1834177/content-curators-are-the-new-superheros-of-the-web?partner=rss&nbsp 
... Pinterest differs from its social-media cousins in another key way: Pinners choose which content to follow, not which users to follow. If you follow someone’s themed board (wedding inspiration, for example), then you only get that person’s wedding-related content and nothing about the books they’re reading or the recipes they’re trying. ..
....Here’s your inbound marketing takeaway: In general, content curation can help build an audience and is certainly one tool in the inbound marketers tool chest. But content creation is the golden ticket you need to strive for....
Comment: good demo of content curation toll list.ly
We've known for a while that spam was jumping on the Pinterest train. Now, security software service McAfee is sending out an official warning to keep an eye out for fraudulent pins.
Comment:Indeed, spam is plagging Pinterest! 
Tumblr, the blogging site that has seen a huge jump in usage in the past two years, recently announced that it’s introducing sponsored products on the site. ![Elements of a Strong Content Marketing Campaign [INFOGRAPHIC] | Content Curation Tools | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/42eUQEM7o1QmapMx1qvQ9Dl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Content marketing is a powerful tool that businesses can use to attract new customers, generate leads, spread awareness, and promote information that can lead to sales.
Note: rightly focuses on original content. |
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