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Google Reader Alternatives: Which One Is Best For You? 30 Tools To Choose From

Google Reader Alternatives: Which One Is Best For You? 30 Tools To Choose From | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it

 

 


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Gerda van Doorn's comment, May 5, 4:01 AM
Another possibility is Symbaloo, great for categorising.
Gianluigi Spagnoli's comment, May 6, 3:39 AM
Tnx for the suggestion.
Elsie Whitelock's curator insight, May 6, 9:10 AM

sooo many choices..

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55 Content Curation Tools To Discover & Share Digital Content

55 Content Curation Tools To Discover & Share Digital Content | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it
55 Content Curation Tools To Discover & Share Digital Content

 


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Lynn O'Connell for O'Connell Meier's curator insight, April 23, 4:02 PM

Soon we'll need a curation site to curate the curation tools.

Donna Watt's curator insight, April 24, 1:00 AM

So many tools, so hard to keep up. Thinking about ways to apply them in the public library context. Easy enough to see professional uses - what about customer facing uses? Ideas?

J-P De Clerck's curator insight, April 24, 4:49 AM

Could it be that content curation is kinda hot?

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RSS Reader Reinvented: The Best Google Reader Alternative (after Feedly) Is MultiPLX

RSS Reader Reinvented: The Best Google Reader Alternative (after Feedly) Is MultiPLX | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it
RSS Reader Reimagined; Everything you want to read - news, your favorite blogs, art and more - in one convenient place designed for you.

 


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How Users Interact On Pinterest, Study Reveals User Habits

How Users Interact On Pinterest, Study Reveals User Habits | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it
Pinterest users interact differently than users on other social networks. The team at Wishpond explores which pins receive the best treatment overall.



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Thanks John, good one!
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How To Curate Your Blog with WordPress or Tumblr: Introductory Advice

How To Curate Your Blog with WordPress or Tumblr: Introductory Advice | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it
Content curation is, in a nutshell, picking and choosing content from around the Web, and sharing it with your followers.  Running a curated blog is not just about finding interesting content to share.

 


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Anne McLean's curator insight, March 26, 9:35 PM

Content curation is as important as finding the information in the first place.  Blogs possibilities for co-ordinating digital content curation.

Deb Nystrom, REVELN Consulting's curator insight, March 26, 11:24 PM

Blogs can be excellent curation tools.  Ask me, the woman who is saying goodbye to over 20+ Posterous blogs (public, private, shared) as Posterous shuts down at the end of April.

Thinking through curation with excerpted content and your composition on these two platforms is helpful.  ~  Deb

Víctor V. Valera Jiménez's curator insight, March 28, 11:50 AM

Interesante artículo de Nancy Mesias en "MakeUseOf" que puede servir como buena introducción para los que estén comenzando en este apasionante mundo de la  Content Curation.

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Find, Select and Post the Most Relevant Stories On Any Topic with ContentDJ

Find, Select and Post the Most Relevant Stories On Any Topic with ContentDJ | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it

A news aggregation, curation and social media publishing commercial tool.

 


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Robin Good's curator insight, March 10, 1:02 PM



ContentDJ is a commercial web app which allows you to easily monitor your favorite topics via keywords and to share the most relevant ones to your preferred social media channels (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIN) or to your self-hosted WordPress blog.


In addition to these core capabilities, ContentDJ integrates an excellent social media editorial calendar facility which allows you to schedule and organize your postings to different social media according to your preferences, as well as a clean-cut and well orgamized dashboard of stats covering your social media activities.


ContentDJ has an excellent user interface making easy and intuitive to set up and configure your account in minutes. The app can notify you via email, according to your preferred scheduled time slots, about new content being available for your review.


Pricing starts at $6.75/mo where you get:

  • three trackable keywords ($14.25/mo gives you five)
  • one social account connected ($14.25 gives you two)
  • social media editorial calendar
  • daily email digest


P.S.: ContentDJ promises also a Playlist page, a public web page in which you can organize and showcase your best stuff, but it looks like as this feature has yet to be released, or is not part of what you can presently access through the free trial.



Key strengths:


  • easy-to-use
  • intuitive interface
  • aggregates and visibly rank incoming stories
  • easy to pick or reject content stories
  • publishes directly to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIN
  • posts directly via XML-RPC to self-hosted Wordpress sites
  • create a post from scratch feature
  • free trial - no credit card required



Limits:


  • no free base level account available
  • no editing for selected stories (possible in editorial calendar)
  • no possibility to input selected RSS feeds or sources to monitor
  • no bookmarklet
  • unclear billing options on purchase page
  • no in-depth tutorials or videos



Review: https://lonelybrand.com/blog/curate-content-more-efficiently-with-content-dj/


Free 14-day trial available.


Find out more and try it out now: http://contentdj.com/




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Social Curation Is The Future of Successful Community Engagement

Social Curation Is The Future of Successful Community Engagement | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it

What is Social Curation? Social curation involves aggregating, organizing and sharing content created by others to add con...

 


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Stephen Dale's curator insight, March 6, 5:05 AM

Social Curation is not limited to marketing, brands and "the web". Many of the principles described here can equally be applied to enterprise (workplace) communities by the Community Manager (or Facilitator). The role is all about helping the community achieve it's goals...by aggregating, organizing and sharing content created by the community, i.e. "Social Curation"!

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Dawn Adams Miller's curator insight, April 13, 11:22 AM

This is definitely a major role for a community manager which is why I love learning about these two topics: community management and curation.  They are inseparable.  I think this is what makes the difference between a community that has members and a community that has ACTIVE members, which, of course, is the POINT!  Enjoy!

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5 Minute Guide to Screencasting | Innovation & Sérendipité

5 Minute Guide to Screencasting | Innovation & Sérendipité | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it
Mr. Driscoll provides a step-by-step tutorial of how to create a quick (and free) screencast using screencast-o-matic.com.

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Beyond marks: new tools to visualise student engagement via social networks | Badge | Research in Learning Technology

Beyond marks: new tools to visualise student engagement via social networks | Badge | Research in Learning Technology | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it
Beyond marks: new tools to visualise student engagement via social networks ("network visualisation can be an important curation tool for educators" student engagement + edusocial resrch goodness http://t.co/erohUt3u)...

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The C-word: Curation (plus some more C-words along the way ...

The C-word: Curation (plus some more C-words along the way ... | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it
Curating content requires just as much time and effort as creating content from scratch—maybe more. It requires consistency, constant maintenance, and the same intense clarity about your goals, your audience and your ...

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Researchers opt to limit uses of open-access publications

Researchers opt to limit uses of open-access publications | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it
Advocates of open publishing fret that misunderstandings lead scientists to choose restrictive licenses.

 


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Curators and New Search Engines To Fuel Long-Form Journalism Comeback

Curators and New Search Engines To Fuel Long-Form Journalism Comeback | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it
Brand marketers often use bite-sized content on their social sites. But to truly engage with your audience, Contently's Joe Coleman argues that it's long-form content that will win out.

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Therese Torris's curator insight, February 2, 10:00 AM

The author argues that quality will win over quantity. I'm afraid that brands need both. Furthermore, the saying "a good picture is worth a thousand words" is more true than ever

Tim O'Keefe's curator insight, February 2, 12:39 PM

Content Content Content
http://www.spiderjuicetechnologies.com/content

Groupe5_panist's curator insight, February 3, 6:02 AM

Robin Good commente les propos de Joe Coleman: "Pour une curation qui privilégie la qualité du contenu sur la qauntité. Vers plus d'analyse de la part du curateur"

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Facebook launches curation feature called Collections similar to Pinterest - Internet Marketing Blog -Content Curation Marketing

Facebook launches curation feature called Collections similar to Pinterest - Internet Marketing Blog -Content Curation Marketing | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it
Facebook launches curation feature called Collections similar to Pinterest (Facebook launches curation feature called Collections similar to Pinterest - Internet Marketing Blog...

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Curation Is The Future of Online Retail Shopping

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Farid Mheir's curator insight, April 26, 6:18 PM

Absolutely a huge trend. Recent NRF show in NYC, curated commerce was very popular topic. Not only are brands and websites positioning themselves, newcomer companies are starting to prepare platforms to facilitate the creation of curated commerce. For example, Dell unveiled a special curated commerce project that will provide the platform for others to enable curated commerce on their website.

Lee Tonitto's curator insight, April 28, 3:03 AM

Fashion SKU curation is the solution to reduce consumer anxiety: A search for ‘black dress’ in Clothing & Accessories on Amazon.com brings back 65,529 results! For consumers, this large number of choices can lead to confusion, exhaustion and dissatisfied purchases, or worse, no purchase at all."

Mr Branson's curator insight, May 8, 5:15 AM

I believe, online consumers of all ages now want more than a shopping experience. They want price, place, promotion, people and ACTION. http://www.infogurushop.com Without the above they will simply continue to click, browse and surf away.What do you think?

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Digital Libraries to School Libraries

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This project’s aim is to explore ways in which school librarians can use DL open content to expand and enrich the school library’s resource base and instructional support. This project uses the newest web-based technologies to help school librarians identify DL open content, integrate open content metadata into their OPACs, and help use open content for learning.

 

 

 

 

 


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Linda Dougherty's curator insight, April 28, 10:49 PM

Add open content to Destiny Quest OPAC then make Resource Lists for students and teachers. Win!

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RSS Reader Reinvented: The Best Google Reader Alternative (after Feedly) Is MultiPLX

RSS Reader Reinvented: The Best Google Reader Alternative (after Feedly) Is MultiPLX | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it
RSS Reader Reimagined; Everything you want to read - news, your favorite blogs, art and more - in one convenient place designed for you.

 


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RealtimeBoard A Great Tool for Visual Collaboration ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

RealtimeBoard A Great Tool for Visual Collaboration ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it

Click here to edit the content

 


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Carol Koechlin's curator insight, March 10, 12:31 PM

Looks like great potential for collaborative work for students and teachers in the LC.

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Curate Online Content via RSS with Qyurate

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Robin Good's curator insight, March 18, 7:05 AM



Bill French has just released and made available for purchase a Google Docs based mini-app he has developed, which allows anyone to curate online content without needing to have a website or blog.


The app whic is called Qyurate, allows to capture and edit / curate content found on the web, to archive and store it by sending to a dedicated email, and to publish it via RSS.


More specifically:


Instead of emailing your annotated content items to a blogging platform such as Tumblr, email them to qyurate@gmail.com.


A running process at qyurate@gmail.com email address will see your posts, parse them into your available content for your feeds, and organize them by tags.


Tagging your posts is achieved by adding a name-value pair in parenthesis at the end of the email subject line.

Example:

The Art of QR Codes (qyurate:entconnect)


In the above example, this curated post will be categorized under “entconnect”. It is also possible to tag a post for use in multiple categories.


This makes it simple to dispatch curated items to more than one destination via separate RSS feeds.



Price: you name a price starting from $10

P.S.: Unfortunately the description and info about this new tool is quite concise and the "demo" provided on the landing page is accessible only by those who have previously bought an eBook by Bill French ($8).

* What I have done to get access without buying, is to provide a fictitious PIN when asked, and it seems you can go through it without problems.



Reference page: https://gumroad.com/l/qyurate






gwynethjones's curator insight, March 18, 9:31 AM

Sites step up to take the floods of people looking for RSS feed curation services

Pippa Davies @PippaDavies 's curator insight, March 18, 11:39 AM

If you don't have a blog and want to curate,  here is another option using Google apps.  

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How Users Interact On Pinterest, Study Reveals User Habits

How Users Interact On Pinterest, Study Reveals User Habits | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it
Pinterest users interact differently than users on other social networks. The team at Wishpond explores which pins receive the best treatment overall.


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The Performance Improvement Blog: Curation: Making Sense of ...

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So much information; so little time. This is a universal dilemma of the 21st century. We are inundated with email, tweets, blog posts, Linkedin updates and comments, Facebook news feeds and messages, rss feeds, in addition ...

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Deborah Owen's curator insight, February 14, 8:01 AM

"Curation takes the management of information a step further, adding value to the set of data by selecting what best fits the criteria of consumers and helping consumers understand the meaning and usefulness of the information."

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Engaging higher education tools via digital curation | Medical Librarians Of the World (MeLOW)

Engaging higher education tools via digital curation | Medical Librarians Of the World (MeLOW) | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it
The emergence and adoption of freely available digital curation tools has shown a public desire to locate, evaluate and organise web content into manageable, sh (RT @digicmb: Engaging higher education tools via digital curation | @scoopit

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My Top 10 Web Curation Tools as A Teacher ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

My Top 10  Web Curation Tools as A Teacher ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning | Curation and Libraries and Learning | Scoop.it
RT @TheresaShafer: Great list=>My Top 10 Web Curation Tools as A Teacher ~ http://t.co/Xrk2531x @medkh9

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The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation

My posts on content curation: http://www.bethkanter.org/category/content/

 


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O benefícios inesperados da curadoria de conteúdos, de Beth Kanter

Linda Buckmaster's curator insight, February 11, 5:49 AM

What is a curator? What do they do?  What is good/bad curation? Here in this presentation everything explained beautifully!

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The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation

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O benefícios inesperados da curadoria de conteúdos, de Beth Kanter

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What is a curator? What do they do?  What is good/bad curation? Here in this presentation everything explained beautifully!

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A Straightforward Guide To Using Pinterest In Education - Edudemic

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Wondering how to use Pinterest in education? Find out with this highly visual and simple look at how to use Pinterest (great for beginners!)

 


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