Curation and Libraries and Learning

sooo many choices..

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

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?

Could it be that content curation is kinda hot?

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

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

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.

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/

I always pay attention to Joyce Valenza's recommendations. 

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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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!

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

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

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"

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.

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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

O benefícios inesperados da curadoria de conteúdos, de Beth Kanter

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

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!