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A magazine aiming to bring you the most relevant articles on content creation and curation
What will you find here? A curated collection of
*** curation-related posts on how this new discipline can be used, the skills and techniques needed, and the tools available *** creation-related posts covering content marketing and brand journalism.
If you see a post you think should be included, please let me know.
If you would like to read more curated posts, take a look at my Paper.li newspaper, also called Create and Curate http://paper.li/lizwilson2/1320576735
You can also read my original writing on my blog, http://dotcomma.me/ and at the Paper.li community, http://community.paper.li/author/lwilson/
My old-fashioned website is at http://www.imcp.ch.
ABOUT ME I am a freelance writer, editor, blogger and curator. I am also Staff Writer at Paper.li. Feel free to tweet me at @lizwilson2 or email lizwilson at imcp dot ch. 
There are many content curation tools out there, but only a few that deliver like Paper.li does. By curating the content automatically for you, based on the keywords of your choice, the service opens the door to higher brand visibility. In this article, I will share five ways you can use Paper.li to boost your credibility and attract the right audience for your website, blog, products and services. Via Piotr Zabicki "The Internet is just one giant refrigerator door, supercharged in people's ability to share cartoons that they like." That's good news for editorial cartoonists, an embattled bunch who certainly could use some. Via Luís António Santos 
Interesting facts from Curata's Content Curation Adoption Survey 2012. As well, you can download a free copy of the entire survey - essential if you are seriously involved in curation and want to understand what others are doing.
Curata says: "Our 2012 Content Curation Adoption Survey reflects that content curation has experienced significant growth in the past year and indicates that it will become even more mainstream in years to come." 
Social Media - Companies are leaping onto the Pinterest bandwagon, and your brand, too, can benefit from what is now one of the world's largest social networks. Learn what type of content marketers ... Via Andy Bull 
Pinterest has become a popular marketing tool, but is it being tracked effectively? Check out 5 tools for monitoring Pinterest activity. Via Cendrine 
For the guidelines, the scholars looked at the academic research on Twitter and studied the official accounts of leading news outlets such as The New York Times, the BBC, The Washington Post and National Public Radio. Via Andy Bull 
Robin Good: Memplay is a free web service which allows you to collaboratively upload images, video and audio files, and then to edit these into a final video.
Images and other media files can be imported directly from your computer as well as from your Facebook galleries.
Once you have uploaded all of your audio, video and image resources you can use the web-based video editor to assemble easily your final video.
Memplai provides integrated effects, transitions and video templates.
Free to use.
FAQ: http://memplai.com/Home/FAQ ;
More info: http://memplai.com/ ; Via Robin Good, Heiko Idensen 
From the official guide: "This document defines formatting and style rules for HTML and CSS.
It aims at improving collaboration, code quality, and enabling supporting infrastructure.
...like other Google style guides, deals with a lot of formatting-related matters.
It also hints at best practices so to encourage developers to go beyond indentation.
Many style guide authors know the underlying motivation from the question whether to describe the code they write—or to prescribe what code they want to write. Not surprisingly then, in our HTML and CSS style guide you’ll find both (as much as you’ll still find a lot of different development styles in our not entirely small code base)."
Full Guide: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/htmlcssguide.xml ; Via Robin Good 
Pinterest over the last 6 months has become the social network with buzz, which provides a visual platform that offers the ecosystem to experiment and play with images as a means of marketing and engagement and even selling."
Selected by Jan Gordon covering "Pinterst Watch"
See article here: [http://bit.ly/KSoHWy] Via janlgordon Useful presentation from Shel Holz that shows actual examples of curation for internal communications.
Needless to say, there is a ton of useful, practical information in this presentation. It is an hour long ( including Q&A) but it's definitely worth it.
Original video: http://vimeo.com/30168580 ;
Via Alison Harrison, Robin Good 
I selected this piece written by Steve Rosenbaum for BBC Internet Blog because it's inspiring for those of us who are already curating to watch the evolution of curation and see these words from a man who knows.
"Digital Overload and information epidemic is sweeping the planet"
**The information ecosystem is flooded with voices, sources, rumors, facts, data, digits, images and check-ins
I love the way Steve describes the curators:
"To seperate signal from noise, an emerging class of information superheros called Content Curators have emerged"
He describes curators as -
"Journalists who've climbed into a time machine and been transported to the future, where there are more sources, and more tools, and stunning and sometimes reckless speed"
(He spoke at the 3rd BBC Online Briefing this past Friday, May 3rd and discussed curation and what it means for big media players like the BBC)
**It may be that what the web needs most are focused, topic oriented editorial specialists. Individuals who can gather information on a related topic.
**A new brand of journalist that can bring a distinct editorial voice to a curated content environment
Digital Overload is both a problem and an opportunity.
**One thing is for certain, the growth in digital content isn't going to slow down
**How we manage it - and who we trust to curate the information we need is the next big question on the web
Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
Read full article here: [http://bbc.in/ID9DNJ] Via janlgordon, Gerrit Bes 
Comment: Good intro and tools reviews including some less often discussed curation tools like Qrait. Themeefy Via Therese Torris |
Robin Good: Keemix is a web publishing service which allows anyone to create their own web magazine by easily capturing and editing content already available on the web.
You can create multiple channels/topics covering different topics/interests, share items on social networks and have a personalized Keemix web site with your custom look.
From the official site: "Keemix allows you to gather loved content from the web, mix it into your own custom-designed pages, and share it to inspire your friends and colleagues.
Mixes can be private or public, and administrated individually or collaboratively.
A bookmarklet makes it easy to grab any site, article, video, image or text you may run into on the web.
(Thanks to Giuseppe Mauriello for discovering this) Via Robin Good 
Excerpted from article: "Much of today’s deliberate curation services recommend content algorithmically, based on your particular taste in news. But automated suggestions pose the inherent risk that we may only consume stories and angles tailored to our existing beliefs.
A budding service that clearly distinguishes itself from its competitors is Ongo, a news curation platform that combines the best of automation and manual curation, thanks to its team of expert editors.
Ongo is unique in two ways. First, it has built its platform based on authoritative sources of news from the New York Times and Reuters. It prides itself on a strict standard of quality for news delivered to Ongo users, while boasting partnerships with the top content providers within each genre of news.
Second, Ongo is run using an internal algorithm recommending a selection of 10,000 articles daily for its editors to choose from. The editors will then curate authoritative and must-know news.
On the front end, the publications are packaged into “Titles” that users can pick and choose to appear in their news feeds.
The caveat is that while some publication Titles are free to read, many other titles require a monthly subscription ranging from $0.99 to upwards of $9.99..."
Read full article here: http://j.mp/IKB35C
Check out Ongo: http://www.ongo.com
Via Giuseppe Mauriello 
This is a podcast I recoded on Curation for Spark Tech Talk - "a regular podcast and a community of leaders discussing content in the areas of social media, technology, gaming, entertainment, business and more..."
I had the privilege to be joined by Oliver Hsiang from StumbleUpon and Gary Griffiths from Trap.it.
It was great to have a dynamic conversation with both of them on the background and evolution of Curation as we all brought our different perspectives.
Enjoy! Via gdecugis 
IJNet.org is the premier global website for journalists and media managers to learn about training and networking opportunities. The site and its weekly e-mail bulletin reports on the latest innovations, resources and awards. Via Dennis T OConnor 
Whether you’re using social media (including blogging), content marketing, and/or traditional marcom (aka marketing communications), an editorial calendar is at the heart of your of marketing because, as the saying goes, today every marketer is a publisher. A great resource from Heidi Cohen - useful for beginners and seasoned content professionals alike. 
What would happen if two of the digital world’s hottest startups, Pinterest and Instagram, were mashed into one? Via Maria Klochkova 
Why customer stories are better than metrics http://t.co/aMqlaxwX Jeannie Walters talks about the gold in off-the-cuff customer comments...
Articles like this one are rare -- hardly anyone recognizes, much less writes about, how customer stories and anecdotes gain you far more than metrics, surveys, or focus groups. Usually focus groups are crafted info-gathering exercises rather than story sharing experiences where deep meaning can be gleaned.
OK -- so maybe a lot of people in these fields don't know the best narrative research and story evoking methodologies. If they did however, I think we would see huge improvements in customer feedback, engagement, and better/deeper/richer material.
Back to the article -- this is a quick post but with good tips for thinking about customer anecdotes as critical information, and how to start gathering them. I really like that the author suggests once you have these anecdotes in hand, it's time to take action on them. Seems obvious, but it doesn't always happen.
Enjoy this post and I hope to see more like it in the future! Via Karen Dietz
Scoop.it Scoopers! Are you interested in a Fan Group or G+ Circle?
I have had an excellent response to my post. As a result, I am thinking of putting a G+circle and/or Fan Group together. Any interest? Just respond to this post to let me know... Cheers Via Shirley Williams (XeeMe.com/ShirleyWilliams) ![The Internet of Yesterday vs. Today [infographic] | Create and Curate | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/8ckIXH-gj6H5RVCQbvLUDTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Magnify.net founder and "Curation Nation" author Steven Rosenbaum says associations -- and their members, for that matter -- have a choice: Become trusted content curators or risk becoming irrelevant.
Watch it here: http://youtu.be/wbHWTuAGGdA
Posted also on Steve Rosenbaum's Blog: http://steverosenbaum.me/video/Content-curation-More-signal-le Via Giuseppe Mauriello 
Robin Good: If you are just about to start testing how effective a content curation tool like Scoop.it can be for building your own reputation and visibility in a specific interest area, this 10-step guide by Shirley Williams does provide some important information on how to start with the proper foot.
The guide is illustrated with many screenshots and it pinpoints the key items you need to be paying attention to when starting to curate a dedicated channel.
Informative. Useful for novices. 7/10
Full mini-guide: http://socialmediapearls.com/10-steps-to-curate-your-social-media-content-with-scoop-it-for-increased-value Via Shirley Williams (XeeMe.com/ShirleyWilliams), Robin Good 
It's time to end Me-too content and let writer's write!
" Publishers often try to translate the paper model to the web and offer everything to their audiences. It leads to a me-too content explosion in which publishers struggle to cover everything in order to stay household brands."
Give writers a mission, and the tools to pursue it. Empower writers to make a difference in their writing - let them explore, experiment and write - long form and original content with the aim to feed the mind and soul.
Great article by Paper.li publisher Evren Kiefer. Food for thought!
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