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From janigordon:
"I selected this post written by Elad Gil because not only was it interesting and timely, but the comments from his readers were equally as valuable. So many different social curation platforms emerging, Pinterest is one to watch.......
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Social Content Curation As The Next Big Thing
The most interesting wave hitting the social web in 2012 is social curation. This was kicked off in 2011 as Pinterest's growth was noticed by Silicon Valley and a number of companies quickly followed suit -
**Snip.It launched as a social information curation platform, Quora adopted boards for a similar purpose, and Fab.com launched a structured social commerce feed.
There's so much information in this post, here's the takeaway. I would love to hear your comments about this next wave......
Takeaway:
2012 Will Be The Year of Curated Sets
**Just as the first wave of social media has transformed the consumption of information, this next wave of social curation will fundamentally change how users find and interact with content over time.
Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond
Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/lK0ZHi]" Via janlgordon, Steven L. Johnson
Tom George's comment,
January 4, 2012 9:54 PM
Hey Jan,
It most definitely is. I thank you as well and I look forward to a great year of curating, learning and growing.
janlgordon's comment,
January 4, 2012 10:25 PM
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Absolutely Tom, it's going to be an exciting time!
maxOz's comment,
January 19, 2012 9:58 PM
Jan, I have sent this scoop [error] didn't realize you had it xxx
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Some of these findings here are in the "Well, duh!" category - negative tweets don't increase followers, nobody cares what you had for lunch, informational tweets perform better.
Others are quite interesting. For example "network overlap" has the highest positive effect on number of followers, follwoed by the tweet to retweet ration. Network overlap is defined as "Number of connections in-common with potential new followers."
Via @PatriotsofMars