Great article on leveraging the other side of Social Networks - using them to gain business intelligence for your enterprise. A couple of interesting "do not's" in the article as well.
Based on my experience in the field of competitive intelligence research using the internet, here are five quick tips for individuals who wish to use social networks to gather business related information to make the right decisions. Via Jay Nelson 
Robin Good: If you are looking for tutorials, instruction and help on how to use Yahoo Pipes to aggregate, filter and splice RSS-feed based content for your news or content curation work, you will find a trove of useful articles, video screencasts, and ready-made Pipes for you to use at Dawn Foster's Yahoo Pipes page.
Free.
Very useful. 9/10
Direct url: http://fastwonderblog.com/yahoo-pipes-and-rss-hacks/ ; Via Robin Good 
Most aspects of curation are already compatible with today’s smartphones; we can read content, edit and include short-form commentary, and of course, share to various social networks with a few swipes of the finger. With this in mind, we listened to your feedback and combined all of these elements into the very first mobile curation app, Scoop.it for iPhone, which gives users a simple, efficient, and visually appealing way to curate on the go. ... http://blog.scoop.it/en/2011/12/16/why-curation-is-the-natural-form-of-mobile-publishing/
... Today, we are very glad to announce our new Android app, which will bring mobile curation on the Scoop.it platform to all Android users. ... Much like the iPhone app, the Android app will allow you to leverage the suggestions you’ve configured for your topic as well as suggestions from other users. The publishing window is almost identical to that of the website and, of course, you will have all of your sharing options. ... But, what’s the best thing about the Scoop.it mobile app for Android? Well, we’ve taken simplicity a step further as the App adds Scoop.it to your browser’s native sharing menu. Now, to curate content you discovered while browsing, you no longer need to copy and paste the URL from your phone’s browser or install the bookmarklet. Content can be posted to Scoop.it by simply clicking your browser’s share button: ... And just like its iPhone counterpart, the app allows to you do perform essentially all of the tasks of curating your topics without telling anyone you did it from your phone. Whether your posts are published from your phone or from your computer, your topic pages will always sport the same fluid magazine layout. ... The main goal of mobile internet is to make sure you can do all of the great things you do on your computer from your phone without compromising any quality, and that is exactly what we have in mind when creating our mobile apps. ... We know that your passions weren’t developed from sitting in front of your computer all day, so why should you have to do this when you want to share them with the world? Take your curation mobile with the new Scoop.it Android app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scoopit.android.curation Via Heiko Idensen 
Robin Good: If you are looking to create an "online portfolio" of your credentials, samples and best work, Mashable Heather Huhman has selected and reviewed 5 tools that do jus this.
Informative. 7/10
Full article: http://mashable.com/2012/04/15/online-portfolio-tools ; Via Robin Good 
I’m sure a lot of you guys have looked into curation software available ... Obviously with the radically different price points they all do different things, but here’s the gist – a whole lot of this you can do for free.
Step One – Define your Parameters Define your parameters by where you want the goods to go. Make sure everything is accessible from the beginning so you can leverage your curated content efficiently from the start. Step Two – Choose your Weapons e.g. Timely.is; G+ and FB
Step Three – Be Intentional with your Schedule I can’t speak to your industry/niche but I can tell you that when I do my curation at somewhere between 6 and 8am EST I find a goldmine of posts that are brand-flipping-new
Step Four – Be Crazy Time Sensitive I make sure to only curate content that is timely [less than 1% of the time curate something more than 24 hours old] Open up a google search and type in “content marketing” at the beginning of my day, and set it to the last 24 hours.
Step Five – Be Consistent As long as you are curating the same general stuff over and over it will work for you. Notice: Steps 1-5 are all about the setup or protocol. Steps 6-9 are the actual daily work.
Step Six – Prepare for Battle Open windows to the following places: Google search
Step Seven – Get Rolling e.g. search for the term “content marketing” in the last 24 hours as shown above; grab 5 or 6 posts that are relevant and make tweets about them and put them on timely/buffer/scoopit
Step Eight – Natural Overflow Doing twitter first thing after curation is great, if you have the time. 20-30 minutes after you have your automated posts in place to interact with your feed, clean out the spam tweeps, follow back the real people, etc.
Step Nine – Use what you Learn Use your curation is as the basis for your own blogs Not regurgitation, but rather letting your new-found knowledge fuel your next post. Or, add to the list of blog ideas you have on a running list somewhere.
Setting aside this 45 minutes a day to get the most relevant pieces of content your industry has to offer can not only fill your feeds, but it can also fuel your entire day. And it should, because you should be talking about the latest things in your industry.
Great ideas by Amie Marse - http://bit.ly/HfET6B ; Via maxOz, janlgordon 
Robin Good: Timeline is a Javascript open-source solution that allows anyone to create a visual timeline that integrates text, tweets, images, maps, audio recordings and video clips on an infinite scrollable bar.
A project funded by the Knight News Innovation Lab, Timeline works great with stories that have a strong chronological narrative. It does not work well for stories that need to jump around in the timeline.
Mashable Sonia Paul writes about it: "Timeline is similar to Storify in that it allows users to aggregate media on the web, it differs in its operation.
With Storify, users can drag and drop content into a post.
With Timeline, users can either embed the code onto their website using JSON, or — if they don’t want to mess with any coding — they can fill in a ready-made Timeline template on Google Docs.
The project is currently hosted on GitHub, and users can find specific directions on how to both embed the code and use the Google Doc template there, too.
Future plans for the project include support of more media type, as well as iPhone compatibility, B.C. time support and better seconds and milliseconds support."
Here is the GDoc ready-made template: https://docs.google.com/previewtemplate?id=0AppSVxABhnltdEhzQjQ4MlpOaldjTmZLclQxQWFTOUE&mode=public&ndplr=1&pli=1#
Download: https://github.com/VeriteCo/Timeline/zipball/master ;
More info, including how to embed it on your site and what file formats are supported: http://timeline.verite.co/ ; Via Robin Good 
Curation is a form of storytelling.Curation tools need to support this truth. Collecting content without qualitative human judgement is aggregation, not c... 
A depiction of just how much content flows onto the web every day and an argument for the need for curation and curators. Via RIVKI GADOT Robin Good: Here's another good example of curation at work. Andy Dickinson, has used Storify to create a "curated reference" of his lecture about curation for his first year undergraduate students.
The "storified" reference contains links to tools, video clips, and many contributions which allow any learner interested in this topic, to follow a selected path from which it is possible to wander off and explore in many interesting directions.
Useful. Informative. Inspirational. 8/10
http://storify.com/digidickinson/jn1013-curation-and-aggregation?awesm=sfy.co_hX4  Via Robin Good, RIVKI GADOT This is the first in a series of videos explaining the shifts we're seeing in the world of content creation. Curation has exploded with the growth of Twitter, Tumblr and now Pinterest. Interest in open online courses – and startups see this as an opportunity to automate and scale education. In a recent interview by Tamar Lewin for NYTimes, I stated that while you could call Udacity, Coursera, and Codeacademy examples of MOOCs (Massive open online courses), they are largely instantiations of existing educational practices. Their primary innovation is scaling. (See Jim Groom’s comments on this post…or Alan Levine’s thoughts on scaling in moocs). In the presentation embedded below, I evaluate how teaching, social, and cognitive presence in open courses that I’ve been involved with differ from those being offered by startups. In the process, I assault the spirits of both Alan and Jim in linking work that Stephen, Dave, and I have done with open courses and what they are doing with DS106. Via Mark Smithers 
Rivki: David Kelly says: "curating skills is a somewhat new and growing competency in the learning profession". He explains it by using the museum curator which is the best explanation in my opinion. "A learning curator is very similar. In a world of user-generated content, the learning curator brings the content together, ensuring that it is easily accessible. They also build links between individual pieces of content that can be leveraged into context-sensitive relationships that enhance overall learning." "A content curator needs to create some semblance of order to the chaos that can exist from ever-growing sources of content creation." "The curator also needs to be able to recognize and build connections between two seemingly unrelated topics. Doing so provides learners with an opportunity to extend their knowledge beyond the expected." "Measuring content curation is a little more difficult." "After all, if the whole built through curation is greater than the sum of the individual pieces of created content, would not that be the creation of something new?" Via RIVKI GADOT 
Robin Good: Maria Popova has just launched a classy and laudable initiative, focused on increasing awareness and in highlighting the importance of honoring always where or via who you have got to a certain article, report, video or image.
Credit and attribution are not just a "formal" way to comply with rules, laws and authors but an incredibly powerful emebddable mechanism to augment findability, discovery, sinergy and collaboration among human being interested in the same topic.
She writes: "In an age of information overload, information discovery — the service of bringing to the public’s attention that which is interesting, meaningful, important, and otherwise worthy of our time and thought — is a form of creative and intellectual labor, and one of increasing importance and urgency.
A form of authorship, if you will.
Yet we don’t have a standardized system for honoring discovery the way we honor other forms of authorship and other modalities of creative and intellectual investment, from literary citations to Creative Commons image rights."
For this purpose Curator's Code was created.
Curator's Code is first of all "a movement to honor and standardize attribution of discovery across the web" as well as a web site where you can learn about the two key types of attribution that we should be using:
Each one has now a peculiar characterizing icon that Curator's Code suggests to integrate in your news and content publication policies.
Additionally and to make it easy for anyone to integrate these new attribution icons in their work, Curator's Code has created a free bokkmarklet which makes using proper attribution a matter of one clic.
Hat tip to Maria Popova and Curator's Code for launching this initiative.
Whether or not you will sign Curator's Code pledge, become an official web site supporting it, or adopt its bookmarklet instantly is not as important as the key idea behind it: by providing credit and attribution to pieces of content you find elsewhere, you not only honestly reward who has spent time to create that content, but you significantly boost the opportunity for thousands of others to connect, link up to, discover and make greater sense of their search for meaning.
Read Maria Popova introductory article to Curator's Code: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/09/curators-code/ ;
How to use the Curator's bookmarklet: http://vimeo.com/38243275 ;
Healthy. Inspiring. 9/10
Curator's Code official web site: http://curatorscode.org/ ;
N.B.: Too bad that the Curator's Code bookmarklet doesn't work with Scoop.it, as the one excludes the other. But you could save the two codes for the special attribution characters in a text note and copy and paste whicever you need. Given the need for simplicity and integration this is not an ideal solution but I am sure that between Maria and Guillaume at Scoop.it they will find a way to make this work easily for all. Maria and Guillaume: what do you say?
Via Robin Good |
The history professor and author of Too Much to Know tells us what researchers have been discovering about how earlier human societies collected, organised and used information...
Amazing read and historical perspective about transmission. Knowledge and information are actually very different concept :
"This book doesn’t actually focus on the term information but it talks about the institutions that made knowledge possible. Its first volume runs “From Gutenberg to Diderot" – in other words, mid-15th to mid-18th century.
A second volume stretches “From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia”, from the mid-18th century to the 21st century.
Peter Burke is a great cultural historian who has worked on many different aspects of the transmission of knowledge – including, for example, how historians worked, or how ideas about good behaviour at court were transmitted.
In this synthetic pair of books he explores the question: What were the institutions that were collecting, classifying, sorting and disseminating information?"
In our world now where information is everywhere, how you make sure that knowledge is still accessible?
Curation is now not only a great means to express yourself but also an obvious path to become a gatekeeper and a qualitative filter.
This article gives an awesome perspective on an universal and eternal inspiring mission : transmission.
Full article: http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ann-blair-on-history-information
Via axelletess, Robin Good 
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 
These Google Docs tips inspire awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive. thanks to david andrade. Via Donna Browne, Maureen Greenbaum 
This piece was published by Andy Jankowski for Enterprise Strategies. The author has skillfully woven together a piece along with some videos using the strategy PBS Documentary Emmy award winner, Ken Burns.
"Corporate communicators are the Ken Burns of their organization’s content, helping move the story along through context and rhythm."
Here are 4 great tips with some wonderful takeaways:
Storyboard first
**Before you go digging for information, think about the message you want to convey
**What is the point of your communication? Who is your audience?
**Create a storyboard around this message.
Filter Intelligently
**Could I make this information richer or better by using information outside of my organization?”
**“Do infographics and video exist that would help my people learn this concept better?”
Don't Become Part of the Problem
**Identify good stuff
**Put it in the right collection
**Document it
Know When to Create and When to Curate
**Creation and curation should coexist. Curation is not in competition with creation.
**Instead, it is a form of creation.
**The creation process of a corporate communicator or internal journalist creating content is still happening
Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation and Social Business and Beyond"
Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/HGphZe] Via janlgordon 
It'n not the same thing at all - curators are needed exactly because they help their readers (and themselves) see the larger picture, gain a perspective and understand the context and meaning of the information they publish. Curation can be creative when it presents an original viewpoint and new connections between info bits, and then creators can use these create richer content. Via RIVKI GADOT Robin Good: Here's another good example of curation at work. Andy Dickinson, has used Storify to create a "curated reference" of his lecture about curation for his first year undergraduate students.
The "storified" reference contains links to tools, video clips, and many contributions which allow any learner interested in this topic, to follow a selected path from which it is possible to wander off and explore in many interesting directions.
Useful. Informative. Inspirational. 8/10
http://storify.com/digidickinson/jn1013-curation-and-aggregation?awesm=sfy.co_hX4 Via Robin Good 
Robin Good: Scoop.it has just launched a new set of features that help curators find more easily other content by introducing a new visual search feature, while enhancing individual post display, sharing options and addig a dedicated user search option.
The new features, are definitely a plus providing some long due oxygen to some of the more asphitic Scoop.it areas: news and curators discovery.
There is a lot more to do on this front, but these apear to be definitely some good initial steps in the right direction.
I am particularly fond of the new individual post display and layout, which truly expands the opportunities to lean more about related the topics, comments and the curator behind the channel.
Good joob Scoop.it team!
Go check all the new features in your account, or dwell in a bit more details and screenshots about these four new features: http://blog.scoop.it/en/2012/03/15/be-discovered/ ; Via Robin Good 
A stream of ideas, cartoons, unrefined sketches, marginalia about curation.
Via catspyjamasnz, Judy O'Connell, Stephen Dale 
It's a good question! The fact is that blogs are filled with articles about Pinterest. For my part, I am absolutely convinced that this kind of social media will wreak havoc among users... and you? [note mg]
It's addictive, fun, visually appealing, and easy, so it's no wonder Pinterest, the popular visual bookmarking site, has hooked millions of users. That said, the site’s growth (below) was fairly flat from its launch in early 2010 until September 2011. But since then, it’s simply been going gangbusters, begging the question--why now? Here are three reasons why we think it’s become so attractive.
1. Pinterest rides (and defines) a new trend: social relevance.
Pinterest is successfully riding a new trend wave in the social space, moving mechanisms for content sharing beyond connections (friends) and towards relevance, effectively broadening the social horizon for us content addicts.
Read more: http://www.fastcompany.com/1818729/why-are-we-all-suddenly-pinterested Via Martin Gysler, Jim Lerman, catspyjamasnz |
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