"Monday was a busy day for some major social media sites, especially LinkedIn, Twitter and Scoop.it." writes Cendrine Marrouat on examiner.com. Here is the quick roundup she gave, including kindly covering the new exploration features we launched on Scoop.it. 
"My top three preferred platforms for sourcing and sorting through qualified curators and their content are Twitter, Scoop.it and Google Plus" says Debra Askanase on the Socialbrite blog. It's interesting to read how she explains her daily routine with Scoop.it which involved both publishing and following topics she has a professional interest in. "If you have only 30 minutes each day to read the latest news in your industry, start with Scoop.it; it serves up the newest information in a very readable format." Check out her topics, including Facebook research and best practices. 
Gary of G Social Media explains why - among the variety of content curation tools - he has chosen to focus on StumbleUpon, Trap.it and Scoop.it. He details the way they complement each other and as he puts it how they "have proven value to me and that I am personally comfortable with." Thanks Gary! We appreciate it. Edward Borasky shares with us why he uses Scoop.it and why he chooses Scoop.it Pro: "If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen my Scoop.it topic posts. I’ve been on Scoop.it since mid-January, and I recently signed up for the free trial of the “Pro” version. I’m planning to continue with the Pro version, which features analytics and up to ten topics." Thanks for sharing your thoughts! 10 Steps To Curate Your Social Media Content With Scoop.it for Increased Value | Social Media Pearls
This is a very precise guide to using Scoop.it that Shirley Williams published on Social Media Pearls. We love the way she shared her introduction to Scoop.it:
"First, Let me share a story on my introduction to Scoop.it. I wrote a blogpost on “storytelling”. I received a trackback to Scoop.it. I followed it to find a curated post by Karen Dietz sharing her perspective and summary of my post with my link still intact. I used this new platform to thank her and started following her web-magazine (Just Story It). The outcome: Karen gained a new targeted follower and I gained new traffic to my site. Another curator, Martin Gysler did exactly the same; I really liked his posts and I started to follow him but this time I joined Scoop.it!" A lot of you have commented on why you liked Scoop.it first because it was simple but stocked to it because of the community it provided. We love to see that happen! 
"Content curators can officially rejoice" says Cendrine Marrouat on examiner.com covering our integration with the Scoop.it timeline before analyzing what it means for Content Curators. 
Great intro to Scoop.it from basicblogtips.com, Ileane Smith's blog: "Scoop.it allows us to keep a visual collection of the stories that hold our interest. You might compare it to Pinterest in some ways but for me, it’s so much more. You get to shine the spotlight on your favorite images but more importantly – you can gather snippets of information in an organized collection based on your topic of interests. Curating a topic helps build your authority and helps keep you focused. There are some added benefits that you’ll learn more about in this post (and in the video)" 
"Over the last couple of years, I’ve come to think of my role as a teacher as that of a curator of ideas" says Corinne Weisgerber who teaches Social Media and Communication at St Edwards Unniversity in Austin, TX (if you haven't yet, check out her great prez here). As she explained in this post, the Curation Project was about getting her students "to set up a network of online mentors using social media tools" and "to identify experts in their field and connect with them in order to build a personal learning network (PLN)." The idea behing the PNL is to help them discover valuable information through social search that they wouldn't have discovered otherwise. Interesting project and read. And great work by the students who used various curation platforms for the project, including Storify and Scoop.it (links in the post) 
Caitlin Muir interviews Guillaume Decugis, CEO of Scoop.it at SMCH9 from the IBM Future of Social Lounge in Austin. Guillaume shares why content curation is such a hot topic & why it's becoming a leading form of expression on the web. 
That’s the quest and challenge we wanted to take this year : during these 4 days of craziness, let’s try to keep the best and find what drives the festival’s heart and excitement this year? We came up with an obvious solution. Scoop.it is now a powerful publishing platform where your trusted community of curators lead you to what you should take time to read, explore and share. We collectively have millions of readers, because they know that is the place where you find and interact with publishers who talk on what matter for you and for them. SXSW matters and we are glad to invite you to read our magazine asking the question that deserves our attention : What is SXSW’s favorite topic this year? To answer, Guillaume and I will cover the festival every day, meet key voices from the tech world, publish videos interviews, pictures and interesting articles representing for us the best to make sense of the festival. 
StartUp Live is a new site founded by Arabella Santiago, also TechWeek's Executive Producer. StartUp Live covers startups in Silicon Valley with an interesting approach by mixing curated and self-produced videos. They launched at SxSW last week. This is an interview I did with Arabella a few weeks ago (in preparation for this launch) where we discussed Entrepreneurship, my background with Musiwave (my previous startup now part of Microsoft) and the story that led to Scoop.it. 
"When I started my Scoop.it! magazines, my strategy included never just posting a link – anything posted to the site was required to include at least a one sentence intro which contained my perspective on the article. This allowed my reference thoughts to be combined with the link to the article and away I went." By Jay Nelson, Business 2 Community contributor. |
Sharon Hurley Hall wrote another piece on Scoop.it, this time giving great tips on how to drive traffic to your Web site using Scoop.it. As she puts it: "Curating content increases your authority, but it’s also a great way to drive traffic to your site." The tips she gives are very useful and join some other testimonials on the same topic, such as Chris' from RootWebSolutions. Thanks for sharing these, Sharon! 
"Often, I come across websites that re-publish or link to my articles here on MakeUseOf. This is how I discovered Scoop.it!" This is how Bakari Chavanu introduces a very complete review of Scoop.it on MakeUseOf.com. We always like to see awareness for the platform grow virally as well as site publishers embrace it and write about us. And we also feel great reading "the setup was easy and there are a few easy-to-use features that enable you to populate your page very quickly." Thanks! 
This is a podcast I recorded 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! 
This is a post by Gianluca Fiorelli - the SEO expert and consultant - on socialmedia.biz orginally titled "Take charge of the curation wave with these slick tools" (and yes, Scoop.it is one of them: thanks!). But beyond the look at the tools (which I avoid doing being obviously biased), I think the second part on "why curation" was interesting. When we started working on a Social Curation platform that could introduce a new way of publishing media for everyone, we weren't sure how this will play with traditional web-discovery techniques such as SEO. We felt Search engines should take pay attention to social curators but of course we had no way to tell Google what to do. So it's all the more satisfying to see how Search changed to become social-friendly and to see how the SEO community has embraced curation. Gianluca also published a more complete guide on curation on SEOmoz blog. 
Our CEO, Guillaume Decugis, is speaking at digitalNow today. Follow live stream of his keynote about curation and Scoop.it at 5.20 pm EST. "Scoop.it is a tool to leverage curation to increase your visibility. Learn how you and your members can use Scoop.it to build your organization's reputation as trusted curator. Thanks Stephanie! This is a video tutorial made by Ileane from http://basicblogtips.com whose blog is a gold mine for good advice on blogging. We liked how she simply explained the community dimension of Scoop.it as well as some of the Scoop.it Pro features that she uses. And we of course also love the fact Scoop.it seems to be her #2 referral source according to her Google Webmaster tools. Thanks Ileane! (Tutorial starts at 1'25"). 
Arabella Santiago is the founder of Startup Live and the Executive Director of the TechWeek conference in Chicago where I'm speaking in a few months. We had a discussion on the role of curation as an expression form in Austin at SxSWi a few weeks ago and we also touched upon the topic of the coming TechWeek session which is about the trend of remixing content to create something new: "No one wants to be duplicating content, but if you quote content and you put content in context then you can create something which has higher value than the original. It's something we have gotten used to in Music with DJ's and rappers sampling and remixing songs but that the Web makes possible for everyone to do with any form of content. Having been a music entrepreneur before, I like this analogy and I think it shows quite well how a whole creativity potential can be unleashed by new tools and platforms. 
Anne Egros wrote this review on Scoop.it describing a curator's work as follows: "The curator is like a magnet extracting needles hidden in haystacks." She's a Global Executive Coach, providing Global Leadership Development, International Career Strategic Planning and Expat Life Coaching Services for multicural and multinational Fortune 500 companies. We certainly like the fact Scoop.it is her favorite curation service and also the enthousiasm her readers showed in the comments. Thanks Anne! Watch this great interview of Guillaume Decugis, Scoop.it's CEO, exploring the curation trend beyond the buzzword, the necessity for brand to become media, the power of publishing relevant content and how the Scoop.it team conceived the mobile app. Curation is your mass weapon of attention when you don't have a Robert Scoble in house! Enjoy the interview. 
You can now share your scoops on Pinterest. Jan gives us her opinion about it: "I could go on and on but I’ll let you see for yourself how I’ve combined Scoopit and Pinterest together which continues to produce unbelievable results, increase in traffic and brand new relationships from both sites." 
I recently learned about Scoop It from Twitter. Scoop It is a great place to keep track of things you read and come across online that you find useful, specifically to a certain topic.
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