Scoop.it on the Web

Thanks to Mark Schaefer for this great video interview with Guillaume! 

This is a fun, nostalgic article by Sharilee comparing her Scoop.it experience to the "old school" experience of clipping newspaper articles! 

Sharing things we find interesting has always been a fun pastime, even way back before the Internet with scrapbooks and newspaper clippings!

Thanks again, Sharilee, we're happy to be your latest "thing."

TechCocktail explains how this intergration takes the stress out of creating email newsletters campaigns.

Content Curation is at its core education. And in a world where information is so vital, everything tends to become education: from marketing to selling and from building a community to raising awareness for a cause. So it's always comforting for us to see Scoop.it praised by the people who know the most about knowledge sharing: the educators themselves. 

Thanks Leanna! 

Here are some great tips from Scoopiteer Dennis T. O'Connor on finding the best content for your Scoop.it pages.

This is an interview I did with Deanna Dahlsad: she reached out to us disappointed by the shut down of Snip.it and as she'd been also a Scoop.it user, she wanted to discuss in more detail what Scoop.it could bring to Snip.it users.

One of the concerns she had was whether Scoop.it would one day shut down the way Snip.it did. This gave us an opportunity to highlight a few things in which we strongly believe such as the importance for any company of having a business model early-on and the role traction plays in securing its future. While no business can ever say "we'll be here forever," we feel strongly about the sustaniability of Scoop.it for a couple of reasons: our growth to now 7 million unique visitors/month in just about 1 year since our public launch and the early adoption of our premium offers, which validates our business model.

As a user of free services, I'm always concerned when I don't see them getting traction and offering a business model. I know, as an entrepreneur myself, that it's the only way investors will back it up and positive cash-flow can ultimately make it viable.

We know we owe it to our users and customers and that we need to keep deserving their trust. And we will do our best to do that.

Brad James of Creative Agency Secrets gives a great perspective on how to use curation to become the source of knowledge for your niche. 

Janet Fouts compiled this list on Social Media Today. For those who don't her she's a social media coach who help people and businesses figure out how to use social media for outreach and marketing.

"I already loved the Scoop.it website for curating posts in my areas of interest, but being able to scan titles and share just-out news with my social networks and my clients while I’m in line at the bank or waiting for a flight makes it just that much sweeter." she wrote.

Here's where to find our iOS App and the Android one.

Thanks, Stephanie Frasco for including Scoop.it on this list of places to curate! It's always nice to be seen as a place filled with opportunity.

Master Curator Beth Kanter presented on content curation for non profits at  this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference. 

Check out her slides and notes: I spy a Guillaume and a Scoop.it!

Great Prezi to help teachers use Scoop.it in elementary schools. 

Thanks J-P De Clerck for this great writeup on our newly launched newsletter feature!

J-P makes a great point in stating that "the evolution towards an integration of content curation platforms and other marketing tools and tactics is obvious. Nothing you do as a marketer stands along. At least, it shouldn't."

We're happy to be paired with MailChimp and make it easier to communicate directly with your audience.

Nice interview of Arabella by Devon Glenn of the Social Times as we launched curated email newsletters.

Thanks Sharilee for putting together this great overview of Scoop.it.

Thanks, Gwyneth, for this awesome writeup and sweet diagrams!

From Daily Edventures:

Educators often see the Internet as a double-edged sword. While the Web provides nearly limitless information on any given topic, that information is often unfiltered, unedited and unfocused. That’s where Marc Rougier and his company, Scoop.it, come in. While their tools were originally created to help marketers and entrepreneurs increase their online visibility, the company quickly discovered that teachers and students found the curation tool invaluable.

“Since the explosion of Web 2.0,” Rougier says, “we live in a world of information overload: everyone has become a producer of information.” This abundance of information, according to Rougier, has generated a double problem: “If everyone can speak, to whom should I listen?” (a problem of qualification of information — extracting the signal from the noise), and “If everyone can speak, how can I get heard?” (a problem of acquiring visibility, reputation, and a voice).

Here, the mission is to get students aware of the importance of information management — to let them really touch, first hand, the challenge of qualification and organization of data – whatever their subject of study. We live in a world of information abundance and (almost) information democracy. Yet, if we are not prepared for it, we can be force-fed by a very small amount of data (a unique video seen a billion times…) and even by false information, and let a vast amount of valuable data be wasted. Students of all ages must be trained to search, select, qualify (and therefore disqualify), then enrich with their own thought, and then use and share information.

Why is Content Curation crucial for businesses? How does it differ from Content Farming? How's the role of Media evolved? These are some of the questions we went through with Hayden Richards from Intelligent HQ.