Excerpted from article: "Ever since we started working on Social Media, we’ve realized how much content discovery and content publishing were really two sides of the same coin. Working on one is the way to enhance the other. That’s why we didn’t only want to make it easy for people with expertise and passion to curate content, but also felt we needed to help them be discovered.
So today, we’d like to deep dive on content discovery by introducing two new features that will help users and readers dig Scoop.it content:
1. Topic Filtering: Filtering now enables any of your readers to search for specific keyword-related posts on your topic. By typing any keyword (or combination of), they’ll get your topic filtered on the corresponding sub-topic.
Note that filtering works by searching through the posts and their content so the great news is that your readers will find keyword-related posts even though you might have not thought of tagging them for that keyword.
2 – Unlimited Follow View: When we introduced the Follow View, we were careful not to make it yet another stream to watch and felt overwhelmed with.
But what a lot of you told us is that this stream was different than any other social media stream: it was about your interests. And passionate people sometimes can’t get enough of good stuff. In other words, you told us it wasn’t noise; it was signal. A lot of you wanted to be able to go beyond the 25 posts we were able to display on a page. Today, we’re now making this view infinite by letting you go to the next pages beyond the first one by simply clicking the Next button at the end of your Follow page.
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Giuseppe Mauriello: today Keemix launched its complete curation solution for individuals & businesses to the public in a beta version. I received invitation as beta tester. It is promising.
From official website: "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. Keemix makes curation fun and accessible to everybody.
***Gather content on the fly: just click on the bookmarklet, select the object you want to mix, add your thoughts and voila!
***Mix content into your own tailor-made magazines: become an editor-in-chief ! For each of your passions, create a dedicated page, design it as you want and showcase your favorite topics with editorialized content.
***Inspire your readers: mixes can be private or public, and administrated individually or collaboratively. Keemix is tightly integrated with all major social networks and broadcasts your content through feeds or newsletters."
From blog post:
Here are some features: - All pages are now public, publishers can share their mixes with anybody; - A brand new homepage displaying featured mixes and mixersCollaboration! - You can now add publishers to a mix and collaborate. You can even create private mixes to collaborate with friends/coworkers/teams..; - Edit your mix design and layout; - Receive notifications by mail; - “Vanity URLs”. Get your own profile URL; - New types of objects : we added a bunch of new supported platforms, and even new objects. For example, you can now capture any embed from soundcloud.com..."
Try out it here: http://keemix.com
Read blog post here: http://blog.keemix.com/news/its-alive-keemix-is-now-in-beta 
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
Excerpted from the article by Mashable: "Aiming to help curate the site’s vast array of content, Tumblr has launched a new initiative called Storyboard, billed as “tales from behind the dashboard.”
The micro-blogging platform and social networking website will be posting regular features from those within the Tumblr community with an interesting story to tell.
Storyboard will highlight one new story each day and become a hub for in-depth conversations within its community.
Tumblr is looking for submissions, as well. If you’re interested in submitting a story or idea, post it on Tumblr with the hashtag #storyboard.
“Our editors will monitor the tag and the community’s interactions there, promoting stories that resonate,” Tumblr said on the site. “And if your story really works, we’ll ask to expand it for publication on Storyboard itself.”
Read full article: http://mashable.com/2012/05/07/tumblr-storyboard/
Video Introduction to Storyboard: http://vimeo.com/41594137
Check out more: http://storyboard.tumblr.com 
Excerpted from article and key points:
***Curation Lacks in Journalistic Institutions:
Original reporting and curation aren’t mutually exclusive and one isn’t necessarily better than the other. They both need to be used in their place and adapted to our purposes.
Patient, thoughtful and enthusiastic curation is helpful to both author and reader as another way to make sense of a complex and noisy world.
As journalistic institutions take the narrow view of journalism, they miss out on opportunities to bring value through curation.
Some institutions and old-school journalists have a hard time understanding the value of curation because they focus on their feeling of being ripped off. They don’t make the distinction between content scraping, aggregation and curation.
***Writing and Curating, Same Skills:
I would argue curators are bound to be good writers and good writers have it in them to be tremendous curators. Both are a labour of love, a constant learning experience, and take courage. The courage to face the gaps in your argumentation and build bridges over them to be clear.
Curators summarize, quote and link other people’s work. They also add contextual information which tells audiences what the information means and — more importantly — why they should care.
Like strawberry picking, the process of curation is difficult, time-consuming and impossible to fully automate. Sometimes the ties that bind collections together are shy and take time to come out.
There is a real difference between reposting content and creating meaningful collections. The result of these efforts is valuable, too. Journalists need not fear but join curators as we touch the audiences who wouldn’t understand or relate to the relevance of a piece right away.
Since curation is an emotional and intellectual labour much like writing, true curation can’t be cheap..."
Read full and interesting article here: http://community.paper.li/2012/05/03/report-and-curate-with-the-same-passion/
Excerpted from Twitter Blog: "The Discover tab makes it easy to discover information that matters to you without having to follow additional accounts. Starting today, the Discover tab will begin to surface content that is even more personalized and meaningful to you.
We’ve incorporated additional personalization signals to select Discover stories, including Tweets that are popular among the people you follow and the folks they follow.
The Discover tab’s new design shows who tweeted about particular stories. You can click “View Tweets" on any story to see popular Tweets from your network or recent, relevant Tweets directly below the story summary.
This social context helps you understand why each story matters to you and makes it easier to join the conversation. You can reply, retweet or favorite these Tweets, or you can “Tweet this story” to share your own perspective..."
Read full article here: http://blog.twitter.com/2012/05/discover-better-stories.html
Excerpted from article: "Today curation takes on a different meaning. Organizations have evolved from collecting artifacts to digital curation of media and content. Anyone and everyone can, and do, curate using everything from bookmarking sites to social networks. "Social curation," as we call it, is simply the act of sharing, categorizing, and spreading content to others. The content can be your own or someone else's. And, because you are sharing content that lives in its place of origin via linking, it is not considered stealing.
Why do people spend hours online bookmarking, pinning, and reposting? We all want to be recognized for our expertise, talents, and savvy. Posting content we care about displays our creativity, interests, opinions, and personality. On the receiving end, people enjoy discovering and exploring things that are highly relevant and interesting.
In this article, we'll discuss how marketers can get in on the social curation boom in a meaningful way.
There are a lot of websites out there offering curation-type services. To get a clear sense of how a brand might leverage curation, we can break them down into categories. - Social bookmarking and news; - Sharing; - Aggregation and syndication networks.
Here are eight ways your brand can get in on the action.
1. Become a curator creator: This tactic is strictly for warriors because it takes time, diligence, and a step outside the marketing box to become one with a community. Becoming a curator will mean rolling up your sleeves to create your own Pinterest board or other social network profile.
2. Create an interest-based content strategy: As marketers, we tend to base our communications around products and target markets. To be an awesome content curator or creator, you'll want to push that into the back of your mind and focus on interests. This can be accomplished with some listening, observation, and information collection on what your customers care about when they aren't out buying your product.
3. Optimize for popular sharing topics...
4. Treat photography as being as important as copy: Video and photography is as valuable as an article. When you're writing your next brilliant article, put time into article images so people are inspired to not only share the article, but also to pin it on Pinterest.
5. Make something worth sharing: For curation, consider its lasting value and how it fits into popular topics and interest lists. When you see their eyes light up and they send it forward into their communities, you've done your job well.
6. Make it sharable: Add sharing buttons to your content on your blog, website, shopping cart, and email campaigns. People will do things that require one-click.
7. Make friends with influencers: Extend your influencer outreach to leaders in Reddit, Pinterest, and Tumblr communities so that when you have something great to share, you've aligned with partners to help get your content out.
8. Post from the inside: People just want to get to know the people behind the brand...."
Read full and long article here: http://j.mp/K1zGxl
Excerpted from the article: "Pinterest’s rise has helped highlight the value of social discovery over traditional search for shopping and the lesson hasn’t been lost on competitors.
Glimpse is a new Facebook shopping discovery app that is built on top of Facebook “like” data. The app curates shopping pages for users based on their likes, as well the stuff their friends like.
While Pinterest has taught people to pin the stuff they like from the web, Glimpse takes the existing data from Facebook’s open graph and marries it with its database of 500 million products and 500,000 stores.
The result is an immediate Pinterest rival that is already informed by a user’s Facebook activity. Users don’t have to follow anyone or like anything further to immediately get a flow of products that are tailored to their tastes.
Glimpse users can just use the Facebook like button on many retailers sites to bookmark their favorites on their Glimpse page. They can also organize their page by creating separate catalogs, similar to Pinterest boards.
“Search is a task whereas discovering things you like is fun, and Glimpse is all about shopping just for fun”.
The service will start as a Facebook app but iOS and Android apps should be available in the coming weeks."
Read full article: http://gigaom.com/2012/04/29/thefind-launches-glimpse-a-pinterest-rival-built-on-facebook-likes/
Try out it here: https://apps.facebook.com/thefind/?ref=ts
This is an article by Steven Rosenbaum and published by Mashable. Excerpted from it:
"Good content curation isn’t as simple as pushing a share button. If you’re a curator here are five best practices to consider.
1. Be Part of the Content Ecosystem: Be part of the content ecosystem, not just a re-packager of it. Created, contributed, and collected — the three ‘c’s is a strong content mix that has a measurable impact. Why? Because your visitors don’t want to hunt around the web for related material. Once they find a quality, curated collection, they’ll stay for related offerings.
2. Follow a Schedule: Audiences expect some regularity, and they’ll reward you for it. Consistency and regularity will also bring you new users, and help you grow a loyal base of members who appreciate your work.
3. Embrace Multiple Platforms: Today content consumers get their information on the platform of their choosing. That means you should consider posting short bursts on Tumblr, images on Pinterest, video on YouTube, and community conversations on Facebook.
4. Engage and Participate: Having a voice as a curator means more than creating and curating your own work. Make sure you’re giving back by reading others and commenting on their posts. To recommend material that you really think merits their attention.
5. Share. Don’t Steal: Take the time to give attribution, link backs, and credit. The sharing economy works because we’re each sharing our audiences, and providing the value of our endorsements. The important thing to realize is that we’re increasingly living in a world of information overload. So when people choose to listen to you it’s because you’re able to separate signal from noise. You provide a clear, contextually relevant voice within the topic or topics that you create and curate."
Read full article here: http://mashable.com/2012/04/27/tips-great-content-curation/
Giuseppe Mauriello: If you are searching a plugin to use for your WordPress site as your content hub to curate and create content, and to see full integration with Twitter, you will appreciate immediately the value in Dashter immediately.
It’s a WordPress plugin – so it installs and runs directly inside your administrative dashboard. Your website instantly transforms from a website to a powerful command center for your social media activities.
Dashter is a combination of several powerful social media tools in one. It helps you about:
1) LISTEN to real-time conversations and tweets on Twitter, with an ear towards listening for topics & conversations that are related to the content you post on your website. Filter out the noise and use Dashter’s listening tools to discover tweets that matter to you.
- You can control your entire Twitter account from within your WordPress dashboard; - View trends in your social circles, use your content as a springboard for searches, and stay connected with your lists; - Reply, ReTweet, Quote, Favorite, and all your favorite Twitter actions are available throughout your blog. Listen in on any search, list, or hashtag – or just explore. - Unlimited listening posts in the stream. http://dashter.com/tour/listen/
2) CURATE with Dashter with exclusive in-line content curation platform is the state-of-the-art in collecting, organizing, and creating fresh content on your site from existing tweets. And unlike 3rd party “curation” tools – the content originates from your website. Add context & build original articles in minutes.
- Every tweet you read inside Dashter includes a Curate option, so you can curate anything that inspires you. - Curating tweets with Dashter lets you include Tweets in any post you designate. You can start a post and then seek out inspiring or relevant tweets to include, or you can find a tweet first and start a post from there. The choice is yours. - When you curate a tweet using Dashter, not only is the tweet content pulled in to your post, but we also import the people who were included. - Dashter will automatically import any #hashtags from the tweets you curate as WordPress tags. - Curated Tweets can be embedded using our basic formatting, the Twitter Embed method, or using the popular Blackbird Pie plugin. - Unlike other curation tools on the market, Dashter focuses on driving traffic back to your website. http://dashter.com/tour/curate/
3) CULTIVATE social relationships on Twitter with far greater depth and precision than ever before. - Targeted interaction; - Dashter shows you not only the latest connections but the most substantial ones – giving you insight and intelligence ahead of any social engagement. - You can truly custom-tune your engagement to everyone you care about. Build passionate and powerful communities around you and your website. - Interests lie at the intersection of your social engagement and the tags you use on your website – allowing you to flag articles and site content for individuals who you think will care most about them. http://dashter.com/tour/cultivate/
4) AMPLIFY your site’s social reach. When it comes time to share your content with the web – Dashter is ready to help you amplify your message to reach your target audience better than ever before. Dashter includes a built-in social scheduler to help ensure the broadest reach possible. http://dashter.com/tour/amplify/
Pricing: License $65.00 one time, on 1 domain / website. It includes: *Feature-Rich Twitter Client
Try out it: http://dashter.com
Start Dashter tour: http://dashter.com/tour
Watch demo video: http://vimeo.com/33056090
Read also this interesting blog post here: 
Excerpted from the article:
"In today’s media-saturated world, consumers are bombarded by content in multiple channels throughout the day. Technology has spawned a profusion of publishing platforms, while it has enabled any individual to become an active publisher or aggregator.
Unlike the past, consumers today can no longer rely on a few trusted editorial sources to filter the noise and deliver the most important news and information. Instead, consumers must make sense of the vast amount of information that reaches them daily and constantly make decisions about what to take seriously and what to ignore.
Increasingly, they are turning to Social Curation -- the recommendations of others in their social networks -- to identify the most relevant and valuable content.
Perhaps more interesting than the specific social channels is the emergence of socially integrated communications.
Communications in the socially driven world has two significant implications for publishers and marketers: 1. Content will be judged less on its own terms and more by who recommends it and how it has arrived 2. Since recommendations vastly outperform media for driving content consumption, some of the attention (and dollars) that marketers traditionally dedicated to media must be refocused on driving adoption and recommendation in the social milieu.
A social recommendation is a form of personal endorsement, establishing a credible, trusted relationship with your audience is essential. While there are no tricks or shortcuts, there are best practices.
1) Be Honest... 2) Engage... 3) Provide Value... 4) Make things easy...
Engaging social curation can positively increase the reach, relevancy and credibility of your brand. But social engagement is a multichannel dialogue that requires vigilance and timely responses to user comments and questions.
Read the full article here: http://j.mp/Jl7kfx
Robin Good: NotesCloud is a new curation service which allows you to collect, organize, and share any type of content you have into beautiful magazine-like layouts.
“Imagine a tool that is always at hand when you stumble upon or dream up something interesting,” NotesCloud uses the metaphor of a multi-section notebook to organize snippets and notes. People can create their own hierarchies of notebooks, sections, and pages as they curate their topics. Unlike Pinterest or Evernote, NotesCloud’s structured storage metaphor encourages some organization, so it’s not just a “shoebox” full of random clippings." (Source: Venturebeat)
Notescloud is equipped with a set of browser-based clipping tools for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, that make it possible to easily grab and save any content you’re looking at online with just two clicks. The content curated and organized with NotesCloud can be accessed from tablets and smartphones as well as desktop browsers. Free to use.
Check this video: http://www.notescloud.com/LaunchVideo
More info: http://www.notescloud.com Via Robin Good 
Excerpted from the article:
THE PROBLEMS: "..."We need to rethink every facet of the journalism model," said Richard Gingras, VP of News at Google.
The news audience is evolving faster than news providers. By now, 75% of traffic is going to stories. A minority of visitors ever see a site's front-page curated presentation of the news.
But the problems go deeper than just presentation. News is a commodity now. It spreads virally across many media through new tellings and retellings. The Web is finally real-time. News organizations no longer get to control the story. They have to do more than inform to stay relevant. News sites have to be useful.
THE SOLUTIONS: To be useful, news sites need to be information tools, not just sources. Journalists are the people with the time and skills to gather all the needed information into one place and filter out the rest. But the value of information is not just in the knowledge of it; it's in what you can do with it.
News isn't just about information. It's also storytelling. Anyone can publish text, photos or even video to the Web now. But technology enables new, compelling storytelling techniques that could shine in the hands of dedicated news organizations..."
Read full article here: http://j.mp/HPIGpk |
Excerpted from article: "To learn more about the importance of curation in today’s fashion industry, here are 3 emerging fashions startups in New York City and Los Angeles.
1) Material Wrld (http://materialwrld.com/) Material Wrld is a New York City fashion startup founded by eager entrepreneurs Jie Zheng and Rie Yano.
“In Manhattan, we all have really small closets so we see this as an option to refresh your wardrobe,”. Material Wrld focuses on fashion bloggers, creative professionals, and style enthusiasts spanning college students, young professionals and new moms. “The ideal Material Wrld user is already showing off their style online through their blog, Instagram, Twitter, and other sites/apps,” says Rie.
2) Of a Kind (http://www.ofakind.com/) This NYC fashion startup has been bringing high-end, exclusive fashion to the masses. Inspired by sites like 20×200, Of a Kind combines storytelling and exclusivity to launch 3 new items in limited editions each week.
When asked how the founders stay abreast of fashion trends, they cites 3 sources: The Business of Fashion newsletter, a daily roundup of everything happening in the fashion space; Uncommon Update, which curates news from the luxury, interactive, and media industries; and the EDITD blog, which pulls together a ton of data from the fashion industry.
3) Closet Rich (http://closetrich.com/) The super cool site Closet Rich features amazing curated vintage finds from the closet rich fortunates in Hollywood. The former fashion PR rep and Zoe Report staffer now goes into her Closet Rich clients’ homes — the majority of which work in the fashion and entertainment space as designers, editors, actresses, etc. — and digs through their racks for re-sellable items like dresses, shoes, bags and more.
“It’s very curated; I don’t want site visitors to have to shuffle through junk or nonsense,” says Elizabeth. “I love really interesting pieces, dresses or jackets with a wow factor but basics also sell really well.” The items that don’t end up on her site are donated to various charities...."
Read full article here: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/05/12/crazy-about-curation-5-american-girls-3-fashion-startups/
Excerpted from article: "Magnify.net was chosen to power video content delivery for Healio.com.
With Magnify.net, Healio.com has added video to their large array of offerings. Visitors now have access to a vast library of medical videos and no longer need to scurry around the Internet to find what they need most -- trusted information..."
Read full article: http://j.mp/Jjpo9i
Check out new video site here: http://video.healio.com
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 
Excerpted from article: "While Spotify now has a rich seam of third-party apps built for its platform, ShareMyPlaylists has been around almost as long as the music streaming service itself, helping users curate collections of music for each other.
Now with its completely rewritten iOS app, it’s taking the experience mobile, letting you discover and listen to Spotify music in a fresh way.
The app opens up to a choice of featured playlists. Digging deeper, you can find the most played playlists, the current top 50 playlists, and the latest lists added on the ShareMyPlaylists website. If you have an idea of the type of music you’re looking for, you can browse playlists by genre or do a free text search.
Once you find a playlist that appeals to you, it will be played in-app from Spotify’s library using the LibSpotify API. Playlists can be shared from the app via Twitter, Facebook, email and even SMS.
This is essentially an alternative interface for Spotify that emphasises social curation..."
Read full article:
Check out the app here: http://sharemyplaylists.com
Excerpted from the article by Marketwire: "GageIn, the first stop for all enterprise data on the Web, launched News Portals today. Professionals can now publish curated business content, on an on-going basis, to share insightful information about their marketplace, customers, and competitors, leading to improved business performance.
"GageIn brings curation to the enterprise, allowing internal teams, marketers, and other professionals to utilize it for business purposes," said Dr. Luosheng Peng, CEO of GageIn.
Who can use News Portals? - Marketers: Curate stories about your industry, market trends, and educational articles for your audience - Corporate Communication/Competitive Intelligence Professionals: Curate stories about your top competitors, clients, and industry for managers and co-workers - Sales: Curate stories about clients and prospects for your selling team
Users can create their personal Portals by saving and tagging any content they find on GageIn. Portals can be shared internally with coworkers and teams, or with outside networks on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Per GageIn's integration with Salesforce Chatter and Yammer, users will also be able to share Portals with teams on those platforms as well...."
Read full article by Marketwire: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/gagein-launches-business-content-curation-for-professionals-1652155.htm
Try out it now: http://www.gagein.com/publisher
Tutorial: How to create a News Portal: http://www.gagein.com/blog/2012/04/tutorial-how-to-create-a-news-portal/
Giuseppe Mauriello: After Scoop.it for iPhone (December 2011), Content Curation and Publishing Platform Scoop.it announced its Android app which will bring mobile curation to all Android users.
Excerpted from article: "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..."
Read full original article here:
Giuseppe Mauriello: Everplaces helps people keep track of places that are relevant and interesting to them, like a personal wish list or to-do list. It is a new app that essentially functions as a Pinterest for the real world, a service that lets you save and share snapshots of interesting places via the Web or smartphones.
From official website, key features are: 1) CREATE YOUR PERSONAL COLLECTION
2) EXPLORE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE LIKE
3) EXCHANGE RECOMMENDATIONS WITH FRIENDS
4)KEEP YOUR FAVORITE PLACES IN ONE PLACE
5) ACCESS YOUR COLLECTION ANYWHERE
Check and try out it: https://everplaces.com
Read also review by The Next Web here: http://j.mp/IodMU6
Giuseppe Mauriello: Mon.ki allows you to discover the people that relate to the information you are looking at. Instead of making you sift through your social networks to identify the people relevant to a given topic, mon.ki acts as your “social compass” by automatically extracting information about the page you are looking at and guiding you to the right people – all in the context of your browser. The private beta currently supports Twitter and can be downloaded from the Google Web Store for your Chrome browser.
From the article: "...And Twitter integration is just the beginning. The company is adding support for Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn, too.
...With thousands of contacts spread out through multiple Google Apps accounts plus social and business networking services, finding who he knew where took a lot of effort. It’s the whole, “I have his info somewhere…” problem that he wanted to solve.
“We didn’t want another application or tool that gives you more management tasks,” said co-founder Delhaes...began thinking how you could build a personal search engine – not one for webpages or documents, but for people.
The resulting tech is deceptively simple, you install a browser extension (Chrome for now), and then, when you need information about the page you’re on, you click it to launch a pop-out sidebar detailing the Twitter profile info of the person or persons related to that page, as well as related tweets.
There’s still plenty of room for improvement, but the idea itself is promising."
BTW: Due the high interest Mon.ki have received they are activating users progressively.
Read full article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/26/mon-ki-is-building-a-rapportive-for-the-web/
Check out and read more: http://mon.ki
Download Chrome Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/emafblcdglliigbabbcjbmeabppnecgj 
From the article intro: "Over the past couple of years, I’ve been trying to collect every good piece of writing and advice about verifying social media content and other types of information that flow across networks.
This form of verification involves some new tools and techniques, and requires a basic understanding of the way networks operate and how people use them.
It also requires many of the so-called old school values and techniques that have been around for a while: being skeptical, asking questions, tracking down high quality sources, exercising restraint, collaborating and communicating with team members.
For example, lots of people talk about how Andy Carvin does crowdsourced verification and turns his Twitter feed into a real time newswire."
Mindy McAdams writes: "Verifying social media content “involves some new tools and techniques, and requires a basic understanding of the way networks operate and how people use them. It also requires many of the so-called old school values and techniques that have been around for a while: being skeptical, asking questions, tracking down high quality sources, exercising restraint, collaborating and communicating with team members.”
"Craig Silverman provides an introduction to the topic and then an annoatated list of eight articles/blog posts that add clarity and examples." Via Robin Good 
Robin Good: Surfmark is a new content curation service introducing some innovative and forward-looking features.
Surfmark in fact provides not only standard capabilities to easily capture, collect and organize content from any web page, but it adds intelligently alternative display formats to allow the exploration of such collections in multiple ways.
Another key innovative feature of Surfmark is its ability to generate bibliographies and summaries of content collections.
Surfmark allows social collaborative curation, history of all edits made, and the ability to share publicly or keep a collection private.
Collections can be downloaded in PDF or text formats and all pages saved in a collection are fully preserved with all the formatting and links intact so that you can refer back to exactly what you saw.
Free to use.
FAQ: http://blog.surfmark.net/surfmark-help
Try out and more info: http://www.surfmark.com
(thanks to Ana Cristina Pratas for discovering this) Via Robin Good 
TwitChimp.com is a web application that leverages the Twitter API to provide curated lists of Twitter users. The application is still in a beta testing period but is open to any who would like to try it in this early stage of development.
The purpose of TwitChimp.com is to enable any Twitter user to create and curate directories of Twitter users. Curated lists are important because they can help reduce the signal to noise ratio in Twitter.
Here are some features: - An ability to easily create and curate feature-filled lists of twitter accounts on any topic you desire.
Read more here: http://twitchimpblog.com/2012/04/latest-twitchimp-list-curation-search-and-discovery-features-announced/ Try out it now: http://twitchimp.com 
Giuseppe Mauriello: I selected this article written almost two years ago by Nicole Nicolay. It is still applicable and full of highlights. The author analyzed the new situation by introducing informative tips. Below I have excerpted few gems from it:
"...***THE REAL ISSUE Broadcasting what you think may be relevant information again and again, without pre-screening the source and considering the context is a waste of your time. Most importantly, it begins with content. ...The tools and strategies for sharing good content with your sphere can be learned. But, creating and sharing good content takes skill.
***SO, WHAT'S NEXT?
1) Identify your role in obtaining good, relevant content. ...Are you a content creator a content curator? Or perhaps you’re both. A content creator is someone who identifies the “needs” within their audience and seeks to help by creating original and highly relevant content. ... A content curator is someone who sifts through the Web to find and deliver the most relevant content for their intended audience. Sort of a Hunter-Gatherer 2.0! ... But a thoughtful content curator is more than just a broadcaster of good info. It’s someone who understands their brand and their audience well enough to identify the relevancy of the content, as well as the best context for sharing.
2)Recognize the sources that deliver consistently rockin’ content. ... You need to recognize both local and national sites that can assist your content delivery efforts. And if you ROCK a niche, be sure to recognize those sites as well.
3) Organize your sources in a dashboard or reader format for easy access...
***YOUR CHALLENGE
1) Balance the type of content you share. ...The content you share represents you, and your brand. So be sure to really check out what you share with your network. ...Your goal should be to find and share content that REALLY helps your audience…or is REALLY interesting. ... Your consumers don’t gain anything from a constant stream of commentless Foursquare checkins…and the same could be said about listing tweets that are not framed in a social context. If it doesn’t add value or create conversation….don’t share it!
2) Moderate your frequency level and improve your quality of life. ... The feeling is important…you need to be motivated to deliver consistency with social media. That being said, I’m far more concerned with delivering better quality content than quantity. And so should you if your strategy is to become your network’s trusted advisor. ... And in order to do that, you need to listen, share, and respond. I see a lot of sharing out there….but far less listening and responding. Social media is about creating opportunities to engage with others. So rather than auto-posting 20 articles a day….try scheduling 3-5 REALLY GOOD shares!!!.."
Read full and useful article here: http://j.mp/Ip2lId |
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