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News Discovery Tools: Slices for Twitter Organizes and Auto-Curates Your News Stream Into Categories

News Discovery Tools: Slices for Twitter Organizes and Auto-Curates Your News Stream Into Categories | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

Robin Good: Slices is a news discovery app that allows you to find the news that interest you by "slicing" the Twitter timeline into topic-specific categories, making it much easier to find what you are looking for.

 

From Pandodaily official review: "Slices offers 21 searchable categories – humor, technology, sports, and so on – that lead you to people and lists to follow. Included among those top-level categories is the “Live Events” option, which allows you to select an event – a football match, say, or a TV show – and follow Tweets from a curated list.

Also of note: "...it synchronizes between mobile devices and the Slices website (slices.me), which means it knows which Tweets you’ve already read, no matter where you access it from.

 

...The “Timeline Slicer” also outdoes Twitter’s Lists as a way to organize the people you follow into specific categories. They’re easier to set up and easier to access, ..."

 

Source: http://pandodaily.com/2012/08/01/twitter-has-been-shred-into-slices-just-what-it-needed/

 

Slices is available on iOS, Android and the Web.

 

 

Find out more: https://slices.me

 

 


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Prasanth (WebactoNodea)'s comment, August 2, 2012 6:57 AM
Thanks
malek's comment, August 3, 2012 11:26 AM
I'm still working on it...looks promising.
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Content Curation Tool: eduClipper Launches Its "Pinterest For Education"

Content Curation Tool: eduClipper Launches Its "Pinterest For Education" | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

Excerpted from review article on TechCrunch:
"This week the teacher-turned-entrepreneur Adam Below officially launched eduClipper, a platform that allows teachers and students to explore, share and contribute to a library of educational content. In both function and design, it’s essentially a Pinterest for education, with one notable difference: Because eduClipper is built exclusively for teachers and students, unlike Pinterest, you probably won’t find it blocked by your local school.

Educators and students can explore thousands of pieces of educational content, find lesson plans, resources and videos and search for the most popular content by subject or interest.

With eduClipper, users can share individual eduClips (or pieces of content) or eduClipboards (collections of content) with colleagues or students while cross-posting or embedding that content on other social platforms or sending them through email.

EduClips are created through the site’s bookmarklet (a Chrome extension), so once it’s installed in their browsers, teachers and students can grab any content they find on the web, Google Drive, Google Apps and more, and add them to their collection, i.e. their eduClipboards. Once grabbed, the site automatically grabs the source link, too, so that it’s easy to get back to the original content and easy to give proper citation.

Teachers and students can share these clipboards so that their classmates and colleagues can collaborate on assignments or in-class activities, create groups to share these resources with and align the content that’s clipped and shared to Common Core Standards. That’s the big advantage of eduClipper over Pinterest, that content can easily be organized and annotated for each class or subject by way of these learning collections. It also has the benefit of being created by a teacher who has spent the last five years searching for and curating the web’s best educational content..."

Read full review article by TechCrunch here:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/02/educlipper-launches-its-pinterest-for-education-to-bring-better-crowdsourced-curation-sharing-to-the-classroom/

Try out eduClipper: https://www.educlipper.net

 

Charlie Oliver's curator insight, June 7, 12:27 PM

Love it! Educators and ed-tech entrepreneurs, what say you?!!

Bart van Maanen's curator insight, June 10, 6:30 AM

Zo te zien een prachtige manier om op een Pinterest-achtige manier online info en content te verzamelen voor in de klas. Iedere leerling kan er aan bijdragen en notities toevoegen via een bookmark app in Chrome. De originele link / vindplaats wordt tegelijk opgeslagen. Nice.

Geraldine Lefoe's curator insight, June 11, 6:35 PM

Not sure if levels f schollong are separated here but a useful tool all the same 

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Capture Anything From The Web and Organize Into Visual Boards with Clipular

Read full Robin Good's insight below.

Try it out now: http://www.clipular.com

Chrome extension (indispensable): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clipular-reinvent-screen/cjbjepchlgclmpinlbbeinajphohgfod


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Martin Gysler's comment, June 13, 4:47 AM
Cool tool!
Ernesto Alegre's curator insight, June 14, 5:32 AM

La evolución del bookmarklet en extensión de browser más robusta, dentro de un concepto de curación visual de contenido.

icoexist2's curator insight, June 15, 5:50 AM

add your insight...

 
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Blekko's New Search Results Aim to Take the Guesswork Out of Intent

Blekko's New Search Results Aim to Take the Guesswork Out of Intent | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

Blekko, the "spam-free" search engine launched in 2010, yesterday unveiled new layout with these new key features:
- Results are organized into curated categories;
- New layout with more results on one page;
- Responsive design adjusts to your screen size to support mobile devices.

Moreover, you can filter your searches with even more search results categories curated by experts.

From review article on Search Engine Watch:
"Blekko unveiled a new layout for search results that aims to take the guesswork out of intent by offering users new choices to drill down search results.
Now when users perform a search on Blekko, they are presented with several categories related to the query, and the user chooses which category is most relevant to them.

Results are curated from Blekko's own original search index, Dynamic Inference Graph (DIG) algorithm and editorial evaluation."

Read review article by Search Engine Watch:
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2271343/Blekkos-New-Search-Results-Aim-to-Take-the-Guesswork-Out-of-Intent

Try out the new search for yourself: https://blekko.com

 

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Webflakes Curates Lifestyle Content From Bloggers Around the World

Webflakes Curates Lifestyle Content From Bloggers Around the World | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

Excerpted from review article by Mashable:

"Webflakes curates and translates travel and lifestyle content from bloggers around the world.

Webflakes aims to break down the language barrier between bloggers in different countries to create a single hub for discovering international lifestyle content.

If you really want to know more about French fashion or Italian cuisine, the best place to turn may be bloggers from those countries.

 

Webflakes, a website that launched earlier this month, curates posts from dozens of bloggers in countries like Japan, France and Italy and relies on a team of of volunteers to translate them.

 

On Webflakes, you'll find blog posts on fashion, travel, food and more, which you can then sort by country and blogger. When you click on a post, you'll find a link to more information about the blogger. In this way, Webflakes helps readers find more quality content and helps international bloggers build more of an audience..."

 

Read full original article:

http://mashable.com/2013/05/29/webflakes

 

Try out it: http://webflakes.com

 

Lydia Gracia's curator insight, May 30, 3:31 AM

I will try it for sure!

Erica Anderson's curator insight, May 30, 8:53 AM

This looks like a really fun discovery tool

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Curate Your Shoppable Fashion Magazine with Monogram

From Robin Good's insight:

"Monogram is a web and mobile publishing app which allows you to curate your own fashion magazine by writing your own content and being able to "sprinkle" it with highly relevant shoppable fashion items that can be sold directly through your pages.

 

In fact, Monogram provides an integrated search facility that makes it easy to find shoppable fashion items to clip (even as you write) and add them to your own magazine.

 

From the Techcrunch review: "Monogram provides a full web editing tool suite, which will allow bloggers to publish and share their favorite fashions with others. Bloggers can create posts, or full “magazines,” of all their favorite content, which readers can browse or subscribe to..."

[Read full Robin Good's insight below]


Try out it: http://www.monogrammag.com


Read full review article on TechCrunch:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/20/monogram-two-point-oh/



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Therese Torris's comment, May 27, 2:53 PM
Hi Robin, thanks for pointing out the search engine. I remain convinced that it will be very difficult for Monogram to succeed. There is a huge competition for fashionista's time and retailers' products out there and some of the competitors like Fab.com, The Fancy, Polyvore and many others are pretty compelling. And There are also a lot of retailers that let customers put together lookboks and share them with their community (like the fabulous site net-à-porter)
Therese Torris's comment, May 27, 2:54 PM
I meant "lookbooks"
Robin Good's comment, May 27, 5:06 PM
Yes Therese, I agree. I am actually glad that Monogram and other small startups are not refraining from attempting to innovate in this apparently crowded space, as I am convinced that there is still plenty of space for many new companies, unless each one of them wants to be the new Pinterest. If they specialize and work on niche audiences and specific use cases I think they may indeed provide a useful service for many. And in the end if they do not try what better suggestion do you have for them? :-)
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Search, Organize And Share Content Into Visual Learning Boards With Edcanvas

"EdCanvas is a web service which allows you to search, find, clip and collect any kind of content, from text to video clips and to organize it into visual boards for educational and learning purposes..."

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Try it out now: http://www.edcanvas.com


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Bernd Meyer's curator insight, May 22, 12:36 AM

Want to learn about this one.  Looks great.

Becky Roehrs's curator insight, May 22, 9:50 AM

This looks fantastic!

joanna prieto's curator insight, May 24, 11:42 AM

Se ve genial la herramienta, la probaré y les cuento!

@JoannaPrieto

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If Pinterest Doesn’t Interest, Try These Alternatives For Men

If Pinterest Doesn’t Interest, Try These Alternatives For Men | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

Excerpted from article on MakeUseOf:
"It’s estimated that around 70 percent of the Pinterest user base is female, with men being nothing more than bit-part players on the site.

Thankfully some enterprising folk saw a gap in the market and seized upon it, and sites which are like Pinterest but aimed solely at men popped up across the InterWebs. What follows is a list of what we consider to be the four best “Pinterest for men” websites.

- Manteresting:
Manteresting clearly exists to offer a place for men to pin images of things that interest them. Rather than “pin” things, you “nail” them to a “workbench.”
Content can be sorted by category, while there is also a ‘Random’ button and lists of the top posts made Today, This Week, This Month, and All Time.

- Gentlemint:
Gentlemint looks more akin to the new Digg than Pinterest, but it offers a similar experience to the latter. Rather than “pin” things, you “tack” them, because tacking is more masculine than pinning, I guess.
Gentlemint looks classier than most of the other Pinterest clones, but it essentially does the same thing as the rest of them do.

- Dudepins:
Dudepins makes no secret of the fact it’s a Pinterest clone, just one that caters solely for men. Women aren’t banned, of course, but the content on offer has an especially manly feel to it. Rather than “pin” things you “pin up” images and videos.
A quick look at the homepage reveals hipsters, interesting designs, and lots of clothes. Which leads me to suspect this is more for refined gentlemen than laddish dudes, despite the name. Content can be sorted by category, with a button specifically bringing that which is trending to the front page.

- Tapiture:
Tapiture has a distinctly Facebook feel to it, which will immediately put off those people who hate Mark Zuckerberg and co. It’s no surprise to find that joining via Facebook is heavily recommended, though there is an email option as well. Rather than “pin” things you “tap” content, including animated GIFs and SoundCloud audio..."

Read full original article:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/if-pinterest-doesnt-interest-try-these-alternatives-for-men/

 

Adam Donkus's comment, May 9, 1:33 PM
Cool list of manly Pinterest Clones..I'll be checking out Manteresting so I can nail my pics to my workbench..
Adam Donkus's curator insight, May 9, 1:34 PM

Could be a few second tier social media networks to help drive your social media campaigns.

Therese Torris's comment, May 17, 4:31 AM
@adam it's very tough for a new shopping curation brand to make it, I know many failed one in Europe. It seems that tapiture is getting traction, check it out http://assets.tapcdn.com/assets/docs/Tapiture-Funding-Announcement-2.14.13.pdf
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Content Curation Guidelines for Where to Share | Curata Blog

Content Curation Guidelines for Where to Share | Curata Blog | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

Excerpted from article by Pawan Deshpande, CEO at Curata:
"By definition, content curation is the act of continually identifying, organizing, and sharing the best and most relevant content on a specific topic or issue online.  When evaluating which content curation tool to use, there are three primary areas of consideration:

1.The Inputs – Where does the content curation tool get information from? What type of content will this allow me to curate?  Will it help identify and recommend relevant content?

2.The Organization  – What does this tool offer in terms of organizing content once it has been identified?  What type of data models does this represent content as? In a simple chronological list, or an inter-linked structure? Does it let me annotate and editorialize the curated content?

3.The Venue – How and where can I share the content once I have decided to curate it?

In this blog post, I am primarily going to focus on the decided on a content curation tool based on the venue – the channels to which your content is curated.

- Embedded Widget.
What is it? Embedded widgets allow you to display curated content in a small pane on your existing web properties.
Pro’s: Relatively easy to implement with Javascript code or create an iframe.
Con’s: Content in widgets is almost never indexed by search engines because they are rendered in Javascript which search engines do not consider.
Who should use it? Organizations that are looking primarily to touch up their website with some fresh content may want to use a widget.

- Microsite.
What is it? A dedicated microsite or section of a website populated primarily with curated content.
Pro’s: Microsites really create a full-fledged experience with curated content as the center piece and can easily because the hub for a specific topic or issue.
Con’s: Because the curated content is not tucked away in a widget and is instead front and center, you will need to pay a lot more attention to what you curate.
Who should use it? Organizations that are looking to become an authoritative destination for a topic or issue to position themselves as a key resource or thought leader, or to drive traffic and visibility.

- Personalized Page.
What is it? A personalized page is a lightweight, single page microsite filled with curated content.
Pro’s: Easy to get up and running and are indexed by search engines. Usually free.
Con’s: Only one page is indexed by search engines.
Who should use it? Individuals or cost conscious non-profits who want to create an information resource.

- Email Newsletters.
What is it? An email newsletter or digest containing the latest curated content that is sent out on a regular interval.
Pro’s: Email newsletters are a great way to continually educate an audience on a regular basis without fail.
Con’s: Email newsletters have two drawbacks: 1. They are not indexed by search engines. 2. They are not real time.
Who should use it? Email newsletters are a great medium for curated content for curators with an existing captive audience.

- Twitter & Social Media Channels.
What is it? Posting curated content on Twitter and other social media channels such as Facebook and LinkedIn through status updates. The curated content could be links to blog articles or other web content, or curated tweets.
Pro’s: Posting curated content is different from other mediums, because it’s a very time sensitive medium.
Con’s: The drawback of sharing curated content on social media is that if you don’t have a lot of curated content on your topic, then it’s hard to get noticed. Because social media is content is so fleeting, if you are not constantly and consistently posting your curated content, then your impact will be minimal.
Who should use it? Curators who have topics with a sufficient throughput of content.  Curators with an existing or potential audience on social media channels. Curators with content that has a likelihood of being shared virally.

- Feeds.
What is it? Content that’s shared through RSS feeds or other data feeds.
Pro’s: People with RSS readers can subscribe to them – who are usually visitors who return regularly. In addition, some search engines crawl RSS feeds.
Con’s: Social media these days has in many ways taken the place of RSS feeds and provide more room for annotation. Unlike social media, it’s also difficult to annotate your content as a curator and add your own context.
Who should use it? Curators with an audience that prefers this medium.

 


So what’s the right answer? Which venue should you choose as you evaluate content curation tools?
A sound content curation strategy utilizes all of the venues and channels, but drives all visitors back to a single microsite. If you’re using a robust content curation platform then you should be able to easily syndicate your content to all channels with ease..."

Read full original article here:
http://www.curata.com/blog/content-curation-guidelines-where-to-share/

 

AndySernovitz's comment, May 7, 12:52 AM
hehe......this guy(Pawan Deshpande) definately doesnt know whats content piracy and is just interested in posting his own link again n again to steal some traffic by unneccessary conversations ,iam with you Giuseppe,buddy
MyKLogica's comment, May 7, 2:38 AM
well, it is a pity that two skilled professionals do not know to how to do converge assertively their differences, and result in better contents, and content curation. Both of you are partly right and partly wrong, under my point of view, and instead of focusing in your differences, why don´t you focus on what may bring you together?
Therese Torris's comment, May 7, 5:40 AM
@pawan @giuseppe I appreciate your work, both. We should value the mere fact that you and we are able to share diverging point of views on an open Platform like Scoop.it. That is true Social Content Curation, isn't it?
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The Ultimate RSS Reader: The Old Reader

The Ultimate RSS Reader: The Old Reader | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

From official website:

"It's just like the old google reader, only better. We're in beta right now.


It allows you to browse your daily dose of content with that very special bit shared by your friends, with notes and comments.


You can import your feeds from your Google Reader account Directly or use our OPML import feature if you're sensitive about your security..."


Try out it: http://theoldreader.com


HOWTO (tour): http://theoldreader.com/pages/tour


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Repost.Us: A New Way To Syndicate And Discover Content

Excerpted from official website and its "About" page. Here are the key features:

- Content Distribution:
Repost lets bloggers, publishers, and brands distribute their content to new audiences.
- Content Discovery:
Find news, features, videos, and more to repost on your site. And it's free.

Repost allows you to republish complete articles (including images, links, & multimedia) anywhere quickly, easily, and legally – just like video.
With Repost, you can distribute your content to other publishers, bloggers, and websites. You can also discover a broad range of content to repost on your own site. Whether you’re distributing, discovering, or both, why do you need Repost? That’s easy: More readers, more reach, more revenue.

Repost: it’s syndication reimagined; it’s the wire service reinvented; it’s changing the way content goes viral."

Excerpted from review article on Mashable:
"Repost.Us, a free service that launched earlier this week, provides publishers with a platform to share and embed full articles in the same way that YouTube lets users embed video clips. Websites can add a Repost button to their articles, which others can click on to re-publish all of the content in the article — along with videos, the original publisher's advertising and branding, and any updates to the article that occur afterwards. Repost also provides a directory of content that publishers can search through and publish on their own website.

In short, the goal for Repost, is to make it easy for big and small publishers to profit from sharing complete articles as it is for content producers to share and profit from videos using the embed code from websites like YouTube..."

Check out it: http://www.repost.us

"About" Page: http://www.repost.us/about

Read full review article by Mashable:

http://mashable.com/2013/04/19/repost-startup/

Original video on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/62295846

 

Víctor V. Valera Jiménez's curator insight, April 26, 10:28 PM

Repost te permite volver a publicar artículos completos (incluyendo imágenes, enlaces, y multimedia) en cualquier lugar con rapidez, facilidad y legalmente - como video.

 

Con Repost, puedes distribuir tu contenido a otros editores, autores de blogs y sitios web. También puedes descubrir una amplia gama de contenido a publicar de nuevo en tu propio sitio.

 

Ya sea que esté distribuyendo, descubrir, o ambas cosas, ¿por qué necesita Repost? Eso es fácil: más lectores, más alcance, más ingresos.

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5 Startups Changing The Way The News Business Delivers Content And The Role Of Human Curation

5 Startups Changing The Way The News Business Delivers Content And The Role Of Human Curation | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

This is an useful article by paidContent.org on GigaOM, and it is interesting for this my curated topic about Content Curation.

 

Here is an excerpt from it:

"From PaidContent Live 2013, we brought you five different entrepreneurs who talked about ways in which they are changing up business models for media and the ways in which people consume content.

 

A few themes came out of our presentations from:

- Paul Berry, founder and CEO of RebelMouse,

- Jeff Fluhr, co-founder and CEO of Spreecast,

- Matt Galligan, co-founder and CEO of Circa,

- Aria Haghighi, co-Founder and CTO of Prismatic,

- Josh Miller, co-founder of Branch.

Here were the ones we found most compelling:

 

1) The future of news will come from other people.

This isn’t to say that the majority of the world will eventually get all of their news from Twitter and Facebook, but it is fair to say that we’ll increasingly rely on recommendations and smarter social cues from friends and respected strangers as we sort through the vast amount of information available online.

 

2) We’ll be reading all the news that fits — on mobile.

Circa, the startup that’s re-thinking how to structure news stories based on the attention spans and needs of mobile readers.

 

3) It’s all about the individual person and the brand they build. Obviously individuals have always had a hand in shaping the news since the days of newspaper editors picking the stories that end up on the front page. But since the early days of blogging we’ve seen the rise of the personal brand grow in importance (excellent curators are for example Maria Popova and Andrew Sullivan).

 

4) People want to talk about the news but they’re looking for smart conversations.

Several interesting tools have launched recently that allow for more dynamic conversations online about the news, and we’re seeing those conversations happen both in text and multimedia.

 

5) Traditional advertising can’t support the future, but no one’s clear what the alternative looks like..."

 

Read full original article here:

http://paidcontent.org/2013/04/17/5-startups-changing-the-way-the-news-business-delivers-content/

 

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The Top Role Of Content Creation And Curation: Gartner's 2013 Social Marketing Survey

The Top Role Of Content Creation And Curation: Gartner's 2013 Social Marketing Survey | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

Part of this research is available to the general public, free of charge.
Excerpted from article about this Gartner's 2013 Social Marketing Survey:
"Summary: Gartner's 2013 U.S. Digital Marketing Spending Survey found that investments in content creation and social marketing totaled 21% of digital marketing budgets. Here we dive deeper into the implications of the content imperative for your social marketing strategy.

Overview:
- Impacts
a) Forty-seven percent of survey respondents see content creation and curation as the top role of their social marketing teams, often forcing them to outsource.
b) Digital marketers achieving effective social marketing create and curate content that speaks with an authentic voice.

- Recommendations
a) Balance outsourced content services with in-house expertise, building internal content creation and curation skills, while utilizing agencies and service providers to scale.
b) Develop a style guide to formalize your brand's voice and values, to clarify rules of engagement and to enforce companywide standards."

[There is a detailed analysis in the full article.]

Moreover, Jake Sorofman, Research Director at Gartner, adds some insights in his blog post:
"So it’s perhaps no surprise that Gartner’s 2013 social marketing survey pointed to content creation and curation as the key areas of focus for social marketing organizations—and the most outsourced function.

What’s different about content in the age of the social web?

- It’s human: it speaks with a conversational voice, from one human being to another. Thought isn’t hidden behind stilted corporate speak, chest-thumping claims and pompous language.
- It’s neutral: perhaps not wholly objective, but it holds fire on the hard sell in favor of issues-centric storytelling that supports a brand’s point of view without always making the brand the hero.
- It’s simple: attention spans aren’t what they used to be and competition for that limited attention has reached a fever pitch.
- It’s visual: It’s also easier to consume when you’re already up to your eyeballs in dense text.
- It’s curated: you don’t have to create all of your own content. Leverage happens when you organize and annotate third-party content that helps tell your story or sell your point of view.
- It’s conversational: communities talk back to sustain the dialogue in the form of comments, reviews, ratings and new content of their own that defends or argues against your point of view.
- It’s organic: it’s published fast, often in response to unpredictable moments."

Full article about Gartner's 2013 Social Marketing Survey:
http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/digital-marketing/social-marketing-survey.jsp

Full original post by Jake Sorofman on Gartner Blog:
http://blogs.gartner.com/jake-sorofman/forget-big-data-here-comes-big-content/

 

Amita Malhotra's curator insight, April 16, 6:17 AM

With the mainstreaming of content - channel management has taken a back seat. Differentiated content + value-adding curation is becoming key.

Gail Worthington-Eyre's curator insight, April 17, 8:09 PM

Research confirms, content marketing and story telling engages the consumer in discussion that means something to them. Social media marketing is the voice of your business and your connection to your consumer. Have you developed your strategy yet?

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Discover, Clip And Share Videos From Anywhere With ReelSurfer

Discover, Clip And Share Videos From Anywhere With ReelSurfer | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

Excerpted from review article by TechCrunch:
"ReelSurfer is an instant video editor, born out of its founders frustration of trying to find clips, quotes and scenes from their favorite movies on YouTube and other video sites.
ReelSurfer developed the tools to let you clip any video from any website and share it with your “homies” and “homedawgs” over the Facebooks, Twitters and more.

Today, ReelSurfer has officially unveiled a redesigned interface, which looks a whole helluva lot better and makes it easier to navigate and makes its URL search box even more prominent — as it should be.

The new interface still enables users to make video mashups or reels of multiple videos and link back to the source so that viewers can check out the full clip if they so choose. However, the new interface does allow for improved search and video discovery, so that users have a better chance to see if the clip they want to make has already been clippity-clipped by someone else. Time saving, my friends, time saving.

Yet, the biggest addition would have to be that ReelSurfer the now allows users to use its bookmarklet to clip videos from both Brightcove and Ooyala, in addition to YouTube and Vimeo..."

Read full original article:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/12/y-combinator-grad-reelsurfer-gets-a-makeover-now-lets-you-clip-share-any-espn-or-new-york-times-video/

Check out ReelSurfer: http://www.reelsurfer.com

More information: http://www.reelsurfer.com/about

 

God Is.'s curator insight, April 14, 10:46 AM

I have to try and see this one, but it looks promising...

Charlie Dare's curator insight, April 14, 11:42 PM

A nice idea as I was searching for a clip of Nick Drake but his reclusive past life seemingly that of a shooting star ..then gone.

Víctor V. Valera Jiménez's curator insight, April 20, 2:05 PM

Real Surfer es una excelente herramienta que te permite descubrir, seleccionar, cortar y compartir vídeos desde cualquier lugar de alojamiento de vídeos como Youtube y otros.

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Aggregate, Curate and Publish Across Web, Social and Email with OpenTopic

Aggregate, Curate and Publish Across Web, Social and Email with OpenTopic | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

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"OpenTopic is a news curation service which allows you to aggregate, monitor and filter any number of sources and to publish and share your selected ones to you selected outlets: from your WordPress site, to your social media channels and to your email newsletter engine..."

Request an invite here: http://www.opentopic.com


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Aggregate, Curate and Publish Across Web, Social and Email with OpenTopic
Rhonda Kay's curator insight, June 18, 3:45 PM

Interesting.  Is this the death of RSS?

Robin Martin's curator insight, June 18, 9:13 PM

Thanks for sharing Robin!

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Why Content Curation and Crowdsourcing Will Change Everything

Why Content Curation and Crowdsourcing Will Change Everything | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

From the original article by Tom George on his "Internet Billboards".
Here are some interesting excerpts from the post about content curation.
"After having spent the better part of four years curating content from renowned bloggers, journalists and authors as well as building a platform here on Internet Billboards, which has evolved into a wonderful community of content curator’s.

Here is my definition of content curation. A content curator is someone who finds, organizes, presents and shares valuable information (content) in many forms, on a specific topic, in a way that provides special context and or a unique engagement with his or her readers. In actuality when done correctly, over time it positions the curator as an expert in his or her respective field and defines their reputation as a thought leader.

A good curator will mix curation with his or her own original content, to give interpretations for the express purpose of allowing others to form their own conclusions.
...
Why curation and crowdsourcing will and should become more important to you. I will give you ten reasons.
1. There is just too much content;
2. Social Sites Are Full Of Spam;
3. Privacy concerns with big data;
4. Limiting risk and using many minds;
5. Technology must assist us and help us not hinder us;
6. People Will recognize the need to build meaningful relationships;
7. Information will flow freely;
8. Trust and authority will be the new currency;
9. Curation helps you establish relationships with thought leaders;
10. Crowd Sourcing can make things possible..."

The article is discussed with more information. Read full original post here:
http://www.internetbillboards.net/2013/06/why-content-curation-and-crowdsourcing-will-change-everything/

 

William Moeller Marketing & Design's comment, June 12, 6:46 PM
Hi Teresa. Curation creates its own set of challenges, and proper attribution to the content source(s) remains a big one, particularly in short form communication (e.g., Twitter). As a content curator, I strive to acknowledge my sources. But what if my nearest source was another curator, who perhaps shared it from another curator. With limited number of characters allowed, we have no choice but to truncate the value stream, occasionally (and unwittingly) leaving out the original author.
Therese Torris's comment, June 14, 1:19 PM
William, I agree it's not always easy. I still find that some systems are better than others at encouraging attribution. For exemple Scoop.it keeps the link to the original site from which the content was clipped. Thus there is a way to go to the source.
Stephen Dale's curator insight, June 15, 3:29 AM

I liked the definition of Curation from Tome George (author of the piece):


"A content curator is someone who finds, organizes, presents and shares valuable information (content) in many forms, on a specific topic, in a way that provides special context and or a unique engagement with his or her readers. In actuality when done correctly, over time it positions the curator as an expert in his or her respective field and defines their reputation as a thought leader. A good curator will mix curation with his or her own original content, to give interpretations for the express purpose of allowing others to form their own conclusions."

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Amazon launches Storyteller to turn scripts into storyboards -- automagically

Amazon launches Storyteller to turn scripts into storyboards -- automagically | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

Excerpt from review article by VentureBeat:
"Upload your script, choose some backgrounds, and magically created a professional-looking storyboard of your movie. Or the graphic novel version of your text-based anything.

Amazon Studios released Storyteller today to allow writers and filmmakers to quickly, easily — and cheaply — storyboard their scripts.

Roy Price, Amazon’s director of Studios said: “Storyteller provides a digital backlot, acting troupe, prop department, and assistant editor — everything you need to bring your story to life.”

You start by uploading a script to Amazon Studios — or by playing with one that’s already there. Then simply page through the script paragraph by paragraph. Storyteller will try to match up characters, props, and background with the words in each chunk of text, and it does a surprisingly good job.

But if you don’t like what Storyteller gives, you can choose from its library, or even upload your own custom background or characters. Currently, the software has a library of thousands of props, characters, and backgrounds..."

Read full review article: http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/07/amazon-launches-storyteller-to-turn-scripts-into-storyboards-automagically/

Learn more and try out Storyteller: http://studios.amazon.com/storyteller

 

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Amazon launches Storyteller to turn scripts into storyboards -- automagically
vgpascal's curator insight, June 11, 1:49 AM

Du synopsis au storyboard en passant par studio.amazon.com/storyteller

Geraldine Lefoe's curator insight, June 11, 6:33 PM

Great for a whole range of educational activities

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Discover, Collect And Share Your Favorite Content with Favebucket

From Robin Good's insight:

"Favebucket is a web app which allows you to easily clip any web page, video or content and to organize according to categories (buckets) and tags.

 

An integrated bookmarklet makes it easy to clip any content on any web page, while suggesting relevant tags and the option to add each item to a bucket (collection).

 

Individual contents saved with Favebucket can be easily shared on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest..."

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Try out it: http://favebucket.com

 

Favebucket Video Intro: http://youtu.be/fd99b5eBN4s

 


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wanderingsalsero's curator insight, May 31, 10:03 PM

I'm going to try this.  I like the look of picking my tags from that tag cloud over on the right of the page.  Having to manually type them in, in the Draffo bookmarket that I've been using, is a drag (although I like everything else about Draggoo).

 

It's going to be interesting to see if THIS one is any more practical in the long term as a bookmarker.

Víctor V. Valera Jiménez's curator insight, June 2, 8:09 PM

Herramienta que te permite guardar cualquier página web, vídeo o contenido y organizarlo en categorias y etiquetas, algo que resulta muy fácil gracias a su bookmarklet.

 

Además estos contenidos pueden ser facilmente compartidos en nuestras redes sociales favoritas (Facebook, Twitter...).

wanderingsalsero's comment, June 19, 8:17 AM
After having played around with this a little bit, I must say that I found the instructions a bit lacking. Matter of fact, I wrote them a 'customer service' email with my question and got no reply. In their instructions they show two steps but I could only intuitively find one. Furthermore, I hate it when companies don't think that their product to have a tutorial with an actual human voice but rather throw up some cute little video might get and award for cute music and animation but isn't worth crap to actually telling people how the damn thing works.
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Aggregate, Curate and Cross-Publish To All Social Media Channels with Streamified

"Streamified is stream reader / aggregator / publishing platform which allows you to aggregate, filter and read news stories coming from all your selected social channels and RSS feeds. Not only. You can also easily edit and cross-post to any number of social accounts simultaneously or, at a later time.

...

Key additional features include:

- Scheduled posting;

- Brand alerts;

- Team collaboration;

- Advanced Analytics and Reports.

 

Free version available."
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More info: https://streamified.me

 

and here: http://streamified.com




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Alex Grech's curator insight, May 26, 12:34 PM

Hootsuite alternative.  Worth investigating.

Víctor V. Valera Jiménez's curator insight, May 26, 6:39 PM

Herramienta de agregación de contenidos que nos permitirá agregar, filtrar y  leer todas las noticas provenientes de las redes sociales y las RSS que le hayamos indicado.

 

Estas noticias se pueden editar para después ser compartidas en las redes sociales, pudiendo programar la publicación de noticias, crear alertas de contenido novedoso, trabajar en grupos colaborativos y crear informes y análisis avanzados.

athindrans's curator insight, June 13, 11:00 AM

curation tool

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Web Curation And New Professions: The Content Curator

Web Curation And New Professions: The Content Curator | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

Excerpted from article on Mashable:
"Today, however, curation encompasses a whole new catalog of professions, brands and tools — and most revolve around the web.

A curator ingests, analyzes and contextualizes web content and information of a particular nature onto a platform or into a format we can understand. In other words, a curator is like that person at the beach with the metal detector, surfacing items and relics of perceived value. Only, a web curator shares those gems of content with their online audiences.

Some believe "curator" to be a reappropriated, throwaway term, one that simply elevates marginally focused web users.

Some media sites choose to curate articles already published and reported by other sites. For instance, Boing Boing and The Awl feed links that reference news reported by other sites around the web, tailoring content that will resonate with their readership.

More and more people are taking the reins into their own hands. Consumer curators are flocking to sites like The Fancy to browse products and silo them into categories. Other curation tools aren't as consumer-driven but nonetheless help users organize and structure web content that matters to them.

As much as the term gets criticized, curation requires patience, resourcefulness and a keen editing eye. It means becoming fluent in one particular dialect of the web, versus trying to speak its entire language. It's the reason journalists have beats, and the reason you chose one major in college, instead of seven.
Perhaps the best part? Curation is a never-ending job, and it never gets boring..."

Read full original article:
http://mashable.com/2013/05/09/curator/

 

Mathieu Bigeard's curator insight, May 10, 5:22 AM

#SocialMedia Governance: what's the role of the Content #Curator. Good article from #Mashable

Víctor V. Valera Jiménez's curator insight, May 10, 10:51 PM

Excelente artículo en Mashable de Stephanie Buck que nos habla de este nuevo perfil profesional que está irrumpiendo con fuerza en el marketing de contenidos, el Content Curator.

Emily at Two Pens's curator insight, May 29, 10:39 PM

Love this. Debunked and clarified.

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The Role of Curation in Content Marketing

Presentation by Lisa Rhodes of Verne Global, and Pawan Deshpande, CEO of Curata. Published on SlideShare in April 2013.

 

"There's a good reason why content curation is such a hot topic these days: It works! Explore real-world examples of how leading B2B marketers identify, find, organize and share relevant content with their core markets via content curation, and learn why curation delivers strong ROI for today's marketing organizations."

 

Original Presentation on SlideShare:

http://www.slideshare.net/G3Com/the-role-of-curation-in-content-marketing

 

Michael Kristiansen's curator insight, May 8, 1:57 AM

This is a very good explanation on how important the role curation plays in improving the overall content of a website.  This gives reason for staying on a website and getting bookmarked for return visits.

 

Adam Donkus's curator insight, May 9, 1:21 PM

Curation sites are becoming hugely important in our online marketing campaigns. Additionally, often times blog posts that are nothing more than a list of currated links on a certain niche tend to do really well.

Luke Hancock's curator insight, May 13, 4:13 PM

Interesting take to curate content of your competitors or curating content that offers a different editorial from your content. I do agree, it will lend to you being more of a thoughts leader without the agenda. 

 

The presentation picks up a lot of steam with their curation tips in the final third of the slides. Enjoy

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Content Curation Tool: Save, Organize, And Share Whatever You Love With Keeeb

Key features excerpted from official website:
- Save your web highlights:
Every day you find amazing things on the internet. With Keeeb you can just save the bits and pieces you like from any web page.

- Restructure like never before:
Create topic pages for anything you want to research or collect. Group, rearrange, comment, and organize all your keeebies the way you want to.

- Team up, share, and discover:
Keep them private or public. If you like, you can share your keeebies and topic pages or work together with your friends or colleagues on them.

Try it out now: http://keeeb.com

 

Tutorials: http://keeeb.com/info/en/help/

 


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Susan's comment, May 9, 2:28 PM
I would say it's more of a replacement for Symbaloo or other bookmarking tools.
Karen Johnson's comment, May 9, 3:48 PM
I would agree with Susan's comment. I think it is something to try instead of Netvibes.
Elizabeth Hutchinson's comment, May 9, 4:52 PM
I think like all curation tools, you need to find what works for you. If you have time investigate the next thing if not, stick with what you know.
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Curate Local Information With FeedWax

Curate Local Information With FeedWax | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it
FeedWax helps you curate sources covering things happening in your local area right now.

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Adam Donkus's comment, May 9, 1:37 PM
Local curation...cool...
Adam Donkus's curator insight, May 9, 1:38 PM

Curration is a hot trend now for social media and seo..local curation..never saw a tool for that..

Adam Donkus's curator insight, May 9, 1:39 PM

Local content curration too cool..will be giving it a try..

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Find, Curate And Share Your Favorite Content With This Social Curation Tool: Sauna

Find, Curate And Share Your Favorite Content With This Social Curation Tool: Sauna | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

Excerpted from official website and key features:

"- Find the most relevant links:
Sauna scans your Twitter stream, Facebook and RSS feeds looking for links.

- Extract images, video and text:
Sauna automatically extracts the important text and images from each link. You don't even have to visit the site!

- Sauna learns what you like:
Over time, Sauna learns what types of links you like, and hides the ones you don't."

Request an invite and try out here: http://www.sauna.io

 


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Robin Good's curator insight, April 19, 12:26 PM



Sauna.io is a social curation platform allowing you to easily pick the best content, images and video from your social media connections coming from Facebook and Twitter.

Sauna.io provides Pinterest-like private dashboards in which it surfaces for you the most relevant stories that may interest you, coming from a set of 12 different content themes from which you can elect your favorite ones.


Categories of interest available: http://o7.no/11lB3zp (screenshot)


You can create as many dashboards as you like and feed them with specific Twitter user accounts and/or RSS feeds of your choice.


Sauna.io lets you also comfortably read any potential interesting story by sliding in a side panel in which you can read the content in detail.


You can vote each story, or select to edit / curate it, by working on the title, description, image and tags associated to it, and then easily share it on your Facebook or Twitter accounts.


Free to use.



My comment: A good social discovery and sharing tool for anyone interested in having a pleasing discovery experience and an easy way to also edit and curate each story selected.


Categories are still very limited and broad at the moment.


Good UI and usability. Definitely worth trying.



Request an invite here: http://www.sauna.io/



malek's curator insight, April 19, 5:43 PM

Worth trying

Ron VanPeursem's comment, April 20, 12:27 AM
Looks like Sauna also uses an intelligence algorithm to improve its filtering over time. A VERY helpful feature!
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Discover, Collect And Organize Videos With This Curation Tool: Waywire

From "About" Page:

- Discover the best video from across the web via the sources you choose and trust.
Easily stay up to date on breaking news, new music, disgustingly cute cat videos and the best stuff online by following your friends and favorite sources on #waywire. It’s a way of sifting through all the junk out there and creating your own channels about the things you care about.

- Collect and organize videos into wires you can share.
Video is everywhere these days. Whether it’s on a website or on your phone use #waywire to organize it all in one place. Express yourself and your interests or tell a story by arranging videos and creating wires that others can follow.

- Engage with friends online in a new way.
#waywire is bringing you new ways to share and talk about videos with friends.

Try out it: http://waywire.com

"About" Page: http://waywire.com/public/about

"How to Create a Collection" [Video]: http://youtu.be/CDvpF2YH29g

"How to Curate a Wire #waywire " [Video]: http://youtu.be/l9IZNLzA7Jc

 


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Robin Good's comment, April 22, 11:42 AM
Thank you Lydia. Glad to be of help.
Share to say thanks.
Lydia Gracia's comment, April 23, 2:49 AM
done!
Kostas Tozis D Skhnotheths's curator insight, May 4, 3:39 PM

likeeeeeeee

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Collect, Curate, Communicate: The 3 C's Of Content Curation

Collect, Curate, Communicate: The 3 C's Of Content Curation | Social Media Content Curation | Scoop.it

This is an informative article by Jeremy Floyd about content curation and useful for novices. Here is an excerpt from it:

"In the past, we had a few channels of information and each channel had a few gatekeepers that sorted, prioritized and reported the information to the public.

 

Today, information-consumers have an endless supply of channels. News, entertainment, gossip and professional development all drain into the same information stream that flows rich throughout the connected world. The gatekeepers have been removed and anyone is free to flow about the stream looking for relevant and useful information.

 

Since people have “clipped” news articles, there has been content curation. Today, however, the information flow is that of a mighty raging river, and it’s easy to get lost in the current. Content curators are effective at managing a series of information pipes and sharing that with their following.

 

1. Collect:
The content curator’s work is never done. Minutes after perusing your RSS reader 20 more articles have been posted and the cycle starts again. In the mainstream news era, the national news came on at precisely the same time every night.

2. Curate:
- Consistent Subject Matter – Because the information flow is swift and always moving, content curators must be consistent with their niche and resist the temptation to follow whims. Define the topics that you are going to cover.
- Direct Communication – Social media has no appreciation for nuance, so as a curator, be direct.
- Filter Consistently – As news editors filtered the news that was worthy of their readership, think about what is relevant to your readership. Filter out the stories that are redundant, irrelevant or boring.

3. Communicate:
- Be human - Bring your voice to your content. Be real.
- Be frequent not a freak when you overpublish..."

Read full original article here:
http://www.jeremyfloyd.com/2013/02/the-abcs-of-content-curation/

 

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