I selected this post written by Elad Gil because not only was it interesting and timely, but the comments from his readers were equally as valuable. So many different social curation platforms emerging, Pinterest is one to watch.......
Excerpt:
Social Content Curation As The Next Big Thing
The most interesting wave hitting the social web in 2012 is social curation. This was kicked off in 2011 as Pinterest's growth was noticed by Silicon Valley and a number of companies quickly followed suit -
**Snip.It launched as a social information curation platform, Quora adopted boards for a similar purpose, and Fab.com launched a structured social commerce feed.
There's so much information in this post, here's the takeaway. I would love to hear your comments about this next wave......
Takeaway:
2012 Will Be The Year of Curated Sets
**2012 will likely see an acceleration of structured, push button, social curation across the web. Why? Because most users don't want to take much effort to produce content, and consuming content in a structured manner (especially photos) is also much faster.
**Just as the first wave of social media has transformed the consumption of information, this next wave of social curation will fundamentally change how users find and interact with content over time.
Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond
Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/lK0ZHi]
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Rescooped by Ricard Lloria from visualizing social media ontoBussines Improvement and Social media
"This infographic looks at how many CEOs participate on social media networks, what are the most popular social media networks for CEOs, how actively they participate and more.
Only 47.4 percent of CEOs participate on social media sites. 79 percent of Inc 500 CEOs and 30 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs have a presence on at least one social media network. 81 percent of employees believe that CEOs who engage on social media are better equipped to lead companies in the Web 2.0 World"...
CEOs on Social Media Statistics [Infographic] via @MYDstudio http://sco.lt/...