SocialMediaDesign

Clipzine is a web app which makes it easy to collect images from any website page and to visually organize them into page-based collections.

So many possibilities for using twitter...

Different uses of twitter

Typeform is a new web app which allows you to easily edit, create and publish professionally-looking interactive forms and surveys on any website, while guaranteeing full compatibility with all desktop and mobile devices.

If you want to "listen" to your fans, customers and readers, this is a great tool to make it all happen.

As a matter of fact, Typeforms work across all computing devices: from desktop PCs, to tablets and smartphones and can include all types of questions, from yes/no to multiple choice to free form answer. There is even a "Dropdown question type" which allows you to add as many options you want to this customizable drop down menu.

To create a new interactive questionnaire, input form or survey, you only need to drag and drop, your selected type of questions onto your empty form canvas.

Nonetheless all newly created forms have by default a professionally-looking design, it is also possible to customize their look by selecting specific colors, fonts, backgrounds or by choosing among several readily available design themes.

Other key features include the ability to embed any newly created form or survey onto any website or blog.

It is also possible to personalize typeforms by passing data into your typeforms and by appending variables to the URL. Great for greeting your users by their first name or passing hidden data along to your results.

Free to use.

Find out more: https://www.typeform.com/

Promo video: http://vimeo.com/44924584

FAQ: http://support.typeform.com/

Sign-up for the beta: https://www.typeform.com/signup/public-beta/en/

Ditto is a FREE, automated weekly backup of Twitter, Facebook and Gmail with integrated search capabilities.

To curate, means also ability to archive, preserve and safely store the data/information/content available in your newsradar/collection/lineup. As a matter of fact, if you decided to follow-up on an academic pursuit of your data-curation interests, you would be immediately confronted with the learning of the best methodologies, tools and workflows utilized to preserve and archive digital data.

In addition, given the times we are in, and who controls our data, you can never know what happens next, and whether you are always going to be able to access both your account and the data that's in it.

For these reasons I think it is relevant for anyone involved in professionally managing content / data, such as a content curator does, to have the ability to easily and automatically backup all of his Twitter / Facebook data as well as his own Gmail.

With Ditto, you can export all of your backed up data from Facebook, Twitter or Gmail, into a handy PDF file.

Free to use. (max 3GB of archive space can be used - if you leave out your Gmail, that's plenty of space.)

Find out more: https://ditto.norton.com/

Try it out now: http://ditto.norton.com/services

Daunting, but probably the direction in which we need to go.

A fantastic article on why you should curate content, share it and give your personal touch on the matter. 

This short article provides five solid reasons why one needs to curate. Needless to say, I've bought into the idea anyway

Read the other comments, they are better that what I could write. See below.

(From the article): I'd like the sense that someone of taste and discretion and experience has already whittled down the choices. (That's the problem with search engines, by the way - no taste!) The world needs editing - and yes, I use that word advisedly. Give me the cheeses that matter, offer me a wine list that's manageable. And put all the information that's raining down on us from cyberspace in a convenient, easy-to-handle form. Sorry, I never intended to be a defence of newspapers! 

Would you like some wine? 

Why cheese matters

Great tool for students promoting their videos, blogs and other content.
Social media for social good!