information analyst

In this video, natural language processing expert Russell Wright from Theme Zoom explains the difference between premium curation for corporations and curation for small businesses.

There is some very good information for small businesses.

Here are a few things Russell talks about:

He suggests tools for aggregating information, (he mentions Curata a lot for corporations and he has a relationship with them and it almost seems like he's plugging them a lot, but stick with it, you might find one or two things that will help you along the way).

Here are a few things he talks about:

**how to have the right site architecture for good SEO

**adding context, how to use curation to show your expertise using the monitization model, he explains this in more detail.

**Provide a better valued insight or create a new conversation, give your opinion on the content you're curating, find a  creative way to add meaning without going overboard.

**You have to be clear about what service you're providing, reduce your topics and themes by only having 4 or 5 keywords so you are continually providing valuable information to your audience.

**Don't be too broad, match your topic with your brand message.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV--va4x2n0

I just ran across this post from August 10th, I didn't see this before and maybe some of you didn't.  The new personalization layer in News360 is still automated, but it harnesses the user's own human qualities.

Here's an intro:

"News360, a news reader app available on most mobile devices and tablets, has just announced version 2.0, which adds a layer of personalization to the news shown to each user, whereas it was just an aggregator before."

News360, a news reader app available on most mobile devices and tablets, has just announced version 2.0, which adds a layer of personalization to the news shown to each user, whereas it was just an aggregator before. The update also launches a beta Web version of the service, so you can use it on the desktop. Finally, the new version adds a timeline view, which allows you to track a story's development over time.

When News360 launched, it simply pulled in coverage of stories from multiple sources, like Google News does, as well as Twitter discussions of the topic. It offered a few ways for users to go more in-depth, with image galleries, great definitions of terms and the ability to manually add more personalized feeds by topic. It certainly provided more content than a human-curated service, like Newsy, but it lacked that human quality of editorial discernment. The new personalization layer in News360 is still automated, but it harnesses the user's own human qualities.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/news360_20_personalizes_news_aggregation.php

This article was written by Marshall Kirkpatrick for ReadWriteWeb

You make data. A lot of it. From Web browsing to link sharing to photos published online, from phone bills to medical records to online banking - almost all of us produce an incredible amount of electronic data that slips right through our fingers...

Here's What Went Live 10/19 In case you didn't see it: Very exciting!

Singly 1.0 began rolling out to developers Oct. 19, 2011

****Those first users will be able to build apps that search, sort and visualize contacts, links and photos that have been published by their own accounts on various social networks but also by all the accounts they are subscribed to there.

****Want to search the contents of every link shared by every person you're subscribed to on Twitter (at least as far back as Singly can access)?

****Want to make a slideshow of all the Instagram photos your contacts have posted that have a certain hashtag in them? Or were on a weekend? Or whatever other criteria you can think of? Those kinds of things are possible now.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/singly_platform_launch.php

Curated by JanLGordon covering "Content Curation, Social Media & Beyond"

I posted this a few weeks ago, I'm sure not everyone saw it and it is definitely worth posting again. Lots of information and strategy.

Nine ways to make curation work for your brand.

Become a Content Curation King

Sean Carton | August 29, 2011

"Curation" is a buzzword (even if it isn't technically a word…unless you count the 14th century French definition meaning "to cure") that's smokin' up the interwebs these days. Launching into the blogosphere virtually from nowhere in 2009, it's now one of those terms that's essential to any digital marketer on the cutting edge (or for anyone who wants to sound like one).

Curation has now come to mean the act of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a coherent way, organized around a specific topic(s). However, unlike automated services (such as Google News), the essential difference of curation is that there's a human being doing the sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing. Just as a museum curator must decide which artifacts to display during an exhibition, an online curator decides what information available online is appropriate and relevant to her audience.

Making curation work for your brand is a lot easier said than done. As countless would-be content curation kings (and queens) have found out, just gathering a lot of links together doesn't guarantee anything except that you'll spend a lot of time curating links. You need to commit resources to both curation and promotion if you're going to be successful. And that's just the first step. To truly succeed as a curator, you need to think like a curator (not just an aggregator) and keep the following in mind:

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2104954/content-curation-king