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Social media has rapidly become an important part of many peoples’ lives, not just as a way to keep up with friends and family, but also for professional networks, exploring fields of research, shopping, sharing content and fostering online communities.
It has also become a crucial aspect of a businesses’ online presence- now a firm can connect with consumers and tailor their online relationships with customers, other brands, and with employees.
Learn more about these trends, including social marketing, content development, branding, video + media applications, social tv, and the growing influence of mobile devices in social media... Via Lauren Moss, Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com, Sophie DAVID, Pierre Wouters 
Eliza Steely's comment,
December 13, 2012 12:57 PM
I love that point Martin! I think people call it social because of the personal element to it as opposed to advertising and things like that, especially because it's so interactive in nature. Do you have a suggestion as to what to change the name to?
donhornsby's curator insight,
December 14, 2012 6:23 AM
(From the article): "The coming year will see a massive increase in companies using social media services to market their goods and services, recognising the potential for sharing content and information and enhancing engagement with target audiences."
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Media build an integrated environment based on flows of information. Information ecology aims at understanding the properties of this environment. Via FastTFriend
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This a great blog post from Rian van der Merwe , describing the noise you can find on the web now, and especially content just created for SEO purposes or advertisers. As many, Rian is tired of it.
Rian speaks for many of us who are overwhelmed, overloaded with content that gives us no value at all. This is the problem
"I used to believe that if you write with passion and clarity about a topic you know well (or want to know more about), you will find and build an audience. I believed that maybe, if you’re smart about it, you could find a way for some part of that audience to pay you money to sustain whatever obsession drove you to self-publishing"'
Here's what caught my attention:
****The wells of attention are being drilled to depletion by linkbait headlines, ad-infested pages, “jumps” and random pagination, and content that is engineered to be “consumed” in 1 minute or less of quick scanning – just enough time to capture those almighty eyeballs[2]. And the reality is that “Alternative Attention sources” simply don’t exist.
The Scoopit team agrees!
My input:
****The Opportunity: This is the time for all good curators to come forward - 2012 will be the year of the content curator -
**Know your audience **Know their pain points **Find and select the best content, add your own opinions, information or anything that will provide more value for your audience **Select only the best content, don't just aggregate links that add to the noise **Become a trusted resource - many opportunities will come to you, it's your time to shine
Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond"
Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/tF0opI]
Via axelletess, janlgordon, Robin Good
's comment December 4, 2011 12:23 PM
Great post and comments Jan! Looking forward to 2012.
janlgordon's comment,
December 4, 2011 2:59 PM
@Karen Dietz
Thanks Karen! 2012 is going to be an amazing year for all of us!! 
Gust MEES's curator insight,
February 14, 2013 7:39 AM
Quality Matters!
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On the surface, social media and knowledge management (KM) seem very similar. Both involve people using technology to access information. Both require individuals to create information intended for sharing. Both profess to support collaboration. ...
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From the article intro: The success of social networks and the move to socialise many others aspects of the web – from content and search to deals and commerce – has captured the imagination of analysts, content creators and brands. Those best positioned to monetise these changes, however, are developing strategies that extend beyond social networks built on who-knows-who to those built on shared interests: so-called "communities of interest".
"It's no longer just social media that's social any more – all media is becoming social thanks to the maturation of creative tools and digital distribution," says Troy Young, president of SAY Media.
Technology has democratised publishing. This, in turn, has resulted in a new breed of media businesses that see themselves more as curators of content rather than owners.
New technology is creating new opportunities to socially interact and is also enabling end users to become their own content curator... [read full article http://j.mp/oWuqnC] Via Giuseppe Mauriello, Robin Good, janlgordon
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Why should you use Google+?There are lots of good reasons to pay attention to Google+, but for me it comes down to these three: Search is becoming socialGoogle+ Authorship is becoming a filter for quality contentGoogle+ has the best user experience of any social network Via Lauren Moss, Martin (Marty) Smith
Carlos Bisbal's curator insight,
November 14, 2013 9:28 AM
3 razones de peso por las que ya no puedes permitirte ignorar Google+ 
Jim Doyle's curator insight,
December 6, 2013 1:13 AM
3 Compelling Reasons Why You Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Google+
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I worked on a writing assignment regarding the cost of accessing publicly funded research articles when I was at the Banff Science Communications Program. One of the instructors told me that this issue had been covered quite extensively, so I did some research - and yes indeed, the issue was well-discussed in US and UK (mostly through the science sections of the New York Times and the Guardians), but there were very few mentions of it in Canada. This article reminds me how disappointed I was (and continue to be). Is there anything we can do to change the situation?
"The Globe and Mail doesn’t have a science section. Neither does the National Post. Add to this the fact that there are no dedicated Canadian science magazines for the general public, and it starts to become obvious why Canadians rarely hear about groundbreaking science research done across the country." Via Theresa Liao
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As Tim O’Reilly tweeted last week, “Data Science is the new black.” Data has definitely got people talking, and thinking, and rethinking the implications, and that includes a growing number of leading journalists and journalism schools…and media funders.
Consider just three recent happenings: -Earlier this year, data camps were held at both Columbia University and University of Texas.
Read the complete article for more on data journalism... Via Lauren Moss
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StumbleUpon shows us in this beautiful infographic how the life-cycle of a link is much higher than on any other social site including Facebook and Twitter . . .
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Robin Good curated this piece and has some very interesting observations in addition the article.
Mathew Ingram makes a great point in this post I discovered thanks to Morten Myrstad: one way for Media groups to re-invent themselves is to think of themselves as data platforms and not newspapers any more.
Great point.
But I see one more: opening up to other news platforms too even if competing.
I appreciate this clearly faces cultural resistance but if you think of it really as a platform, you shouldn't be afraid to interface it with your competitors' just like Twitter has a LinkedIn App.
One missed opportunity I see that reflects this is the WSJ Facebook App: it's a great concept to let your readers remix the headlines but why not do it with non-WSJ content too? I'd love to see through a crowd sourced effort from the most WSJ active readers and curators how some WSJ-news relate to other news from say the FT or the Economist.
I’m going to make my music-industry analogy again (can’t escape my background…) but right now media groups think of building a record store or a radio station with their own artists. Imagine a radio that would play only Universal Music Group artists? It would suck, right? Yet, that’s what most media are today.
Don't you think the industry needs bold moves like this? Via The New Company, Guillaume Decugis, Robin Good, janlgordon
's comment November 3, 2011 8:45 PM
good read. thnx designdrool abides.
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Great post written by Eric Brown for Social Media Explorer - This is what caught my attention:
Curation — the act of human editors adding their work to the machines that gather, organize and filter content.
“Curation comes up when search stops working,” says author and NYU Professor Clay Shirky. But it’s more than a human-powered filter.
“Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.”
Part of the reason that human curation is so critical is simply the vast number of people who are now making and sharing media.
“Everyone is a media outlet”, says Shirky. “The point of everyone being a media outlet is really not at all complicated. It just means that we can all put things out in the public view.
Via janlgordon
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A fascinating infographic, are you guilty of any of the things mentioned?
add your insight...
This is a question that I have wondered about. While this graphic gives an abbreviated, visual response to the question, it provides key insights into the issue.
The image cleverly illustrates the signs of narcissism before depicting the negative effects of social media, which include ADHD, depression and narcissistic personality disorder and addiction, among others.
It would be interesting to know the reasons WHY "People who use Facebook the most tend to have more narcissistic or insecure personalities" and why "those who [score] higher in narcissism also posted more often on twitter". While this post points out yet another important issue surrounding social media that cannot be ignored by business professionals and users alike, it does not provide enough information for the reasoning behind its statements.