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In the coming months and years, I expect content curation tools are going to play a very important role in many different fields. Via Robin Good, Timo Ilomäki, Lynnette Van Dyke 
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janlgordon's curator insight,
November 9, 2013 11:10 AM
Angela Dunn has written a great piece on one of my favorite topics, curation - it was the lead post on our launh of Curatti last night. What makes a good curator? "You need to have the eye of an editor, a sense of taste like a chef, and your own unique Point of View. It is this Point of View – your taste – that can lead to authority and influence". Jan Gordon:
Curators who are driven by passion and purpose will be very important to the business community in their chosen niche - it's crucial that we preserve this information for the future. That is why the future of curation is definitely evergreen. Here are some highlights that caught my attention: The amount of content is growing exponentially, but our time is limited. Curators are our filters for information overload – the editors of chaos. The slew of content curation tools that emerged gave way to algorithms. Can a machine have a Point of View? Machines can influence your Point of View. The danger is they can also create a filter bubble. It is human insight coupled with machine results that can define the very best information edited from a trusted curator’s Point of View. Evergreen posts, such as “Curating Content for Thought Leadership”,, written by Angela in 2010 are important in that they stand the test of time. All good blogs need some such articles. The above, along with all of Angela's posts on the now defunct Postereus, have evergreen links due to a new tool for archiving the web – Permamarks. Selected by Jan Gordon for Curatti covering Curation, Social Business and Beyond Read more here: [http://bit.ly/1ewOFR1]
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Alejandro Tortolini's curator insight,
August 6, 2013 4:21 PM
La curaduría de contenidos como modelo de negocios, por Robin Good. 
Prof. Hankell's curator insight,
August 7, 2013 10:19 AM
Robin Good's insight:
Mitch Free writes on Forbes about the unique business value that curation can bring to those markets where there is already an abundance of choices.
"The web has revolutionized access to information. If you travel to a new city, you don’t have to wait to ask a hotel concierge or local contact which restaurants are worth your time: that information is at your fingertips long before you arrive. The web’s universality and ubiquity are also its weaknesses, however: even if all are listed online, choosing from the 25,000 restaurants in New York City still requires a local’s advice. While “curation” might bring to mind the image of a red-jacketed museum staffer scowling at you for taking flash photographs, in the digital age it’s becoming an increasingly critical – and lucrative – business model. No longer is access to information precious in itself. Information is overwhelmingly available, and those in a position to tame the tidal wave into a useful format offer a valuable service."
The articles uses as a reference example the case of a new restaurant listing site that curates the best 100 restaurants in 100 cities by charging qualifying restaurants.
Rightful. Interesting. 7/10
Full article:http://www.forbes.com/sites/mitchfree/2013/08/05/curation-by-connection-one-hundred-tables/ 
Ken Dickens's curator insight,
August 7, 2013 1:00 PM
Non-Profits are a commodity. There are over 1.5 million of them in the US alone, all with great causes, all with their hands out to ask for money. Enter Donor Fatigue. Want to stand out? Become "the" source of information on your cause. In other words, give to get. You will stand out. You will gain trust. And, you will raise money.
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Louise Robinson-Lay's curator insight,
October 15, 2013 3:30 AM
Sometimes you need an archive of a site. Gret for slow bandwidth areas when you just want to show an aspect of a site. Here is how. 
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
October 15, 2013 7:30 AM
A useful addition to the digital curator's toolkit. 
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
November 3, 2013 9:24 AM
When you Mummify a webpage—a news article, blog post, photo or tweet, for example— we make a permanent copy and back it up in the cloud. We then give you a new URL that looks like this: http://mummify.it/2452862 Mummify is free up to 100 mummies a month. If you need to Mummify more than 100 pages in a given month you can purchase 50 more for $5.
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Robin Good: Everytime I see a new post or article claiming to list the best content curation tools I know I am in for some disappointment.
Most of these lists just pick up names from other lists without even bothering to check, test or verify what these tools actually do, whether they are still available. Unfortunately the rush to put out "curated" list of tools and services has created more misinformation than useful lists.
But if you, like me, are on the lookout for new and effective tools to curate your own content or the one of your customers, I have created a comprehensive map of all the curation tools available online and I keep it fresh and updated almost on a daily basis.
The map presently lists over 250 content curation tools which you can navigate much more easily than it was possible on my earlier versions of this map.
On the right side of the map you will find all of the news and content curation tools available online today. On the left side, you can find bookmarking, link lists builders, clippers and lots of tools to operate with RSS feeds (which are still at the heart of a curator's job). Via Robin Good, Tom George
Mike Ellsworth's comment,
October 10, 2012 10:23 PM
Mala, thanks for the reScoop and many thanks to Robin Good for the crazy good mindmap!
Mike Ellsworth's comment,
October 10, 2012 10:23 PM
Mala, thanks for the reScoop and many thanks to Robin Good for the crazy good mindmap!
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Robin Good: Springpad is both a web and a mobile app that you can use to curate visual collections on any topic.
Unlike Pinterest and similar visual boards, Springpad allows you to add just about any type of content to a collection while it auto-enriches it everytime possible with additional contextual information.
For example if you include a book or a movie into a collection Springpad will gather and display relevant information next to it (author, description, reviews, where to buy it, etc.).
Springpad boards are called "notebooks" and they can be personalized in their look, and made private or public. You can also invite additional contributors and offer a customized providing different views of your collection.
Content can be added to a "notebook" via standard bookmarklet or by using an internal search feature which gathers all types of relevant content.
Works right in your browser and in your favorite smartphone or tablet (iOS and Android).
Free to use.
About: http://springpad.com/about
Download for iOS: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/springpad/id360116898?mt=8
Download for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.springpad&hl=en
More info: http://springpad.com/
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Robin Good: If you are interested in exploring content curation as a possible venue for innovating teaching and learning approaches, you will find lots of valuable information in this new article by @NancyW entitled Developing Future Workskills Through Content Curation.
In it she points to a study conducted last year, the Apollo Research Institute Future Workskills 2020, that identifies critical workskills needed for future jobs and how fitting "content curation" may be in cultivating and refining many of those.
She writes: "A closer look suggests that critical workforce skills identified in this \ study can be easily aligned with the skills practiced with content curation. The skills a student employs to successfully curate information include curiosity, media literacy, ability to make connections across disciplines, information literacy, the ability to evaluate and understand perspective, synthesize and evaluate information, and a good dose of self-direction."
"Future Workskills 2020 suggests a monumental shift and change needs to begin now in our education system.
These skills can be developed through the process of content curation.
Content curation has the added benefit of helping students find their passions for and take ownership of their learning..."
Right on target. Recommended. 8/10
Full article: http://d20innovation.d20blogs.org/2012/07/27/developing-future-workskills-through-content-curation/
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June 27 2012, AllThingsDigital [...] "asked a couple of power users — Clay Shirky and John Battelle — to share their go-to media apps" for content curation...
Therese's comment: Very interesting to see that power users use relatively classic tools like Google alerts, RSS reader like Netvibes, aggregators like Flipboard, social bookmarking like Redit, emails from News.me, thelistserve, Netvibes, News.Me, RSS, Shrook, Slashdot, TechMeme, The
I love the quote by Clay Shorky: "The trick is to adopt both tools and practices that maximize elevance instead of volume, and minimize time spent searching in favor of time spent reading. Tools can help with that (as with News.me), but the most important thing isn't the tool, but the mindset of the user."
Picture: John Batelle, photographer not credited
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Robin Good: Daniel W. Rasmus has an interesting article on his blog entitled: "The Future of Campus Stores: Good-Bye Books, Hello Learning". In it he analyzes the key elements that will help such campus stores maintain their relevancy while traditional textbooks are rapidly loosing thir foothold inside academic campuses.
He writes: "College bookstores face an existential crisis with the looming demise of physical book sales as digital technology rapidly becomes an option for learners.
At the same time free content, via websites like the Kahn Academy, or through more proprietary means, like Apple’s iTunes University (now iTunes U).
And then there is the rise of open sourced content available places like the Open Education Resources Commons (OER).
So what should college stores consider as the elements that will help make them relevant as their core mission apparently shifts?"
And one of the key elements that he sees potentially providing new meaning and relevance to campus bookstores, as a knowledge service, is content curation.
"One specific instance of high-quality, knowledge-based service is content curation.
As the content world becomes more complex, the college store can offer value added resources to faculty and students to help them understand the options they have, and the relative value of different sources of information and approaches to the delivery of that information.
Think about content now as software. The educator can write a specification or requirements document and the store team, like programmers, can assemble a solution for the educator that meets his or her specification. Like programmers, the language or technique doesn’t matter to the solution recipient, what matters is that the software meets the requirements and delivers its expected value."
Insightful. Forward-looking. 8/10
Full article: http://danielwrasmus.com/the-future-of-campus-stores-good-bye-books-hello-learning/
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Robin Good: Steve Buttry, who has already written several articles on content curation (see the end of his original article), just published this in-depth essay celebrating the launch of a new curation team at Digital First Media and pointing to many of the critical factors neeeded for a content / news curator to be effective.
He covers a lot ground while giving a particular emphasis to the importance of linking and attribution. He writes: "Where you can’t learn much about the source of content you’re curating, consider crowdsourcing the question: Note the name and organization, tell readers what you’ve found and that you’re continuing research and ask them what they know about the source. Where the source of online content is unclear, you should be clear about what you know and where you found the material."
and...
"Sometimes the name of a person or organization is not sufficient attribution.
If the person or organization is not well-known, do a little research (Google will provide quick answers in many cases; sometimes an “about us” page will help).
Especially in political content, you want to note whether you are linking to partisan sources. A liberal or conservative think tank or political action committee is an entirely different kind of source from a professional media outlet or an independent fact-checking site."
Steve Buttry also includes some valuable key guidelines on "how to add value" when curating content and suggests several types of curation approaches that can be used in the newsroom.
Good advice on curation and practical tips. 8/10
Full article: http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/curation-techniques-types-and-tips/
(Image credit: Shutterstock http://tinyurl.com/crw65b4) Via Robin Good
Giuseppe Mauriello's comment,
July 20, 2012 2:43 PM
Hi Robin,
in this period I am busy, and I have no time to discover news and curate my topic. Thank you so much for your great curation! |
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MOVIECLIPS.com has movie trailers, previews, behind the scenes clips of old, new and upcoming films. Find videos of your favorite actors, actresses, scenes or watch clips of movies by producer, director or cast. Via Robin Good
Annika McGinley's curator insight,
December 19, 2013 11:45 PM
I'm always asked by academics about the copyright implications... 
Víctor Alarcón's curator insight,
February 23, 2014 3:10 PM
Amazing catalogue of film clips which can be shared & embedded
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Robin Good's curator insight,
November 6, 2013 6:11 PM
Pinboard is a social bookmarking service which allows you to easily save and organize any number of links, with no limits on text descriptions. Pinboard is characterized by having a no-frills, simple interface, by being very speedy and reliable and by being able to import, sync and export all of your links easily. Pinboard integrates also a powerful web caching and indexing feature available to "pro" accounts ($25/year) which allows you to keep a full cached and searchable copy of any bookmark you save. Advanced edit tagging, filtering and bundling features make it easy to oganize and find links even inside very large collections. Links saved can be set to be public or private. All of the bookmarks saved inside Pinboard can be easily exported in a standard file format. A set of basic APIs is also available. You can import all your existing bookmarks from Delicious, Google Bookmarks, Diigo, Firefox, Safari, and many other sources by following the instructions on the howto page. A very useful feature called Tab Sets allows to quickly save all of your currently open browser tabs to Pinboard having the unique advantage of being able to re-open them even if you're on another machine or in a different browser. N.B.: The site has a unique and now proven business model and is entirely self-funded. Ad-free. My comment: Excellent bookmarking service for anyone in need of a no-frill, reliable and fast tool. The archiving feature is particularly valuable as well as the auto-syncing with multiple services (Instapaper, Read It Later, Twitter. Delicious). The service has a one-time fee of around $10. Check it out here: https://pinboard.in/ *Switch from Delicious (why): https://pinboard.in/switch/ *must-read Tour: https://pinboard.in/tour/ HowTo: https://pinboard.in/howto/ More info: http://pinboard.in/about/ *Added to the Permanent Page Archival Tools section of Content Curation Tools Supermap. 
ghbrett's curator insight,
November 7, 2013 8:48 AM
Thanks Robin for your usual very in depth review of the article. See below!!
ghbrett's curator insight,
November 7, 2013 8:50 AM
Thank you Robin for your usual very in depth insights! See his comments below.
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Use Pullquote to create a link to a paragraph on a web page. Pullquote is great for micro-bookmarking or tweeting about key ideas. Via Martin (Marty) Smith
Martin (Marty) Smith's curator insight,
October 16, 2013 4:02 PM
Henry Copeland (@hc) is the Internet marketing genius behind blogads and a good friend of my friend Phil Buckley's (@1918). I promise to do another post on how cool Blogads is (http://web.blogads.com/ ), but Phil shared something at lunch today that has my palms sweating it is so exciting.
That link is to Henry's PullQuotes tagged "innovation". Here is the link to all of his curated groups:
Every curator out there is now fully focused on THIS piece (lol). Not an easy feat, but that is the power of Henry's brilliant idea. Henry's PullQuote App is like a writers index cards ONLY there is a special secret.
malek's curator insight,
October 17, 2013 7:29 AM
Long live the content snippet in the content jungle. A very flexible tool to mine for pull quote.
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Between the endless Euro drama and the Bitcoin brouhaha, currency has been much in the news of late. Most people would probably name the US Dollar as the dominant currency in this day and age. Via janlgordon
janlgordon's comment,
June 19, 2013 12:38 AM
Mithu Hassan Sorry I'm so late in getting back to you - you're very welcome, happy you liked it!!
santina kerslake's curator insight,
September 5, 2013 3:11 PM
Do people actually read the content? Will it keep them following you?
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Robin Good: Annotary is a free web bookmarking tool, which allows you to collect onto Pinterest-like visual boards, web pages that you have bookmarked matched with your specific text highlights on them.
From the official site: "Bookmark interesting or relevant pages into collections so you can easily find them later. Create as many collections as you want – one for each project, or one for each topic."
Free to use.
Try it out now: http://annotary.com/
(Thanks to Nick Peachey for uncovering this one)
First curated by Robin Good and recurated by me.
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Tom George's comment,
August 12, 2012 1:41 AM
Hey Thomas,
Great curation and thanks for sharing. I am the founder of Internet Billboards, a growing community of curators that use Scoop.it. I noticed your national express page as well, and want to invite you to share your curation with us on Internet Billboards if you like.
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Robin Good: Paper.li one of the early players in the news aggregation, discovery and auto-curation space has been significantly improving its service which now offers also a $9/month Pro version.
Paper.li allows you to set a number of search queries on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube and to import specific RSS feeds to "aggregate" the most relevant on a certain topic or theme.
You as a curator can "preview" your yet-to-be-published news magazine and can manually pick and decide which "stories" to publish and which ones to drop by simply hovering your mouse on anyone of them.
"Editions" can be auto-scheduled and Paper.li can automatically announce on Twitter and via email to your subscribers when a new one is out.
PRO users get to have the last word before any edition gets published, by way of a "preview before promotion" feature that lets you control when notifications go out and gives you time to make changes, can add promotional banners, standard ads or other marketing materials in a set of predefined hot spots on their news page, and can "brand" their magazine with their own banner, background image and personalized colors.
More info: https://paper.li/learn-more.html
Try it out now: https://paper.li/
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's comment July 28, 2012 12:31 AM
I'm glad you have your own paper. I'm a big fan of paper.li.
Liz Wilson's comment,
July 28, 2012 3:00 AM
Thanks for the review Robin and the clear explanation of what users can do. Much appreciated.
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Robin Good: From 500 B.C. to July 2012, here is a short and quite skippy selection of key dates in the evolution of the word curation. A good idea but running a bit short in terms of execution.
Full timeline: http://www.digiday.com/etc/buzzword-tracker-evolution-of-curation/ Via Robin Good
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Robin Good: PKM or Personal Knowledge Management may be indeed a very close relative to Content Curation. But while Content Curation, is done with a specific audience in mind, PKM is done for one's own learning.
"The most important part of personal knowledge management (PKM), in my opinion, is the need for active sense-making.
Merely seeking and sharing information does little other than create more noise online.
-> One strength of PKM is the “manual” nature of sense-making activities. The act of writing a blog post, a tweet, or an annotation on a social bookmark all force you to think a bit more than clicking once and filing it to an automated system.
-> Sense-making, or placing information into context, is where the real personal value of PKM lies.
-> The knowledge gained from PKM is an emergent property of all its activities.
Merely tagging an article does not create knowledge. ... The difference between PKM and Curation is that the former is personal, while the latter is for an intended audience."
Insightful. 8/10
Full article: http://www.jarche.com/2012/07/pkm-as-pre-curation/
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Beth Kanter's comment,
July 13, 2012 10:46 AM
I have been using his framework for the past year and a half to teach curation to nonprofits. Linking curation to nonprofit staffer work flow is a great way to get people to use curation!
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Robin Good: If you are a company looking for quality content from prestigious and reliable news sources, from which you can pick and choose which stories to publish on your web site, Hearsay may be the solution you are looking for.
Hearsay Social Content Exchange aggregates content from Thomson Reuters, Tribune Media Services and Demand Media.
In fact, in addition to premium third-party content, Hearsay Social customers can create and integrate custom news channels on the platform such as your company blog, a YouTube channel, or a custom RSS feed tailored to the interests of your organization.
From these they can pick and select their preferred content and share it directly to multiple social media networks such as LinkedIN, Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
Check out this review of Hearsay: http://www.marketingtechblog.com/hearsay-content-exchange/
Schedule a demo: https://info.hearsaysocial.com/ContentExchange_LearnMore.html
More info: http://hearsaysocial.com/product/content-exchange/
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Robin Good: Start this video clip at 1':42" (up to 3':30") and you can get a pretty good idea of what a content curator does and why what he does has so much to do with sense-making, making things understandable for others and ultimately extracting contextualized "meaning" from information "as is".
Must-see. Excellent. 9/10
P.S.: Thanks to Howard Rheingold for spotting this clip and sharing it.
Original clip: http://youtu.be/A625Yh6v6uQ
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janlgordon's comment,
July 24, 2012 11:22 AM
Thank you Robin Good and Howard Rhinegold for bringing this to my attention, it's excellent!
Anne-Solène Loiseau's curator insight,
October 30, 2016 2:45 PM
Excellente vidéo sur le concept mapping avec un exemple sur le cheminement de l'information à l'action (début à 1'42). Merci à Robin Good et Howard Rheingold pour le partage.
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A useful summary of the current shortcomings in content curation tools and services, and what we features and innovations we might see in this developing market. From the author:
"In the near future it is likely that new content curation tools will provide more dedicated features for specific application and uses while becoming more aware of user needs that so far have not been taken into serious consideration (attribution, archiving, monetizing).
While large content curation hubs and platforms are likely to start realizing that their best value yet to be extracted is in the content being curated by their users, new tools will likely target more specific and professional uses rather than the general public needing simply to collect and repost content on their blog or social media channel."
Link to the full article: http://www.masternewmedia.org/content-curation-tools-future-part2/#ixzz2nuOEQZag
Interesting write up on content curation tools from Robin Good (pt. 2)
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