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This thought-provoking piece was written by Marty Smith who is one of our top scoopers here who knows what he's talking about when it comes to curation and why it is disruptive in this marketplace.

Marty gives you some great tips on how to use Scoopit to evaluate what works and what doesn't with your audience and more....

Marty Smith:



"When everyone is doing something as complicated as content marketing quality goes down. My ratios used to be about 50% curation to 50% creation. we can afford to lower creation now for two reasons:

• An archive of almost a million words published across 4 blogs.
• With so many people creating so much POOR content, creating LESS and making it BETTER is disruptive.
• This “less and better” is  Curatti’s Editors of Chaos mission.

Snippet Curation with a powerful tool like Scoop.it moves your Internet marketing away from the pack. The pack is creating content faster and faster without a full understanding of what works

Most content marketers add NOISE in the hope screaming louder will make content stand out. It never does.

Selected by Jan Gordon for Curatti covering, Curation, Social Business and Beyond

Read more here: [http://bit.ly/1aD3c6j]

I've said this before, and will repeat...Contet Curation is not just for the Marketeers. I think it is as yet a vastly untapped skill/resource/process for Enterprise information professionals (IM/KM) in delivering themed, value--added and decision-ready content for their internal customers. #kmers #curation

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]

Maria Popova is the author of Literary Jukebox, a fascinating collection of daily quotes from her favorite books, each one thematically matched to a song.

She writes about it: "Sometimes, the connections will be fairly obvious. Other times, they might be more esoteric and require some reflection." 

Literary Jukebox is truly a work of love and a great example of how curating something you truly enjoy, can create permanent value, while providing cultural insight, an opportunity for music discovery to the reader as well as exposure and visibility to the books and music authors included.

N.B.: I encourage you to support Maria's work, as she is a brilliant and inspiring mind and her work on Brain Pickings is a clear demonstration of someone whose work benefits no big brand, advertiser or sponsor, but the likes of you and me and our ability to remain curious.  

Get inspired: http://literaryjukebox.brainpickings.org/ 

See also: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/09/introducing-literary-jukebox/ 

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Consider subscribing to the email newsletter digest. Here's a sample issue on how to worry less about money, timeless advice on courage and the creative life, why going back to school is a bad idea, and more. 

Really nice way to combined a couple of my favorite things, music and literature.   

Crea colecciones de páginas Web navegables con Nextly

Nextly es una aplicación web gratuita que te permite crear colecciones de páginas web por las que puedes navegar de forma fácil como si realizaras un tour en cualquier dispositivo.

Es potencialmente una valiosa herramienta de curaduría de contenidos para organizar conjuntos específicos de artículos y distribuirlos en un formato que es eficaz y de fácil acceso. También se puede utilizar como un nuevo lector eficaz y como herramienta de descubrimiento de prensa y contenidos.

I'm going to have to investigate this further to see how practical it REALLY is.  It seems like every week there's something else like this that comes out. 

One thing that occurs to me thought:  I wonder if it would be possible to use this or tools like it, to create sellable content...some new type of curated content ebook?

Free 

An example:

http://nextly.com/hackernews ;

In the news:

The New York TimesTechmemehttp://pandodaily.com/2013/10/24/nextlys-curated-browser-provides-an-alternative-to-scammy-news-readers/  ;

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.

A useful addition to the digital curator's toolkit.

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

co creating, such a nice way to work together

Great one.

Perché il futuro del Crowdsourcing va in direzione della cura, sintesi e cose varie.

I haven't read this yet but "panels" are always a good way to get a synopsis of any subject......in this case: curation.

It seems so simple here!

Tips para na curaduría exitosa

This is good that they are helping

Perma.cc is an upcoming web service that aims to help authors and journals create permanent archival copies of their online published content.

Way too often in fact, due to a multitude of reasons, not only content gets moved and relocated to new sites, becoming more difficult to find but in many others it is permanently deleted or lost.

To comfort your doubts that this is a true and tangible issue, you should check the work being carried out by Kendra Albert, Larry Lessig and Jonathan Zittrain, who are completing a study of link rot, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2329161. ;

Link rot is the phenomenon by which material we link to on the distributed Web vanishes or changes beyond recognition over time.

Believe it or not half of the links in all of the Supreme Court opinions, don't work anymore.

In this context "the Harvard Library Innovation Lab has pioneered a project to unite libraries so that link rot can be mitigated.  We are joined by about thirty law libraries around the world to start Perma.cc, which will allow those libraries on direction of authors and journal editors to store permanent caches of otherwise ephemeral links."

The Internet Archive has provided its powerful archiving engine to support this effort and Cloudfare its distributed CDN.

The official tagline of the upcoming site reads: "perma.cc helps authors and journals create permanent archived citations in their published work"

Here is essence what you should expect from it: "Perma.cc allows users to create citation links that will never break.

When a user creates a Perma.cc link, Perma.cc archives a copy of the referenced content, and generates a link to an unalterable hosted instance of the site.

Regardless of what may happen to the original source, if the link is later published by a journal using the Perma.cc service, the archived version will always be available through the Perma.cc link."

N.B.: While anyone will be able to go to Perma.cc and archive any web page this resource is designed for researchers, authors and journals. In this light Perma.cc downloads the material at the designated URL and provides a new URL (a “Perma.cc link”) that can then be inserted in a paper. 

After the paper has been submitted to a journal, the journal staff checks that the provided Perma.cc link actually represents the cited material. If it does, the staff “vests” the link and it is forever preserved. Links that are not “vested” will be preserved for two years, at which point the author will have the option to renew the link for another two years.

My comment: Can't wait to test it. We need these type of archival tools like oxygen. It's not only important that we organize and curate what is important from the web, but it is essential that we also take care in preserving it for the longest possible time.

Free and open to all (soon).

Request beta access here: http://perma.cc/ ;

More info: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/futureoftheinternet/2013/09/22/perma/ ;

Similar Tools: www.Permamarks.com

Essential, if the Internet is our all-time library resource...

Valuable insight into generation Z. and how they process information.

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CoCreation Tool for Design Thinking

Magnifique infographie sur le pourquoi du comment de la Curation de Contenus dans une stratégie de Branding.

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The Atlantic launches this week a paid, weekly curated selection of its best stories called the Atlantic Weekly.

From AdWeek: "The Atlantic Weekly will collect the week's best stories from TheAtlantic.com, The Atlantic Wire and The Atlantic Cities, as well as selections from its In Focus photo blog and an article from the magazine’s archive (reproduced as it originally appeared in print), reformatted as a magazine for the iPad and iPhone.

...will cost $1.99 for a single issue. Readers can also subscribe for $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year."

The reason for choosing this new direction sums up to this confession from editor in chief James Bennet: "Our concern has been that some of our better [online] pieces can get lost during the week, and that we’re not serving our readers as well on the weekend when there is time to lean back and digest a good idea."

"...will users pay for a magazine filled mostly with content that they can access for free on the Web?"

What do you think?

Original reporting from Adweek: http://www.adweek.com/news/press/atlantic-launches-paid-product-150392

Robin Good's commentary is far better than mine

add your insight...

I want to thank you Marty Smith, who is one of the top scoopers, bloggers and amazing friend anyone could ever have. He wrote this   wonderful piece on the launch of Curatti.

Jan Gordon:

It has been a long time coming I have always been passionate about new media and technology and how it impacts our everyday lives. My purpose was to help others stay current and informed. My vision was Curatti, a place where you could go to find the best information, tools and resources all in one place. Lots more to come in the coming months.

I created Curatti because as we all know, there is just too much content, too many changes everytime we turn around, not enough insights and most of all business people need to understand what information pertains to their needs and how they can utilize it to build sustainable businesses now and in the future.

Curatti is committed to giving you only the best information and content from bloggers and curators that are doing outstanding things to shape the future of business.

We hope you will visit Curatti, we welcome suggestions on future posts, that address the concerns and challenges you're having in your business today. Now my journey can become our journey as we navigate the digital world together.

Selected by Jan Gordon for Curatti covering Curation, Social Business and Beyond

Read more here: [http://bit.ly/17sDaI3]

Great mission, great curators, writes and editors of chaos mean Curatti will quickly become an indispensible tool to separate wheat from chafe.

A useful guide to the art of digital archiving.

Be sure to check out Robin Good's comments below.

Interesting post about archieving digital documents in a realiable way

Here is the idea: "The drive for offering ‘more’ is not always the best path.

It does not always create something unique. It does not always better serve a target audience. It does not always differentiate you from the competition. It does not always offer something that can’t be found elsewhere. It does not always solve a problem, or fulfill a desire."

Collecting and regurgitating all of the news that "appear" to be relevant may not be such a great idea after all.

"With unlimited server space and free distribution, the temptation can be too great to share AS MUCH content as possible, with the theory that they are better serving the many sub-niches of their market. In other words, you may often see less curation, and more collection."

I don't know if I'd be so generous to label "collection" this uncontrolled regurgitation of content with little real vetting and verification (let alone curation), but Dan Blank, has an interesting story about curation and collectors that I woud not hesitate to recommend reading.

There are some good insights in it.

One of them rings like this: "...collecting behavior is to collect AS MUCH of something as possible, and not curate or edit their collection at all." 

Indeed I see many supposed curators doing exactly this.

Because, as Dan writes correctly "...with unlimited bandwidth and free distribution channels with digital media, it can be sooooo tempting to post more and more content, aimed at more and more target markets.

Plus, the temptation to seem as large as possible, and to give Google as much content as possible to crawl for all of those searches."

But there's a lot more valuable stuff and insight to get by reading in full the original story (even if it was written in 2010).

Insightful. Truthful. 8/10

Full article: http://wegrowmedia.com/digital-publishing-curation-vs-collection-vs-experience/ 

(Image credit: Robin Good)

add your insight...

Good questions but I think digital curation has different dynamics and also purposes. What do you think?

Traduco liberamente la recensione di Robin Good dall'inglese.  

Spiegare cosa sia la content curation - cura dei contenuti a qualcuno che non lo sa non è semplice dato che vi sono molte definizioni, articoli, concezioni e interpretazioni che la riguardano.

Per offire un aiuto a chi avesse necessità di spiegare la content curation sono qui presentati 5 gruppi di risorse:

1) Content Curation - Definizioni

raccolta delle migliori definizioni di content curation

http://bundlr.com/b/content-curation-definition

2) Content Curation -video

30 brevi clips video che introducono alla content curation

http://huzzaz.com/collection/content-curation-what-is-it

3) Content Curation - infografiche 

oltre 110 infografiche che spiegano cosa sia la content curation

http://www.pinterest.com/robingood/content-curation-visualized/

4) Content Curation - strumenti

oltre 100 tra i migliori strumenti per la content curation

http://contentcuration.zeef.com/

5) Mappa sugli strumenti per la content Curation - collezione di strumenti

più di 600 strumenti per la content curation (organizzazione pubblicazione, categorizzazione, scoperta, ecc)

http://bit.ly/ContentCurationToolsSupermap

Never heard of it - must be worth sharing :)

This link is invaluable to support an understanding of content curation. 

Honored when Jeff asked me to be part of this group and am reading every other curators shares very carefully (lol).

We can use these steps for our to become experts !

Sencilla y útil exposición del proceso de curación de contenidos (excelente síntesis la de la imagen), incluyendo recursos y herramientas que lo facilitan en cuanto al coste temporal requerido en toda curación de contenidos.

Nice guide

Adding value to content curation with 6 Alternative Approaches gives a detailed, example based look at the How to Strategies to ContCuration.

I am interested, as a newbie, to look deeper into the platform of Storify after reading this article. 

Check out the great example on Jeff Bezos.

This is a meta-content-curation-comment, since I am commenting an article on the importance of commenting articles on content curation! Ha!

Curadoria de Conteúdo editada, comentada.

looks useful stuff to test in practice

Add this to advances in context and authorship and the fun has already started. 

Zoekmachines - en Google - voorop gaan de context van zoektermen steeds beter begrijpen, zodat gebruikers betere en op hun situatie (plek, voorkeuren) toegespitste resultaten krijgen. Omdat het daarbij om de zogeheten 'big data' draait, is onder meer het gebruik van Google+ belangrijk voor Google. 

Kort gezegd gaat het betekenen dat zoekwoord 'pizza' niet leidt naar allerhande recepten websites, maar naar de Italiaan om de hoek.

As she says,  "A great way to illustrate one’s experience."  ~  D

I'd be remiss if I didn't also Scoop this to my Social Media curation stream at the SMLL - social media at the university, with the video lecturers bio illustrated via this infographic tool.  ~  Deb

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Curation

Er staan een aantal links in die het vragen om even bekeken te worden.

Toch weer jammer dat Microsoft Office's onderdeel OneNote niet genoemd wordt. Daar de office pakketten op vrijwel alle pc's van jongeren staan vormt dit een zeer goed (gratis) alternatief voor Evernote.