Social Media and its influence

Curation is a term that is rapidly growing in popularity and is directly impacting the world of workplace learning and performance. In a world where the amount of information available to workers doubles every 18 to 24 months, it is impossible to keep up with the seemingly endless supply of it.

Learn more:

http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1037/is-content-curation-in-your-skill-set-it-should-be#.UJFxiYGUCLE.twitter

Robin Good: Expressedly designed for journalists and newsrooms Spundge is a unique social news discovery, curation and syndication platform that facilitates the discovery, selection and distribution of news content across multiple channels.

Spundge works with topic-specific containers called "notebooks", which you can create and configure to work around any specific topic, event, company or issue you are interested in following.

Spundge taps into YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, Soundcloud and Facebook to gather relevant content around your specified topics, as well as into RSS feeds and OPML files that you specify. All these can then be easily filtered (by keyword, time, location, and language) and curated manually before being published inside any topic-specific "notebook".

Notebooks can be made public or private and their contents can be shared on all major social media networks as well as being syndicated outside of Splundge in a number of different ways.

The PRO version of Spundge adds a number of useful features to the free base version, including:

Custom editor - create, write, format and edit your own multimedia posts integrating text, images and video clips with extreme ease.

Personal customized dashboards - these allow you to collect and organize in one page streams from different notebooks, traffic and social sharing data and more.

Syndication - syndicate to major socia platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as well as to Wordpress and Mialchimp.

Collaboration - invite co-editors, curators, newsmasters to complement your work or to fuel a common newsroom activity allowing everyone to track, review, comment and edit individual notebooks.

Embedding - standard embed code to publish/integrate any notebook inside any website or blog page.

Analytics - Acces to detailed traffic data.

Smart attribution - Spundge automatically tracks original sources from where you are picking content, images or video clips and automatically credits them.

Custom sources - plug-in private RSS feeds or your own API to feed unique proprietary content into your notebooks.

Free version available.

Read The Nieman Journalism Lab review of Spundge: http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/09/first-look-spundge-is-software-to-help-journalists-to-manage-real-time-data-streams/

For more info: http://www.spundge.com/

I selected this piece by Dino Joannides for Lingospot because it tackles a much asked and frequently tackled answered of "What is Curation?" in the most appropriate manner possible. That is to say, he answers the question with an excellent example of curation, complete with multiple links to articles that prove his points.

Some points that caught my attention:

**Content curation means different things to a variety of stakeholders, be they journalists, editors, bloggers, business executives or marketers.

**Fred Wilson the Venture Capitalist and blogger sees curation as an essential element in today's media landscape as indicated by one of his posts here

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**Some argue that curation could actually save media.

**Others have argued that there is a new type of curation that is in effect the New Search.

**Most people inadvertently already act as curators whenever they decide to post a link or video to their social networks to show their friends they have found great or topical content.

He closes by suggesting traditional editors make decisions based only upon content that was produced internally, whereas the newer Curation mixes this with external content. The determination of what is given prominence remains the same.

The difference is that now, this role is undertaken by professional journalists, content marketers, bloggers" or in reality, anyone that publishes online".

What do you think?

Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"

Read full article: [http://bit.ly/w81bwP]

For this week's #scoopitchat, we had special guest Seth Dixon, and AP Human Geography teacher.

Topic was: #Scoopitchat on Curation and Education featuring Seth Dixon

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Gust MEES

It was a great Chat and I encourage other members from best Curation Platform http://www.scoop.it  #scoopit to take part in the next Twitter-Chat's as well. Teachers and Educators as Students as well should use Twitter-Chat's for BETTER Communication! Remember the "C" in ICT? It's meaning "Communication", use it, please ;)

Don't know what a Twitter-Chat is? Please check my Curation about Twitter-Chat's to learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=How+to+Run+a+Successful+Twitter+Chat

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