Social Media, Internet, Content, Curation

Here is a great example of how the spontaneous content curation efforts by individual users of a marketplace can provide significant benefits both to the marketplace sellers as well to all buyers.

On ThemeForest, which is one of the largest and best catalogues of web site themes and designs, you can find an endless number of curated collections of templates, image sets, presentation decks and others resources (like video footage or soundtracks) for publishing quality content on the web. In fact, there are so many of them that the main problem for whoever goes to shop there, is the time needed to search and find what may best fit his needs.

But thanks to a community feature called "collections", any registered user can collect and organize individual themes found on ThemeForest into individual collections which can be shared with everyone publicly (or kept private).

Here some great examples: 

• Reviews & Rating Themes (36 items): http://themeforest.net/collections/2183870-reviews-rating-themes 
   
• Premium Tumblr Themes (131 items)
  http://themeforest.net/collections/2518623-premium-tumblr-themes 
   
• Prestashopt Templates (38 items):
  http://graphicriver.net/collections/2391279-prestashop-templates 
   
• Cinematic soundtracks (70 items):
  http://themeforest.net/collections/325927-cinematic-masterpieces 

The ensuing benefit for the users of the marketplace is the ability to find more rapidly valuable items within the ocean of options available.

As a consequence also whoever runs Themeforest benefits from more sales and less time spent by new buyers in finding what they are looking for.

But there's more.

Since ThemeForest is part of a larger network of design resources that includes video assets (VideoHive), graphic resources (Graphic River), design apps (CodeCanyon) and several others, the collections can and do often include assets coming from the other sites of the network facilitating serendpitous discovery for buyers of other useful products.

Finally, individual merchants selling on the Envato network can curate their own collections showcasing their best work according to specific uses and applications.

A great example of how curation can significantly help online sales in situations where there is a very large number of products or services on sale.

Check it out now: http://themeforest.net/collections 

gives plenty of websites for current news on different teams. Great scoop to keep updated on all your favorite players. It also gives a good variety of websites which you can choose that is best for you to use

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. 

Google entrando en el periodismo. Todo un paquete de aplicaciones para periodistas.

Google's new suite of digital media tools. It's not just for journalists! #google

Helpful interface to interact with Google's suite of tools for digital story-telling. 

If you are into understanding the real value of content curation and what are the characterizing traist that make it so valuable and unique for the future of journalism and of our collective ability to stay informed, here is an evergreen "classic" on what curation specifically entails, synthesized and outlined by the Mindy McAdams.

When it comes to content curation, her list includes seven specific characterizing traits:

1. Selection of the best representatives
2. Culling
3. Provide context
4. Arrangement of individual objects
5. Organization of the whole
6. Expertise
7. Updating

Her content curation identikit is as useful, truthful and relevant today as it was was 5 years ago when it was first published.

Content curation reference. Must-read. 9/10

Full post: http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/curation-and-journalists-as-curators/ 

Question to you: Five years on, today, what would you add to these traits, that in your view, fully characterizes content curation?

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I love the way examining curating from the perspective of other disciplines adds such richness to our definition and understanding of what it is, and what we are trying to accomplish with the act of curating. 

You got a point here man hehe

Better have a good plan in place to manage your online sales.

Sharing because it's so important. I realized how important it was after forgetting to attribute a source to a photo. Plagiarism just plain sucks on all levels, but overlooking source attribution is bad manners at best.

Des conseils pour éviter le plagiat destinés aus journalistes comme à tous ceux qui écrivent régulièrement en ligne. Un rappel de bonnes pratiques.

Presentación en Slide publicada hace unos días por Steve Buttry que enumera todas las situaciones en las que es posible correr el riesgo de ser acusado de plagio.

La presentación es un resumen de consejos para periodistas online que tienen que lidiar a diario con la adición de enlaces de referencia, la concesión de créditos y la atribución de autoría y evitar ser acusados de plagio.

Un buen consejo que no debe tomarse a la ligera

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

Robin Good  of Content Curation World breaks the findings down thus:

a) what people curate as relevant is not generally among the top ranked results according to popular metrics. Good stuff is not the same as what is considered normally popular or authoritative stuff.

b) content curation allows a community to synchronize around specific issues and subjects (as anticipated by Clay Shirky)

c) better and more appreciated curation is of the "structured" kind, providing additional info, meta-data and categorization.

d) curators that are highly appreciated are characterized by consistent activity and by a variety of interests (or viewpoints under the same theme) that they are capable to cover.

This is rather my experience; however, I usually explain it to my clients this way:

a) You can be doing an excellent job, but never receive the recognition, popularity, or traffic you deserve.That doesn't mean you won't be appreciated greatly by the smaller group of people who do find/read your curated works.

b) No matter the popularity of your curation, you can build and have conversations -- but remember, community cultivation not only requires additional time, but a different skill set.

c) If you're going to do it, do it well. Use tools, such as labels and tags, and *always* provide context as well as proper credits and links.

d) Consistent activity is nearly as important as showing some personality along with your knowledge. Your topic may be narrowly focused, but offer additional topics and information about you personally (not just professionally) so that people get a sense of you.

A research paper by Zhong, Shah, Sundaravadivelan and Sastry, King's college London, 2013

See the excellent notes from Robin Good below. Interesting to see more work emerging in this field.

Des ressources en anglais mais un impressionnant catalogue.

I love browsing museum collections online, and this site has links to some amazing ones I hadn't seen before.

According to Ina Steiner on eCommerceBytes.com eBay has hired Michael Phillips Moskowitz to act as Chief Curator and Editorial Director and will be launching in the coming weeks its own curated collections features.

To see some of the upcoming curation features that eBay is going to offer to facilitate recommendations and trusted shopping among eBay 120 million active users, go and check out http://www.ebay.com/usr/ohjoystudio who is likely a beta user having already access to them.

"On her eBay Profile page, you can see her collections presented in very much the style of Pinterest boards."

Curated shopping collections are a powerful trust-enhancing method to help buyers share their know-how while helping others make more informed choices. eBay is only one among many other large online e-shops (Etsy and Amazon have both recently introduced similar features) to make curation features available to its users.

Interesting. Informative. 7/10

Full article: http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y13/m10/i01/s01 

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