12 Attributes of a Successful Content Curation Strategy Why Your Marketing Needs Content Curation At its core, content curation is like a great editor who brings his unique taste and understanding of his target audience to his selection of the best content for his readers. He provides context for the content so that it’s more than collection of information. Content curation defined Content curation chooses the most relevant, highest quality digital information to meet your readers’ needs on a specific subject. It involves a process of assembling, categorizing, commenting and presenting the top content.
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7 top tools for content curation Scoop.it, Storify, Pearltrees let you become a niche authority This is the second of a two-part series. See part 1: • 7 smart techniques for content curation Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, foundations, NGOs, social enterprises, businesses, educators, journalists, general public. By now you’ve likely heard of content curation, the process of collecting and cataloging the most useful or interesting things about a topic in order to share it for the common benefit. In part 1, Beth Kanter looked at 7 smart techniques for content curation. The Growth of Content Curation Sites Content Curation Sites became huge in 2013. Buzzfeed, Distractify, UsvsTh3m, Worth a Share and many more provide curated content of the trending web stories, images and videos. For a number of years, niche blogs have been publishing curated topics that help with inspiration and education; Art blogs, design blogs, software blogs and now the most inspiring, funny, shocking, cute and plain odd internet content has been curated into carefully themed blog posts. The Rise What fuelled the growth of these sites, especially Buzzfeed? There are a wide number of factors that could have boosted the growth of these websites, below are a few I believe have made it possible.
The curator’s filters It’s clear that content curation is increasingly being talked about as an important role for learning professionals (in the context of self-provisioned learning, scaffolding, learing environment design, or creating informal learning space). In my own presentations on the topic, I’ve summarized the curator role as having these responsibilities: Seeking material to keep collection freshFiltering material using human judgment to identify what is relevant and valuableCategorizing and tagging to make the right material easy to findContextualizing and adding commentary to enrich the impact of the collectionHighlighting trends and bigger-picture stories to enable sense-makingMaking connections between related (and seemingly unrelated) materials to provide deeper insightGenerating discussion among people with the same interests to create community and enable knowledge and skill creation. Information validation. Currency.
Pinterest is now more useful for sharing articles Pinterest has been enhancing its pins with more and more contextual information since earlier this year, and today the company is adding even more detail into the mix. Pins that link back to full stories will now include context about the linked article, including its headline, author, and description — rather than just an image and little more as they did before. Not all articles will work at launch, but so long as the source article has the right data attached to it, Pinterest says that it'll be able to pull it in.
How To Get The Most Out Of Google+ Today - ReadWrite Since its makeover in May, Google+ has been steadily winning a war of aesthetics over Facebook, which has yet to roll out its redesigned News Feed to all users. While a visual overhaul is a great way to draw in users who have long neglected the mandatory social component of the Gmail address, Google+ has yet to succeed at making some of its new, highly powerful features more noticeable. To the average user who may only casually use Google+, it's a better looking yet more empty social hub when compared with its competitors. When taking into account the ways in which Google+ is in fact a richer, more discussion-based and interactive experience, the social network begins to look like a far better place to spend one's time online.
How To Create a Successful Curated Blog Content curation is, in a nutshell, picking and choosing content from around the Web, and sharing it with your followers. Running a curated blog is not just about finding interesting content to share. It requires selectivity, context, and relevance. Using Content Analysis to Reuse and Remonetise eLearning Content Many organisations, not only those in the eLearning industry, maintain large repositories of content. This content can include useful learning material such as training documents, educational courses and manuals. Our industry partners have identified that finding ways to reuse and remonetise such content is an on-going challenge. We have identified the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques as a possible solution to address this challenge. NLP is the area of computer science that studies how computers understand and analyse human (‘natural’), languages. Applying Content Analysis We are currently developing a content analysis tool based on NLP as part of our research on the ALMANAC tablet application.
How 'content curators' are connecting consumers Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Evidence of the rise and rise of social media is not hard to find. In recent months alone Facebook exceeded 750 million users, LinkedIn went public, Twitter generated 1bn tweets a week. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images 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.