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. Keep in mind, there are lots of different ways to curate. More often, though, the new breed of content curation tools refers to sites and services specifically geared for finding the diamonds in the rough. Here, then, are Socialbrite’s six top tools for content curation. Scoop.it: Become an authority in your vertical 1Scoop.it (tagline: “share ideas that matter”) ranks as one of the top content curation tools right now. Gabriella Sannino put it well: “Scoop.it is like being your own newspaper editor.” Related
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Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 6: The Tools Universe
Real-Time News Curation: Part 6 - The Tools and Technologies In this part of the guide you will find: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. "I've spent a good deal of time searching for a word other than "Curation" in part because of the connection to museums (which I feared sounded elitist and historic). 1) A Brief History of News Curation Tools The first news curation tools that I am aware of came out in late 2004 - early 2005, reflecting from the very beginning a growing need for both small publishers as well as for medium and large content publishers to be able to aggregate, filter and manually re-order and select the specific content items to be published in a news channel. MySyndicaat, whose parent company, Kipcast has now grown into a multi-faceted service providing advanced news aggregation and republishing widgets for online brands and media companies, has been the true pioneer of this space. With both tools the hard part is knowing "how to do" things. The new content curation tools a. gather, aggregate,
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Content curation is a huge deal on the web today. As content on the web grows exponentially, our ability to make sense of it is inversely proportional. In other words, we are fast sinking under the sheer amount of content pouring onto the web every day. The social web hasn’t made life any easier on content production either – in fact its lowered the barrier to entry. URL: Redux has over the past year grown organically to become one of the web’s best places for finding great content. URL: A new startup still in Beta, Scoop.it again allows you to create topic centric information, and share with others. As with Redux, a way to ‘follow’ users and content as also been implemented to allow you to receive updates within a topic, and you can also suggest additional sites for the administrator of that topic hub to add to their curated masterpiece. URL: URL: URL: URL:
The Future Of Content Curation Tools - Part II
-> continued from Part I - Future of Content Curation Tools 8) Preservation Contrary to popular belief, the nature of the web is quite volatile. A large percentage of the overall content available online, is moved, taken down, deleted or disappears on a daily basis, at times only because the website owner has no more money to pay his hosting bills. If you run a check for broken links on your web site you will see what I am talking about. How many times have you run through a list of tools on a blog post, only to find that a bunch of them were not available anymore? How many startups are created and how many them survive after one or two years (and with them their websites and blogs)? Even without you as a publisher doing anything wrong, the links you create, pointing to other sites, tools and information, do disappear. This is the life of content on the Internet. Unless you save it on the Internet Archive or on some similar service. a) fully photograph, b) archive and More will follow. I don't.
The Future Of Content Curation Tools - Part I
Content curation tools are in their infancy. Nonetheless you see so many of them around, there are more new curation tools coming your way soon, with lots of new features and options. Existing content curation services will in fact need to start rolling up their sleeves as the next wave of offerings will significantly go well beyond what is possible with present day tools Photo credit: 3D Flower by ShutterStock In this last few years I have looked at, signed up for and tested over 400 content curation tools, which I have gradually collected and listed first here: The NewsMaster Toolkit and hereBest News Curation Tools for Independent Publishers then here on Mindomo: Content Curation Tools: Newsmaster Toolkit 2012 from July 2013 here on Pearltrees: Content Curation Tools Supermap and from September 2013 a simplified version here: Content Curation Tools Directory As a small independent author and publisher, I curate content on a daily basis, since 2005. 2) Slicing and Dicing 3) Micro - Macro
