Are you a content consumer or creator? Brian Solis inShare835 You’ll soon learn why I’m posting shorter, but more frequent posts…In the mean time, I wanted to share with you something I’ve been thinking quite a bit about these days. Think about the generation or two before us. You control the Information Age. There was and is something missing however. And while it’s not the same as generations before us, I wonder if we’re moving towards an era of consumption again, just under a new facade. In all honesty, the long form of content creation is under constant scrutiny and its value is continually questioned. You might disagree with me, but shortly after the iPad was released, I sold it. Who are you? What about you that some adore that we all need to experience? What can you teach us? I believe in order for the social economy to thrive, it must balance creation and consumption. In the process we’ll find that the balance is refined to the delicate, yet invaluable ecology of learning and teaching. What do you think? This is your time… Tags:
Content Is No Longer King: Curation Is King 3 Reasons Curation is Here to Stay Perhaps you won't believe me since it's my job to spread the gospel of curation as the Chief Evangelist of Pearltrees, but I think curation is here to stay. These are the reasons why I believe this is the case. This year there has been a tremendous amount of buzz in Silicon Valley about curation. Magnify.net CEO Steven Rosenbaum recently published a book, Curation Nation that has sparked a tremendous amount of conversation on the topic. Likewise a post by Brian Solis has been retweeted thousands of times. Oliver Starr is the Chief Evangelist for Pearltrees. With all the attention curation has suddenly received, people are probably wondering if this is just another fad or is it something bigger? First, curation is one of the underlying principles of the Web. Allow anyone to access any type of documentAllow everyone to disseminate his or her own documentsAllow everyone to organize the entire collection of documents The graphic above illustrates this process of democratization.
The Curation Economy and The 3C’s of Information Commerce Brian Solis inShare1 Several years ago I had the privilege of working with Steve Rosenbaum, author of Curation Nation. Back then Steve was already vested in the future of online curation and his grande conquête was playing out with Magnify.net, a realtime video curation network. I share this digital foreword with you here… The Curation Economy and The 3C’s of Information Commerce I always appreciate when a very complex and important subject is simplified to ease understanding. Forrester Research tracked how people adopt and use social technologies through its Technographics research. Creating original content, consistently over time, is daunting. As we weave our social graph, we inherently earn built-in audiences, namely the people we know, for the thoughts, experiences, and information we share. The Rise of Short-form Content Creators With the rise of Twitter and Facebook, we witnessed the emergence of new categories of publishing tools and corresponding networks. Let me explain.
To be or not to be a curator ? Brian Solis en parle dans son livre « Engage », en évoquant le compte Twitter de Google. Ce compte poursuit depuis sa création une stratégie de curation, avec 304 abonnements et 2,6 millions d’abonnés. Voici comment Brian Solis en parle : I recommend that companies use this (cf. curation) for information collected from customers and influencers, as well in order to truly curate the best, most helpful content from around the Web while building good will in the process. Curator, un mot valise, un buzzword ? Lorsque je pris connaissance de ce concept via la pyramide d’engagement d’Altimeter, j’avais des difficultés à cerner le périmètre du concept et de son champ d’application. La pyramide de la marque engagée, Altimeter La curation représente-t-elle le chant du cygne de l’agrégation ? Curator = courtier en information = maven En anglais, le curator est un conservateur de musée. Le curator filtre et in fine aide
How much is a tweet worth? About 1/10,000 as much as a Yelp review Tweets, status updates, pins, check-ins: They may seem trivial to you, but they’re valuable content to social networking companies. For example: Next time you make an update in Path, consider that you just helped that company make 50 cents in revenue. Just how much value do you represent to these companies? Path: $12.50 per userInstagram: $18.52Yelp: $21.21Pinterest: $28.09Foursquare: $40.00Twitter: $71.43Dropbox: $80.00LinkedIn: $104.46Facebook: $118.34 But it’s the value of each individual status update that’s especially interesting. Tweet: $0.001Facebook share: $0.024LinkedIn search: $0.124FourSquare check-in: $0.40Path update: $0.50Yelp review: $9.13 I don’t know about you, but it’s hard for me to imagine that a simple FourSquare check-in is worth 40 cents — or that there are any Yelp reviews at all that would be worth nearly $10. If you want a bigger, clearer PDF of this infographic, we’ve got that for you too. Infographic courtesy Backupify
Manifesto For The Content Curator: The Next Big Social Media Job Of The Future ? Every hour thousands of new videos are uploaded online. Blog posts are written and published. Millions of tweets and other short messages are shared. To say there is a flood of content being created online now seems like a serious understatement. Until now, the interesting thing is that there are relatively few technologies or tools that have been adopted in a widespread way to manage this deluge. We pretty much just have algorithmic search, with Google (and other search engines) as the most obvious example. The real question is whether solutions like these will be enough. What if you were to ask about the person that makes sense of it all? The name I would give it is Content Curator. In an attempt to offer more of a vision for someone who might fill this role, here is my crack at a short manifesto for someone who might take on this job: In the near future, experts predict that content on the web will double every 72 hours. Link to original post
What Is a Curator in Chief? Neil Sanderson is the Chief Curator at Eqentia--a software platform service that enables professional users and organizations to easily aggregate, curate and republish the news that's important to them. Eqentia's sites are both public and private--with some of the more public ones including Visability Marketing (visabilitymarketing.com) and Slices of Boulder (slicesofboulder.com) which is a local news website for Boulder, Colorado. More than 50 of the portals can be found at portal.eqentia.com/channels. I asked Neil what a 'Chief Curator' does. And while technology is critical for his job--the key component of curation is human--as Sanderson explains: "I provide human curation of our customers' portals during the final stages of development when we are optimizing the system and training our customers to take on the curation role themselves. So, what kind of background does it take to be a Curator in the new world? Today--Sanderson says the man / machine mix is critical.
What Should We Call Social Media OK, I am apparently very late to the party, but this was a revelation and I can’t just not share. I apologize in advance if I’m posting something old. So you know this really stupid thing that happens with links? It’s actually the worst thing in the world. BRB, crying from happiness. Content curation: 5 ways to filter social media’s information overload Curation has always been an underrated form of creation. The Getty Center in Los Angeles is one of the most frequently visited museums in America, yet it started out as a private collection for one man with a passion for art. Aside from a few well-known examples like this, however, few people outside the art world had used the term curation—until recently. Content curation is a hot trend in social media, thanks in no small part to the efforts of several thought leaders. Joe Pulizzi and Steve Rosenbaum actively promote it, and a Psychology Today blog declared it the “new black.” What is content curation? In 2009 I published a blog post called the "Manifesto for the Content Curator," which predicted that this role would be one of the fastest growing and most important jobs of the future. “Content curation” is a term that describes the act of finding, grouping, organizing or sharing the best and most relevant content on a specific issue. The 5 models of content curation 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Why Content Curation is the new Blogging « (clicca qui per la traduzione in italiano) During these days I’m questioning myself about today’s online media industry recurring topic of discussion: the so-called content curation. The term itself can be identified with the concept of “caring about content.” This concept, obviously, can be investigated from a variety of viewpoints: it revolves around manipulating information, news, contents available online to a new form with sensibly higher ambitions in terms of vision, lifecycle and usefulness. It’s about producing contents that, on average, are well worth an enhanced amount of attention respect to the so-called “world buzz,” the avalanche of information micro-bits, we receive daily from the Internet through social media, blogs, online newspapers, and sometimes and unfortunately from content farms. On a more operational level, an interesting definition that you can find online follows (from here) Will this newsroom see his fate in an editorial room of a newspaper agency? Like this: