Over the past few years I must have heard the phrase ‘everyone is a publisher nowadays’ a thousand times or more. It’s largely accurate, due to the rise of social media, but I think we are mainly ‘curators’, as opposed to ‘publishers’.
Content curation is something that many of... read more
IQ resembles a digital magazine but is curated by Intel employees. A story gets to the iQ front page when a certain number of people recommend it. The goal is to "connect with a younger audience and tell them the bigger story of who we are as a brand," said... read moreCommentary:
Very interesting move here by Intel and something to watch in the curation world…
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For me, a panel about content curation, moderated by Erin Kissanefollowed lunch at #confab12.The panel included Mia Quagliarello, Margot Bloomstein, and Aaron Lammer. A very rich discussion is summarized here.
Erin kicked things off by describing content curation as a subject of some early controversy. She said that now... read more
Everyone seems to have their standard set of social platforms in place (Facebook, Twitter, blog) and this is the year for marketers to take the next step forward to seriously consider their content. We are all thinking about how to better leverage our digital brand assets and distribute them in... read more
Magnify.net founder and “Curation Nation” author Steven Rosenbaum says associations — and their members, for that matter — have a choice: Become trusted content curators or risk becoming irrelevant.
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I was recently asked to comment via email on what I saw as big new trends to watch for during the next 12 months. Here is what I dashed off and wanted to share with you all:
1. I expect to see a few big breakout international web businesses... read more
Content curation crops up over and over again – so a whole issue on the topic from the wonderful school librarians in New Zealand is worth a read! Tossing ideas around, and finding ways to harness tools to our purpose is part of the daily challenge.
So here is... read more
There's plenty of evidence that business is adopting content curation, but the practice hasn't been around long enough for organizations to innovate more targeted, results-focused uses.
Business takes many of its lessons from how everyone else makes use of social tools. To start applying content curation, communicators need to... read more
In appointing Pedro Gadanho Curator for Contemporary Architecture at the Department of Architecture and Design, the Museum of Modern Art made a bold step toward architecture after the building boom. An architect, curator and writer, Pedro Gadanho is a leading figure in a new generation interested less in getting as... read more
Today's feature story on data mining in STM content discusses the idea that publishers "have concerns if the [data] mining results can replace, or compete with, the original content or if the mining is burdening their systems."
So what is the more valuable position: creating original content or curating... read more
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