Selecting a Digital Curation Tool by David Kelly

  In today’s world of ever-growing digital content there is a seemingly infinite amount of information available. Finding what you need, when you need it, is increasingly challenging. Fortunately, there is help: digital curation. Digital curation is a growing need for anyone who routinely uses the Internet, and is especially important for workplace learning professionals, [...]

:: Social Content Curation > An Introductory Guide for Teachers and Students ::

Robin Good: “7 Things You Should Know About Social Content Curation” is a technology brief from Educause which aims to introduce, explain and illustrate the emerging social curation trend and why it is relevant to teaching and learning.   From the official abstract: “An emerging class of online tools, including Pinterest, Scoop.it, EduClipper, and others, [...]

:: The Future of Video::

  Robin Good: The Mozilla Foundation is working hard to further develop its video editing and remixing platform Popcorn Maker.   In this TED video, its COO, Ryan Merkley, showcases its key features including the ability to integrate in any video and in real-time, live web content including links, maps, image feeds, news, and a [...]

:: Algorithms Can Help Curators Pre-Filter, Discover and Learn From Like-Minded Colleagues ::

See on Scoop.it – Information Economy   Robin Good: Alexis Dufresne of Faveeo, an up and coming information filtering and discovery tool not yet available to the general public, has been posting some interesting articles on topics related to news curation, filtering and discovery.   In particular, I found interesting his recent analysis on automated [...]

:: Google Now Reporting 100% of Penalized Sites via Direct Manual Actions ::

See on Scoop.it – Information Economy “Wondering if some human at Google has reviewed your web site and decided it deserves to be penalized in Google’s search results? Google’s now reporting such cases nearly 100% of the time.”   Robin Good: Danny Sullivan reports on Search Engine Land from the Pubcon conference where Matt Cutts [...]

:: How To Translate Your YouTube Video Captions In Any Language ::

See on Scoop.it – Information Economy Robin Good: By leveraging the Google Translator Toolkit, YouTube has made it now extremely easy for anyone to generate caption text for any video and to then translate it in any of the 300 world languages supported by YouTube.   Here’s how to do it: “You’ll first need a [...]

Magnify Teams Up With AOL To Bring Curated, Premium Video Content To Publishers

See on Scoop.it – Social Media Content Curation Excerpted from article: “As the volume of content on the Web continues to explode, with no sign of slowing down, Magnify founder and CEO Steve Rosenbaum says that he thinks consumer content consumption is fundamentally changing. Video curators, which have become critical to discovering, organizing, and contextualizing [...]

:: Five Good Guidelines for Content Curators ::

See on Scoop.it – Information Economy Robin Good: If you are looking for ways to improve your content curation efforts, Joshua Merritt has published five useful guidelines to follow.   These include abandoning high frequency / high-volume practices, integrating your opinion whenever possible, researching deeper, citing sources and treating curation like original content production.   [...]

:: A Curated Collection of Pinterest-Like Web Sites ~ Pinteresti.st ::

See on Scoop.it – Information Economy Robin Good: A curated collection of Pinterest-like web sites, in perfect Pinterest-like style. As an increasing number of brands and smaller publishers are adopting a Pinterest-like layout approach to make their content more accessible, someone has decided to start collecting and organizing the best of these.   “Pinterest Pinterest [...]

:: Curate Image Collections from Social Hashtags with Picsho ::

See on Scoop.it – Information Economy Robin Good: Picsho is a free web app which allows you to search for images on Flickr, Tumblr, Instagram, Twitpic (and on other services too) by using simple hashtags, and to pull in your favorite ones into a public image board on the web that can be shared with [...]

Curate Large Information Collections Into Navigable Presentation-Maps with Mindomo

See on Scoop.it – Content Curation World Robin Good: If you are looking for a content curation, mindmapping and presentation tool rolled into one, I strongly suggest you give a good road test to Mindomo. I have been a passionate fan of mindmaps since 2007, and have created tons of them to curate my many [...]

:: Honest, Caring Curation Is As Important as Creation ::

See on Scoop.it – Information Economy Note from Beth: This article was curated by Robin Good who used to point out the difference between sharing and curation – and how curation is actually closer to content curation.   Jan Gordon also highlighted the post with a call to action to content curations.     When [...]