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, [...]
:: Algorithms Can Help Curators Pre-Filter, Discover and Learn From Like-Minded Colleagues ::
October 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
:: A Curated Collection of Pinterest-Like Web Sites ~ Pinteresti.st ::
September 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 ::
September 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
:: Browser-Based Video Encoding with NanoCosmos ::
September 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
See on Scoop.it – Information Economy Robin Good: If you are interested in new tools and technologies in the live video streaming space, you probably want to bookmark this German company, dedicated entirely to the development of professional software codecs: NanoCosmos. Their newest product, nanoStream 3.0 contains many new features, a new SDK and [...]
:: Free HD Videoconferencing Across Platforms with Zoom.us ::
August 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
See on Scoop.it – Information Economy Robin Good: Zoom.us just launched a new cloud-based free HD videoconferencing service integrating full screen-sharing and other rea-time collaboration capabilities. The service allows you to start conferencing immediately with up to 15 other users live, while supporting both Macs, PCs andmobile devices, including smartphones and tablets. Zoom [...]
:: How a Small Independent Web Magazine Creates Value While Being Sustainable – FEYT ::
July 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
See on Scoop.it – Information Economy Robin Good: If you are looking for a good example of a web magazine using curation to create value for its readers while creating revenue, check out FEYT. The minimalist publication curates fashion “themes” by providing original short-format content accompanied by human-curated sets of fashion items that fit [...]
:: Google Lost Its Mojo: Content Curation is the New Search ::
July 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
See on Scoop.it – Information Economy Robin Good: Though I had seen and scooped this article before, I must have not done a very good job of really reading it from back to back. Paul Kedroski, who wrote this over a year and half ago, really captured the historical essence of content curation on the [...]
The Content Curation Conundrum: How To Strike a Balance Between Automated Aggregation and Manual Curation
July 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Robin Good: Many content curation tools promise to make your content publishing job easier, faster and better. But is it really so? Does less work and more automated aggregation/filtering guarantee a higher quality result? Christa Carone writes on Fast Company: “New content curation tools make automating the job easier–but easy may not always be [...]
Comprehensiveness, Context and Presentation Are The Three Keys To Effective Curation in Journalism
July 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
See on Scoop.it – Content Curation World Robin Good: I agree and I have said it before: Curation has nothing to do with personal expression or sharing nor with collecting links, tweets or blog posts that you may find interesting. Curation is all about “taking care” of something in the sense of helping someone [...]
How To Find Key Influencers In a Specific Niche
May 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
See on Scoop.it – Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond Robin Good: Influencers are those individuals who have enough reputation, credibilityand expertise to affect your interests and choices. That’s a very valuable commercial proposition for marketers. But how do you find these influencers. Some interesting alternatives are starting to emerge, beyond the popularity-based score-based [...]
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