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Readin', 'Ritin', and (Publishing) 'Rithmetic
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The meaning behind the math of the bottom line in publishing and the media. For writers, publishers, and bloggers (which are a combination of the two).
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The battle: original vs aggregated content. From PR Week 
Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight,
October 14, 2014 11:44 PM
The description of "aggregated content" sounds a lot like content curation... To me, aggregating is much more like scraping. However, there are good points in here.
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Though tablets and ebook readers are now mainstream, the revolution in the way they display content – and how that content will be generated dynamically – is yet to come. Via Arabella DeLucco, Mick D Kirkov
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
One note from the article regarding content curation: Curation will guide content
Gilbert C FAURE's comment,
April 6, 2013 3:24 AM
curateurs, restez vivants! vos cerveaux valent mieux que le meilleur logiciel
Cees Franke's curator insight,
April 11, 2013 3:29 AM
Het algoritme wordt (en is het soms al enigszins) de nieuwe curator ...
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Content curation is all about collecting best of the stuff from the web. A content curation blog is one easy way to make money and add passive income. Via catspyjamasnz, massimo facchinetti, malek
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
I think the most important lesson here is that if you want to make money directly from content curation you need to curate/publish on your own self-hosted website. (In this sense, we are back to curation with your own personal comments added in as a form of blogging.) If you want content curation to "add value" to your service or commerce business (by marketing or otherwise reaching your target market) your calculations will vary.
malek's curator insight,
January 30, 2014 7:24 AM
An interesting lengthy article displayin the growing content curation industry.
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What if we considered content curation from a user centered design perspective? What would audience centered curation look like? Via Robin Good
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
What if we considered content curation as a value, not just a means to market products & services?
Robin Good's curator insight,
January 18, 2014 2:24 PM
Sam Burroughs says it right: "What if we considered content curation from a user centered design perspective? What would audience centered curation look like?" His suggestions are right on the mark:
More signal, less noise. A good review of five things you need to pay attention to, for your content curation to generate some results. Right on the mark. Practical advice. 8/10 Full article (4 mins read): http://weelearning.co.uk/2014/01/five-ways-curators-can-improve-user-experience/ Image credit: (Teamwork concept by Shutterstock) 
Gina Paschalidou's curator insight,
January 20, 2014 12:06 PM
Tips to improve curation and benefit both you and other users 
'Timothy Leyfer's curator insight,
January 24, 2014 1:20 PM
"Explain, always clearly why something you are curating/communicating is relevant. Contextualize."
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Angela Dunn explores content curation as a means to lifelong and collaborative learning. She shows how to curate around diverse interests, like a Generalist.
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![Scoop.It for SEO – A New World of Curation [Infographic] | Readin', 'Ritin', and (Publishing) 'Rithmetic | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/K1jyAzAS4jUQBxVtjMlfFXkes5yE2Br8B0LnubnjJ88=)
For almost everyone who is a part of the online world coming up with fresh content consistently is a big challenge. Practically every guideline advises that content should be engaging, informative and relevant every single time. Consequently, content curation has taken off in a big way.
Simply put, content curation is the process of curating relevant and interesting content from various sources on the web and putting them together and publishing them on a personal site or blog. As a result of the popularity of the content curation process, a number of content marketing tools have been introduced. These tools are meant to help in the process of content marketing and SEO and facilitate the process of curation...
Via Lauren Moss, Jimun Gimm
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
Posting err, scooping, err... preaching to the choir ?
Dillon Thomas's curator insight,
February 1, 2014 5:55 PM
SCOOPS -- I began using Scoop when I was defining myself a LITE FEET DANCER. There was no single source of info about Lite Feet dance, a NYC Born Battle dance phenom and YouTube Sensation. I created LITE FEET SCOOP TO reference for my own resume but also to provide anyone interested a link to the multitude of YOUTUBE Channels, Sound Cloud and personal sites dedicated to this unique art form and the talented dancers who participate.
Annie 's curator insight,
December 5, 2014 8:18 PM
Scoop.it helps with the process of curating content. This is a must for your social media.
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Infographics are a powerful tool, but today they also create a trap for content creators and curators.
...And here's where the infographics become a danger. Because infographics are often taken at face value. One reason that I suspect plays a big role in the blind belief in infographic facts is the assumption that if someone took time to create this, surely they must have put time into fact checking it.
And it is hard to fact check infographics. Even if they contain a source, it's often in fine print and the URLs are not clickable.
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
Infographics can be powerful, breaking down complex things, especially for visual learners. But, as noted, they present problems. And they are meaningless to those with sight issues -- unless frustration counts.
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Curation is nothing new, but online content curation is still in its early stages. Many content marketers are still unsure about what constitutes ethical content curation. If you're in this group, ...
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
Most of this is common sense, really. But I can't drive home enough two of the points:
Properly credit by prominently linking to the original source
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Using quotes only; not the entire article.
Also, inserting your own point of view is great -- however, sometimes there are reasons not to; for example, time constraints which have you quickly offering a link and/or when reiterating is like beating a dead horse.
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The power of curation’s feedback loops is why to curate more than you create AND why the best ratio may be as high as 90% curation to 10% creation.
by @Martin (Marty) Smith on @ janlgordon's curatti.com
Via Guillaume Decugis, Adelina Silva, juandoming, Scott Scanlon
A/Prof Jon Willis's curator insight,
November 20, 2013 6:23 PM
This is really interesting stuff, particularly because of the potential it offers to measure impact of Scoops. I would be interested to read what a philosopher or education theorist would make of his idea of disruption, in terms of either Deleuzian theory, or Flow theory.
Lori Wilk's curator insight,
November 22, 2013 1:44 PM
This is so true. I often get immediate support and responses to content I have curated #curation#socialmedia
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Robin Good of Content Curation World breaks the findings down thus:
a) what people curate as relevant is not generally among the top ranked results according to popular metrics. Good stuff is not the same as what is considered normally popular or authoritative stuff.
b) content curation allows a community to synchronize around specific issues and subjects (as anticipated by Clay Shirky)
c) better and more appreciated curation is of the "structured" kind, providing additional info, meta-data and categorization.
d) curators that are highly appreciated are characterized by consistent activity and by a variety of interests (or viewpoints under the same theme) that they are capable to cover.
This is rather my experience; however, I usually explain it to my clients this way:
a) You can be doing an excellent job, but never receive the recognition, popularity, or traffic you deserve.That doesn't mean you won't be appreciated greatly by the smaller group of people who do find/read your curated works.
b) No matter the popularity of your curation, you can build and have conversations -- but remember, community cultivation not only requires additional time, but a different skill set.
c) If you're going to do it, do it well. Use tools, such as labels and tags, and *always* provide context as well as proper credits and links.
d) Consistent activity is nearly as important as showing some personality along with your knowledge. Your topic may be narrowly focused, but offer additional topics and information about you personally (not just professionally) so that people get a sense of you.
Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight,
October 15, 2013 3:59 PM
Robin Good of Content Curation World breaks the findings down thus:
a) what people curate as relevant is not generally among the top ranked results according to popular metrics. Good stuff is not the same as what is considered normally popular or authoritative stuff.
b) content curation allows a community to synchronize around specific issues and subjects (as anticipated by Clay Shirky)
c) better and more appreciated curation is of the "structured" kind, providing additional info, meta-data and categorization.
d) curators that are highly appreciated are characterized by consistent activity and by a variety of interests (or viewpoints under the same theme) that they are capable to cover.
This is rather my experience; however, I usually explain it to my clients this way:
a) You can be doing an excellent job, but never receive the recognition, popularity, or traffic you deserve.That doesn't mean you won't be appreciated greatly by the smaller group of people who do find/read your curated works.
b) No matter the popularity of your curation, you can build and have conversations -- but remember, community cultivation not only requires additional time, but a different skill set.
c) If you're going to do it, do it well. Use tools, such as labels and tags, and *always* provide context as well as proper credits and links.
d) Consistent activity is nearly as important as showing some personality along with your knowledge. Your topic may be narrowly focused, but offer additional topics and information about you personally (not just professionally) so that people get a sense of you.
Carmenne Kalyaniwala's curator insight,
October 16, 2013 2:17 AM
A research paper by Zhong, Shah, Sundaravadivelan and Sastry, King's college London, 2013
AnneMarie Cunningham's curator insight,
October 17, 2013 8:28 AM
See the excellent notes from Robin Good below. Interesting to see more work emerging in this field.
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Julie Groom's curator insight,
October 23, 2013 4:48 AM
Curating - how to manage it. And curation experts already exist - they're called Librarians!
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Broken links are everywhere. Perma helps authors and journals create permanent links for citations in their published work.
Via Robin Good
Blaithan Michael Altenburg's curator insight,
September 24, 2013 3:11 PM
This is good that they are helping
Prof. Hankell's curator insight,
September 25, 2013 10:33 AM
Robin Good's insight:
Perma.cc is an upcoming web service that aims to help authors and journals create permanent archival copies of their online published content.
Way too often in fact, due to a multitude of reasons, not only content gets moved and relocated to new sites, becoming more difficult to find but in many others it is permanently deleted or lost.
To comfort your doubts that this is a true and tangible issue, you should check the work being carried out by Kendra Albert, Larry Lessig and Jonathan Zittrain, who are completing a study of link rot, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2329161. ;
Link rot is the phenomenon by which material we link to on the distributed Web vanishes or changes beyond recognition over time.
Believe it or not half of the links in all of the Supreme Court opinions, don't work anymore.
In this context "the Harvard Library Innovation Lab has pioneered a project to unite libraries so that link rot can be mitigated. We are joined by about thirty law libraries around the world to start Perma.cc, which will allow those libraries on direction of authors and journal editors to store permanent caches of otherwise ephemeral links."
The Internet Archive has provided its powerful archiving engine to support this effort and Cloudfare its distributed CDN.
The official tagline of the upcoming site reads: "perma.cc helps authors and journals create permanent archived citations in their published work"
Here is essence what you should expect from it: "Perma.cc allows users to create citation links that will never break.
When a user creates a Perma.cc link, Perma.cc archives a copy of the referenced content, and generates a link to an unalterable hosted instance of the site.
Regardless of what may happen to the original source, if the link is later published by a journal using the Perma.cc service, the archived version will always be available through the Perma.cc link."
N.B.: While anyone will be able to go to Perma.cc and archive any web page this resource is designed for researchers, authors and journals. In this light Perma.cc downloads the material at the designated URL and provides a new URL (a “Perma.cc link”) that can then be inserted in a paper.
After the paper has been submitted to a journal, the journal staff checks that the provided Perma.cc link actually represents the cited material. If it does, the staff “vests” the link and it is forever preserved. Links that are not “vested” will be preserved for two years, at which point the author will have the option to renew the link for another two years.
My comment: Can't wait to test it. We need these type of archival tools like oxygen. It's not only important that we organize and curate what is important from the web, but it is essential that we also take care in preserving it for the longest possible time.
Free and open to all (soon).
Request beta access here: http://perma.cc/ ;
More info: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/futureoftheinternet/2013/09/22/perma/ ;
Similar Tools: www.Permamarks.com
Steve Tuffill's curator insight,
September 25, 2013 11:47 AM
Essential, if the Internet is our all-time library resource...
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If you worry that content curation = duplicate content...
Thorsten Strauss's curator insight,
September 3, 2013 4:37 AM
Big question and straight answer : How is content curation affected by Google's Panda and Penguin updates.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
October 3, 2013 4:35 PM
Guillaume Decugis offers a valuable perspective on curation, the impact of Google algorithm changes on SEO and side references of course to Matt Cutts. In a phrase: "Add value!"
Steve Hartkopf's curator insight,
October 7, 2013 3:18 PM
Anytime Matt speaks about SEO we should listen. In this video he specifically discusses SEO and content creation. He recommends a separate website page for old blog posts. I assume Google can identify the old content as separate and, therefore, acceptable rather than someone trying to game the system by throwing up a bunch of old or curated content in hopes of improve search engine results on the back of other people's content.
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Why are we here?
For a long while, the Scoop.it team has had a vision that fostering ideas, molding existing content into more valuable forms, and sharing knowledge with their communities of interest is what our platform can do best.
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Content curation is often described as a product of the Digital Age, but earlier forms of news aggregation were already being practiced in the early 90s.“Content curation has been around for years,” explained Michael Kolowich, CEO of KnowledgeVision. “But the evolution of it as a thought leadership, expertise-establishing marketing engine is actually fairly recent.”
Kolowich was the CEO of Individual Incorporated and one of the leading figures behind early news aggregation. Individual Incorporated initially distributed its newsletter, First, through fax machines, then email and finally on online once the World Wide Web took off in the mid-90s.
Today, content curation is not just restricted to media outlets. In conjunction with the growing trend of marketing teams acting as publishers, a diverse array of businesses have been using content curation to position themselves as industry leaders.
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The internet is awash with crap. What if you could cut through all that, giving your readers links to the resources they crave – and at the same time make a business out of it?You can. It’s called content curation .
Via Jimun Gimm
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Being a content curator is all about displaying information. We don't create the content, we display it. We share it - and people read it. But, first you have to display it. There are several skills involved in displaying content.
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I am really enjoying the program, Scoop It. It reminds me of the old habit I used to have of keeping scrapbooks. Very fun!
Ally Greer's curator insight,
April 9, 2013 2:02 PM
This is a fun, nostalgic article by Sharilee comparing her Scoop.it experience to the "old school" experience of clipping newspaper articles!
Sharing things we find interesting has always been a fun pastime, even way back before the Internet with scrapbooks and newspaper clippings!
Thanks again, Sharilee, we're happy to be your latest "thing."
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Spotting this nearly made me choke on my Diet Coke!
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WordPress is going to curate more content and may focus on longform writing and even native advertising, CEO Matt Mullenweg said in a panel at SXSW Saturday.
Via Guillaume Decugis
Guillaume Decugis's curator insight,
March 10, 2013 5:31 PM
Interesting to see that move from Wordpress. It is one of the best CMS out there. And it's free. But can it move from siloed blogs to become a media or a community?
Tagmotion's curator insight,
March 16, 2013 10:26 PM
The ability to create an index of a video relating to a particular topic area will be one important way of straddling silos as Wordpress moves in this (horizontal() direction.
Guillaume Decugis's comment,
March 20, 2013 4:22 PM
@Janet: it's actually more about WordPress curating blogs then doing specific things to help curators.
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Once Snip.It pulled the plug on the content curation site, thereby pulling the rug out from under the feet of content curators like myself, I began speaking with the fine folks at Scoop.it
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Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight,
January 25, 2013 1:36 AM
Discussing the pros & cons of Scoop.it with Co-founder & CEO, Guillaume Decugis.
Cendrine Marrouat - https://www.cendrinemedia.com's comment,
January 25, 2013 1:50 PM
I'm going to read this before the end of the weekend!
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