1. Curated Content Delivery Formats: Beyond News Portals and Magazines Explore Professional Online Publishing (Sep 5 2011) Search , Social Media The new frontiers for content curation tools and services are in a) providing advanced collaborative ("social)" features and in b) introducing and integrating new and effective, highly visual, delivery formats. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Alltop   Content Curation   Curation

2. Online Curation: The What, Why And How - An Interview With Micah Sifry Explore Professional Online Publishing (Jun 28 2011) Social Media Why is content curation so important? In this video interview, I recorded with Micah Sifry, co-founder and editor of the Personal Democracy Forum, you can taste one more viewpoint and explanation of why news and content curation are becoming so important. And not only. Photo credit: Robin Good Micah Sifry states it clear and without any hesitation: such abundance of content and of people producing it offers great business opportunities that are yet to be discovered. "I actually think it's a market opportunity for entrepreneurs, as well as for editors, both in terms of building better tools for sifting through ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Obama   Clay Shirky

3. Content Curation And The Future Of Search: The Howard Rheingold's Interview Explore Professional Online Publishing (Jun 20 2011) Search , Social Media Are content curation and the future of search converging? Who will you trust when it comes to find out what alternatives to a problem are out there and you have only an Internet connection? How much individual freedom do you want to sacrifice to an algorithm, no matter how accurate? Photo credit: Robin Good But why, you may rightly ask, to question Google or other search engines ability to sort and classify results when they have done it for so long already? The reasons could be many, but they key ones I see, can be summed up on this short ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Robin Good   RSS   Stanford University

4. Content Curation And Value: The Business Of Context Explore Professional Online Publishing (Dec 1 2010) Search What is the real value of curated content? Does it live in the content itself or does it live in the context, in the curation of the content - the commentary, the opinion pieces, the conversations that the content itself generates? Photo credit: Robin Good In these two short video interviews I captured a year back, George Siemens and Gerd Leonhard, discuss and analyze on what is defining itself as the new "business of context" and about the true value of niche, theme, curated content, with one question in mind: can the content curation strategy approach generate true business value ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Robin Good   IBM   Stephen Downes

5. Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 6: The Tools Universe Explore Professional Online Publishing (Oct 13 2010) Search , Social Media What tools do I need to do "content curation"? Do I need a different technology if I want to curate the news and not the rest? How about if I want to curate only video clips. Is there something just for that? How many "curation" tools are out there and what are the key differences among them? Photo credit: Robin Good After having spent time understanding why content curation fulfills such a great need, having clarified the differences between automated aggregation / filtering and manual curation, having shown real-world examples to understand what aggregation and curation look like, and having ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Steve Rosenbaum   RSS   Robert Scoble

6. Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 5: The Curator Attributes And Skills by @robingood Explore Professional Online Publishing (Oct 6 2010) Marketing , Search , Social Media What skills do I need to have if I want to be an effective real-time news curator? Can I just pick the best headlines and links on my topic of interest or do I need to do know / do more? What makes a great news curator stand out from those who do automatic aggregation or from bloggers who create simple news stories lists? (Read Full Article)

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7. Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 4: Process, Key Tasks, Workflow by @robingood Explore Professional Online Publishing (Sep 29 2010) Search , Social Media What are the tasks involved in the real-time news curation process? What does exactly a news curator do. In Part 4 of this Complete Guide to Real-Time News Curation I am presenting, what I have identified so far as being the key tasks a real-time news curator, must attend to. (Read Full Article)

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8. Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 3: Types And Real-World Examples Explore Professional Online Publishing (Sep 22 2010) Search , Social Media I am certainly not trying to build a full and comprehensive list of all examples of curated news out there, but only a showcase of the best representative references I have been able to find during my research. There are probably a lot more, and I would truly appreciate your contributions to this, via the comments area at the end of this guide. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Content Curation   Publish2

9. Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 2: Aggregation Is Not Curation by @robingood. A very comprehensive piece! Explore Professional Online Publishing (Sep 15 2010) Search , Social Media In Part 2 I want to continue illustrating what "real-time news curation" is all about, and more specifically why it differs from automatic aggregation, and why you really need a human being to do it. As I see it: "Aggregation is automated, curation is manual." (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Steve Rosenbaum   RSS   Robert Scoble

10. Real-Time News Curation, Newsmastering And Newsradars - The Complete Guide Part 1: Why We Need It by @robingood Explore Professional Online Publishing (Sep 7 2010) Newspapers , Social Media The time it takes to follow and go through multiple web sites and blogs takes tangible time, and since most sources publish or give coverage to more than one topic, one gets to browse and scan through lots of useless content just for the sake of finding what is relevant to his specific interest. Even in the case of power-users utilizing RSS feed readers, aggregators and filters, the amount of junk we have to sift through daily is nothing but impressive, so much so, that those who have enough time and skills to pick the gems from that ocean of ... (Read Full Article)

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11. Online Content Monetization: Critical Viewpoints From George Siemens And Gerd Leonhard. A great piece by Robin Good Explore Professional Online Publishing (Apr 9 2010) How are publishers going to monetize online content in the future? With the launch of the iPad, Rupert Murdoch still picking on Google and positive signs of recovery from the economic recession, the discussion on online content is hotter than ever. Photo credit: David Meerman Scott With some revenues back in their wallets, publishers are starting again to explore alternatives business models they can use to monetize their content. Are paywalls a sound strategy? Or is it the freemium model the better way to go? To make greater sense of this issue myself, I have prepared two unpublished video interviews ... (Read Full Article)

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