Articles from Professional Online Publishing

1. What Makes A Great Curator Great? How To Distinguish High-Value Curation From Generic Republishing Explore Professional Online Publishing (Nov 3 2011) Today content curation is "sold", promoted and marketed as the latest and trendiest approach to content production, SEO visibility, reputation and traffic building. But is it really so? (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Robin Good   Pawan Deshpande   Content Curation

2. Curated Content Delivery Formats: Beyond News Portals and Magazines Explore Professional Online Publishing (Sep 5 2011) 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

3. Online Curation: The What, Why And How - An Interview With Micah Sifry Explore Professional Online Publishing (Jun 28 2011) 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 ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Obama   Clay Shirky

4. Content Curation And The Future Of Search: The Howard Rheingold's Interview Explore Professional Online Publishing (Jun 20 2011) 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

5. Content Curation And Value: The Business Of Context Explore Professional Online Publishing (Dec 1 2010) 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 that ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Robin Good   Italy   IBM

6. Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 7: Business Applications And Trends Explore Professional Online Publishing (Oct 20 2010) What are the business opportunities for real-time news and content curation? Are there key business drivers that companies can leverage to build new added-value content services? What are the major trends that will be driving the content curation marketplace? How will newspaper and magazines take advantage of such new emerging business models to keep their business afloat? Photo credit ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   News   RSS   Robert Scoble

7. Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 6: The Tools Universe Explore Professional Online Publishing (Oct 13 2010) 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 defined ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Steve Rosenbaum   RSS   Robert Scoble

8. Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 5: The Curator Attributes And Skills by @robingood Explore Professional Online Publishing (Oct 6 2010) 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)

   Comment Mentions:   Jeff Jarvis   Content Curation   Curation

9. Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 4: Process, Key Tasks, Workflow by @robingood Explore Professional Online Publishing (Sep 29 2010) 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)

   Comment Mentions:   RSS   Robert Scoble   Content Curation

10. Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 3: Types And Real-World Examples Explore Professional Online Publishing (Sep 22 2010) 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

11. 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) 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

12. 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) 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)

    Comment Mentions:   Content Curation   Curation   Blog

13. 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)

    Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Content Curation   Curation

14. Online Content Curation: The Key To Building Visibility, Authority by @robingood Explore Professional Online Publishing (Apr 1 2010) According to Rohit Bhargava, Senior Vice President of Strategy & Marketing for Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence, a content curator is someone "who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a particular topic, critical to customer. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Huffington Post   Rohit Bhargava   Robert Scoble

15. Online News Content And Distribution Strategies: Content Curation And User Syndication Are Next Explore Professional Online Publishing (Feb 6 2010) What future and opportunities for online news? " After more than five years of Wikipedia building both its content and its brand as a " go-to " source for freshly updated topic-oriented content that dominates search engine results, it dawns on some folks in the news business that perhaps there is a business model in there somewhere. " Photo credit: juliengron Content media expert , and Content ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Content Curation   Curation   Blog

16. MasterNewMedia Trends And Predictions For 2010 And Beyond - Part 2. An old article, but interesting thoughts on #curation Explore Professional Online Publishing (Jan 8 2010) If you are interested in finding out what I think 2010 and beyond have in store for you, when it comes to new media, communication, marketing, learning, collaboration and new technologies, you have landed in the right place. This is Part 2 of MasterNewMedia yearly report on new media trends and anticipations for the new year. Photo credit: Robin Good In this second part I am covering: Curation ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Content Curation   Curation   Social Curation

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