By becoming a buzzword of 2011, curation has generated the creation of numerous tools to help users curate their interests.
Alternion is a free web service that enables you to combine and manage your social accounts, content feeds, email and direct messages, and stay in touch with your contacts from other services.
You can view your friends' posts, photos and videos from Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. You can connect your accounts from other 220+ services and combine all your posts, photos, and videos in one place. You can also post to other services, combine all your contacts, follow other users, and much more. And with full control over your privacy settings, you can manage who can see your information and updates.
In short, we are building a global social communication center. It's powerful and very easy to use. We hope it will become your favorite social dashboard.
Fulcrum Management Solutions Ltd.'s ThoughtStream is the only collaboration application that allows you to engage groups of people with the simplicity of email, the workflow of survey tools and the confidence, flexibility and documentation of a professionally facilitated process.
Interesting concept. Here is the guide to learn more about it: http://www.thotstr.com/downloads/THOUGHTstream%20Use%20Examples.pdf
Good article about internal use of curation in a corporate environment.
The Center for Marketing Research at UMass Dartmouth recently came out with a study entitled The Fortune 500 and Social Media: A Longitudinal Study of Blogging
I think there is a huge opportunity for an internal curation platform that enables departments and individuals within a company to share important information. #private
In that sense, as these tools continue to mature and evolve, a “job of the future” might be to mine for and curate internal microblog content for external uses. This would give Fortune 500 companies (who have some crowds to source, for sure) a way to tap into the ease of Twitter while creating a compelling, lasting resource of blogged content online. The tools aren’t there yet, as they are largely focused on user-based analytics and search, and not necessarily on text processing and workflow. If they get there, however, we may indeed see the rise of the corporate content miner in the coming years.
SAN BRUNO, CA -- While YouTube is playing a unique role in providing raw video of the unrest in the Middle East to the Web, and to many of the the world's news ...
Very interesting about citizen journalism and curation on Youtube. Aggregation, context and value added by some Youtube users covring news events...
Great story about @storify on the NY Times. Great tool.
By far, the leader out there on story telling.
First acquisition...
Data marketplace Infochimps is announcing the acquisition of Tweet bookmarking service Keepstream this morning, in a deal that was primarily a talent acquisition and stock. The three Austin, Texas-based Keepstream co-founders, Huston Hoburg, Jim England and Tim Gasper will be joining the 14 person-strong Infochimps team, which is also based out of Austin. Before closing the deal with Infochimps, Keepstream was talking acquisition with a few other realtime players, and rumor has it that list included Twitter itself.
I really like this concept. It's pretty amazing technology right there.
Scoop.it has gained a lot of traction in the past few months.
Nichelle Macphearson discusses the importance of setting up a content curation workflow for The Challenge.
We build you a website, perfect around a topic or for brands, businesses.
Interesting tool. UI reminds me of @pearltrees
Perfect tool to improve company workflow and communication.
Opzi builds Blackcomb, a cloud platform for desktop-fast business collaboration applications.
Great idea. I won't be a user, but this as potential (Group.me)
Introducing Cells: social building blocks for group communication and tracking topics in realtime.
Curation: Cell curators can filter messages before they are sent to the group at large. This keeps discussion on-topic and reduces abuse, impersonation, and cyberbullying. If a member sends disruptive messages, the curator can kick the member out of the cell.
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Very good review
More than a tool, Mass Relevance is a wish many media companies and brands turned publishers express: That of scaling their conversation strategy to the point where the best content from participants is embedded right into the TV program and live digital cast in real time. Next generation CEO Sam Decker, a veteran in digital marketing, word of mouth, and user generated content, gave me a tour of the platform recently. Sam previously grew Dell.com (consumer) to $3.5B and was founding CMO at Bazaarvoice, the leader in social commerce. From its beginning brainstorming sessions to build the first tool, TweetRiver, Austin-based Mass Relevance currently serves media organizations and brands like NBC Sports, Cisco, Samsung, and Xbox. With a 14-people team and 40 clients, the company is a preferred partner of Twitter media and is working on adding more services and custom technology around the TweetRiver platform. Curation, strategy, visual rendering The deep curation capabilities available on TweetRiver are employed to make sense of existing content volume around an event or program - for example, the Oscars, The Voice [depicted in the image here], or a sports match. The tool allows you to filter comments, in this case tweets, by choosing from a robust set of variables, identifying the most relevant based upon the combination, and posting it to the event site and screen choosing from a series of interesting visualization templates. All in real time, and with the ability to provide the final manual approvals. Human curation happens after the...
In many ways, Percolate aims to be equal parts Tumblr, Google Reader, and Disqus. Like Tumblr, user content is divided between your own feed–called your “Filter”–and your follower feeds–called your “Brew.” But instead of having to post your own content, Percolate features a steady stream of interesting content, from you and your friends, for you to comment on. Percolate, Brier says as he downs his red eye, currently has six employees, and plans to launch for invite-only beta testing early next week. If any Fast Company readers would like to give it a try, just contact us on Twitter–we have some invites to give out to the first dozen or so who request it.
I am adding this to the list, but it's not really a curation tool.
Maybe you don't have the resources to develop a lot of content, or maybe you're a professional association that wants to serve its members better by being super helpful. Add that there are many more content creators, inside and outside organizations, and you see how curating information as content strategy could be a very elegant option. Noting the evolution on the World Wide Web quickly to show you a pattern that went in lockstep with use. You had forums and discussion boards, many still very active, Web sites, then journals, which evolved into blogs with RSS (real simple syndication) capability to package and read feeds, social bookmarking and networks, and then media sites to upload and view videos, photographs, etc. Each set of tools building on the next, thriving when filling a specific need, and evolving or morphing into something else as appropriate. By now, like most people, you have linked to and shared information, photos, videos, quotes, posts, and stories on your Facebook profile wall, Twitter, blog posts, and other social networks. Real time logs I suppose I'm quite old fashioned to be still using a blogging platform in a blog format to publish content. Many publications that got a similar start have moved to more of a magazine format based upon blogging tools. Many blogs have moved to more real time publication tools. Moving away from blogs and into easy-to-use real time publication and bookmarking tools, you now have a couple of solid options. Tumblr is a re-envisioning...
This is a distribution tool, not curation at all.
This is something we built in @shareist, but this is a pretty slick service with a nice interface and social stats we can learn from (providing social sharing/distribution stats is interesting)