Comments on: Use content curation to keep your team on the same page

By: mark

mark — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 05:16:55 +0000

Somebody is going to have to curate all the curation platforms :)

By: Fred Scuttle

Fred Scuttle — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:47:37 +0000

I hate the word “curation.”

By: Pawan Deshpande

Pawan Deshpande — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:40:48 +0000

Great insight, Pamela. You may also want to check out Curata (www.getcurata.com), the content curation tool that my company, HiveFire, Inc., offers. Our clients are using it for the internal, information-sharing you discuss, as well as for marketing purposes, like boosting SEO, establishing thought leadership and engaging customers and prospects.

Regardless of the purpose, the step in the workflow that I find most beneficial—and which is often automated by tools—is the organizing of content. It is a critical piece that makes curation more valuable than strictly finding and filtering or sharing content. For example, by grouping and tagging content into relevant concepts—like important people or companies, subject areas, etc.—it makes the content that much more consumable to the user. This is a feature of Curata that our clients find most valuable, but we’ve started a conversation on our LinkedIn group, Content Curators, about other functionalities of content curation tools that are particularly helpful; feel free to weigh in here: http://linkd.in/ilDIKg

By: William Mougayar

William Mougayar — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:42:56 +0000

Good article, and thanks for bringing up this important topic. Aggregation can be coupled with filtering, and when combined with curation controls and various publishing choices, it’s a powerful combination.

Reality is that there’s a bit of excessive hype right now pertaining to curation, and it’s starting to lose a some of its meaning. Reading what’s in your social stream or other streams is not curation. It’s information discovery. We’re being distracted by that, and we have no more time to apply proper filters that matter to us. People-filters are not enough.

Also, keep in mind that consumer oriented solutions and needs will vary drastically from those aimed at the professional user segment. Curation platforms must offer productivity gains to the curators.

William Mougayar
Founder / CEO, Eqentia

By: Pamela Poole

Pamela Poole — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 09:00:03 +0000

Hi Meredith. StoryCrawler also looks like a good tool. Thanks for letting us know about it!

By: Pamela Poole

Pamela Poole — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:59:08 +0000

Hi Otto, looks like a very nice tool! Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

By: Pamela Poole

Pamela Poole — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:56:53 +0000

Hi Scott. I’m using it for fun under a pseudonym to curate articles and news related to a niche art form. For keeping tabs on Internet trends and tech I use Twitter primarily and RSS (less since Twitter came along).

By: Pamela Poole

Pamela Poole — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:46:25 +0000

Thanks for doing all that great research!

By: Meredith

Meredith — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:10:30 +0000

Excellent article, Pamela. You should also check out StoryCrawler for content curation. It’s a cloud-based service that offers the highest quality content and easy republication across multiple Internet and mobile platforms.

By: Scott Britton

Scott Britton — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:50:22 +0000

Great article Pamela. I’m curious do you use Scoop.it for personal use or as a utility for gathering content around stories?