Curation

Why Curated Online Magazines are the SEO Future

Posted by Cath Pope on Sep 20, 2011 in Curation | 4 comments

Why Curated Online Magazines are the SEO Future

Tweet Whether you’ve noticed or not, content curation is getting a lot of attention lately. Thanks to cool sites and apps like paper.li, Pulse, Zite, News.me and of course the one that started it all Flipboard, users are now curating topics of interest to them and displaying them in a nice clean user wonderland. And it’s happening outside the app world in the old-fashioned browser environment too. Thanks to emerging curation tools able...

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Lazy Bugger’s Guide to Content Curation

Posted by Cath Pope on Aug 10, 2011 in Curation | 1 comment

Lazy Bugger’s Guide to Content Curation

Tweet Everybody’s talking about Content Curation – which is cool for us considering it’s basically our name said backwards – but how many people are actually doing it? The answer is not that many, really. Or maybe we should say not that many, yet. Maybe everyone’s put off by how complicated it all sounds…which is where we come in. Complicated Shmomplicated. Welcome to the lazy bugger’s guide to Content Curation! Pick a...

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Curation: Understanding the Social Fire Hose

Posted by Cath Pope on Jul 27, 2011 in Curation | 2 comments

Curation: Understanding the Social Fire Hose

Tweet As the tragic events of Oslo unfolded, so too did the importance of content curation in the social sphere. Some interesting commentary on the reporting of the Oslo massacre by FastCompany further advances the vital role of content curators in piecing together time-lines of events as they actually unfold based on real-time tweets. Now this is nothing new. We know that social media channels, in particular Twitter, have been used for...

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Can Curated Content Save the Internet?

Posted by Cath Pope on Jun 16, 2011 in Curation | 2 comments

Can Curated Content Save the Internet?

Tweet The internet is stuffed with so much content that it long ago passed the point where we could hope to absorb even a small chunk of it. That’s called saturation point which leads to user fatigue (or fear of one’s head imploding from the inside). It isn’t pretty and the people aren’t happy. Accepting the general consensus that we need more not less content in our daily lives thanks to numerous channels, platforms and devices we...

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