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MasterNewMedia Curated by: Luigi Canali De Rossi ▶ Edizione Italiana Breaking New Media News - Last updated: 16:19 Source: Youtube A Musical Ode To Digital Curation - Part 1 Robin Good: Wonderful school project uses musical performance to promote the value of curation for learning.From an original idea by @JoyceValenza.(2011)Lyrics: Curation, Curation Curation!Curation, Curation. Curation! Who day and night must aggregate the content, pull together knowledge, harness all the feeds And who must make sense of media, tags, and text, keeping learners up to date, at school Librarian, LibrarianCuration! Librarian, Librarian,Curation! Who do we rely on for creative stuffWhat’s best so we avoid the fluff? Who... Read more Source: Socialbarrel Exercise Caution: The Key Aspect To Pay Attention To For Novice Content Curators Robin Good: If you are a novice content curator do not go for quantity. That is not what makes the difference. Go for high-quality, and consistency.Steer away from the temptation of republishing or sharing anything that you have not read and vet in full."The best curators out there did not build such impressive followerships by carelessly retweeting, sharing or promoting low-quality content.These brilliant individuals:a) never curate an article that they haven’t read in full, b)... Read more Source: Business2community The Key Added Value a Content Curator Can Provide: His Time Robin Good: If you are into content curation for the long run, do not make this mistake. Nuno Figueroa, who shared, in an interesting and informative article on Business2Community, his deep frustration with content curation tools and with the incredible amount of work one has to do to find, vet, add value and share truly valuable content online, wrote: "I still have to do all the searching for new and good content... Read more Source: Slideshare 13 Real-World Examples of How Content Curation Can Be Monetized Creation, Curation, and the Ethics of Content Strategy View more presentations from Margot Bloomstein Robin Good: If it is true that *attention* is the one of the highest valued intangible assets, whoever is capable to provide a solution that saves people time (and frustration, effort, comparing, verifying, etc.) in getting what they want / need, will likely get lots of it. For example, if I could save you all of the time that you would need to: - find all the journalists that could cover your... Read more Source: Youtube The Key Value of Content Curation: Enhancing Who We Are Robin Good: "When we curate content online, it enhances who we are, both in the sense of... - we learn things, and we help to define ourselves by understanding our own interests - and in a more external way, by allowing other people to better understand who we are.It becomes part of our ethos, part of our personal brand."Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University offers an interesting insight into... Read more Source: Youtube Curation Is Not About Ownership: It's About Change Robin Good: "Curation is not about ownership. It’s not about proprietary rights to whatever environment or resource or experience you create. The job of a curator, Paolo Antonelli reminds me, is not to take and possess but to show and educate. The job of a curator is to make ideas accessible to as many people as possible.Because creativity is about more than copyrights and patents. It’s about inspiring people to make something,... Read more Source: Youtube Import, Filter, Visualise And Publish Any Spreadsheet Online: Silk Robin Good: Silk is a web tool to publish online spreadsheet-based data on a specific topic.The service, which just released a new version of its offering, allows to easily convert any existing data-set into professional-looking data displays, charts, grids, and lists that can be embedded on any site and which can be viewed in multiple ways.The value of Silk is specifically in making it easy and immediate for anyone to... Read more Source: Plus.google Content Curation Lands on Google+: Introducing Collections Robin Good: Google has just introduced "Collections", for Google+, a new service which allows any Google+ user to group his posts by topic and to create public, shareable collections of his favorite links, articles, videos and images.To use Google Collections, simply go to your G+ profile page and then select "Collections" on the drop down menu appearing on the top left part of the page."Each collection can be shared publicly,... Read more Source: Youtube Past Volume To Value: That's How The Future of Journalism Should Be - Keynote by Jeff Jarvis at #ijf15 Robin Good: At the recent International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, Jeff Jarvis, Professor of Journalism at CUNY, gave a keynote speech that provides valuable insight and advice as to where the future of news and journalism are headed. While the full keynote and the Q&A with the audience is recorded in full in this 55' mins long video, I have summarised here below his key points and takeaways, so that... Read more Source: Masternewmedia Want Visibility? Tell Your Readers To Go Away (by showing them where cool things are)! Robin Good: "If you can be a guide, a clearinghouse, a trusted place from where to learn, appreciate and understand more, there is no amount of outbound links that is going to counter the magnetic force you will express to those who are interested in what you are pointing to."This is why the fear every company has about content curation - talking about *others* in the same field - has... Read more Independent Publishing Content Delivery And Distribution Online Marketing Search Tools and Technologies Audio & Music Publishing Video - Internet Television Presentation Digital Imaging Information Design and Data Visualization Interface and Navigation Design Online Collaboration Learning - Educational Technologies Social Networking Privacy and Security Intellectual Property Technical Support X-Events Knowledge Management Testing Technologies Translation Alternative News Robin Good's Feature Articles Tweet The New Journalist Is An Information Startup At the crossroad of journalism and entrepreneurship sits a new emerging profession, made up in good part by the skills of the classic journalist, in part by those of the researcher, of the librarian and of the new emerging content curator mixed in with those of the capable independent digital entrepreneur. Photo credit: Digital world by Shutterstock The information-entrepreneur is someone interested in creating ethical and highly reputable commercial services, tools and organizations that can augment, satisfy and fulfill humans deep or specialty interests within a specific information area. Information startups have little or nothing to do with what is generally referred to as info-preneurship . The infopreneur has become the stereotype for who sells informations (of whatever quality level) to make money online. Thus, the field, the people who promote it and the information you can find online by searching for this topic, is not of high quality and is specifically driven by a “ sell as much as possible, no matter how you do it ”, making-money attitude. But info-marketers and info-preneurs, may have been unaware precursors of a new breed of very serious information entrepreneurs that are eager to develop and put together useful and very targeted professional information services. Here all the details: cat.: Independent Publishing | read more Robin Good Bootstrapping Startups: The Good Guide In the age of startups and micro-enterprises, the first thing you hear about, when it comes to creating a new company, service or digital product is a whole new glossary of words starting ranging from “venture capital” to “angel investors”. Photo credit: Man climbing by Shutterstock There’s a whole universe of organizations, companies, services, magazines and events (US, Europe) devoted specifically to helping entrepreneurs prepare, plan and pitch their ideas in... ...