Posts Tagged ‘Content Curation’

The Internet is starting to look like that drawer full of family photos that we’ve been meaning to put into an album for years. That’s why we’re excited to announce the launch of our new conference, Social Curation Summit! Join us in New York City on July 31 for the first ever full-day conference exploring the business of social content curation and visual communities like Pinterest and Tumblr. We’re offering a special early bird rate of only $199 when you register by Thursday, June 7.
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Evernote, the company known for its notetaking and archiving apps, announced a $70 million Series D investment led by Meritech Capital and CBC Capital at a $1 billion valuation.

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New measures like the Curator’s Code and the Council on Ethical Blogging and Aggregation have called into question the way we curate content online. On today’s Morning Media Menu (MP3 link), GalleyCat editor Jason Boog shared his best practices for crediting sources.

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Today we raise a glass to Libatious, a social network for beer drinkers that launched today from its headquarters in Brooklyn, NY. The site has a database of beers and breweries from all over the world for users to explore, bookmark and rate – an intriguing blend of Pinterest and Yelp. In the real world, beer and social media go together like soda and pop rocks. Just for fun, here’s a sampling of eight beers to pair with eight different social networks, inspired by beers found on tap at Libatious.

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It’s called “branded journalism,” or “content journalism,” and it’s the next big movement in communications, but traditional media figures are shaking their fingers.

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Digg is reaching out to the wanna-be content curators among its user base with its beta rollout of Digg Newswire, which allows them to help shape which stories are featured on Digg.

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As a journalist, it isn’t enough to just write good articles anymore – you have to be active on Twitter, verify sources on Facebook, and be open to collaboration with your competitors. The social web is changing the practice of journalism. Liquid Newsroom, a startup initiated by German web applications director Steffen Konrath, embraces the increasingly social and open elements of new journalism by emphasizing content curation rather than creation, openness rather than guardedness, and news organizations that are fluid across physical and virtual borders.
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