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Ethical Content Curation: A 10-Step Checklist
Curation is nothing new, but many content curators are still unsure about what constitutes ethical content curation. Use this 10-step checklist as a guide.
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Everything you need to know about the state of political news
This is an excellent study on the intersection of politics and social media. It offers great insight into the leading sources of news, user engagement, top channels and the influence of social media in our political discourse. Study also covers the role of fake news and partisan media and its influence on political discourse.
Tags: journalism, politics, study, fake news, filter bubble
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Fake Story In Facebook's 'Trending' News Section Highlights Social Media's Curation Challenges
A great example of the difference between algorithms and human curators. Facebook is doing this because algorithms can churn more stories. Our approach with KBucket is quality over quantity. Our KBucket platform is a place for human curators to organize and share their curated stories.
Tags: journalism, fake news, content curation, algorithms
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Google Employees demanding curated portals to improve findability of information
When google starts curating content internally to help employees with search and findability, you should understand how important curation is to your business.
Tags: why curation, search, productivity, enterprise
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How 3 Social Superstars Built Huge Followings Fast
Learn what works from experts. Each channel has a different strategy, but growing a large following requires you to post often and KBucket is a great solution to complement your original content with curated content.
Tags: why curation, curation strategy, content curation, content marketing
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How Algorithms and Editors Can Work Together to Burst the "Filter Bubble"
Journalist can not rely on algorithms alone to break the "filter bubble". Take a look at 7 traits that makes humans superior to machines. Journalist as curators of news, offer a distinct advantage over machine algorithms.
Tags: journalism, filter bubble, why curation, algorithms
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How Algorithms Subtly Control What We Read, Hear, Watch And (Ultimately) Think
Algorithmic filtering may solve some problems but it creates a whole set of other problems allowing organizations to manipulate and control what people read. Human curators solve this problem. Our KBucket platform lets humans curate at scale, providing superior value to the consumers.
Tags: why curation, algorithms
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How Content Curation Can Help You Come Up with Awesome Content Ideas
As a curator you need to think about discovery, value and distribution. This author asks 13 simple questions and shares valuable insights on how to be an effective curator.
Tags: content marketing, discovery
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How curation can help with Influencer Marketing
The 3 methods promoted in this article are great endorsement for our KBucket curation solution. Publish content that relates to your industry, stay active, promote your influencers.
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How Journalist look at the topic of Curation
The study by USC Annenberg school looked as curation projects conducted by some political entites and studied users interactions with the content. They specifically looked at design, and usability and used eye tracking techniques to reach their conclusions.
Tags: journalism, content curation, news curation
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How people read online: Why you won’t finish this article.
If you curate and publish content online, this statistics is relevant to you. Your headlines and summary of the articles will differentiate your curated content from the rest and will be instrumental in shaping opinions!
Tags: journalism, content marketing, news curation, analytics
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How the curator has become a Journalist by proxy!
Article points out that curation is not an end to journalism as journalist have been curating to perform their jobs, but curation has now empowered citizen journalist to play the role of media!
Tags: journalism, why curation
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How to be the Best Answer to Customer Questions: Insights from 600,000 Posts
Curation requires research. As a good curator you need to know what your users want, very similar to answering question they are seeking or even they should be seeking. Follow these guidelines for your curation strategy.
Tags: curation strategy, tips
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How to come up with new blogging ideas!
This post is really about productivity. How do you organize your day, and your life, so you can be productive in what you do. What is relevant here for bloggers is using curation as a way to come up with blog ideas. Instead of writing down 10 ideas, curate 10 interesting posts!
Tags: content marketing, tips, checklist
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How To Create Successful Content in Any Industry: Benchmarks Set by 342 Marketing Campaigns
Setting realistic expectations and understanding the target audience is an essential component to success. This study gives you realistic number of shares per vertical. Curation is mentioned as a common element for several verticals.
Tags: study, content marketing
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How to Help Your Staff to Curate Content
As a curator, and a company that has been selling curation services, I know through experience that organizational curation is highly effective, and needs planning and coordination. This article offers excellent steps to make your curation endeavor successful.
Tags: curation strategy, employee advocacy, content curation, tips, enterprise
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How To Move From Information Overload To Actionable Insight
Excellent analysis on the cross section of information and knowledge. The article articulates the need for curation and the value of human input. There is a insightful checklist on "Curation Technology"
Tags: why curation, tips, curation tools
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How to Run an Effective Social Media Employee Advocacy Program
Employee advocacy means using you whole work force to push your message. But how do you control the message. This post was shared frequently discussing how to get started with employee advocacy. If this resonates with you, consider our curation solution for message management
Tags: employee advocacy, tips, enterprise
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How to Scale Your Lead Nurturing With Content Curation
See how NewsCred uses content curation to scale their business. Many of the ideas including the planning and analytics discussed here are extremley useful for all marketers.
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I Want to See Startups Curate Local News
This article articulates what we are trying to accomplish with our tool. Transfering editorial power to the crowd.
Tags: journalism, why curation
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Indexing for the purpose of retrieval and dissemination
This is a presentation on different forms of indexing and their usefulness. As a curator, you are always concerned with proper indexing in order to improve findability of your information. It is useful to become familiar with the concepts of library science!
Tags: enterprise, organization, indexing
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Indexing quality and effectiveness
As a digital curator one of your primary tasks is proper indexing of information for easy retrieval and discovery. This study analyzes the quality and effectiveness of indexing terms. Our KBucket solution allows curators to organize articles in channels and then tag them by category, author, publisher and date. It is very useful to think critically about your indexing as it will add value to your page!
Tags: curation strategy, content curation, indexing, information professionals
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InfoDesk Puts a Price Tag on Information Overload
There is an increasing demand for more carefully curated content due to unskilled searches and poorly curated and hard to find content. This wasted effort costs organizations $833 per minute according to this Info Desk study and our solution solves this very problem.
Tags: study, why curation, enterprise, information overload
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Interest Graph Marketing is More Important than Social Graph Targeting
Interest Graph is what you are interested in and social graph is who you know. This article discusses how an interest graph is more valuable to your content marketing and lead generation efforts. Sharing curated content, targets your Interest Graph. If you are interested in this article chances are you would also be interested in our curation solutions.
Tags: why curation, content marketing
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It Takes up to 8 Attempts to Find an Accurate Search Result
This study is an excellent testimonial to the need of curation to deal with information overflow. Study has found that it takes between 5 to 25 minutes for users to find documents and information they need to perform their jobs.
Tags: why curation, search, information overload
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Journalism *is* curation: tips on curation tools and techniques
Learn different techniques and methods for sharing your curated content. Articles refers to various publications that have used curation to generate content.
Tags: journalism, why curation, tips, what is it, tools
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Journalism veterans see curation as the future of their industry
Big brands like Facebook and Apple turn to humans to disseminate news which proves that Journalism needs more than what algorithms can provide and that humans are better at judging the importance of news. Read about keys to success in this article.
Tags: journalism, content curation, news curation, algorithms
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Lazy Content Curation Is Ruining Influencer Relationships Spin Sucks
Not all Curation solutions are the same and if you don't consider the hard work content creators expand you can abuse the relationship and ruin your brand. Our solutions help you build your brand and credit the creators.
Tags: content curation, fair use, ethics
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Making the case for Employee Advocacy at your Organization
This post makes a good case for Employee Advocacy and how your employees social reach can help you generate more leads. The key is to manage what you want your employees to share, and our KBucket solution is a great vehicle for this.
Tags: study, why curation, employee advocacy, lead generation, marketing strategy
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Marketing Legend Seth Godin on the Future of Branded Content
Really insightful question and answer with Seth Godin, the godfather of modern marketing. As a content marketer and a curator, someone who editorializes content to build a brand I highly recommend you reading this article
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Marketing Research to Bookmark for Your Next Blog Post
Well researched post get more shares. Curating interesting and informative articles will fuel your blog post. Get some tips where to search for information.
Tags: content marketing, tips, research
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Micro influencers are more effective way to market!
This is an excellent testimonial for the future of growth hacking through word of mouth. According to this finding, micro influencers are more effective than mega influencers.
Tags: advocacy, growth hacking, lead generation
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Modern B2B selling needs curation to be successful
This post analyzes the behavior of the new generation and suggests in essence a curated system of answers for helping customers wih their purchasing decisions.
Tags: b2b marketing, employee advocacy, content curation, content marketing, content library
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More and more people get their news via social media. Is that good or bad?
This study discusses 3 points. Most people receive news via social media even though the sources are traditional. Informed people participate in politics, but its unclear if social media is helping. The sources of news can be suspect. All of this tells me that curated news pages can solve some of the challenges of misinformation.
Tags: study, why curation, news curation
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New ways of thinking about the News Homepage
News people sat in a room and ideated about new ways of presenting news. They realized that a digital experience offers new opportunities in delivering what people actually want. Curating news from different sources in one place was one of the main ideas. The other was to make comments more engaging.
Tags: study, news curation, algorithms, design
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News curation: finally, social media’s killer app?
News Curation is about a customized news experience. The challenge for these apps is how to make news discoverable. We believe we have a unique approach with our KBucket platform. Interesting and insightful post.
Tags: news curation
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News media literacy class: Which newspapers, magazines, and websites are reliable and trustworthy.
Since much of main stream media is losing its objectivity, colleges need to teach students how to analyze news for truthfulness. Curation, and more specifically KBucket type topic curation can be instrumental in creating a new form of Journalism.
Tags: journalism, why curation, education
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Newsroom Curators and Independent Storytellers
This article is about story curation. Author talks about pros and cons of curating social media snippets and turning them into stories. I recommend you read the attached study. It reviews many of the elite news rooms and studies the practice of curation.
Tags: journalism, study, news curation
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Overabundance of Disorganized and Unverified Information (search is broken)
In this Post Robin Good offers valid arguments for why "search" is broken. He argues correctly that most people trust search engines to deliver to most unbiased results, but the facts are different. Now more than ever we need human curators to fill the gap!
Tags: why curation, search, algorithms
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Principles of Persuasion: Ideas you should integrate for your online Marketing
Many of the principles of the art of persuasion are present in curating and sharing others content. Reciprocity, thought leadership, authority and consensus are 4 of the 6 principles that can be used by a curator to influence people!
Tags: why curation, influencer marketing, thought leadership
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See how Journalist are integrating various tools to meet their needs
3 prominent Journalist explain how they used WordPress and other tools like social bookmarking and content curation solutions to build a platform that met the needs of the journalist and their users. Our KBucket plugin for WordPress is another natural extension for this endeavor!
Tags: journalism, trends, news curation
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Seven Things Human Editors Do that Algorithms Don’t (Yet)
I suggest that algorithms will never replace a human editor. Algorithms is a procedure for solving problems. A curator is a human operator that adds a set of parameters machines can never replace, at least not for the foreseeable future. This post provides the answers.
Tags: why curation, algorithms, curation