
-
Start with why -- how great leaders inspire action
All entrepreneurs and marketers should pay attention to this message. Simon breaks down the marketing and branding strategy into 3 approaches - Why, How and What. He offers real world examples on the power of why. In essence when you answer the why question you are including your audience in your vision.All entrepreneurs and marketers should pay attention to this message. Simon breaks down the marketing and branding strategy into 3 approaches - Why, How and What. He offers real world examples on the power of why. In essence when you answer the why question you are including your audience in your vision.Tags: marketing strategy
-
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!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: why curation, journalism
-
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.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, filter bubble
-
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.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: why curation, filter bubble
-
Content Curation: One More Role for an Enterprise Community Manager
Organizations have an explosion of content similar to consumers. Managing access to this information requires dedicated resource. This article calls this person a community manager. Someone who curates information with specific goals in mind for the organization. We have had great success in this area with our tools.Organizations have an explosion of content similar to consumers. Managing access to this information requires dedicated resource. This article calls this person a community manager. Someone who curates information with specific goals in mind for the organization. We have had great success in this area with our tools.Tags: why curation, governance
-
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!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: indexing, enterprise, organization
-
How people read online: Why you won't finish this article.
According to the statistics shared in this post, most people simply look at headlines and read the news summary. Using our curation tools you now have the power to influence people with your headlines and summaries!According to the statistics shared in this post, most people simply look at headlines and read the news summary. Using our curation tools you now have the power to influence people with your headlines and summaries!Tags: journalism, news curation
-
Why Content Curation Matters To Healthcare Professionals
Patients are looking for trusted sources to make sense of medical information. Healthcare professionals therefore should use curated content to share their views on emerging viewpoints, studies and resources to become a trusted source for their community and up their content output. -
Journalism *is* curation: tips on curation tools and techniques
Jeff Bezos says people will not pay for content, they will buy a package. Curation is the package for content distribution. Compare the tools in this post with our curated library and ask us about a voice activate chat interface!Jeff Bezos says people will not pay for content, they will buy a package. Curation is the package for content distribution. Compare the tools in this post with our curated library and ask us about a voice activate chat interface!Tags: why curation, journalism
-
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. With exponential growth in content production, the findings in this article are just as relevant today as the day they were published.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. With exponential growth in content production, the findings in this article are just as relevant today as the day they were published.Tags: why curation, search
-
Various Survey Statistics: Workers Spend Too Much Time Searching for Information
Worker take up to 8 searches to find the right information, that is 1.8 hours a day and 9.3 hours a week. Our KBucket solution lets users collaborate and curate information they need to do their work, saving significant time for both individuals and organizations.Worker take up to 8 searches to find the right information, that is 1.8 hours a day and 9.3 hours a week. Our KBucket solution lets users collaborate and curate information they need to do their work, saving significant time for both individuals and organizations.Tags: why curation, search, information overload
-
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.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
-
Content Creation Swipe Files: Inspiration, Tools & Organization
Learn about swipe files for capturing ideas that help you be a better marketer and copywriter. This post offers some ideas on what you can store in a swipe file and why it's important. The landing page for this post is my swipe file! -
7 Billion People, One Story: The Power of Content Curation
Marketers are under pressure to create more content, faster. This post offers some sobering statistics on time spent creating content vs the actual demands of the market. Curation plus chatbots can help you reduce your production time and guide your audience to the right content.Marketers are under pressure to create more content, faster. This post offers some sobering statistics on time spent creating content vs the actual demands of the market. Curation plus chatbots can help you reduce your production time and guide your audience to the right content.Tags: why curation, marketing strategy
-
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.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: content curation, governance
-
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.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: why curation, information overload
-
Why To Curate Information?
Lots of great insights on the value of curation. What resonates with me is the point that curators are personally interested in what they do and they provide value by giving context to the information they organize and share!Lots of great insights on the value of curation. What resonates with me is the point that curators are personally interested in what they do and they provide value by giving context to the information they organize and share!Tags: why curation, knowledge management
-
Overabundance of Disorganized and Unverified Information (search is broken)
We know that online search has been broken for a while with the ever increasing explosion of content. Content curation, with a conversational chat interface can solve many of the issues facing search today!We know that online search has been broken for a while with the ever increasing explosion of content. Content curation, with a conversational chat interface can solve many of the issues facing search today!Tags: why curation, search
-
The Psychology of Chatbots
When interacting with chatbots our brains believe we are talking to a human. This phenomena is known as anthropomorphism and such a process has profound psychological ramifications. Read about the psychology of chatbots, its pros and cons!When interacting with chatbots our brains believe we are talking to a human. This phenomena is known as anthropomorphism and such a process has profound psychological ramifications. Read about the psychology of chatbots, its pros and cons!Tags: conversations, psychology
-
Content curation in an age of fake news
Brian Clark founder and CEO of Copyblogger, states that in the age of fake news, content curation by credible sources offers a trusted editorial source. A chatbot UI interface makes your entire library accessible to your readers.Brian Clark founder and CEO of Copyblogger, states that in the age of fake news, content curation by credible sources offers a trusted editorial source. A chatbot UI interface makes your entire library accessible to your readers.Tags: journalism, news curation
-
Conversational interfaces need a different content management system
The author is a professional conversational chat dialog designer. In this post he talks about the importance of a CMS for managing your chatbot responses. Managing a large number of posts requires a CMS to help you visualize your content.The author is a professional conversational chat dialog designer. In this post he talks about the importance of a CMS for managing your chatbot responses. Managing a large number of posts requires a CMS to help you visualize your content.Tags: cms, chat conversations
-
How to Create a Brilliant Newsletter People Want to Read
This post makes a great case for curated newsletters. There are examples of successful curated news sites with millions of subscribers and great tips for how to make it all work.This post makes a great case for curated newsletters. There are examples of successful curated news sites with millions of subscribers and great tips for how to make it all work.Tags: newsletters, content strategy, why curation
-
ChatBots reduce customer service costs by 30%
Chatbots offer measurable advantages to customer support. Customers don't like to wait and providing quick and direct answers to client needs will help you retain and grow your customer base. Chatbots eliminate wait time and save you 30% on support costs according to this study.Chatbots offer measurable advantages to customer support. Customers don't like to wait and providing quick and direct answers to client needs will help you retain and grow your customer base. Chatbots eliminate wait time and save you 30% on support costs according to this study.Tags: customer support
-
Content Curation is now essential to the success of sales teams. Here is why!
Majority of B2B buyers engage on social media for advice and research to make purchasing decisions. Social Media lets you stay top of mind with your prospects. Using curated content hubs, like the one we offer, makes it easy to create content your entire team can share online. The statistics in this article make the case!Majority of B2B buyers engage on social media for advice and research to make purchasing decisions. Social Media lets you stay top of mind with your prospects. Using curated content hubs, like the one we offer, makes it easy to create content your entire team can share online. The statistics in this article make the case!Tags: why curation, b2b marketing
-
Content Library: Manage It Like a Librarian
I have been curating content for twenty years now and the tips on this post regarding categorization and optimization are real to me. Maintaining your curated library and optimizing it be gathering feedback is critical to creating a useful toolI have been curating content for twenty years now and the tips on this post regarding categorization and optimization are real to me. Maintaining your curated library and optimizing it be gathering feedback is critical to creating a useful toolTags: content curation, governance, content library, swipe files
-
The business models behind popular email newsletters
This post makes a compelling case for curated newsletters with examples of some thought leaders who use a combination of free and paid newsletters to share news content with their readers. With our solution you can not only build a curated newsletter from your content, but also build a conversational chatbot as a mobile app with the same content.This post makes a compelling case for curated newsletters with examples of some thought leaders who use a combination of free and paid newsletters to share news content with their readers. With our solution you can not only build a curated newsletter from your content, but also build a conversational chatbot as a mobile app with the same content.Tags: newsletters, use cases
-
Google Employees demanding curated portals to improve findability of information
When google starts curating content internally to help employees with search and findability, we can conclude that curation is essential to productivity.When google starts curating content internally to help employees with search and findability, we can conclude that curation is essential to productivity.Tags: why curation, search
-
Contextual Bandits and reinforcement learning
Context is a concept in Bot design that helps you with directing users to the right answers quickly by assigning a context to the "intent" of your question. Learn the concept behind context for bot design from this great postContext is a concept in Bot design that helps you with directing users to the right answers quickly by assigning a context to the "intent" of your question. Learn the concept behind context for bot design from this great postTags: dialogs, personalization, context
-
A guide to unlocking the Chatbot inside your CMS
The theme of this post is, Create once publish everywhere. Good Chatbots need content and a good well structured CMS platform is a great source for your Chatbots content. CMS platforms offer a structurally consistent source that can be programmatically accessed to deliver fresh content to your chatbot.The theme of this post is, Create once publish everywhere. Good Chatbots need content and a good well structured CMS platform is a great source for your Chatbots content. CMS platforms offer a structurally consistent source that can be programmatically accessed to deliver fresh content to your chatbot. -
Conversations UI writing
The trend for sticky chatbots is to engage people in a conversation. But how do you get started and what should you pay attention to? This post provides some great insights about strategy and goal setting to make it all work. Curating, commenting and categorizing your content will help you with your process.The trend for sticky chatbots is to engage people in a conversation. But how do you get started and what should you pay attention to? This post provides some great insights about strategy and goal setting to make it all work. Curating, commenting and categorizing your content will help you with your process.Tags: conversations, dialogs
-
How Chatbots are beneficial to Government Agencies
Chatbots will transform the way governments will support their citizens by helping them find information to their questions faster, help them submit forms, let them pay bills, get support in their native language and more. The post links to some examples of these solutions.Chatbots will transform the way governments will support their citizens by helping them find information to their questions faster, help them submit forms, let them pay bills, get support in their native language and more. The post links to some examples of these solutions.Tags: use cases, government
-
Social Media Bots are big business and influence decisions
Great post with excellent examples of the types of bots used to fool people into believing that fake profiles are real. Chatbots are different than these automated bots, it is important that consumers know the difference. -
5 Ways Chatbots are revolutionizing Knowledge Management
The author compares sites and libraries, with search and Bots as tools for information and knowledge management and argues that Bots offer he optimum solution for users as far as findability and training of users. -
How To Study With A Highlighter: The Three Pitfalls That You Should Avoid
Some excellent tips on note taking. What stands out to me is the advice that highlighting is not enough and you need to take notes so you can remember your thought process. Great for learning, but also great for sharing. Get glasp.co and see my notes on the page.Some excellent tips on note taking. What stands out to me is the advice that highlighting is not enough and you need to take notes so you can remember your thought process. Great for learning, but also great for sharing. Get glasp.co and see my notes on the page.Tags: note taking, knowledge management, tip
-
Know the difference between AI and NLP when deciding on your chatbot platform
A very good overview of popular chatbot platforms, their capabilities and use cases. Also learn the difference between AI and Natural Language Processing platforms.A very good overview of popular chatbot platforms, their capabilities and use cases. Also learn the difference between AI and Natural Language Processing platforms.Tags: chatbot platforms
-
LinkedIn view counts explained
Great post to understand the difference between video views, post views, article views and profile views. Which one counts more and why? For example, a video needs to be viewed a minimum of 3 seconds for it to count, yet post views are counted every time they appear on someone's news feed.Great post to understand the difference between video views, post views, article views and profile views. Which one counts more and why? For example, a video needs to be viewed a minimum of 3 seconds for it to count, yet post views are counted every time they appear on someone's news feed.Tags: analytics, content marketing
-
I Change My Task Management System More Often Than My Oil in My Car
What interests me about this post is the advice for note taking. Taking notes when you read will help you remember your ideas and insights when you come back to use that note for the task at hand. Quickly filtering your content is akin to prioritizing tasks.What interests me about this post is the advice for note taking. Taking notes when you read will help you remember your ideas and insights when you come back to use that note for the task at hand. Quickly filtering your content is akin to prioritizing tasks.Tags: note taking, knowledge management
-
Trump-Russia is too complex to report. We must turn to curatorial journalism
The author of the book, "Proof of Collusion" on Donald Trump says that the amount of information released is so large now that we need curatorial journalism to keep track of everything. Our Kurator and KBucket tools are ideal for this purpose.The author of the book, "Proof of Collusion" on Donald Trump says that the amount of information released is so large now that we need curatorial journalism to keep track of everything. Our Kurator and KBucket tools are ideal for this purpose.Tags: why curation, journalism
-
How Knowledge Management powers the Chatbot experience
To consistently feed chatbots effective content, there needs to be a system in place to continuously capture, reuse, and extend an organization’s knowledge in a structured and efficient way. This is exactly what our tools do. -
Learn how to use chatbots for sales and marketing
In this post learn about some the strategies for lead generation, data collection, customer support, social media engagement and segmentation using chatbots.In this post learn about some the strategies for lead generation, data collection, customer support, social media engagement and segmentation using chatbots.Tags: chatbots, use cases, marketing strategy
-
How to Write a Script for a Chatbot: Key Elements for Good Dialogue Flow
This post talks about the types of language, personalization and style you should use to build better bots.This post talks about the types of language, personalization and style you should use to build better bots.Tags: dialogs, personalization
-
Examples and use cases for FAQ Chatbots
Conversational chatbots are ideal for managing customer facing FAQ tasks as well as internal project management type tasks. This post will answer all your critical questions regarding the value of a conversational chatbot for your business.