Content Curation News & Articles

GageIn, a relative newcomer in the enterprise collaboration space, has debuted a new feature called News Portals, and it strives to make curating business content as easy as sharing a favorite landscape photo on Pinterest.

You could argue the ability to easily repurpose content has been fundamental to the success of the Internet. A small percentage of people create new content and then the masses quote, blog and mash it up. Content mobility is good, but the rampant re-sharing common online is not without its problems like how to reuse content fairly and “give props” to the original author. Will the new Curator’s Code system make a difference?

Your website is dead. But your content lives in other formats, across other devices. What is currently available is only the beginning -- the world is changing, and as a result the way we interact with information is changing. In the session, Managing New Kinds of Content Mash-ups, Stefan Schinkel of Hippo walked us through the endless possibilities that content engagement afford us.

Yesterday evening, Twitter announced that it was partnering with two of its most well-known platform partners: Mass Relevance and Crimson Hexagon.

You likely already have a profile on LinkedIn and you are linked to any number of people and companies. Same for Twitter, Facebook and a number of other social networks, which means there is probably a lot of information coming your way. What if you could take that information, combine it altogether and then search and filter to your hearts content to find business opportunities? GageIn says you can -- using its business information networking platform.

With the anticipation and excitement around Facebook’s Timeline, you might be wondering what other social media networks may provide in response. Look no further than Proliphiq, a new social media search tool that aims to connect the right users to the right content at the right moment.

If you thought social bookmarking was dead, think again. First Delicious was resurrected and brought us "stacks.” Now there’s Pistashio, which allows you to add to your “stash.”

Socially-curated news reader apps are now becoming the choice method of accessing news content on tablets like the iPad. With magazine-like looks and touch-friendly interfaces, apps like Flipboard, Zite, Pulse and even the upcoming Google Propeller give a social aspect to reading news and interesting feature stories online. Joining the mix is Evri, a mobile app developer that will debut its iPad application today.

As more organizations build online customer communities, often aided by social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, the lines between community and social media have begun to blur.

Last week, we helped you define your identity. Today, we seek to give our identity the words it needs to thrive in the marketplace. The way we says things, where we say it and to whom we say it can be the difference between shouting our message blindly from the rooftops or whispering it to an empty room. Ideally, we aim to be somewhere in the middle, talking in our own voice, conversationally to a room full of interested people.

Curated content just got more connected. Just as Google+ launches, Flipboard also rolled out a few new features, designed to enhance the way readers browse, search and share content.

While CMSWire and others have been talking about content curation for a while, it has increasingly been coming up in the context of its use as a necessary component of the future of journalism.

Today, Paper.li, the online content curation and publishing platform, released new curation and management capabilities designed to allow users incorporate Twitter and Facebook streams into a familiar newspaper layout.

This week the mobile enterprise reports on how information overload affects the mobile workforce.

Content curation has been getting a lot of attention recently. We’ve covered what it is, why it’s valuable and offered best practices on how to curate content on your own. Yet, if management systems can be designed to manage content, why not build one to curate content?