19. The Proposition
•Social media is generating enormous amounts of unorganised
content - how to find what’s relevant.
•New opportunities for collaboration are made possible by social
media and social networks.
•There are a bewildering variety of methods and tools - how to
choose the right ones.
Making sense, connecting, collaborating, and using
technology throw up the need for new skills: what
are the new roles and the new skills?
22. Digital/Social Curation - some of the tools
“Curators” use their insight into a
particular audience to determine what
might interest them
23. What is Content Curation?
Content Curation basically means that – out of all
the content you find on the social web – you pass
on the most valuable stuff to your network.
A Content Curator is someone who continually
finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and
most relevant content on a specific issue online.
24. The benefit for your network, is that your friends,
connections and followers don’t have to plough
through masses of tweets, blog posts, news feeds and
search results to find quality content. You have
already done that for them!
This establishes you as ‘the one who knows!’. It
brands you as an expert. A Trusted source. It builds
your reputation and gets you kudos i.e. ‘social
capital’.
25. So what doesn’t content curation do?
Different to content marketing, content curation
doesn’t drive people through their decision making
process about your products and services. For this,
you would need to create tailor-made content that
answers specific questions people have about
specific aspects of your products or services.
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What is Gamification?
Gamification is the use of game thinking and game
mechanics in non-game contexts to engage users in
solving problems
Gamification has been studied and applied in several
domains, such as to improve user engagement,
physical exercise, return on investment, data quality,
timeliness, and learning. A review of research on
gamification shows that most studies on gamification
find positive effects from gamification.
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What is Appifying?
Appifying the web refers to the growing trend of web sites to
create native (mobile) applications which access internet
services instead of or in addition to a (mobile-optimized) web
site.
There are several different mobile platforms out there: iOS,
Android, Windows Phone, webOS, Symbian, Blackberry – just
to name a few, and more platforms showing up every other
year. To be able to cater for the needs of all potential users
when building a native mobile application, it is necessary to
build native mobile apps for several different platforms. It is
not difficult to see how this can be a daunting task.
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Take-aways
• Social Media is ubiquitous. The numbers keep getting
bigger. But we’ve sacrificed quality for quantity and
accuracy for timeliness
• Routine tasks are being outsourced. Repetitive tasks are
being done by machines/robots.
• Community Management and Digital Curation roles are
emergent: relying on skills that can’t easily be automated
• The most important skills for a 21st century knowledge
worker are the ability to network and socialise.
The skills required to survive and thrive in the 21st century are quite different to those of the 21st century. In particular (1) finding what is relevant in an Information-rich, time-poor environment, (2) making sense of the information we find, and (3) familiarity with social networks and social learning.
More doesn’t mean better
To be discussed in two parts - first, let’s set the scene....
A small selection of the many information aggregation services, including:
Bottlenose
Twylah
News.me
Newsle
Mashable
Netvibes
Hootesuite
Google Reader/RSS
Content curation is the organising, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best with your network.
A great curator:
Optimises titles so it is relevant for that audience
Edits the content to add further relevance of the message
Formats the material so it is easy for the audience to read and apply to their situation
Adds good images and other visual material that complements and reinforces the content
Excerpts selected text so the reader can quickly and easily grasp the most important elements
Adds his or her own voice in an intro to the piece, adding context and relevance for the reader
Tags all content with relevant words and phrases so it is easily found by that audience
Supplies links to expand the scope of the piece and give access to added resources about the subject
Personalizes each piece for the relevant audience when posting to social sites, when appropriate
Ensures all curated content is correct and from a reliable source
Always gives attribution and links to sources
Filters content vigorously and does not publish anything and everything
Has a network of experts and curators in their sphere that they can tap into for personal insights
Suggests stories and items to other curators
Searches for additional material that can add depth and value or context to an item
Constantly scouts for interesting new sources
Sets up searches, filters and feeds to get a constant flow of relevant information
Makes the focus of the curated content perfectly clear and easy to see right upfront
Recommends other newsmasters and curators with great content
Crowd sources tips and suggestions from readers and always acknowledges their contributions
But define what a routine job is. Ref the video - can a lawyer be replaced by technology?