Posted on August 2, 2011 1:38 pm by Shel Holtz | Content Curation
I was taken aback by a statement in an Editors Weblog piece about Storify, my tool of choice (so far) for curating coneftent. The post asserts…
Storify’s main flaw lies in the fact that it is intensely reliant on the curator, the Storify account user, who ultimately makes judgments about what information is valid and appropriate to be included, like any standard blogging…
Posted on July 29, 2011 10:27 am by Shel Holtz | Content Curation | For Immediate Release
Get the episode:
- Download the MP3 file (28.4Mb, 70:53)
- Subscribe to the RSS feed
- Get the show at iTunes
- Get the FIR app for your iPhone and for your Android device (visit the Android Market from your device)
Tom Foremski (of Silicon Valley Watcher and Oliver Starr (chief evangelist from Pearltrees)started the SF Curators Salon a few months back. It’s an informal…
Posted on July 5, 2011 3:33 pm by Shel Holtz | Content Curation
With the variety of free and paid content curation tools hitting the market, finding the right one for you or your organization can be as daunting as choosing a good toothpaste or pasta sauce from the wealth of choices that confront you on store shelves.
One factor that can help you decide is seeing how the services are being used by…
Posted on June 16, 2011 4:47 pm by Shel Holtz | Content Curation | For Immediate Release | Media
Some 1,300 communicators gathered in San Diego from June 12-15 for IABC‘s 2011 World Conference. FIR co-host Shel Holtz spoke during the Wednesday morning “all-star” track, addressing the need for every company to be a media company. You can listen to the talk here and follow along with the SlideShare upload of the PowerPoint deck below. The videos are not included, but a screen…
Posted on May 20, 2011 4:03 am by Shel Holtz | Content Curation | Internal
Content curation is the source of a lot of buzz these days, with nearly all the conversation focused on ways to become a trusted guide to useful content about targeted topics. There’s an equally interesting role for content curation as an internal communications activity. Here are five curation approaches that can help employees.
Company positions and statementsMost organizations’s official statements and positions on issues…
Posted on April 8, 2011 9:37 am by Shel Holtz | Content Curation | For Immediate Release | RSS | Social Media
As the way people use social channels evolves, so do the way I identify content worth sharing.
That was the thought that crossed my mind as I prepared my reports for the last episode of For Immediate Release, the podcast I co-host with my colleague, Neville Hobson.
Neville and I each prepare two stories to report for each episode, which has pretty…
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