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About This Site:
Curation Nation is a web site devoted to the exploration of the concept of curation - and its increasing impact on content, context, and publishing.
We invite experts, thinkers, seers, and futurists to share their knowledge here. If you care about content, and the new tools and solutions being deployed to help sort and organize knowledge - then we'd love to hear from you.
We invite experts, thinkers, seers, and futurists to share their knowledge here. If you care about content, and the new tools and solutions being deployed to help sort and organize knowledge - then we'd love to hear from you.
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The 3 Pillars of Online Video
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How to Optimize your Video Content Search
Content Aggregation Drives Viewers
AR: Aggregation Vs. Curation
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NYTimes: Curation
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Order Out of aggregation
Are Dj's and Rappers Curators?
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The Curation Nation Blog
Posted
by steve
on November 17, 2010
Last night, more than 80 people came out to the Brooklyneer on Hudson street to drink beer, hang out with the cool kids from McGraw Hill - and become official member of the fast growing Curation Nation.
Author Greg Verdino (Author: MicroMarketing) and chief Curator Steven Rosenbaum entertained the crowd with funny stories of social media mishaps and other parlor tricks. And then, the main event - the crowning of a new King and Queen of Curation.
After the crowd was given the basic curation rules - ie: Curation must be human (no machine curation allowed) and can include any platform - Blog, Tweet, FB, or other.. then - it was open season. There as a Literary agent who curates clients and books, a stock market analyst to curates financial data, and a number of other topics both sexy and mundane... the top six contenders were brought to the stage, where an applause meter determined the crowd favorites.
Sometimes these things are close - but not at the Brooklyneer. The crowd spoke - and the King was named Michael Kauffman and Leila Porteous. Michael is a music curator - who curates cover bands. That's bands who play the greatest hits from big name groups. Cover Band Curator - stand up and take your bow.
Then, it was time for the Queen, Leila. Here too a clear winner - for anyone who's ever had trouble matching shoes to a brides maids dress (ok, guys admit it - the whole shoe/dress combo thing is a bit baffling) - Leila Porteous was crowed for her work in solving this often inexorable problem - Bridesmaids Shoe Curator - you are the Queen of the realm... for now.
So - they are the new royalty of Curation Nation - and shall remain so, until the next time that a crowd gathers, and curation is engaged with gusto (and beer). Then, new royalty shall be named. Until then! Bravo!
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Colby Hall
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Colby Hall is the Managing Editor for Mediaite.com; a content curation site based around news, information and smart opinions about print, online and broadcast media. A TV guy turned web content curator, Colby goes over with us the quick success of Mediaite, who's doing things right and who's doing things drastically wrong in the space, as well as what's in store for the future of curation and aggregation.  Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
Rex Sorgatz
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Rex Sorgatz is a well known spiky haired writer, editor, blogger, developer, consultant, authority on microcelebrity...the list goes on. His latest incubation takes social media game with a restaurant twist called 4Food. Rex stopped by to talk about how infusing blog thinking into big media brands is developing a new type of social media innovation. Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
Elizabeth Stark
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Elizabeth Stark is a leader in the global free culture movement. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, a Lecturer in Computer Science at Yale University, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at NYU. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Stark founded the Harvard Free Culture Group and served on the board of directors of Students for Free Culture. Elizabeth spent years researching for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, and has taught courses ranging from Cyberlaw to Intellectual Property to Technology & Politics to Electronic Music. She recently produced the inaugural Open Video Conference in NYC. Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
Tony Hsieh - Zappos
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In 1999, at the age of 24, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million. He then joined us as an advisor and investor, and eventually became CEO, where he helped us grow from almost no sales to over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually, while simultaneously making Fortune magazines annual Best Companies to Work For list. In November 2009, Zappos.com, Inc. was acquired by Amazon.com in a deal valued at $1.2 billion on the day of closing. His first book, "Delivering Happiness", will be published on June 7th. You can win a free signed copy of the book or pre-order the book at www.deliveringhappinessbook.com Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
Jason Silva
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Jason Silva is a Venezuelan-American television personality and filmmaker currently working as a Host and Producer on Current TV, the television channel cofounded by Al Gore and now the fastest growing cable network in TV history. He currently resides in Los Angeles. Jason earned a degree both in film and philosophy from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Jason produced and edited the short film The Immortalists, featuring interviews with Ray Kurzweil, Michael West, Michael Fossel and Dan Baker on the will to become immortal. Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
Debbie Stier
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Debbie Stier is the Editor-at-Large at HarperCollins. Debbie is the only person she knows who will admit that running the NYC marathon was the biggest waste of time, not to mention incredibly painful. She firmly believes in the value of a candle-lit family dinner, but when she’s on her own she’ll settle for a bowl of cereal at the counter while going through mail. Her idea of heaven is a stack of New Yorkers on a beach with a Scrabble partner who’s not afraid of losing a silly game. Biggest pet peeve: People who say it can’t be done. Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
Jeffrey Hayzlett
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Jeffrey Hayzlett serves as the Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company, reporting to Kodak Chairman and CEO Antonio M. Perez. As CMO, Mr. Hayzlett is responsible for the company's worldwide marketing operations including the design and implementation of all marketing strategies, investments, policies, and processes. His most recent book "The Mirror Test" comes out on Hachette Books on May 3rd. Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
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For website content publishers and content creators, there’s a debate raging as to the rights and wrongs of curation. While content aggregation has been around for a while with sites using algorithms to find and link to content, the relatively new practice of editorial curation — human filtering and organizing — has created what I’m dubbing, “The Great Creationism Debate.” read more... Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
Jeffrey MacIntyre
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You may not have heard of them yet, but you will. They're called 'Content Strategists', and they're fast becoming the most in-demand advisors for websites and corporate customers looking for a way to evolve into content makers and curators. Jeffrey Macintyre is a noted content strategy consultant with 10 years’ experience in professional services and digital, print and broadcast media. Kristina Halvorson literally wrote the book "Content Strategy" explains it this way: "We, the people who make websites, have been talking for fifteen years about user experience and all the other disciplines that facilitate our users’ abilities to find and consume content." Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
Clay Shirky
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Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an associate teacher[3] at New York University's (NYU) graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technological networks, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa.[ Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
Michael Wolff
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Michael Wolff is a National Magazine Award winner and two-time nominee. His weekly column in New York Magazine, "This Media Life," was one of the most influential commentaries about the media industry. He is the author of the best-selling Burn Rate, and of the books White Kids, Where We Stand -- which became a multipart PBS series - and most recently, Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures With the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys Who Mastered and Messed Up Big Media. He is a frequent guest commentator on a wide range of national television news shows, and his work also appears regularly in the Guardian newspapers in London. Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
Bob Garfield
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Bob Garfield (b. ca. 1955) writes the "Ad Review" TV-commercial criticism feature in Advertising Age. He is also the co-host of the On the Media show on National Public Radio. He has been a columnist for USA Today and contributing editor for Civilization and the Washington Post Magazine. In 2009 he published a book about the collapse of the media landscape called The Chaos Scenario.June 2007. Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
Saul Hansell
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Saul Hansell is the programming director of Seed.com, AOL’s site that enables writers, photographers and soon videographers to contribute to and get paid by AOL’s network of 80 Web sites. His role includes contributing to the content strategy for Seed, working with editors to use Seed to expand their sites and developing new sites that take advantage of Seed. From 1992 to 2009, he was a reporter at the New York Times, mainly covering technology. He was the founding editor of Bits, a blog on nytimes.com covering technology that began in June 2007. Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
Seth Godin
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"Seth Godin may be the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age," Mary Kuntz wrote in Business Week nearly a decade ago. "Instead of widgets or car parts, he specializes in ideas -- usually, but not always, his own." In fact, he's as focused on spreading ideas as he is on the ideas themselves. Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
Alan Webber
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Alan M. Webber is an award-winning, nationally-recognized editor, author, and columnist. In 1995, he launched Fast Company magazine, a fresh, dynamic entry in the business magazine category. Headquartered in Boston, MA, the magazine became the fastest growing, most successful business magazine in history. Fast Company won 2 national magazine awards—one for general excellence, one for design—and Webber was named Adweek’s Editor of the Year in 1999, along with co-founding editor William Taylor. Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
Ava Seave
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Author and Media Adviser Ava Seave is a Principal of Quantum Media, a leading New York City based consulting firm focused on marketing and strategic planning for media and entertainment companies. As a Quantum Media principal, she has led numerous consulting engagements and has provided senior-level management consulting services to many companies in a broad range of assignments. Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
Gideon Gartner
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Gideon Gartner has been at the forefront of the IT space for most of his career. A world leader in watching the evolution of high-tech, Gartner now considers the fast growing video space to be among the most significant of trends. Always thoughtful, Mr. Gartner sat down to talk about content, aggregation, curation, and the need for clients to embrace tools that help to facilitate the finding, filtering, and presentation of contextual content. Upload Your Own Curation Story Here |
