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Scoop.it is a web curation and content publishing site crawls over 10 million webpages to deliver custom content and news on your own platform. Once you set the topics and keywords, you're only a click away from putting your own spin on the things that matter to you.

Storify users share their stories with the content that moves through their lives from all types of social media working seamlessly across platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Storify makes it easy to start sharing your life with simple, fast and intuitive interfaces.

12 Tools for Curating Your Web-Based Content

Pinterest helps users curate their images in a way that has attracted over 100 million users. Pinterst is currently the most popular curation platform available on the web. Log on with Facebook and get started.

 

Paper.li lets users become the purveyor of their own news content. You choose what, how, where, and when your news is delivered. Program your own news alerts and receive up to the minute breaking news about the things that matter.

 

Equentia is an enterprise class content curation tool that takes users from key word content to desktop publishing in just a few easy clicks. Whether your an individual or an institution, Equentia is you one stop shop for content curation and publishing.

Become a web video curator with Stitch by KlabLab. Online tools allow users to take their content and create videos say more than words. Use your images, video, music and text to send a message in ways that words never could.

Flipboard is a content curation service that presents user interests in a familiar web-zine format that features topics in headlines with an easy to navigate interface. Available for mobile and desktop.

Pearltrees lets users curate their content in hierarchies of organized bookmarks, notes and photos. Whether it's on your mobile device or your laptop, you can navigate the world of your interests at home or on the go.

Bundlr is a service that allows users to be more selective about the content that they share from websites. User interfaces allow the sharing of select content from webpages without the hassle of complicated editing.

Trap.it is a service that takes the search out of endless searching. As a registered user, by the 5th or 6th keyword(s) search, Trap.it learns what content meets your wants. Winner of the best mobile user experience Webby award of 2013.

List.ly brings your curated content to the next level of community collaboration. As a community member, you have the power to moderate what crowdsourced content merits a spot on your list.

Themeefy allows users to publish their curated collections in an online magazine format. Users can drag and drop content from their photo collections, Facebook, and Twitter.

Annotated Bibliography

 

Fincham, K. (2011). Review: Storify (2011). The Journal of Media Literacy Education, 3(1). Retrieved from http://altechconsultants.netfirms.com/jmle1/index.php/JMLE/article/view/155/124

 

This author contends that the sheer volume of information in social media “drowns out context” and presents a case for the web-based content curation tool Storify as the means for journalists and students to “contextualize the streams of social media information.”  The founder of Storify was previously a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Associated Press and created it as a “modern version of the storied wire service.” This is his vision of journalism of the future. Users curate content by selecting the topics, information, and media and giving it context. The author suggests ways to utilize Storify as a journalist reporting the news and as an educator working with students to filter out poor content, identify reliable sources, and integrate social media into their classrooms.

 

 

Liu, S. B. (2010). Trends in distributed curatorial technology to manage data deluge in a networked world. The European Journal for the Informatics Professional, 11(4), 18-24. Retrieved from http://www.cepis.org/upgrade/media/liu.IV.20101.pdf

 

This author analyzed and presented excerpts from over 100 Web artifacts related to curation of information to highlight its value in today’s information society. He sees “socially-distributed curation” as indicative of a current growing trend of social curation in distributed ways. We experience information overload from consuming increasing amounts of information on the Web.  She predicts that “digital curatorial technology” will continue to emerge to significantly mediate the inundation of information. A new, more accurate definition of the role curation includes providing education as a public service to meet “the growing need for curated content in the online world as well as the growing value of curating in a networked world.” Curating, filtering, and managing user-generated content is occurring through social media networks and has given rise to an increasing number of free web-based technology tools that support this “socially-distributed” curation.

 

 

Saaya, Z., Rafter, R., Schaal, M., & Smyth, B. (2013, October). The curated web: a recommendation challenge. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems (pp. 101-104). ACM. Retrieved from http://dl.acm.org.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/citation.cfm?id=2507216

 

The authors explore the need for curation of content and the proliferation of web services caused by the shift from users consuming content to producing content on the Web. They conducted an evaluation of user and collection data from Scoop.it, a web-based curation service. This platform provides tools so users can gather filtered resources pertaining to a specific topic and create collections to share online. In turn, users can follow other collections that interest them. The study evaluated how types of indexing data and sources impact the quality of recommendations to users and found that a significant percentage were relevant.

 

 

Stanoevska-Slabeva, K., Sacco, V., & Giardina, M. (2012). Content curation: A new form of gatewatching for social media? Paper presented at the International Symposium on Online Journalism, Austin, TX. Retrieved from https://online.journalism.utexas.edu/2012/papers/Katarina.pdf

 

A traditional role of journalists in news gathering and publishing has been one of “gatekeeper” where the few filter and decide what information will reach the public. Now that users generate massive amounts of content on the Web, a new role of “gatewatcher” has emerged. People no longer need to rely on gatekeepers and can go directly to original sources and social media, which includes users themselves. The online “gate” is now found at information providers’ websites and with the user who serves as their own “gatekeeper.” Sifting through the massive amounts of information, including the junk, and evaluating what is relevant is now the trend among users of the Web. This new role actually publicizes information by directing readers to sources, rather than publishing it or compiling a report about it. Gatewatchers’ skills now have more to do with searching online and content curation than journalistic skills.

The creators of this website in partial fulfillment of a

Master's in Educational Technology at University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jonah Preising           Patty Stemmle

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