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International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Content Curation is the art of: 1. finding, 2. verifying, 3. collecting, 4. organising, 5. adding value and 6. presenting existing content, resources, media or information on a specific topic / theme / issuefor a specific audience / need
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Right now there are hundreds of tools available that can help you find, gather, collect and organise channels, collections, galleries or directories of the best or most relevant information on a specific topic
http://bit.ly/ContentCurationToolsSupermap
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
In this session I will showcase a short selection of some of the best, and most useful tools I have discovered and - often used - to organise the best information resources I find daily into:
1. Learning paths & courses2. Websites collections3. News radars4. Video compilations5. Newsletter emails6. Visual catalogs7. Directories of tools or resources8. Quotes collections
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Key Features:
● Allows curation of any type of web resources into a mindmap
● Search and collect videos from Youtube and Vimeo
● Search and import images from Google while crediting them
● Convert mindmap into Prezi-like presentation
● Share or embed anywhere
Mindomo
Cost: Free plan availableURL: Mindomo.com
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Key Features:
● Creates learning reading lists by organising existing resources
● Integrates discussion area in each learning path
● Identify top interested individuals
Gibbon
Cost: Free URL: Gibbon.co
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Key Features:
● Creates full module-based online courses
● Can integrate text, links, images, files and video
● Supports discussion area for each course
Cost: Free to useURL: classmill.com
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Classmill
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Other Relevant Tools for Learning1. Learni.st2. Blendspace3. Curatr34. Mindmeister
Key Features:
● Saves full image copy of any webpage
● Supports creation of collections
● Personal public profile page
● Bookmarklet + Chrome extension
● Can backup to Dropbox
Cost: Free to useURL: gimmebar.com
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Gimmebar
Key Features:
● Saves full image copy / HTML of any webpage
● Supports creation of collections
● Supports collections within collections
● Bookmarklet + Chrome extension
Zimilate
Cost: Free to useURL: zimilate.com
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Other Relevant Tools to Collect Web Sites
1. Hypershoot2. Clipular3. Ember for Mac
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Key Features:
● Allows curation of a news site
● Supports categories and tags
● Crowd participation - submissions, voting, commenting
● Output to RSS feeds
● Output to email newsletter
● Supports ads integration
Postatic
Cost: Free to useURL: postatic.com
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Key Features:
● Allows curation of a news site as a web magazine
● Supports separate news channels and tagging
● Provides internal content discovery and search engine
● Multiple layouts and formatting options
● Output to all social media channels + RSS feeds
● Output to email newsletter
● Embedding and direct output to WordPress
Scoop.it
Cost: Free plan availableURL: scoop.it
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Other Relevant Tools for News Curation
1. Flipboard2. Noowit3. Spundge4. Facebook - Google+ - LinkedIN5. WordPress PressThis & other plugins
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Key Features:
● Allows curation of a video channel or compilation
● Supports Youtube and Vimeo clips
● Multiple alternative delivery formats
● Embeddable
● Video search and discovery
Huzzaz
Cost: Free plan availableURL: huzzaz.com
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Key Features:
● Allows curation of YouTube playlists into learning courses
● Free for all to attend
● Option to offer perks for special items and premium services
● Integrated progress tracking
● Integrated commenting system
Konoz
Cost: Free URL: Konozlearning.com
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Key Features:
● Allows curation of an embeddable video channel
● Supports video from YouTube and Vimeo
● Supports direct video uploads
● Supports all types of devices
Cost: Free version available
Viloud.tv
URL: viloud.tv
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Key Features:
● Collect and curate any video from YouTube
● Build your own narrative structure
● In-sync comments
● Video classes can be embedded on any site
Cost: Free public version available
Vi.sions.tv
URL: vi.sions.tv
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Other Relevant Tools for Video Curation
1. Zeeik2. EduCrate.co3. iLook.tv4. Waywire.com
Key Features:
● Allows curation of an email newsletter
● Works inside your Gmail
● Makes it easy to integrate your best content
● Searches and finds relevant content to curate
● Integrates with Mailchimp
Cost: Free version for up to 25 subscribers
FlashIssue
URL: flashissue.com
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Key Features:
● Allows curation of an email newsletter
● Simplifies collecting relevant links and resources
● Offers ready-made design templates
● Adds content via bookmarklet or Chrome extension
● Adds content via RSS feed or email
● Integrates with MailchimpCost: Free
Goodbits
URL: goodbits.io
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Other Relevant Tools for Newsletter Curation
1. Refreshbox2. Handpick.me3. Revue4. Curated
Key Features:
● Saves web pages, images, clips, text
● Public and Private pages
● Collaborate with team or family
● Follow and discover other people’s content
● Bookmarklet and Chrome extension
Keeeb Nano
Cost: Free to useURL: keeeb.com/keeeb-nano/
http://www.keeeb.com/keeeb-nano/
Key Features:
● Saves images
● Allows embedding of final collection
● Download final collection
● Pre-set visual collection templates
● Bookmarklet and Chrome extension
Clipzine
Cost: Free to useURL: clipzine.com
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Other Relevant Tools for Visual Catalogs
1. LinkHubb2. Pinterest3. Clickbooq
http://www.keeeb.com/keeeb-nano/
Key Features:
● Creates blocks of links to organize subgroups
● Manages also RSS feeds, texts and image blocks
● Blocks are embeddable on any site
● Can rank and annotate items inside blocks
● Can keep new blocks hidden until ready
● Can search and curate from within ZEEF
● Alerts you when links go bad
ZEEF
Cost: Free to useURL: ZEEF.com
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Other Relevant Tools to Curate Directories
1. Start.me2. Papaly3. List.ly
http://www.keeeb.com/keeeb-nano/
Key Features:
● Creates visual boards that can collect any resource type
● Excellent for quotes collection
● Collections are embeddable
● Public and private boards (Premium)
Bundlr
Cost: Free to useURL: Bundlr.com
International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Top Tools for Communication PROshttp://tools.robingood.com