The Scoop.it Content Curation Blog

Guillaume, our CEO & Co-Founder, was invited to the Friday Hangout this morning with Social Media experts Janet Fouts and Steve Farnsworth. Both are strong Social Media experts and have seen many trends: Steve is a Forbes Top 50 Social Media Influencer and Janet started online communities back in the 90’s before starting her own consulting practice.

They talked about the role Content Curation has for Social Media Marketing and how it will help social media evolve from the social graph to the interest graph, something key for professionals who tend to have niche long-tail interests.

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In the guest post published by Jeff Bullas‘ blog, Intervistato.com’s Maria Petrescu interviews Scoop.it’s co-founder Marc Rougier after giving her own insights on why curation is a much needed trend.

“Online content curation is a hot trend as business owners and professionals realize that content is vital to add value to their customers and prospects. The trend was already evident in 2011 but 2012 saw an outright explosion of the phenomenon. Also important is delivering and sharing that content on your social media networks.” she writes.

She comes back with Marc on the background behind Scoop.it: “The founders were literally in love with social media, but had no time to produce content. They had already been working on another platform, where they published content organized in topics. People loved it, but after a while they felt the growing need of getting content that was more specific, based on their single interests.”

Plus other interesting insights and a video of the interview. Check it out!
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“Jonah Peretti, a co-founder of Huffington Post and CEO of Buzzfeed, said at PandoMonthly tonight in New York that he doesn’t care about SEO anymore. He views it as a broken system that optimizes for robots, not humans.” Erin Griffith reports on Pandodaily.

Some will argue that Google is not that bad but the point isn’t there.

I’ve been asked to answer this question on Quora and so even though it’s been already documented in a number of posts or SlideShare presentations (I mention a couple at the end of my answer…

Digital Publishing Software Uberflip released today an infographic on Curation and Content Marketing that has some interesting data on what Content Marketers see as their key challenges and what their main objectives are when considering Content…

We were thriled this morning to learn we made it to the #1 spot of SocialBrite.org’s JD Lasica list of top tools for Content Curation. If you don’t know JD’s work yet, we encourage you to check it out as he’s one of the most respected experts on Social Media.

“One day I realized I was spending more time thinking about my blog posts than about my WIP (work in progress).” writes author Sara Rosett. But as she shut down her blogs, she still felt she “wanted something a little more interactive, but without the huge time commitment of daily blogging.“

“Blogging is still important, but Scoop.it should be the hub of your social activities.” writes Marty Smith in this very complete review of Scoop.it. Marty’s feedback is very interesting as you can take it as…

“Algorithms can help, but more fundamentally, we need to figure out what we want a diverse pool of information to look like.” Jonathan Stray gives interesting ideas on niemanlab.org on how to avoid the filter…

As Therese Torris explains on this blog post: “there is more smart content online than anybody could ever read“. So that’s why she decided to embrace curation rather than contributing to the “ongoing content inflation“.

The analogy of Curation shaping up a Global Brain is one we’ve used before: great to see it make progress and be defended! Interesting article by Eliot van Buskirk on evolved.fm.

What trends should we be looking for with the future of the interest graph? How will the social graph play into the interest graph? Who or what do you see as your greatest competition? What will it take for Scoop.it to prevail?

Curation is going to be a big topic at the TechWeek Conference starting this Friday 6/22 in Chicago. I’ll be speaking at two sessions related to it but there are several others worth looking at as they show how important Curation is becoming as a trend. Not just to the Social Media experts who predicted it, but now also to people and businesses everywhere.

From Technorati.com :

“It is really about how the cyber world is changing and shaping the needs and expectations which have evolved beyond mere key word search and how services like Scoop.it will meet those because Google won’t.”

In this vibrant praise of Scoop.it, blogger Shred Pillai points out the changes we’re seeing in the way we look for information. From basic search, we now look more and more for meaning and context from human experts. And this is what Scoop.it is curation is all about.