Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators by Tamar Weinberg on September 23, 2009 Share This is a guest post from Josh Schnell, founder of Macgasm.net and web developer. They’ve aggregated the entire Internet into what’s cool and what’s not so cool. We must evolve as content creators. They don’t care about really engaging with the content. MORE >>

There's no question more people are on the Web, consuming greater amounts of content, sharing more and expanding their networks online. enjoy sharing and learning from the community, finding friends and shared interests. The second, if the site is more of an aggregator, like FriendFeed in its heyday for example, is that filters exist, so I can avoid seeing your tweets, or your Foursquare updates, or your Flickr photos. Both of these ensure that the user, as the consumer, maintains control over what content they see and the publisher has a choice as to what they publish. MORE >>

Print this article | Read this article in: | Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 2: Aggregation Is Not Curation We are no longer just consumers of content , we have become curators of it too. In Part 2 I want to continue illustrating what " real-time news curation " is all about, and more specifically why it differs from automatic aggregation, and why you really need a human being to do it. As I see it: " Aggregation is automated, curation is manual. Automated aggregation is not the solution. In fact, aggregation can equal aggravation. MORE >>

I’d love you to tak a look at this post by Rohit Bhargava:   Five Models of Content Curation. This is a pretty good deconstruction of how we actively curate content for you here on SocialFishing, and it’s a useful way to think about particular kinds of posts you could be posting on your association or nonprofit blog relative to your industry topics. Content curation, or the organizing, filtering and “making sense of&# information, is a role every association should be focusing on very consciously by now. Curation for community building, I suppose. MORE >>

What makes a group into a learning community? And what is the role of social media-enabled learning communities in the modern membership organization and other comparable types of  knowledge service delivery?  This is different from open learning in open social networking communities and can become the basis for alternative, revenue-generating models of service. I asked him to walk me through a typical day in which he uses the resources of the VIN community so I could gauge its value through a member’s eyes. Day in the Life. Welcome to a day in his life. MORE >>