Trade magazines have had problems with being current already and industry professionals long ago found themselves telling audiences: If you want my best content, go to my blog. Great statement by Douglas Hebbard: What the U.S. B2B industry may need is a purely digital start-up that will apply the same pressure to build apps as VerticalNet did to pressure B2Bs to first launch websites. We believe that Aggregage is among several players that are going to put that pressure on traditional B2B Publishers. Curation MORE >>

You can get details behind a lot of what he talked about from his blog: #1: Don’t Forget the Fun #2: Recruit with a One-to-One Philosophy #3: Recognize Volunteer Contributions #4: Manage Volunteer Transitions #5: Don’t Waste a Volunteer’s Time #6: Provide Structure, But Not Too Much #7: Advisory Groups Can Be Tremendous Win-Wins #8: Member Engagement Solution #8: Effective Orientation and Interaction Is Key. We had a great session by Eric Lanke – What Member Engagement Means to You. The recording will be up shortly. Member Engagement Experiment. All of the above? MORE >>

Blogging. In Aggregation Is Not Curation – There Is A Big Difference , Tom Foremski provides definitions of curation and aggregation: Curation is a person or persons, engaged in the act of choosing and presenting things related to a specific topic and context. An example of curation: the San Francisco De Young museums is exhibiting post-impressionist masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay’s permanent collection. Aggregation is the collection of as many things that can be found related to a topic. Curation is about choosing what’s in a collection. Bookmarking. stages. MORE >>

That, at least, was my experience at the BBC where, for more than seven years, I (and others) tried to come up with a solution to this problem, culminating in the well received but ultimately unsustainable, at least within the (non)budgetary confines in which it existed, BBC Manchester Blog. Great post by Robin Hamman, who leads the Social Media practice at Headshift, Curating, Not Moderating, the Flow of Content and Participation.  It’s different from mere aggregation services because there is an editorial layer and a social layer. Their editorial and curation is a bit different.  MORE >>

In my case, I’m always interested in content from my blog, so my URL should look like: [link]. When I’m viewing my blog’s content with the date range, I can scroll down to the “Best from eLearning Technology” where it shows the best content from my blog according to social signals. Top 99 Workplace eLearning Blogs. As I’m getting ready to do some posts that wrap up the year, I realized that there are a few special URL parameters that allow me to do fun things with topic hubs.  source=. drStart=. drEnd=. So, for example, I can specify: [link]. link]. MORE >>