Print this article Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 3: Types And Real-World Examples Whats more important? Photo credit: dizeloid In part III of this guide to real-time news curation ( Part I and Part II ) you can find a full-blown showcase of real-world examples of good content curation , from basic lists to guides and news reporting, as well as some more traditional, or I should say, more familiar, examples of automated and semi-automated news aggregation. As I wrote, " aggregation is automated, curation is manual ". Types of Curation 1. magazine in 2006. MORE >>

the widgets that people had created were also as problematic and both provided too many features that we didnt want while also not providing the features we did want. In our coding adventures we have created 5 types of slideshows, all managed by Blogger and/or Google products: converted a standard LinkList widget into a slideshow manager with each URL being the URL of the image in the slideshow and the title field being the optional caption ( example ). dynamically re-organized all images within a blog post into a slideshow ( example ). Blogger Xpertise. About Us. MORE >>

Want to show the world how social you are with a cool widget on your website or blog? Social Mention also lets you set up alerts (simiar to Google Alerts) and offers a widget that can be installed on a website or blog to display the real-time buzz about your specified topic. cool, free blog widget that automatically displays links, along with thumbnail images, to related posts on your blog at the bottom of each blog post you publish. Looking for a way to monitor social media activities and results on a tight budget? Cool Web Tools. Social Mention. ** 5 stars. uberVU. MORE >>

As always Josh provides real-life interesting examples from his own personal Groundswell. At 8,000 followers, Josh certainly has a poweful and potent following, not quite capable of causing an uprising perhaps, but certainly being very informative. In this case, Josh used his personal Twitter following to try to remember a name of movie that tanked due to negative Twitter coverage. The film was Bruno by the UK’s Sacha Baron Cohen. Personally, I haven’t seen the movie but in general the reviews in the UK had been pretty good. Rightly so in some aspects. Link here. MORE >>

Because each tool above (and any you find to use) offer different strengths, the easiest way to show an example of how to use them together is with a dummy campaign. Let’s say you have a widget to sell. It’s not a revolutionary widget, but it’s a damn cool one. While you still use TV, or radio, or other “traditional media” to advertise, this won’t tell you why your widget is selling (other than folks like your advert, possibly). Type in your keywords and marketing efforts (WIDGET X on the radio, for example). MORE >>