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Curation is Not Aggregation

Firebelly

While it’s not as pure and noble as content creation, it’s more than aggregation. Are you a curator or an aggregator? Aggregation is an amassing of content. An aggregator will get books about airplanes. An aggregator will gather Merlots of any kind, or even just “reds.” What is your process?

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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.

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How to Take a Collaborative Approach to Managing Social Accounts Across Higher Ed Departments

Social Media Strategies Summit

For instance, MIT uses Flickr as an image library because it’s free and easy for everyone to use. We upload it to Flickr, and all our partners can download it freely.”. MIT has a social media hub that aggregates content from almost 200 accounts — but Jenny’s team only selects the best of the best for inclusion in the hub. “I

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On The Death Of Google Reader

Waxing UnLyrical

Our networks are much more efficient at aggregating and gathering information relevant to us because they’re different from us. Image: warrantedarrest via Flickr CC 2.0. There is no way I could ever match the richness of those information streams on my own, which is what an RSS feed requires.

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The Evolution of our Social Media Team

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: MorBCN via Flickr, CC 2.0???. When you look online at the way people aggregate they don’t aggregate around age, gender and income,&# she said. There were bloggers, tweeters, YouTube uploaders and Facebook aficionados long before our organization established a formal presence in these places.

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Map to Business Strategy: Geoff Livingston on #measurePR

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: moonty via Flickr, CC 2.0. 1:In short, social has become a game of the aggregate. And, as usual, he kept the conversation going with some very interesting views on the future of PR (you know I’m helping him and Patrick Ashamalla put on xPotomac , right?), Geoff Livingston (@geoffliving) February 5, 2013.

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A Tale of 2 Vatican Videos

Ari Herzog

Pope Benedict XVI sent his first tweet this week to launch News.va , developed by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications, aggregating content and links from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube; along with radio, TV, print, and other media outlets.

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