Content
Curation
Tools

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Content Curation is the art of:
1. finding,
2. verifying,
3. collecting,
4. organising,
5. adding value and
6. presenting
existing content, resources, media or information
on a specific topic / theme / issue
for a specific audience / need

International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Right now there are hundreds of tools available that
can help you find, gather, collect and organise
channels, collections, galleries or directories of the
best or most relevant information on a specific topic

http://bit.ly/ContentCurationToolsSupermap

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In this session I will showcase a short selection of some of the best,
and most useful tools I have discovered and - often used - to
organise the best information resources I find daily into:
1. Learning paths & courses
2. Websites collections
3. News radars
4. Video compilations
5. Newsletter emails
6. Visual catalogs
7. Directories of tools or resources
8. Quotes collections

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1. Curation Tools for Learning

Mindomo
Organise resources into a navigable mindmap

International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Key Features:
● Allows curation of any type of web resources into a mindmap
● Search and collect videos from Youtube and Vimeo
● Search and import images from Google while crediting them
● Convert mindmap into Prezi-like presentation
● Share or embed anywhere
Mindomo
Cost: Free plan available
URL: Mindomo.com
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Gibbon
Curate your online learning playlist

International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Key Features:
● Creates learning reading lists by organising existing resources
● Integrates discussion area in each learning path
● Identify top interested individuals
Gibbon
Cost: Free
URL: Gibbon.co
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Classmill
Curate your online learning course

Key Features:
● Creates full module-based online courses
● Can integrate text, links, images, files and video
● Supports discussion area for each course
Cost: Free to use
URL: classmill.com
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Classmill

International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Other Relevant Tools for Learning
1. Learni.st
2. Blendspace
3. Curatr3
4. Mindmeister

Visual Catalogs
2. Websites and Pages Curation

Capture and collect full web pages
Gimmebar

Key Features:
● Saves full image copy of any webpage
● Supports creation of collections
● Personal public profile page
● Bookmarklet + Chrome extension
● Can backup to Dropbox
Cost: Free to use
URL: gimmebar.com
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Gimmebar

Preserve and organise full web pages
Zimilate

Key Features:
● Saves full image copy / HTML of any webpage
● Supports creation of collections
● Supports collections within collections
● Bookmarklet + Chrome extension
Zimilate
Cost: Free to use
URL: zimilate.com
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Other Relevant Tools to Collect Web Sites
1. Hypershoot
2. Clipular
3. Ember for Mac

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3. News Curation

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Postatic
Create your own Hacker News site

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International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Key Features:
● Allows curation of a news site
● Supports categories and tags
● Crowd participation - submissions, voting, commenting
● Output to RSS feeds
● Output to email newsletter
● Supports ads integration
Postatic
Cost: Free to use
URL: postatic.com
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Scoop.it
Curate your own newsradar

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International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015

International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Key Features:
● Allows curation of a news site as a web magazine
● Supports separate news channels and tagging
● Provides internal content discovery and search engine
● Multiple layouts and formatting options
● Output to all social media channels + RSS feeds
● Output to email newsletter
● Embedding and direct output to WordPress
Scoop.it
Cost: Free plan available
URL: scoop.it
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International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Other Relevant Tools for News Curation
1. Flipboard
2. Noowit
3. Spundge
4. Facebook - Google+ - LinkedIN
5. WordPress PressThis & other plugins

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4. Video Curation

Huzzaz
Curate your video collection

International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Key Features:
● Allows curation of a video channel or compilation
● Supports Youtube and Vimeo clips
● Multiple alternative delivery formats
● Embeddable
● Video search and discovery
Huzzaz
Cost: Free plan available
URL: huzzaz.com
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Konoz
Convert your Youtube playlists into learning courses

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Key Features:
● Allows curation of YouTube playlists into learning courses
● Free for all to attend
● Option to offer perks for special items and premium services
● Integrated progress tracking
● Integrated commenting system
Konoz
Cost: Free
URL: Konozlearning.com
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Viloud
Curate your video channel

Key Features:
● Allows curation of an embeddable video channel
● Supports video from YouTube and Vimeo
● Supports direct video uploads
● Supports all types of devices
Cost: Free version available
Viloud.tv
URL: viloud.tv
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Vi.sions.tv
Curate your video classroom

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International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015

Key Features:
● Collect and curate any video from YouTube
● Build your own narrative structure
● In-sync comments
● Video classes can be embedded on any site
Cost: Free public version available
Vi.sions.tv
URL: vi.sions.tv
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Other Relevant Tools for Video Curation
1. Zeeik
2. EduCrate.co
3. iLook.tv
4. Waywire.com

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Visual Catalogs
5. Curated Newsletters

FlashIssue
Curate your own newsletter inside Gmail

Key Features:
● Allows curation of an email newsletter
● Works inside your Gmail
● Makes it easy to integrate your best content
● Searches and finds relevant content to curate
● Integrates with Mailchimp
Cost: Free version for up to 25 subscribers
FlashIssue
URL: flashissue.com
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Goodbits
Curate your own newsletter

Key Features:
● Allows curation of an email newsletter
● Simplifies collecting relevant links and resources
● Offers ready-made design templates
● Adds content via bookmarklet or Chrome extension
● Adds content via RSS feed or email
● Integrates with Mailchimp
Cost: Free
Goodbits
URL: goodbits.io
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Other Relevant Tools for Newsletter Curation
1. Refreshbox
2. Handpick.me
3. Revue
4. Curated

Visual Catalogs
6. Visual Catalogs

Curate your own visual board
Keeeb Nano

Key Features:
● Saves web pages, images, clips, text
● Public and Private pages
● Collaborate with team or family
● Follow and discover other people’s content
● Bookmarklet and Chrome extension
Keeeb Nano
Cost: Free to use
URL: keeeb.com/keeeb-nano/

Curate your own visual catalog
Clipzine

http://www.keeeb.com/keeeb-nano/
Key Features:
● Saves images
● Allows embedding of final collection
● Download final collection
● Pre-set visual collection templates
● Bookmarklet and Chrome extension
Clipzine
Cost: Free to use
URL: clipzine.com
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International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Other Relevant Tools for Visual Catalogs
1. LinkHubb
2. Pinterest
3. Clickbooq

Visual Catalogs
7. Directories

ZEEF
Curate your own directory of tools / resources

photoshop.com

http://www.keeeb.com/keeeb-nano/
Key Features:
● Creates blocks of links to organize subgroups
● Manages also RSS feeds, texts and image blocks
● Blocks are embeddable on any site
● Can rank and annotate items inside blocks
● Can keep new blocks hidden until ready
● Can search and curate from within ZEEF
● Alerts you when links go bad
ZEEF
Cost: Free to use
URL: ZEEF.com
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International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015
Other Relevant Tools to Curate Directories
1. Start.me
2. Papaly
3. List.ly

Visual Catalogs
8. Quotes

Bundlr
Curate your own quotes collection

http://www.keeeb.com/keeeb-nano/
Key Features:
● Creates visual boards that can collect any resource type
● Excellent for quotes collection
● Collections are embeddable
● Public and private boards (Premium)
Bundlr
Cost: Free to use
URL: Bundlr.com
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International Journalism Festival - Perugia 2015

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