Tag Archives: curation
Sisters Pioneer the Art of Digital Mags
Published on October 8, 2012 by Liz Wilson
If you love high-quality magazines, you will adore SisterMAG. It is produced with passion by Toni and Thea Neubauer, who are showing the world how a digital-only magazine can be not only a thing of beauty but also a viable business. Continue reading
How to Monetize Curated Content: Robin Good, Part 2
Published on September 6, 2012 by Liz Wilson
In Part 1 of his interview, Robin Good talked about how to create a revenue-earning micro-business. In Part 2, he tells us specifically how content curators can monetize their work using free online tools. Robin, … Continue reading
How to Create a Micro-business Online: Robin Good, Part 1
Published on September 3, 2012 by Liz Wilson
Do you want to start your own online micro-business? Or have you tried, but maybe it’s not going as well as you hoped? More and more of us are freelancing, creating portfolios of work rather … Continue reading
How Curating Content Got Me a Job
Published on August 21, 2012 by Liz Wilson
When JD Beebe was looking for a job, he didn’t bother with the listings. He did what he does best: started a buzz. Continue reading
Bhupesh Shah: Marketing Meets Education
Published on July 30, 2012 by Liam Boogar
With technology advancing as quickly as it is, there is often a sense that academia and education will be left in the dust. Professors can be seen as being out of touch with the youth … Continue reading
Best Practices for Driving Traffic with Pinterest
Published on July 19, 2012 by Andre W. Klein
There is a lot that can be said about the best practices for Pinterest: pin pretty pictures, build trust before selling, etc. In this article I’ll focus purely on ways to attract visitors to your … Continue reading
How Businesses Can Start to Be Social
Published on June 18, 2012 by Liz Wilson
R Ray Wang, Principal Analyst and CEO at Constellation Research, on business themes like the future of work, next gen customer service, and matrix commerce. Continue reading
Sahana Chattopadhyay: How to Make Business Social
Published on May 22, 2012 by Liz Wilson
Tips on communication and content curation in the enterprise from a thought-leading community manager. Continue reading
Cendrine Marrouat: 6 Ways to Generate Blog Traffic
Published on May 14, 2012 by Liz Wilson
Cendrine Marrouat, who authored 5 Ideas to Brand Yourself With Paper.li, is back to help you generate more traffic to your blog. She recently released The Little Big eBook on Blogging: 40 Traffic Generation Tips, … Continue reading
5 Ideas to Brand Yourself with Paper.li
Published on May 9, 2012 by Cendrine Marrouat
Of all the strategies and techniques I have used to increase visibility of my personal brand, content curation has been one of the most effective — and most fun to use. Content curation helps you … Continue reading
Report and Curate With the Same Passion
Published on May 3, 2012 by Evren Kiefer
There’s a place for curation in news organisations. Media are starting to look for the right mix. Continue reading
Content Marketing for Small Businesses
Published on March 16, 2012 by Evren Kiefer
Content marketing is the buzzword of the week. Yet, conversations around markets have always existed. Now you can harness the power of networks to have these conversations. Continue reading
How to Select Only What You Need and Leave the Rest
Published on February 23, 2012 by Evren Kiefer
“Information Gluttony”, a previous post, provoked interesting reactions among social media enthusiasts and editors. The need to become more picky is widely felt. Jan Gordon wrote: I think this is most important for all of us, … Continue reading
The End of Information Overload?
Published on February 10, 2012 by Liz Wilson
Have information filters, and human beings’ ability to use them cleverly, improved so quickly we didn’t even see it happening? Continue reading
Donna Papacosta: Showing Organisations How to Curate
Published on February 8, 2012 by Liz Wilson
This independent consultant hates to miss anything — so there’s no room for “filter failure”. Continue reading
Presenting Pearls: Stakes of Content Discovery
Published on February 6, 2012 by Evren Kiefer
Users of fast growing services face challenges discovering relevant content. To address these challenges is hard because relevance is an ever evolving concept which depends on the context. When the user has a clear goal … Continue reading
There’s a Publisher in All of Us
Published on February 1, 2012 by Liz Wilson
Who hasn’t got a story to tell? Who hasn’t got a passion for something? Who hasn’t got a cause to espouse? Continue reading
Use the Editor’s Note to Tell Your Paper’s Story
Published on January 25, 2012 by Evren Kiefer
Tell the story of your Paper. By putting your curation efforts in context, you add value to each link you share. I’ll show you how. Continue reading
There Goes Everybody
Published on January 20, 2012 by Frank Paynter
…from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century people have struggled with the challenging fact that the sum of human knowledge is too large and too complex for any one person to grasp. Continue reading
Content Rivers and Information Gluttony
Published on January 13, 2012 by Evren Kiefer
After the festive season, it might be a good time to review our inbound streams and content consumption habits, why there is always more and how to deal with it. Continue reading
Ileane Smith: Blogging and Building Virtual Communities
Published on January 3, 2012 by Liz Wilson
Ileane Smith is the voice behind Basic Blog Tips, works as a promotions manager, and has created numerous Paper.lis such as The Young #Engineers’ Daily and The Black Social Media Heroes Daily. She initially created her … Continue reading
Mohammed Ademo: Citizen Journalism in Africa
Published on December 22, 2011 by Liam Boogar
Raised in the Oromia region in Ethiopia, Mohammed Ademo never lost touch of his roots. A dual-degree Masters candidate in Journalism and International Affairs at Columbia University, Mohammed has worked with non-profit organizations as a … Continue reading
Curators’ Choice: Seeing the World Differently
Published on December 4, 2011 by Liz Wilson
These interviews are part of an exclusive series Paper.li is doing with the CulturaDigital.Br festival in Rio. Continue reading
Contents, a new magazine
Published on November 29, 2011 by Evren Kiefer
Contents is a new magazine at the intersection of content strategy, online publishing, and new-school editorial work. Continue reading
Gerrit Visser: Use Smart Knowledge Networks to Be a Curator
Published on November 25, 2011 by Liz Wilson
Gerrit Visser has been digitally curating content since “just after the internet was invented” in 1996. Curation has come a long way and today he’s curating on Paper.li. Continue reading
Steven Rosenbaum’s Curation Nation
Published on November 23, 2011 by Frank Paynter
Curation is a concept that’s exploding! Formerly reserved for museums and galleries, the job of curator has spread across the digital media world and has replaced “editor” and “publisher” in many minds.
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Lance Anderson: Verge of Niche Publishing
Published on November 16, 2011 by Jeff Klein
Storyteller and podcaster Lance Anderson uses Paper.li to “narrow-cast” (as opposed to broadcast) on various niche topics, from Bob Dylan to ultrarunning. This is the first part of a two-part interview. Continue reading
A Brave New World for Editors From the Old School
Published on November 9, 2011 by Liz Wilson
What happens if we marry the old-school craft of editing with the tools of content curation? Being an editor, I’d say something pretty exciting. Here’s a chance for editors like me to do what we … Continue reading
The limits of automation and the curator’s role
Published on November 5, 2011 by Evren Kiefer
Real magic happens when technology is harnessed by editors to craft great experiences. Continue reading
10 Compelling Reasons to Brand Yourself Today by Curating Other People’s Content
Published on October 31, 2011 by Adam Troudart
There are two main reasons why personal branding is becoming a core part of our culture. Sadly, it’s nothing revolutionary! First, we are all being judged all the time, even when we’re sleeping (our online … Continue reading