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(From the article): A Google+ Collection can contain any type of media, from pictures and videos to website urls. If you have training videos you would like to share with your company simply put them in a Collection and title it “Company Training videos” then share the url. Outside of the office this can be a great way to label and share photo albums from family vacations. Watch this video on how to make a Collection of your own and share it with the world.

Maria Popova is the author of Literary Jukebox, a fascinating collection of daily quotes from her favorite books, each one thematically matched to a song.

She writes about it: "Sometimes, the connections will be fairly obvious. Other times, they might be more esoteric and require some reflection." 

Literary Jukebox is truly a work of love and a great example of how curating something you truly enjoy, can create permanent value, while providing cultural insight, an opportunity for music discovery to the reader as well as exposure and visibility to the books and music authors included.

N.B.: I encourage you to support Maria's work, as she is a brilliant and inspiring mind and her work on Brain Pickings is a clear demonstration of someone whose work benefits no big brand, advertiser or sponsor, but the likes of you and me and our ability to remain curious.  

Get inspired: http://literaryjukebox.brainpickings.org/ 

See also: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/09/introducing-literary-jukebox/ 

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Really nice way to combined a couple of my favorite things, music and literature.   

The Business Model Gallery is a growing database of curated business models canvases gathered from a diverse set of companies operating in different sectors.

For each company you can analyze its updated "business canvas" in which you can see at a glance the key value propositions, its partners, revenue streams and all of the other key business building blocks.

Business models can be easily searched, filtered and compared across specific building blocks you are interested in. 

Coming up are also a PDF and PowerPoint export option as well as a dedicated iPad app.

A free trial is available and pro plans start at $9/month and go up all the way to $29/mo according to the number of features you want to use.

My comment: The Business Model Gallery offers a truly excellent gallery of valuable business models which can be extremely useful for anyone studying, researching or working on creating a successful new company.

Furthermore this is a great living example of how, curated collections of best of breed examples, are going to have a go as very useful business services in the coming months and years.

Free for the first three months: http://businessmodelgallery.com/ 

Features: http://businessmodelgallery.com/features/ 

Pricing: http://businessmodelgallery.com/packages/ 

To learn more about the canvas and its 9 building blocks, visit www.businessmodelgeneration.com

I've been using business model tool for years now. This gallery is truly amazing and I believe will be very useful for business architects and managers as they define their own corporate strategy because they will be able to easily compare with what others are doing.

If you were looking for a way to create a Pinterest-like board, that can integrate web sites, images, video clips and files, and that you can embed within your content, like this, then you should give a good look to LookBooks.

LookBooks is a web service which allows you to curate embeddable visual information boards in which you can organize all content types.

A LookBook looks somewhat like a Pinterest board in which you can manually arrange individual tiles and integrate multiple types of information items, alongside your notes and comments to tell a story or to contextualize the different items presented.

LookBooks can be easily shared, published on the LookBookHQ web site or embedded on any site or blog and can be easily measured in terms of traffic and usage analytics.

Free 30-day trial.

Paid plans (targeted at enterprise customers): $250-2500/mo

My comment: There is a long-standing and growing need for a curation tool, that while extending Pinterest style visual collection abilities provided the ability to manually arrange board items, to include information objects beyond simple images and to be embedded on any web site or blog.

LookBooks fulfills therefore a growing need that Pinterest may not be interested in leveraging yet. Unfortunately LookBooks has chosen a pricing strategy and free-trial strategy (someone has to contact you to get you in) that cuts it out of getting any early traction through early adopters and, as a consequence, I think it may remain a model for other newcomers to exploit more than a useful tool that I can recommend you to take on your toolkit right away.

Interesting nonetheless.

More info: http://lookbookhq.com

LookBook example integrated in an article: http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2013/06/essential-content-templates-checklists/

Other LookBook examples: http://lookbookhq.com/content/#section=example

http://lookbookhq.com/content/gallery/

This is an evergreen interesting topic.  I was especially intrigued with the title up above that said "Social Media Job of The Future".  There might be a lot of prescience (sp?) in that choice of words.

Anything from LnD Dave is pure hold and very practical.  Enjoy'

A GREAT resource for the buzzword "Content Curation." Finally!

I have an account with these guys but haven't really used it.  But....if it'll help be combine my 'favorites' from two different computers, I'll take another look.

Visual cues always help me !

Crear una excelente biblioteca visual de tus mejores fuentes de contenidos ahora es posible con Kippt, una herramienta que te permitirá importar tus marcadores favoritos de bastantes aplicaciones com Delicious, Diigo, de navegadores como Chrome, Firefox, Safari... y organizarlas de una manera muy visual al estilo Pinterest.

I'm always asked by academics about the copyright implications...

Amazing catalogue of film clips which can be shared & embedded

Ideal for  Preston's annual Film Festival..

Fest300 is a great example of content curation at work. The site is a gateway to the most interesting festivals around the world, organized into several categories, from art and performance events, to music, health, food and religious celebrations.

For each selected festival a dedicated info-page curated by founder Chip Conley provides detailed info about the event, the location, accomodation and driving info, key takeaways, photos, video clips, ratings and things to pay attention to. Social comments provide also additional valuable info.

An excellent resource for world travellers, and a fantastic curation example to inspire web publishers and passionate entrepreneurs alike.

Free to use. 

Check it out now: http://www.fest300.com/worlds-best-festivals 

Les meilleurs festivals au monde... Liste, présentation et photos...

The World of Social Media Gets Better and Better.

Un curador de fotos de Instagram. Frikis de la fotografía, no os lo perdáis ;-)

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