Slides on news curation from my St. Edward's University Interactive Media: Production and Design class. Discusses news curation, examines Andy Carvin's use of Twitter news curation and explains how to curate news using tools such as Twitter lists, Twitter widgets, Storify and Paper.li.

1. NEWS
CURATION

2. cu•ra•tor
(from Latin cura, care), means manager,
overseer, one who has the care and
superintendence of something

3. “ The editor who sits in a big building at the New
York Times or your local newspaper that chooses
what content you’ll see in your newspaper is a
curator. So is the page designer who decides
what story is at the top of the page - Robert Scoble

4. INFO MOLECULES

5. INFO MOLECULES

6. INFO MOLECULES

7. INFO MOLECULES

8. INFO MOLECULES

9. INFO MOLECULES
A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together
in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule.

10. HOWNEWS
CURATE
TO
- The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators, Robert Scoble

11. 1
BUNDLE

12. 2
REORDER

13. 3
DISTRIBUTE

14. 4
EDITORIALIZE

15. “ ANYONE CAN COLLECT LINKS, AND
ALGORITHMS CAN AGGREGATE.
BUT ONLY TRAINED EDITORS
HAVE THE SKILLS TO SELECT AND
COLLECT THE BEST INFORMATION “
AND BUILD A LOYAL AUDIENCE.
- MARK BRIGGS, JOURNALISM NEXT

16. 5
UPDATE
Upd
V
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ersi on!

17. 6
PARTICIPATE

18. 7
TRACK

19. CURATION
EXAMPLES

20. THE REVOLUTION
WILL BE TWEETED
TWITTER CURATION: NPR’S ANDY CARVIN

21. THE REVOLUTION
WILL BE TWEETED
TWITTER CURATION: NPR’S ANDY CARVIN

22. NPR’S ANDY CARVIN

23. TWITTER CURATION USING A WIDGET

24. CURATING TWITTER CONTENT WITH PAPER.LI

25. Storify: pulls in content from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr &
YouTube and generates a story based on real-time
information from these networks

27. IN-CLASS WORK
CURATING TWEETS
ADD A TWITTER LIST & SEARCH WIDGET TO YOUR BLOG

28. HOW TO CREATE A
TWITTER LIST
• GO TO YOUR PROFILE
• CLICK ON LISTS
• CLICK CREATE A LIST
• NAME IT
• NAVIGATE TO PROFILE OF
USER YOU WANT TO ADD
• CLICK ON
• CHECK BOX TO ADD

29. WHEN DONE, GO TO TWITTER WIDGETS PAGE, SELECT THE
LIST, FILL OUT INFO, GRAB CODE & EMBED ON BLOG

30. CREDITS:
Assistant Professor of Communication
St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas
Email: corinnew@stedwards.edu
Blog: http://socialmediaprclass.blogspot.com
Twitter: @corinnew