In the advertising world there is a well understood concept of earned, owned, and sponsored media; the earned media being the most valuable because it is inspired rather than paid for and as such has broad utility in a company’s marketing efforts. Innovation CMS crowdsourcing curation social technology MORE >>

Curation has been a hot topic for at least a year, and I agree with Tom Foremski , that it’s not just a trend, or as he puts it in a recent post , “a flash in the pan.&# In the end, digital curators are not fundamentally different from traditional curator s. Recently, I started to play with Scoop.it to crawl. MORE >>

For instance, a couple weeks ago, I highlighted Harrod’s Pinterest / curator contest. Like Harrods, Jetsetter is using Pinterest to drive curation: “Our fans ask us all the time how they can become Jetsetter curators. Advertising E-Commerce Marketing Social Media Web 2.0 understand data and users preference. MORE >>

Media: Whats Past is Prologue. At the same time, over the past few years we have seen the transformation of how media is produced and distributed. Many of the traditional roles, or competencies, normally assigned to media companies - financing, production, distribution, promotion, marketing - have been disaggregated. And so on. MORE >>

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