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Curation FTWCelebrating Constraints
Joseph Rueter@josephrueter
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Internet
PreludeIntroWhat is Curation?Good Curation in Action.Starting.What do you get?
It’s common
It’s where you might not expect it.
It’s often analogue.
It can be social stuff
It can be your news.Sonos.com
Controlled?
It can be your own stuff.
Problemscuration can solve
1. The HIGH cost of content.
2. Curating manually cost too much $ & time.
3. How do WE leverage social content; customer reviews?
4. Banner ads are both costly & not flexible.
5. How do we make our Facebook page relevant?
6. Could we get an ad-word advantage?
7. Can we monitor more tightly & cheaply simultaneously?
8. Our return visits are awful; our conversions are worse.
9. Being the perceived authority
Intro
Media was
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Interruption assumption
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Brands purchase attention
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Brands couldcreate attentionThey have:
$ +Expertise +Time +Desire (business case) +Many Channels =Opportunity
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Corp SitesSocial News
Micro Sites
Media Companies
Social
Social Storage
APIʼsStorage/Hosting
Systems
Data Sites
Shopping
Mobile
Devices
Environments
•iTunes, Kindle, Nike +, B Cycle, Keep the Change, Coasting, etc.
Corp. Social
CMS
Pie
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Search
Banners
•Companies, categories, products, etc.
•Own social network, Burton, Ning, Psssst, etc.
•MT, S3, EC2, etc.
•Forester, Compete, Spyfu, etc.
•Twitter, BBY, etc.
•Computers, TVʼs, Tablets, Netbooks, Ambient, GPS, etc.
• Plane, Airport, Library, Train, School, Hospital, Stadium, desk, Car, etc.
•Simple to complex
•Ads, text, standard, rich
•Ads, text, standard, rich, fcn, etc.
•Big to Small, Brochure like
•Digg, reddit, etc.
•Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, blogs, etc. •Flickr, You Tube,
Vimeo, Twitpic, etc.
•TV, Radio, Print, Movie, etc.
•Mostly per product
•Txtʼs, Apps, Web, Calls, Games, AR, etc.
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Attention now
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Paid Media
Owned Media
Earned Media
Paid Media
Earned Media
Earned Media
Earned Media
“In the past you were what you owned. Now you are what you share.” — Charles Leadbeater, We Think
Assistance?
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Channels
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Brands can now curate for attention
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We seek the results of curation.
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Avalanche of content
So we search
“Curation comes up when search stops working,” — Clay Shirky, NYU Professor
What is Curation?
“The filtering activity that a helps present things according to a certain plan, thesis, or idea and then gives that to the public as an enrichment...” — Paola Antonelli, MOMA Senior Design Curator
Curation isn't just about finding content.
It’s about commenting on why it’s found to be relevant, important and included.
Curator characteristics
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Curators cultivateAwarenessConsiderationConversation Community ParticipationInteraction Engagement Affinity
Trust
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Constraints
Print is bound by Square inchesRadio is bound by time.TV is bound by images. Museums are bound availability & $.
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Enabling constraints
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Internet = Functionally Unlimited
Few Traditional Constraints
Low physical resource limits. No firm production deadlines. No powerful distribution barriers.Any content typeAny message
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"The more abundant creation becomes the more valuable (read: scarce) curation becomes." — Jeff Jarvis, blogger, author & educator
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DJ’s & TVSeconds & Time of dayStation FormatAudio/VideoRatings
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EditorsSeconds & Time of dayStation FormatAudio/VideSquare inchesSectionsPress timeCirculation
Museum CuratorsSquare feetExhibit themeAvailabilityPolitics
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InternetBrochures Digitized
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We need ControlApproach content with binary selection.
#hashtags are not enough
Good curation in action
Paola AntonelliMOMA Senior Design Curator
“exquisitely expert”
“a form of performance...”
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Guides
Professors Ski GuidesConciergesPark RangersExperts
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Blogs
PSFKCore77LifehackerVenture BeatSeth GodinGaping VoidMashableEngadgetGoogle Blog
Individual ChannelsIt’s not ALL he says.
It’s selections of the _____ stuff.
Networks
USA - Characters WantedTNT - DramaTBS - Funny
Food NetworkHGTVDiscovery
iTunes genius
AlgorithmicActivity based Collection Based
Starting
Raw Materials
DesireContentStrategyTool KitDistribution
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Desire
Future of Marketing and Advertising is doing things FOR and WITH people.
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We all want to be smarterQ: Smarter about what?
Huge selection of content makes it both difficult & easy.
Options:_What we’re buying_What experts think_What friends think_What brands say
Content
What’s available.What can be instigated.
Strategy
What insights? Data?Connections to Brand DNAConstraintsActivation
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Distribution
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What do you get?
Curation = Celebrated Constraints
Curation = taste-makingBrands want to be trusted and looked to.
"We think you might appreciate ___________."
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Curation = noise cancelingIt isn’t just about finding content - it’s about determining relevancy.
“Not only do we have the best of _____ all in one place, we’ve also commented on why we included it.”
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Curation = advocacyBrands Stand for things.
"These people and/or this cause are doing things we agree with..."
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Curation = adding valueProvides a service that saves time, becomes depended on, even essential.
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Curation = cultivating trustConsistently delivering quality over time builds trust.
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“The challenge has always been memorability... a ‘niche’ must be created in the mind inspiring for people to return.” — Wynn Wilder, Website psychologist & author of “Critical Thinking.”
Thank you!
Curation FTWCelebrating Constraints
Joseph Rueter@josephrueter