Are you on Flipboard? I'm testing it out as a curation platform.
Here are my magazines on social justice, "SJW: There's nothing wrong with wanting to right the world", and forward thinking in culture, media, tech & digital life. See what you think!
Curated By Others
When lots of other people curate the stream of content you create, what image of you emerges?
When other people curate your content for their own specialized communities, what emerges might be a multidimensional snapshot...a picture of your background, your interests, your training, your current activities, and, maybe, where you're headed.
Here's what I saw recently with a variety of online newspapers curations based on what I share on Twitter:
- My archaeology past
- my life in women's travel, cultural communications and expat coaching
- my experience with publishing options
- my role as a continuing education instructor at Udemy
- my media past-present-and-future
- my present in a coworking situation (and I'd add, my interest in the future of work.)
The snapshot is a gift, and I'm pleased and proud to be included in the below and other curations by people like Jeremy Silver, a digital media investor, entrepreneur, adviser I met at TEDGlobal.
Click on any of the paper.li links to visit the daily version of the paper each owner auto-curates from chosen sources for his or her unique and focused community.
Thanks to these newspaper creators and content curators for including me as a source in their custom paper.li.
The Talking Pyramids Daily is out! http://t.co/7TywLwUwWU Stories via @CollectingEgypt @AnastasiaAshman @MOPASD — Talking Pyramids (@Bennu) July 29, 2014
The Women's Travel Daily is out! http://t.co/dgO9iNDnwk Stories via @Shanna @AnastasiaAshman — Holly (@HotelHostess) July 26, 2014
Self-Publisher's Daily is out! http://t.co/czDWYNwQZj Stories via @AnastasiaAshman @StarPB — Adrienne Thompson (@A_H_Thompson) July 22, 2014
GlobalNiche is out! http://t.co/1wwBSg5zQR Stories via @AnastasiaAshman @globalniche @MissKemya — GlobalNiche (@globalniche) July 16, 2014
Udemy Continuing Education Daily is out! http://t.co/sGo78sUufX Stories via @BrothaTech @AnastasiaAshman — Lucian Mihailescu (@intercer) July 6, 2014
Mediaclarity: Aspirational Reading is out! http://t.co/iIjr7TpyAl Stories via @AnastasiaAshman — Jeremy Silver (@JeremyS1) July 11, 2014
Co-Working Times is out! http://t.co/HA8BcKNY6g Stories via @AnastasiaAshman @ComunidadCowork — goEnvelope.com (@goEnvelope) June 19, 2014
Today's stories in The Höferle Daily http://t.co/WbZhtrRg1X via @AnastasiaAshman — Christian Höferle (@Hoeferle) June 29, 2014
The My Several Worlds Daily is out! http://t.co/DKKIVwuo4x Stories via @AnastasiaAshman @CallieSimon — Carrie Kellenberger (@globetrotteri) June 10, 2014
Cross Cultural Communicator is out! http://t.co/FgzHJdRzJg Stories via @AnastasiaAshman @OCG_PR — Dirk Hinze (@dirkhinze) June 3, 2014
Expat Coach Daily Musings is out! http://t.co/ydLz36fpK8 Stories via @Storybird @AnastasiaAshman — Nicola McCall MCIPD (@Livelifenowexpt) May 18, 2014
The Top-Women Daily is out! http://t.co/fVcJvQyJAa Stories via @AnastasiaAshman @INDIEbusiness — Rachel Johnsen (@rachspringAHEAD) May 8, 2014
Curating My Influences On Entrepreneurship, Global Women Entrepreneurs, & Future Of Work
Just started this curation topic at Scoop.it and I've already got more 100 links of evergreen value and cutting-edge thinking.
I've been harvesting all the links I've been discovering, sharing, posting and discussing for the last couple of years in the dark social of email and private (and some now defunct) discussion settings.
That includes material I discovered and shared over the past four years at my LinkedIn GlobalNiche group, my Facebook Creative Entrepreneurs group, my Facebook GlobalNiche graduates group. I'm also posting my original comments on each of those shares.
Expect more as I pull links from more than a year's worth of postings at Basecamp, a collaborative service I've been using to discuss entrepreneurial issues with my GlobalNiche team members.
If you're interested in these topics and the thinking from around the web that has most influenced me, it's easy to subscribe to the collection in one click over at Scoop.it.
SEO Yourself By Filling Out Your GooglePlus Profile
Your G+ profile page is a web-wide cheat sheet for you & everyone else.
And when it’s time to update your avatar, your bio, your tagline, or whenever you’ve got fresh content to share, it'll help you remember where you are online too.
By hot linking all the places you need to update you’ll make your task so much easier. Since your G+ profile is prioritized by the Google search engine, when someone searches for you, they’ll also find all the other places you exist online too.
That's from my latest guest post for Jan Gordon's Curatti: Editors of Chaos.
I've been writing a weekly series about online community building at this social business and marketing site. My posts so far have incorporated aspects of curation, storytelling, branding, content strategy, conversation, cocreation, collaboration, discoverability, persuasion, fascination and engagement -- as well as highlighting best practices and work of industry figures I see leading the way.
Some of my Curatti guest posts:
- Who You Follow is Important and Here’s Why
- How to Use Twitter Chats to Build Dynamic Online Communities
- Who Should You Follow Back and Why?
- Here’s How to Use Social Media To Build Powerful Networks
- The Great Big Social Networking Experiment
- How To Find And Share Content That Makes You Distinct
- Go Public With Your Process To Attract Like-Minded People
Worry About Who You Follow: Unpacking The Mysteries Of Online Community At Curatti
Your social networks are your window onto the world, and a lens on your market, I write in "Who You Follow Is Important And Here's Why" my first post in a new series at Curatti: Editors Of Chaos. On a regular basis at Curatti I’m going to be unpacking the mysteries of online community, and exploring how to organically grow a network filled with people who are all deriving value from their connection.
In this post I go on to explain that you determine how wide your window is, and how focused the lens. Ultimately, your online connections will color your day, slant your view, and propel your actions.
Take a look at your timelines. They are the fruit of your curation efforts. You selected whom you follow.
Do the people and accounts you follow challenge you (in a good way)?
Read the whole piece here.
Mashable Lifestyle Features My Social Media Advice To College Students Applying To Grad School
Thanks Mashable Lifestyle -- part of the Mashable news site for the connected generation, one of the largest blogs on the Internet-- for featuring my social media advice to college students in your new weekly Twitter chat on the digital life!
Other guidance for college students applying I shared during the live tweeted #mashadvice column this week:
- demo via social media (activities, blogs, commentary) strengths you'd include in your application
- besides showing interest in a topic via social, also show *engagement* (what you DO about it)
- Twitter, LI, any service: what's findable should reflect you/path you're on, match up w/what you present in applications
- think about using Pinterest to create portfolios of your work (actual, or imagined-future), curate your vision
- photos can be used as complement: to create atmosphere, demo aesthetic, show history
Content Curation Is The New Black & Scoop.it Is The New Squidoo
Announcing Scoop.it. Anyone who wants to demonstrate their expertise in a subject area will benefit from this new tool to scoop web content into a graphically-displayed archive. Takes minutes to get started. It makes those bookmarks enticing rather than a list of text links. I believe this is an improvement on Squidoo's "lenses", it's not as complicated and easier to share. "If you can't be the source, be the resource" is the thinking....but you can also be the source.
Here are some related links:
IS CONTENT CURATION THE NEW BLACK? http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/curation-is-the-new-content-black/
CONTENT CURATION: WHY THE NEW CURATORS ARE BEATING THE OLD http://curationservices.com/content-curation-why-the-new-curators-are-beating-the-old/
CURATION IS THE NEW CREATION http://lindaziskind.com/curation-is-the-new-creation
And a Scoop-it page of one of GlobalNiche at LinkedIn's creative entrepreneurs: Jan Gordon
Masterminding A Writer, Artist & Cultural Curator Platform
Along with Tara Agacayak, I run a private mastermind group on LinkedIn (it’s a subgroup of my Creative Entrepreneurs & Social Media group). Once a week someone steps into the center with a case study and asks for feedback and suggestions on their next steps. Here are my thoughts on building out a writing and artist platform:
I use Wordpress and Tumblr (simply as a feed of my blog, microblog and Delicious activities). It seems moving to Tumblr or Posterous might make things much simpler for you as a blogger-- they seem easy/breezy as blogging platforms -- whereas Wordpress's wider capabilities will encourage building a bigger site with more going on. So, since you're talking growth and not just 'make it easier' then I'd say Wordpress.
As for platform building, where are you meeting and engaging with potential readers of your novel (besides Twitter, SheWrites, Facebook, LI, your blog)? Any communities out there specific to the topics in your novel? Taking part in reader-based litchats on Twitter would be another way to start being known as the woman behind the voice that people will be able to read when your book comes out. (Consider posting small excerpts of the book so we know what it's about and grow connected to it?)
Maybe someone here can share leads to artists, writers, cultural curators that you are aware of online -- if you know of them, they're doing something right to get your attention.
As for making the hybrid nature of your work clearer through your platform, I'm reminded of the blog convention of another multifaceted woman: Ruth Harnisch. She breaks down the different channels of her being and lets that be the structure of her site. "The Maker of Mistakes". "The Philanthropist". "The Catalyst". "The Recovering Journalist". Perhaps something like this might allow you to indulge your interests and help a visitor to your site/blog comprehend your better?
The expatharem site has sold books through its Amazon link -- in the first couple of years of the site. The #s since I relaunched the blog are too tiny to count for anything and that may be a result of the maturity of the book or the fact that I don't push it much on the site, and/or people aren't coming to the blog to buy the book or learn more about it. However, yes, making things available to our interested parties is part of making what we do a business. We have to make the offer. It's relevant. However, I also know being on twitter has sold books. People I met there, people who found out about the book on twitter (like during #litchat on expat lit).
Also: here's a great interview with a 'unmarketing' book author about how he built both a support system and a target audience on Twitter and presold 3,000 copies of his book. Good lessons there about how to engage and when to sell.
In response to your question about using your own name as a brand, an SEO specialist I know from ThirdTribe (@CraigFifield) just offered an impromptu SEO consult on Twitter before the end of his workday/workweek. I took the liberty to ask him for an opinion on this, in general terms. Here’re the tweets (which overlap, as Twitter does)....
CF: i have 15min before I quit for the day -- how can I help you with SEO or your Blog?
AA: wd someone's name be a better blog name for SEO than tagline about art and the creative life?
CF: in terms of SEO I would use a keyword that people are searching for. Or, I would go for branding and ignore SEO
AA: that is, are proper names SEO at all? and generally used words and phrases amount to very little in SEO world?
AA: so in researching keywords "creative life" what result would prompt good use of that phrase in blog title?
CF: depends how your audience uses those words. I would do some keyword research to decide. do you have an example?
AA: ok think i got it! (branding with a proper name means SEO considerations unnecessary)
CF: well, unless your brand will eventually be big enough to be searched on :) make your brand name unique to win there