Archive for May, 2011

Your class presentations

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

These are the key points to remember when giving your class presentations:

  1. What is your niche?
  2. Who are the influencers in your niche? (Identify important and influential sites in your niche)
  3. What relevant content in your niche are you sharing?
  4. How is your content organized?
  5. What content of your own have you created?

Blogger Jonathan Fields on Content Curation

Sunday, May 1st, 2011

This is an interesting article for you about content curation, which is the gathering, sorting through, and organizing of all the different media we sift through daily on the web. As a matter of fact, all of you have been curating content throughout the semester on your blogs.

It’s a new concept that is the buzzword of the moment in the news and media industries. Learn how to navigate the inundation of information out there and organize it and you are set for conquering the future job market in communications.

One of the single most valuable roles you can play in this cataclysmic cacaphony of content is to be the one who lends sanity to the process of finding and sharing only the cream of the crop.

Read the article.