Are you a Pooper-Scooper or Cute Curator?
Scoop.it, the curation platform, has finally incorporated Google Plus Brand Pages into its social share options (see image).
However, the platform-users' scoops are liable to be subject to an increased level of forensic scrutiny critique on GooglePlus.
Will this encourage Pooper-Scoopers to actually curate content rather than go through the simple copy»paste»post motions obvious on so, so many Scoops we see today?
Do people understand the concepts of plagiarism and duplicate content?
A couple of years ago, Scoop.it was indeed in my mix of social activity. However, due to the amount of Scoopers who used to copy and paste a chunk of text from an article, slap it on their overview as "insight", then post and call it curation, I abandoned the network.
Not only did this idleitis piss me right off, but I was also conscious of how the domain's reputation would sit with Search Engines Google due to so much duplicate content.
Needless to say, if I saw my content slapped on the front cover of a scoop labelled as the curator's insight, I'd be enraged further and there'd a sound case for plagiarism, to boot.
It's a real shame, because the CEO and support staff at Scoop.It are absolute diamonds. They're knowledgeable, intuitive and very responsive. But it may be a little late to tempt me back.
Evernote + Postachio = Curation Heaven!
Why? Because in the mean time, I've discovered Postach.io and much prefer that as a curation platform.
There are several reasons, all considered on Minus The Plus ('how you too can…' link, below), none of which could be possible without our trusted friend, Evernote.
There are a gazillion ways you can use Evernote for productivity that they've construed themselves. But turning your own or bookmarked notes into the dashboard for your blogging platform like the guys at Postachio have done? Pure. Genius!
So for a simple way to share content that inspires you, that you'd be bookmarking in Evernote anyway and that you can tailor with precision to suit your own audience, I invite you to find out how you too can be a cute curator and not a Pooper-Scooper!
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