#postachio

Lex and I hadn't eaten since nine in the morning. The food our relatives served us was inedible: raw chicken, milly dressing, bland pasta, and salty green beans. Our dads told us to eat it or do without, while they ate seconds. We're here for a family reunion, but I think this is an excuse for the adults to act like kids, while everyone else suffers. For example, my dad threw his shoes up the balcony the moment we arrived at our hotel. Lex and her parents stayed at another hotel across the street, which was more expensive but reserved for family. Our hotel had a lobby, wi-fi, and continental breakfast: the bright sides of this family reunion. My family almost didn't go, because my dad wanted to "provide" us a vehicle - a cousin's used Daewoo that he fixed - instead of renting a car. "Either take it, or don't go," my dad told me, Mom, and my little sister Courtney. My brother refused to come with us; he didn't have money, which translated to "I don't want to deal with Dad."

still… http://wp.me/s4nxpJ-still

…a great deal of snow! This odd winter still has us in its grip! 16 degrees below freezing today, but with the wind it really gets bitter cold.

There were some mergansers down in the Falls, I wanted to have a look at them even though I didn’t have my ‘real’ camera. The snow was icy underneath, I was slipping and sliding.

Became totally engrossed in the Evernote thingy I wrote about. It was as if…

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!

image credit: Scoop.It

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Our hanspetermeyer.ca team won last year's tourism social media rally in Parksville / Qualicum Beach. This year's #PQBrally13 features a more competitive environment. Whether you help us win (again!) or not, we'd love to see people check out this cool tourism tool – and perhaps find a few ReTweet-worthy posts.

Fun. And furious as we drive the byways and highways of the mid-Island, generating content.

Thanks for reading!

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