Newsfeeds from blogs and other online publishers can be a great way to stay on top of developments in any field. However, anyone who has signed up for more than a few RSS feeds has probably experienced the "firehose effect" of getting so many feeds so quickly that it becomes impossible to stay on top of them. Moreover, when a highly active publisher feeds every new article, from the essential to the trivial, the reader is left to sort it all out every day.
An intriguing alternative to newsfeeds is media curation, in which someone with expertise or interest in a particular field collects and republishes material on a particular topic. Business Communication Headline News, for instance, was one of the earliest examples of media curation in the field of business communication.
The latest curation tools, such as Scoop.it, make it easy to assemble attractive online magazines or portfolios on specific topics. To see these tools in action, check out Bovee & Thill's Online Magazines for Business Communication:
- Business Communication 2.0: Social Media and Electronic Communication
- Teaching Visual Communication
- Teaching a Modern Business Communication Course
- Teaching Business Communication and Employment
- Teaching Business Communication and Workplace Issues
- Teaching Business Communication and Interpersonal Communication
And on the right side of our Scoop.it home page, you can see the many curated magazines that we follow as well.
Curation promises to bring the power of community and shared expertise to a lot of different fields, and we're excited to see how it will shape business communication.
