Niche This, Niche That, Everything Is A Niche
- Everything is a niche.
- Some are bigger and some are smaller.
- Niches can be subject specific or geographic
- For most niches there is a community that could be enhanced from a useful website built upon a proven system.
Community Enhancers with TrustCuration
The world is awash in news and information and thanks to the internet much of it is easily accessible. However, there is one fundamental problem: organization. This has given birth to technologies and systems to aid us in filtering and defining what we find and utilize.
It has given rise to a new word: Curation. Niche New Media aims to build useful news and information sites (Community Enhancers) around the process of curation.
Niche New Media does this by providing great service built upon respect, relevancy, organization, engagement, prioritization, presentation, re-purposing and of course the vital human touch.
Personal human touch? Yes, a human being is by far the best 'technology' available to create a useful site. Nothing beats a human being at so many levels. This is what seperates curation from aggregation and the results are miles apart.
Curator (one who practices Curation)
- A Curator is
- an expert, a leader
- a master of news and information in a niche subject or location
- a master of the web, social media and aggregation skills to build good useful services to keep people/communities easily informed
TrustCuration
- Respect - of owner's right to there creation
- Handpicked Content - to deliver Relevant, Engaging and Comprehensive news/info
- Flexible Organization - Categories and Tags
- Prioritization - Essentials on down
- Collection Presentation Layers - Website, Newsletters, Social Media
- Content Archive - Date, Category, Tag, Combinations
- Honest Personal Touch
- Consistency
- Re-purposing - ability to take curated stream of news/info and create something new - think collages, useful summaries, easy to scan reports
3 Core Beliefs
- A website is a tool. It is either useful or not.
- All websites revolve around people and the information, communication and relationships between them
- That everything we do should help people/communities.
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