Scoop.it page: "Information Powerhouses" by L. Sheneman

One of the  newer buzz sites I've found is Scoop.it, a Web 2.0 site whose first tag line to visitors is "Easily Publish Gorgeous Magazines; Leverage Curation to increase your visibility. Gve persistence to your social media presence."  (http://www.scoop.it/)

Count: 3 pages


This intriguing site uses the "freemium" business model (see Anderson's Free: The Future of a Radical Price which I have begun) where 95% of the traffic is using the free version of the technology and the other 5% pays for upgraded services that support the entire enterprise.

So I kept skipping around Scoop.it -- I mean, how can you trust a web site that doesn't have a familiar domain?  (such as .gov, or .edu, or even .org or .com) But this week I was caught by a significant Texas state library persona using one of her Scoop.it pages in her signature, and I thought I'd check it out.

http://www.scoop.it/t/information-powerhouses is Laura Sheneman's way of "curating" (there's that word, again) thoughts, articles, news items, tweets, and resources on the topic of 21st Century School Libraries. I experienced the "magazine" effect that the company boasts: it is a hyper-text table of contents to a diverse miscellany of related threads. I grabbed one of the items, "Bloom's Taxonomy of Apps," and off I went reading.