BagTheWeb in News

BagTheWeb was mentioned in NY Times' Blog: The Learning Network. This article lists ways to use Times articles, video and interactives to teach about the race to the White House.

"Create an Internet Scavenger Hunt: An Internet scavenger hunt is a list of questions along with the URL addresses of Web pages where students can find the answers.

Here is a simple one I made with a few questions using articles on the presidential election from The Times. It was created using a free Web tool called Bag the Web, but there are many other similar sites."

BagTheWeb was mentioned in Search Engine Watch.

"Keeping a steady flow of relevant images, blog posts and videos coming to promote your local business is challenging. Use this list of 88 creative content ideas to keep your company’s editorial calendar full and increase your visibility.

No.29 Try networked curation with a service like BagTheWeb.com to see blog posts related to your topics."

There are several content curation services that allow people to create online magazines with content mash-up from websites, blogs, RSS feeds, social media, and other online sources.

The author has compiled a list of 10 free content curation sites that people can use to deliver to their audience creating their own digital magazine and newspaper.

The list puts BagTheWeb as No.4.The blog is run by a team of technology and media professionals from London.

Socialbrite helps nonprofits & organizations with all facets of social media: strategy, website design, community building & fundraising campaigns. The author JD Lasica, one of the earliest social media strategists, is a consultant to leading nonprofits, Fortune 1000 companies and organizations of all sizes. He recommended seven top tools for content curation in this post.

"No.7 BagTheWeb: Add to a knowledge network
OK, now we’re getting a bit repetitive. BagTheWeb helps users curate Web content through a different metaphor: Create a “bag” to collect, publish and share any content from the Web. One interesting twist is that BagTheWeb enables users to build networks of bags so that topic areas can be linked together to provide rich datasets about any subject."

Every webmaster knows Google loves content, but many don’t know exactly how to create, market and dispense content so it makes an impact and increases traffic.

The author compiled a list of 50 content tips to help people at every stage of the content creating process. He puts BagTheWeb as No.3 in a section for Where and how to find an idea for a content piece.

"3. Bag The Web – Create “bags” to collect and organize content from the web. Search other users’ bags by keyword to find specialized content." It looks like BagTheWeb is an important tool from the author's perspective. :)

As an organisation junkie too, an ordered bookmarking system is essential for my sanity! I’ve always kept my bookmarks in categories and then sorted alphabetically, and that worked well. But now, look at the tools we have at our disposal...With Bag The Web as we create our bag, it returns search results we can use and also lists other bags we might like to connect to. We can mix media together, providing a rich resource that we can share and also a permanent collection for our own use too. Using the search functions within Pearltrees and Bag The Web we benefit from the curation already done by others, and than cuts down the time we spend filtering results.