Speakers

Steve Rosenbaum

CEO, Magnify.net / author, Curation Nation

Steven Rosenbaum is an entrepreneur, author, and curator. He is the founder and CEO of the web's largest video curation platform, Magnify.net. His book Curation Nation, explores the changing worlds of publishing, consumer content, and brand-centric curation. It will be published by McGraw Hill in the spring of 2011.

Rosenbaum is known as the father of user-generated video, having created MTV's groundbreaking UGC series MTV UNfiltered, a pre-web television project that handed cameras to young storytellers. Since that time he has built a career finding, organizing, and curating first-person storytelling.

Rosenbaum's work as an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker includes his film chronicling 9/11 7 Days In September. That film gathered more than 500 hours of video around 9/11 – creating a curated journey through the eyes of 28 filmmakers and citizen storytellers. The result was the curation of the world’s largest collection of 9/11 videos: The CameraPlanet Archive which Rosenbaum and producing partner Pamela Yoder donated to the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum. His film work includes long form documentary projects for National Geographic, HBO, CNN, MSNBC, Discovery, A&E, and The History Channel.

As a blogger, Rosenbaum contributes to posts on technology, internet video, and emerging digital lifestyle trends to FastCompany, The Huffington Post, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable, TechCrunch, and MediaBizBloggers.

Today, Rosenbaum calls curation the “New Magic” of the connected world – fixing the signal to noise problem, and making the world contextual and coherent again.
 

Sessions With This Speaker

Curation: Beyond The Buzzword

Mon, May 09 - 10:15 AM

We're living in a world of abundance. Quickly advancing bandwidth. Mass adoption of creation tools. And an avalanche of data. Email, tweets, blogs, all coming at us with increasing frequency and little discrimination. The result—we're being flooded with data. What I began to see in my life, and in my work, was that all the places where algorithms failed, humans succeeded. Human curation beats robots, hands down.

So, how does this knowledge help you, your clients, your customers, your life? First I'll explore what curation is, and what it isn't. Then, I’ll share some great innovators, and leading tools. And finally, we’ll point the way toward a curated future where signal is separated from noise, and we aren't glued to our iPhones. A world where what matters finds us, and all else is stopped outside our personal firewall. In a Curation Nation, we all filter, we all contextualize, and the result is a healthy mix of data and life.