Curation Revolution

 Riffing Tableau
I have great respect for Tableau Software. Solid team producing cool tools and the content needed to sell them. Their analysis of 2015 BI trends was so good I’m using it as a template to riff and add my thoughts.

Top 10 BI Trends 2015
1. Death of Gate Keepers.
2. Social Arbitrage Creates Competitive Advantage. !!!
3. Analysis Not JUST For Analysts Anymore.
4. Rise of the Sustainable Online Community (our #1).
5. Everything Integrates (BELIEVE).
6. Cloud Things is REAL.
7. Near Real Time DOMINATES.
8. Data & Journalism Finish MERGING.
9. Mobile Matures. !!!
10. Smart Analytics Begin.

http://www.curagami.com/featured/top-10-bi-trends-2015/
Team Curagami riffed the first 5 today and will finish up tomorrow. So much great content we had to STOP and think about it again tomorrow or melt down (lol).

Making Warby Parker's Annual Report VISUAL
As Beyonce proved when she rethought her last album to be more visual the visual marketing revolution is here (Beyonce covered here http://sco.lt/7Pci1p). Here are 12 GREAT Visual Marketing Tips from Column 5 the Infographics experts:

1. Be Visual. 
2. Show YOUR Personality.

3. Only share NEWSWORTHY news.

4. Let People See Your Engine (able to look behind the curtain).

5. Focus on and Feature Your POEPLE.

6. Make IT Easy To Share (and IT is everything).

7. Present DATA in context.

8. Don't forget the TANGENTIAL. 
9. Share the LOVE. 
10. Product Tie-Ins should happen NATURALLY and ORGANICALLY.

11. Share VALUES.

12. Pat yourself on the BACK every now and again. 

My favorite is FEATURE YOUR PEOPLE. Clients ask me and/or complain they have no good content. Nonsense you have amazing content sitting at desks or on the shop floor.

Telling your product's story by proxy, by telling the stories of the people that work on it, is a brilliant way to create STICKY content that isn't self-serving and feels more TRUE.