Steven Rosenbaum

Author

"Steven Rosenbaum is an entrepreneur, author, and curator. In the online world of overabundant data, the curator adds value by selecting and sharing the best content for others to consume, namely, the most relevant and useful information for the intended audiences and communities served. Steve calls curation the “New Magic” of the connected world – fixing the signal to noise problem, and making the world contextual and coherent again. His vision of curation is the subject of his recently released book, Curation Nation. The book engages more than 60 thoughts leaders and companies to explore and define the power of curation for brands, media and consumers. As the CEO of the web's largest video curation platform, Magnify.net, Steve provides a real-time curation solution that powers more than 83,000 sites, including New York Magazine, Mediaite, and The Week.com. Known as the father of user-generated video, he 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. Steve's work in media includes filmmaking work as an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker. His film “7 Days In September” gathered more than 500 hours of video around 9/11 – creating a curated journey through the eyes of 28 filmmakers and citizen storytellers. 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 Fast Company, The Huffington Post, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable, TechCrunch, and MediaBizBloggers. Steven will discuss the role of associations as curators and how they can use curation to restore order to a constituency inundated by information overload.