Over the last few weeks I’ve been working with Simon to talk through and refine some wireframe mockups of how the new application/tool could work. I’ll share about those separately soon, but one interesting and important conversation that came out of this process is about how the Bloomfield team does their review of content that comes in through the existing news harvest process, and how that should be reflected in a new workflow and tool.
I made an assumption in the process of developing the mockups that it could work well to see a content item’s original headline in an administrative “curation” view and then, for purposes of rewriting the headline for the project’s Daily Bulletin, either open a new window to view the article/content in its original content, or just go straight to editing the headline in a pop-up modal within the tool.
Here’s one of the original mockups from March 1st showing the proposed feed curation view:
You can see the “Open” and “Edit” buttons for those two proposed ways of working with the content. Open would open a new browser window to the original article, and Edit would do something like this:
Continue reading Hard parts of thinking through the content curation workflow
