Patent ID: 8832301

Claim:
A computer-based system for providing customized communication comprising: At least one processor; at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor; a database residing in the memory; a feed aggregation mechanism residing in the memory; an aggregated communication feed generated by the feed aggregation mechanism, the aggregated communication feed comprising: at least a first communication feed; and at least a second communication feed, the at least a second communication feed comprising a curated communication feed, the curated communication feed being selected for inclusion in the aggregated communication feed based on a decision made by a curator, wherein the curator belongs to a multi-level hierarchal organization, the multi-level hierarchal organization comprising at least a curator level and a curator sub-level and wherein the curator is authorized to include a plurality of communication feeds in the aggregated communication feed to at least one feed consumer; a communication feed based on a pre-selected criteria selected from a group consisting of: demographic data; geo-location data; organizational affiliation data; religious data; employment data; and school affiliation data; a programmatically selected communication feed based on a plurality of user preferences stored in a database; a programmatically selected communication feed based on a teacher student relationship; and an edited communication feed, the edited communication feed comprising: a first content item, the first content item comprising a first content item programmatically scraped from a website wherein at least one graphical element of the first content item scraped from the website was excluded based on a pre-determined predetermined height to width ratio that is less than 1:4 and greater than 5:2; and a second content item, the second content item comprising a second content item programmatically scraped from the website wherein the at least one element of the second content item scraped from the website was excluded based on an HTML tag.