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 Help:Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThere are almost no limits when creating books from Wikipedia content. A good book focuses on a certain topic and covers it as well as possible. A meaningful title helps other users to have the correct expectation regarding the content of a book.
Robin Good's insight:
Few people know that it is actually possible to curate Wikipedia content into custom print books or PDF / OpenDocument ebooks that contain exactly the content you want in the order you specify. Once you are logged into Wikipedia you simply activate the Book Creator Tool and then, from that moment on, everytime you visit a Wikipedia page you can click and add it to your curated Wiki-Book. There is also a dedicated wiki page where you can manage the pages you have collected and you can reorganized and sort them any way you want, eliminating the pages you don't need. Unfortunately there is no integrated way to edit and further customize the content of those pages for your own use. PDF versions are freely downloadable by anyone, print book versions are paid. N.B.: The price for print books depends on the number of pages, starting with US$ 7.90 for books up to 100 pages. 10% of the gross sales price goes to the Wikimedia Foundation. Books are perfect bound, printed in the dimensions 8.5 inch x 5.5 inch (216 mm x 140 mm) and contain a table of contents, your chapters and articles, licensing information next to an index.
More info about printed versions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books/Frequently_Asked_Questions Free to use. Learn everything about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books Video tutorial: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Enwp_screencast4.theora.ogv 
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Robin Good's insight:
An excellent reference guide for anyone looking to learn how to extract the best from Pinterest while having lots of relevant examples at hand. Lots of usefu tips and references. Useful. Resourceful. 8/10 Full guide: http://www.scribd.com/doc/170630453/Tips-for-writers-and-media-organizations-on-Pinterest
jmwakasege's comment,
October 1, 2013 1:20 AM
how come you always get good stuff, I real appreciate the value you bring. And for this one, it's a life saver.
Dan Aldridge's curator insight,
October 1, 2013 9:58 AM
Excellent tips for journalists and writers of all stripes on how to use Pinterest. |
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Robin Good's insight:
The Discipline of Organizing is a book, published by the MIT Press that offers a framework for the theory and practice of organizing anything. A short, 7-page PDF synthesizing and introducing the book main ideas has just been published as part of the latest Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology (Vol.40- N.1). The PDF, as well as the book, have been authored by Robert G. Glushko (who teaches in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley) and, as I mentioned, are devoted to introduce the relevance of the TDO (The Discipline of Organizing) to anyone involved in organizing and maintaining content archives or in curating any type of digital content online. "A set of resources is transformed by an organizing system when the resources are described or arranged to enable interactions with them. Explicitly or by default, this transformation requires many interdependent decisions about the identities of resources; their names, descriptions and other properties; the classes, relations, structures and collections in which they participate; and the people or technologies that interact with them. These decisions and the analysis needed to make them have been systematized in The Discipline of Organizing, recently published by MIT Press in both print and eBook formats." The PDF provides a good starting point to start asking the right questions needed to develop an organizing framework and to understand why they are so relevant. "A very practical implication of teaching organizing using more generic concepts and vocabulary is that it enables students to obtain jobs with firms that might not otherwise hire them. My comment: Useful for defining an organizing framework for anyone new to doing it. Could be more pragmatic and example-rich. 6/10 Original PDF: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Oct-13/OctNov13_Glushko.pdf Book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Discipline-Organizing-Robert-Glushko/dp/0262518503
Gilbert C FAURE's comment,
November 24, 2013 2:01 PM
more than only rescooping, I would like to say that it is the challenge of every scientist, researcher, MD, and particularly university teacher who has to surf on waves of information. Curation, and especially scoop.it helps to keep abreast and more importantly to organize or at least to save and find again what has been collected in the cloud!
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Robin Good's insight:
Elizabeth Weaver Engel and Jeff De Cagna are the authors of a small but very useful guide to Content Curation originally written for membership groups, and first published in November 2012. The guide offers a good introduction to why content curation is so important, how it can help any organization and what are the key things to know about it for anyone who knows little or nothing about it. From the original PDF guide, entitled "Attention Doesn't Scale: The Role of Content Curation in Membership Associations":
But that type of support will require a signicant shift in our business models. For decades, associations have been in the business of generating information. Our challenge now is to transform ourselves into being in the business of sense-making, helping members distinguish what new information is most relevant and integrate that information into their mental categories, and meaning-making, helping them understand the implications of that new information for their worldviews." Lots of good tips, references and relevant resources listed. Provides good foundational reference for any serious business reader. Good intro to content curation. Resourceful. Informative. 8/10 Pass it on. Attention Doesn't Scale (PDF) - http://www.getmespark.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/AttentionDoesntScale-Whitepaper-Nov2012.pdf (9 pages) YouTube video: http://youtu.be/IWbFI_ny9fY (23':41")
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
June 26, 2013 7:26 AM
With almost anyone now able to generate and publish content, finding relevance (signal to noise) is precoccupying knowledge workers everywhere. Sense-making, new media literacy and the ability to understand concepts across a wide range of disciplines are ctitical skills for the content curator in cutting through the noise to find that all important signal. Effective content curation will help us to focus and make sense of our complex and ambiguous world, to understand context and ultimately to make better decisons. 
Mary Reilley Clark's curator insight,
July 5, 2013 5:24 PM
Good stuff on the last page about essential job skills and curation skills. |
For those of us marketing High value products online this great little tool can help us gather and organize the necessary information we need to help others learn about a specific subject - Chk out what Robin says abou this tool:
"Few people know that it is actually possible to curate Wikipedia content into custom print books or PDF / OpenDocument ebooks that contain exactly the content you want in the order you specify."
(Robin Good)
For thosse of us marketing online this tolol is worth checking out
Tim
I just love this democratisation of everything; here's self publishing delivered to a keyboard near you courtesy of Wikipedia ...
It's worth keeping in mind that some 'publishers' try to sell books based entirely on Wikipedia content.