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What a Content Curator Needs To Know: How, Tools, Issues and Strategy

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From www.slideshare.net - February 1, 2014 1:39 PM

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If you are new to content curation here the ten, key fundamental steps you need to take to out yourself on the right course.

Content curation is not about saving time. It is about selecting, organizing, adding value and context, and finally about effectively presenting information on a specific topic to a selected group of people.

Here the ten key steps to take to effetively curate content, visualized by the great team at Scoop.it.

Slideshare presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/Scoopit/10-tips-to-curate-like-a-rockstar

Joyce Valenza's curator insight, February 5, 2014 7:35 AM

New inspiration!

John M. Lee's curator insight, February 7, 2014 5:30 PM

Smart advice here

Rhondda Powling's curator insight, February 18, 2014 3:06 AM

Useful explanation

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From www.masternewmedia.org - January 21, 2014 1:11 PM

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Evaluating which content curation tool to use may not be such an easy task. As you probably know there are literally hundreds of content curation tools out there, and many seem to be just clones of each other, leaving the novice curator in doubt as to what are the real differences between each one.

A good starting point to select anything is to know well what you are looking for and what you need it for, as your needs and objectives will shape the features and traits that your ideal tool will need to have.

In this article I have tried to simplify this job for you by listing 21 different things you may need your content curation tool to do, that you can use to check and compare the curation tools you have pre-identified.

For each selection criteria I have also added a few specific questions that should help you make even more sense of what you need to look for.

Full article: http://www.masternewmedia.org/content-curation-tools-selection-criteria-to-evaluate/

Robin Good's comment, January 21, 2014 1:31 PM

Thank you Gilbert.

Lori Wilk's curator insight, February 2, 2014 10:21 PM

This article details that there are so many aspects of content curation to consider and tools that can make each of these more managable and the process more efficient.

thirthe's curator insight, March 24, 2014 7:05 AM

vale la pena el esfuerzo.

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From www.getmespark.com - June 23, 2013 5:35 AM

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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":

"Content curation provides a potential path to a new type of thought leadership, one that is more suited to a world where information is no longer the scarce resource. Focus is. Meaning is. Wisdom is.

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
(The Role of Content Curation in Associations:
Interview With Elizabeth Engel) by Brian Kelly of AssociationMaves.com

(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.

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From www.kennethlange.com - April 4, 2012 4:37 PM

Kenneth Lange's comment April 6, 2012 7:27 AM

Thanks Robin for sharing this and your kind words.

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Help:Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There 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.

From en.wikipedia.org - January 23, 2014 3:13 PM

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

'Timothy Leyfer's curator insight, January 24, 2014 12:08 PM

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

Anake Goodall's curator insight, January 24, 2014 5:52 PM

I just love this democratisation of everything; here's self publishing delivered to a keyboard near you courtesy of Wikipedia ...

aufaitLibrarian's curator insight, January 27, 2014 10:04 PM

It's worth keeping in mind that some 'publishers' try to sell books based entirely on Wikipedia content.

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From growthdevil.com - September 24, 2013 9:30 AM

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Good introductory article to content curation for startups: what it is, why and how to do it and what to focus on.

The advice is good as well as the few examples provided.

An excellent definition of content curators is also included: "Essentially, a content curator acts as a go-between publishers and readers. Think of them as personal trainers who not only tell you what to eat, but also deliver the best foods right to your doorstep."

Good reading for startuppers. 8/10

Full article: http://growthdevil.com/content-curation-grow-your-startup/

Randy Bauer's comment, September 25, 2013 9:56 AM

Robin Good comes through with another great find, delivering the "Good's" to the door. Thanks

Robin Good's comment, September 25, 2013 10:05 AM

Thank you Randy, happy you found this one useful too.

Sambaseck's curator insight, September 1, 2014 10:44 AM

Content curation solves one of the biggest online problems today: discovery.

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Ken Morrison's comment, May 21, 2012 3:32 AM

Hi students (and visitors). If you are having trouble with your profile photo changing every time that you post a new scoop, you can fix it by following these directions that a representative from Scoop.it sent me:
Indeed there's a setting to avoid that. Tell your students that on their Curate page, click on Manage>Customizations>untick "Last Post Image" box and click on Save.

Ken Morrison's comment, September 29, 2012 9:34 PM

Thank you for the rescoop. It looks like you have a great site. If I spoke Spanish, I would follow it.

Robin Good's comment, September 30, 2012 2:41 AM

Hi Ken, no need to speak Spanish to follow me or read my stuff.
Just check:
http://www.masternewmedia.org

;-)

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