What are the key steps that a blogger should follow to effectively curate content online?
Silvya Rosenthal Tolisano shares her personal workflow to curate content as a blogger, by highlighting the seven key steps she suggests to go through when preparing content for a blog,
Find & Acquire
Select & Filter
Group, Organize & Arrange
Editorialize, Contextualize & Annotate
Create, Present, Transform & Remix
Engage & Customize
Share
and by reminding those already doing it
a) not to "copy - paste" entire long passages from articles "as they are", but to rather share short portions to which personal commentary, evaluation or extra value must be added,
b) not to confuse long list of links or resources, for which there is often very little verification and analysis, let alone commentary and added value, with curation.
The key element of curation is adding value, not collecting large amount of items on a topic. That's what a collector does, not a curator.
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.
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Great information for creating content.
An excellent perspective about blogging as content curation.
Great visual representation of blogging as curation