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Robin Good's insight:
To choose which news story to curate and pass on to your readers, is not always something easy to do.
My personal suggestion is to look only for the most interesting and relevant stories for your audience while leaving out anything that is mildly interesting. I'd always go for quality over quantity and I would not discard little-read stories or dated ones, because of these two factors. Rather I'd select them on the basis of their immediate usefulness to my reader and not on the one of their freshness or recency.
Serena Matter, of the Canadian Public Relations Society, has just published a short article suggesting three key criteria to employ in selecting what news to curate each day. She writes:
"Finding content to share online can be a challenge, especially when your goal is to provide information of interest to your followers.
In many instances, it is easier to re-tweet something that appears in your newsfeed, even if it’s not that relevant to your industry, than to come up with new material.
However, this wastes a valuable opportunity to engage your online stakeholders. Rather than taking the easy way out, there are a few simple guidelines you can follow to ensure any content you share offers value. When creating or searching for material to share, keep this acronym in mind: C.I.A. (Current, Interesting, Applicable)."
But beware: "current" is a misleading variable, as "something" can be "current" depending on the specific context in which it is presented and it is not an absolute trait of a news story.
A story from two years ago can be made immediately current and relevant simply by relating and connecting it to other information which is directly impacting our present.
Good for beginners. 6/10
Full article: http://www.cprsvancouver.com/what-should-i-post-today-guide-content-curation
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Robin Good: A valuable resource for anyone interested in the creation, organization and preservation of digital collections for the humanities, is this curated selection of resources and citations made available by the DH Curation Guide. "The DH Curation Guide is a compilation of articles that address aspects of data curation in the digital humanities. The goal of the DH Curation Guide is to direct readers to trusted resources with enough context from expert editors and the other members of the research community to indicate to how these resources might help them with their own data curation challenges." DH Curation Guide: http://guide.dhcuration.org/index.html Of particular interest in this collection: The concept of collection from the user’s perspective by H. L. Lee. A framework for contextual information in digital collections by Lee, C. A. by Palmer, C. L. A framework of guidance for building good digital collections by NISO Framework Advisory Group Full guide: http://guide.dhcuration.org/collections/ Delete the scoop?
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Robin Good: Kenneth Lange on his blog does really an excellent job of synthesizing the key things you need to pay attention to if you are starting to seriously consider "curation" as a content production format. From trust to focus and infrequency, Mr Lange touches on all the very and most sensitive points a content curator should be sensitive too. Clear, synthetic, to the point. A recommended reading. 9/10 Full article: http://www.kennethlange.com/content_curation.html 
Kenneth Lange's comment, April 6, 2012 7:27 AM
Thanks Robin for sharing this and your kind words.
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Robin Good: If you are just about to start testing how effective a content curation tool like Scoop.it can be for building your own reputation and visibility in a specific interest area, this 10-step guide by Shirley Williams does provide some important information on how to start with the proper foot.
The guide is illustrated with many screenshots and it pinpoints the key items you need to be paying attention to when starting to curate a dedicated channel.
Informative. Useful for novices. 7/10
Full mini-guide: http://socialmediapearls.com/10-steps-to-curate-your-social-media-content-with-scoop-it-for-increased-value Via Shirley Williams (XeeMe.com/ShirleyWilliams) 
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 ;-) Delete the scoop?
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Current is important, but not the most. If anything is interesting and applicable and remains useful, it doesn't matther that was built up 3 years ago...