12 Experts Share Top Curation Tips. Six easy steps to curation success Curation is sometimes confusing.
Everyone has a different definition and it’s used in many different ways as part of content and marketing strategies. I asked 11 of my favorite curation experts for their best tips, tools, their favorite curator and suggestions on innovative uses of curation. Each is a curator on Scoop.it, my favorite curation tool and channel. New and experienced curators are going to learn from their advice. For those of you who haven’t tried Scoop.it yet, check out the ways these experts use it to find, curate, publish and share valuable information. Just a heads up. [Editor's note: Simple video summary above produced in less than 20 minutes using Guide - a new text-to-video production tool. 12 Experts Share Best Curation Tips I value each of them for their deep expertise in their areas of interest. Robin Good Scoop.it Profile (1.1 million views): Robin Good is the global go-to guy when it comes to content curation.
If You Use the Web, You Are a 'Curator' When you were four, you imagined "engineers" as men in striped overalls who shouted "all aboard!
" from trains. Later you learned that most engineers study more than just locomotives: mechanics, chemicals and even complicated structures like roller coasters. Similarly, you pictured "curators" as snobby museum employees who talk about brush strokes and Impressionism. Today, however, curation encompasses a whole new catalog of professions, brands and tools — and most revolve around the web. A curator ingests, analyzes and contextualizes web content and information of a particular nature onto a platform or into a format we can understand A curator ingests, analyzes and contextualizes web content and information of a particular nature onto a platform or into a format we can understand.
And since people create 571 new websites every minute, tweet 175 million times per day and upload 48 hours of new video each minute, a curator's work is never done. "Guess what? Curator's ǝpoɔ. Content Curators Are The New Superheros Of The Web. Yesterday, the ever-churning machine that is the Internet pumped out more unfiltered digital data.
Yesterday, 250 million photos were uploaded to Facebook, 864,000 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube, and 294 BILLION emails were sent. And that's not counting all the check-ins, friend requests, Yelp reviews and Amazon posts, and pins on Pintrest. The volume of information being created is growing faster than your software is able to sort it out. As a result, you're often unable to determine the difference between a fake LinkedIn friend request, and a picture from your best friend in college of his new baby. Even with good metadata, it's still all "data"—whether raw unfiltered, or tagged and sourced, it's all treated like another input to your digital inbox. What's happened is the web has gotten better at making data. In 2010 we frolicked, Googled, waded, and drowned in 1.2 zettabytes of digital bits and bytes. Which means it's time to enlist the web's secret power—humans.