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Content Curation: Why Is The Content Curator The Key Emerging Online Editorial Role Of The Future? What is content curation and why is it so important for the future of web content publishers?

Content Curation: Why Is The Content Curator The Key Emerging Online Editorial Role Of The Future?

The content curator is the next emerging disruptive role in the content creation and distribution chain. In a world submerged by a flood of information, content curators may provide in the coming months and years a new, tremendously valuable service to anyone looking for quality information online: a personalized, qualified selection of the best and most relevant content and resources on a very specific topic or theme. Photo credit: Luna Vandoorne Vallejo In other words, a content curator is someone "who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online".

The age of curation: From abundance to discovery. The rise of individual and social consumption driven by smartphones and tablets The end of content scarcity as digital distribution achieves ubiquity A shift away from ownership enabled by "always-on" networks These changes occur against a backdrop of the persistent culture clash between the creative and digital worlds.

The age of curation: From abundance to discovery

Last year we noted the innovative power of digital platforms over the past seven years: iTunes is synonymous with music downloads, YouTube with streaming video, Kindle with e-books. But the rise of giants creates unease. Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook make headlines as much for the business, regulatory and cultural controversies they generate as for the new behaviors they have fostered. The rise of digital platforms also highlights the evolving role of curation, as consumers look for better ways to find the culture they want the most. 6 Facts About Content Curation and SEO You May Not Know. If you struggle with providing a steady stream of fresh, relevant content for your website, you’re not alone.

6 Facts About Content Curation and SEO You May Not Know

Perhaps one of the best ways to overcome this challenge, while also increasing the value you provide to your audience, is through the process of editorialized content curation. - Student Curators: Powerful Learning. 3 Comments March 9, 2014 By: Guest Blogger Nancy White Mar 9 Written by: 3/9/2014 2:11 PM ShareThis During the past 2 weeks, I had the pleasure of working with longtime friend and 8th grade social studies teacher extraordinaire, Terri Inloes, to transform her students into curators of information as they learned about the Social Reform movements of the late 19th century in the U.S.

- Student Curators: Powerful Learning

The age of curation: From abundance to discovery. Curate This! The Hands-on, How-To Guide To Content Curation by Steven Rosenbaum. The concept of “Curation” has rapidly moved from museums to mainstream media.

Curate This! The Hands-on, How-To Guide To Content Curation by Steven Rosenbaum

But it’s still early days for content curators. And as the sheer volume of tweets, blogs, instagrams, videos, and emails fill the un-curated web, publishers and brands are increasingly being asked provide a human face on content organization and editorial curation. With the right framework, Curation can be a powerful tool to help editorial meet new challenges. So, are You A Curator? What Content Curation, Chunking Information and Micro-learning have in common? It was a long time ago when I started combining different ideas in my head about how future online learning would look like.

What Content Curation, Chunking Information and Micro-learning have in common?

The main driver for these kinds of thoughts was the feeling that something should be done for enabling a better online learning experience. That feeling emerged, when I was involved in some projects where we had been developing self-paced online courses. These courses were information based and when the project was finished I was sure that many won’t complete the course without making several short naps during its use. Then one day I was surfing the web, looking for some good blog post on eLearning and found this one by Ryan Tracey - Online courses must die! Content Curation: Beyond the Institutional Repository and Library Archives - Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians. If you are an academic librarian, you have been hearing about Data Curation, Content Curation, Information Curation or Digital Curation for years.

Content Curation: Beyond the Institutional Repository and Library Archives - Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians

And the terms can be applied in several different ways. Why Curation Is Just as Important as Creation [OPINION] Five Content Curation Mistakes B2B Marketers Are Making. Content.

Five Content Curation Mistakes B2B Marketers Are Making

If you're a B2B marketer today, the odds are good that you've been using it for lead generation and brand awareness. Research from the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs finds that 95% of enterprise B2Bs are practicing content marketing, which means there's a lot of content out there. And yet the demand for content has never been greater. It's impossible for marketers to create enough original, quality material for each channel every day, which is why many rely on content curation to help build brand awareness and generate leads via social media and email marketing.

Yet the ease of sharing links and stories has caused a flood of content across every channel, which means marketers are spending a lot of time curating, but for little reward. In their haste to create and share content with their audiences, marketers are making mistakes. 1. In the rush to stay active across various social media networks, marketers can sometimes share things a little too quickly. 2. 3. 4. How to be an effective digital curator. - Digital Curation. Curation. Content Curation - 5 Ways to Succeed...Eventually. Content Curation World.

To Curate or Not Curate: That is Not the Question. The real question is why are so many old school media outlets hung up about it?

To Curate or Not Curate: That is Not the Question

The New York Times isn’t going anywhere (well, the online edition, anyhow). People rely on credible news analysis and confirmation of fact by the Establishment. That’s important. And media outlets like The New York Times, The Gaurdian and Der Spiegel are in the business of confirming fact. Once it’s confirmed, the blogosphere is in the business of commenting on it. Students as Curators: Moving Towards Personalized Learning. By Ronald J.

Students as Curators: Moving Towards Personalized Learning

Bonnstetter: Available When I first started exploring inquiry-based learning several years ago, I found this chart to be extremely helpful in identifying different levels of inquiry. It was a way to look at a process to get students to think deeper and use problem solving and critical thinking skills in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. In traditional and structured inquiry, and even in guided inquiry, the teacher maintains control of the learning by providing the topic, question, materials, and procedures to assure students are learning what they need to learn to meet the requirements of the course, yet students are still exploring big, essential questions.

Curation - A View from The Future: Ross Dawson. How To Make Sense of the World Duration: 1':20" Ross Dawson: One of the best ways to make sense of the world is scenario planning or scenarios, where you build a number of worlds for what might happen and that's relevant to you and to use these as filters to be able to say, "Well, when I see new things happening, how does this indicate that one world is likely or what the implications are?

" That takes a lot of work. It's a real long term, structured process. I think it is enormously valuable, enormously worthwhile, though it does require the investment. More generally I believe in what I call frameworks.

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Content Curation - Wie macht man es richtig? - Cision Germany. Posted: October 24, 2013 at 10:16 am 8 Kommentare » How to Speed Up Your Content Curation Process. Do you want to share helpful content, but don’t know where to find it? Are you looking for tools to speed up your content curation process? In this article I’ll show you how to find and share relevant content in a snap. Why Content Curation? If you want to be the go-to expert in your niche, you need to provide more value than the other guys. Content curation—sharing relevant articles from several sources—is an important way to provide that value to your clients, fans and readers.

Modern marketing has changed significantly. Why The Web Needs Human Content Curation [INFOGRAPHIC] The Growing Importance Of Curation. As more and more content is generated, on social networks and blogs, it becomes harder and hard to find good and relevant stuff to read. Just like finding a needle in a haystack, locating the important stuff is not always that easy.

5-Steps-Effective-Content-Curation-Strategy_CurationTraffic. 11-examples-of-content-curation-in-action. The 5 Laws of Content Curation. The laws of content curation, should you break them and pay the fine or should you stay legal? Let’s breakdown these really good series of laws on content curation from Steven Rosenbaum: The First Law: People don’t want more content, they want less. We’re overwhelmed in raw, unfiltered, context-free data. Humans want it to stop. 7 Qualities of Highly Effective Content Curators. Every time I visit the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, I see something I’ve never seen before. In fact, t’s considered the most influential museum of modern art in the world. With that in mind, meet Klaus Biesenbach. Klaus holds the title “Chief Curator at Large” at MoMA. If you’ve visited the MoMA and walked away impressed (like I have), Klaus has a lot to do with that.

As content curators, we should all aspire to be like Klaus. Defining Digital Content Curation. “Content curation” is one of those phrases that gets repeated ad naseum without much thought about what it actually means or what role it plays in our digital lives. It’s a term that is widely used, yet the definition (at least in the social media marketing sense) is murky and unspecific. Content Curation Primer. Photo by Stuck in Customs. Curation of the Web. Finding great content isn’t getting any easier. Search engines do what they can, but for many of us they’re not always adequate. And because we only have a few interests at any given point in time, we look for other ways to collect and sort through all the available material on the Web. LUMAscapes. Content Curation: Finding The Needles in the Haystacks. Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education.

Why Curation Will Transform Education and Learning: 10 Key Reasons. There is a growing number of key trends that are both rapidly revolutionizing the world of education as we know it and opening up opportunities to review and upgrade the role and scope of many of its existing institutions, (as the likeliness that they are going to soon become obsolete and unsustainable, is right in front of anyone's eyes). George Siemens, in his recent Open Letter to Canadian Universities, sums them up well: 1) An Overwhelming Abundance of Information Which Begs To Be OrganizedThe goal is not (and probably it never was) to learn or memorize all of the information available out there.

It's just too much even if we focus only on the very essence of it. Gust Mees. Send In The Humans – Content Curation For Beginners. How to be an effective digital curator. Collaborative-multiauthors-multiculture Education. When WE use Social-Media, especially Twitter, lots of users know already about a PLN (Personal [Professional] LEARNing Network) and through it WE get a MASS of information on a daily base. So, not easy at all when people don’t know how-to organize that information… Click image ===> What is a PLN?

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