Content Curation Primer. Photo by Stuck in Customs What is Content Curation?
Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community. It isn’t unlike what a museum curator does to produce an exhibition: They identify the theme, they provide the context, they decide which paintings to hang on the wall, how they should be annotated, and how they should be displayed for the public. Content curation is not about collecting links or being an information pack rat, it is more about putting them into a context with organization, annotation, and presentation.
People and organizations are now making and sharing media and content all over the social web. Content Curation Provides Value from the Inside Out Getting Started. 30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use. As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, “information overload” is something we all seem to suffer. It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the “stuff” out there and pluck out the best, most share-worthy tidbits of information, especially if your topic is niche.
Let’s face it, Google definitely has its shortcomings when it comes to content curation and the more it tries to cater to all audiences, the less useful it becomes. The demand for timely, relevant content that is specific to our unique interests and perspectives has given rise to a new generation of tools that aim to help individuals and companies curate content from the web and deliver it in a meaningful way. These new tools range from simple, application-specific types such as social media aggregators and discovery engines, to more complex, full-blown publishing solutions for organizations.
Comments(65) 7 Content Curation Tools to Keep up With (and Share) Industry News. Guest post by Courtney Seiter Show of hands: Who has enough time every day to read up on your industry’s news?
Oh, and everything new you need to know to market your business? Yeah, me neither. But knowing what’s going on in your space is critical for content creation, competitive intelligence and social media efforts. To cut through the glut of information to make sure the good stuff rises to the top, I employ a lot of help in the form of content curation tools. Here are 7 of my favorite content curation tools and a little information about how they can make you more efficient. Tool: Google ReaderUse with: Blogs, news sites, Google Alerts, Facebook, TwitterWhy it’s great: This isn’t exactly a groundbreaking tool, but I would be lost without Reader. Tool: Trunk.lyUse with: Twitter, FacebookWhy it’s great: Sometimes you want the social media news without all the social media noise. Tool: SummifyUse with: Blogs, Facebook, TwitterWhy it’s great: Summify is my secret weapon.