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Scoop This: A Comprehensive Guide to Scoop.it for Content Curation - Search Engine Journal. We’ve been hearing (and talking) a lot about curation and how helpful it can be for companies. As you all know, I’m sure, great content is one sure thing in today’s marketing arena; it takes the front seat to anything and everything else. When you do a search, what are you using? Content. When you look for the closest restaurant to eat, how do you search? Before I get deep in to the hows, wherefores and whys of curation and Scoop.it, I deeply feel that it’s important to touch on the what. Content curation, on the other hand, is much like museum curation. As a content curator, you should be treating the content you display with the same amount of exactitude. As an article in the Silicon Valley Watcher states, “…curation online also has to demonstrate: mastery, passion, knowledge and expertise. Well said. When I was introduced to Scoop.it a year ago, it was still beta and invite only.
The Bit.ly’s and paper.li’s out there curate content, true, but not quite in the same way. 1). 2). 3). Content Curation Tools 1: ScoopIt! - Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians. This is the second in an intermittent series of posts I plan to write on the topic of content curation. You can see the first post introducing the content curation concept here. Official Logo for Scoop.it! Check this awesome tool out at Today I’d like to continue our discussion by exploring one of the more popular tools for content curation: Scoop.it!. Leanna Johnson (Learning with Technology) states, “In a culture of content overload, members that provide great content to their audience will be recognized leaders in network communities.” From our position as academic librarians, we not only have to think about the way we share our insights from our research to our own networks, we also have a role in carrying this message and tool expertise to the faculty and students of our university as we help them to become more effective researchers and networkers in their disciplines.
I have two Scoop.it topics myself. Who else among our readers have been using Scoop.it?