Content Is No Longer King: Curation Is King. Curation: The Wave of Info Gathering Future. Our information universe is rapidly expanding as the Internet grows. At last count, there are at least 19.31 billion pages that make up the entire World Wide Web. The content that each new page produces each day is staggering - and these numbers will only continue to climb.
"No problem," you think, as you set up your Google Alerts, RSS feeds, dashboards and newsletters. "I'll be able to catch all of this great content with the tools available today! " However, the problem is that this disjointed process of collecting information via different platforms, tools, and data feeds results in cluttered in-boxes and dashboards full of largely irrelevant information. Twelve Use Cases for Content Curation in Marketing « Marketing to Business Executives Blog.
Content curation offers the promise of addressing both information consumers’ and marketers’ challenges in taming the flood of digital information.
But as I look at the vendor landscape it is apples and oranges. 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. The goal is to learn how to learn, to know where to look for something and to be able to identify which parts of all the information available are most relevant to learn or achieve a certain goal or objective.This is why new digital literacy skills are of such great importance. From the New York Times: "...Mr. Are Content Curators the power behind social media influence? By Neicole Crepeau, Contributing {grow} Columnist Are you overlooking some of the most powerful influencers on the social web?
Let’s find out. How to be a formidable content curator: a 17-step guide. Over the past few years I must have heard the phrase ‘everyone is a publisher nowadays’ a thousand times or more.
It’s largely accurate, due to the rise of social media, but I think we are mainly ‘curators’, as opposed to ‘publishers’. Content curation is something that many of us will be familiar with, even if we don’t think of ourselves as curators. We instinctively find and share interesting content with our personal and professional networks. We follow others who share the kind of links that engage and entertain. Yesterday the clearly charming Adam Vincenzini described my Twitter feed as "all killer and no filler".
The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators. I keep hearing people throw around the word “curation” at various conferences, most recently at SXSW.
The thing is most of the time when I dig into what they are saying they usually have no clue about what curation really is or how it could be applied to the real-time world. So, over the past few months I’ve been talking to tons of entrepreneurs about the tools that curators actually need and I’ve identified seven things. First, who does curation? Bloggers, of course, but blogging is curation for Web 1.0. Look at this post here, I can link to Tweets, and point out good ones, right? But NONE of the real time tools/systems like Google Buzz, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, give curators the tools that they need to do their work efficiently. Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 2: Aggregation Is Not Curation. We are no longer just consumers of content, we have become curators of it too.
In Part 1 of this Guide I have introduced why we really need real-time news curation and what is the basic idea behind it (Part 1 - Real-Time News Curation, Newsmastering And Newsradars - The Complete Guide Part 1: Why We Need It). In Part 2 I want to continue illustrating what "real-time news curation" is all about, and more specifically why it differs from automatic aggregation, and why you really need a human being to do it. As I see it: "Aggregation is automated, curation is manual. " Photo credit: Creativaimage Back in 2004, I wrote an article entitled: The Birth of The Newsmaster. It was my first public realization, that a real-time news curator, which I labeled at the time a "newsmaster", was soon due. It is in the DNA of RSS to be wanting to be free, to be further reused, personalized and syndicated.
The problem of information overload is like any other problem, one side of a new, bright opportunity. Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 7: Business Applications And Trends. Real-Time News Curation: Part 7 - Business Opportunities 1.
Where Is The Money 2. Key Business Drivers. Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 5: The Curator Attributes And Skills. ICT4D Bibliography » Work » Casual Politics: From slacktivism to emergent movements and pattern recognition. Abstract: Politics have traditionally looked at the exercise of democracy with at least two implicit assumptions: (1) institutions are the normal channel of politics and (2) voting is the normal channel for politics to make decisions.
Of course, reality is much more complex than that, but, on the one hand, all the extensions of that model beyond or around voting –issues related to access to public information, to deliberation and argumentation, to negotiation and opinion shaping, or related to accountability are based on institutions as the core axis around which politics spin. On the other hand, the existence and analysis of extra-institutional political participation –awareness raising, lobbying, citizen movements, protests and demonstrations– have also most of the times been put in relationship with affecting the final outcomes of institutional participation and decision-making, especially in affecting voting.
Your Life is an Algorithm, Your Brain is an Operating System. Ever wondered how you were supposed to keep up with the never-ending stream of content and data in your life?
Not to worry, the elves of the Internet are busy at work, creating everything from magical little algorithms that automatically execute basic tasks to sophisticated utility apps that run in the background, taking care of all the minutiae in your daily life. Forget about hiring a personal assistant, you can “hire” off-the-shelf algorithms and digital apps that do all the heavy lifting for you. If that doesn't work, just ask Siri. Your life is an algorithm, your brain is an operating system, now go get some sleep. Be an Information DJ - Matthew Lieberman. By Matthew Lieberman | 1:02 PM November 27, 2012 When President Obama considers how to mobilize opinion and persuade Americans to support his agenda, we can be sure he’ll want to tap the power of changing minds by understanding what makes ideas go viral.
In building support for tough, difficult issues such as deficit reduction and tax policy, the Obama team will want to know more about how buzz works in the brain. At the Neuroleadership Summit 2012 held in mid-October in New York City, Art Kleiner, editor-in-chief of Strategy+Business magazine, joined me as we presented research casting new light on conventional thinking many of us have about buzz. Critique de la curation. La curation c'est de la merde. J’aurais pu écrire m€46€, j’aurais pu être subtil, j’aurais pu essayer d’être plus consensuel mais ce ne doit pas être dans mon “ADN” … Mais finalement en utilisant le mot de Cambronne je reste finalement très soft par rapport au fond de ma pensée.
Non à la “curation” Néologisme du moment chez les prescripteurs du web, le terme "curation" n'est pas toujours très clair. Parce qu'il est trompeur sur ce qu'il désigne, Titiou Lecoq souhaite même le repousser au loin. An introduction to the Data Curation Lifecycle Model — Where do Librarians fit in? « Kevin the Librarian. The other day I read a fantastic article by P.
Bryan Heidorn (2011) on the emerging role of data curation and e-science in the world of libraries. As an archivist and a librarian, I see amazing potential for our skill set to fit nicely into this speciality. First, libraries already have the infrastructure and staff to help stake a claim for data curation. For academic librarians, we are already situated in an environment where research is conducted.
Second, our love of information and the ability to manage it effectively should speak volumes to researchers who need policies and guidelines developed so that their data can be accessed, retrieved and preserved for future research. Robert Scoble Interview. “A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule” – Robert Scoble. 95 Theses for contemporary museum curation-Kieran Long. Opinion: in the first of his monthly columns for Dezeen, V&A senior curator Kieran Long argues that today's obsession with authorship and celebrity "leads to serious imbalances in the way we see design in the world" and calls for an overhaul of the way design is curated in the twenty-first century.
Long, who was an architecture journalist before being appointed to curate design, architecture and digital at the V&A last year, points out that museums like the V&A focus on handmade, one-off objects at the expense of the mass-produced, anonymous objects that predominate in the real world. "The museum is more or less silent on the era of extraordinary Chinese manufacturing we are living through," he says. Every morning, on the way to my office, I pass a sign that reads: “Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”
At the Victoria & Albert Museum, the building is always telling you to do something. La curation, nouvelle tarte à la crème du web? Curation, Creation. There’s no denying the old Internet mantra, that Content is King. All major Internet companies eventually tend towards it: AOL & Yahoo are drowning in it, Google’s transitioning into a content company, trying to transition from a search monopoly to a content monopoly. Facebook & Twitter don’t create their own content, but their revenue model harnesses user content. Google is constantly making improvements to its search engine algorithm to weed out sites who aggregate content, and promote original content. Grazing on Curated Lists Is Like Sipping A Fine Wine. Flickr Photo by JC Burns Earlier this week, I wrote a post called “Content Curation Is Listening and Engaging” about the art and science of curating information. It is process o f organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked with your network.
In the post I referenced a video interview with Robert Scoble by Howard Rheingold that Mari Smith highlighted in a google + post. Curation Is The New Black; But Will It Get In The Black? This Curation Trend has One Big Problem: Scale. By Erin Griffith On September 10, 2012 Like it or not, the curators are coming. And I’m not talking about the kind that work with Art.sy. Pinterest, Tumblr and the Trouble With ‘Curation’ Le Guide de la curation (7) - Les perspectives. Les « curators » veulent bouleverser l'organisation des contenus Web. Curation - A View from The Future: Ross Dawson. “Curation is the new search”… et le nouveau média. La puce et le neurone : deux mots sur la « curation »
Social Media Curation. Curation - The Third Web Frontier. Posted by Guest Writer - January 8, 2011. Content Curation: Why Is The Content Curator The Key Emerging Online Editorial Role Of The Future? Technology, curation, and why the era of big bookstores is coming to an end. What Makes A Great Curator Great? How To Distinguish High-Value Curation From Generic Republishing. Registry Browser Web GUI. Vous vous sentez curator dans l'âme ? Découvrez Scoopt.it!, un outil prometteur !
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