Joseph Bachana's Blog. I recently had a nice state-of-the-book industry chat with a friend who works at a higher education book publisher.
Her job is essentially to think up and implement new products with existing content that her company retains the intellectual property rights to. During the conversation, we started reminiscing about college days when we needed to go to the reference section of the university library to check out a packet of photocopied ancillary material that the professor selected to augment the core texts. I remember how unpleasant an experience that was, principally since only several copies were ever made available and if they were checked out, you had to wait. Other professors were a bit more generous if not ecologically deficient by allowing us to purchase packets of those copies at the beginning of the semester. Three Tips for Curating Your Audience - John Sviokla. Is Content Curation in Your Skill Set? It Should Be. by David Kelly.
“Curation is an important skill to develop, especially in an environment in which more and more organizations shift towards self-directed learning for their workers.
Now is the time for learning and performance professionals to develop this new skill set.” Curation is a term that is rapidly growing in popularity and is directly impacting the world of workplace learning and performance. In a world where the amount of information available to workers doubles every 18 to 24 months, it is impossible to keep up with the seemingly endless supply of it. In his book Curation Nation, Steven Rosenbaum describes it this way: “Curation replaces noise with clarity. And it’s the clarity of your choosing; it’s the things that people you trust help you find.” Good Curation VS Bad Curation. What is good curation versus bad curation?
The image is a remix of a presentation entitled “Link Building by Imitation” and authored by link building expert Ross Hudgens — and explains the skill set pretty well. The original image used words like “theft” and “steal” and prompted a debate amongst curators like Robin Good who selected the resource and curated it. Robin’s point in curating this resource: