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Content curation - The Knowledge Effect. 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 most important component of this job is the word "continually. " This is how marketing expert Rohit Bhargava defines what he thinks is one of the key emerging online editorial roles of the future. But don't take my word for it. Intro by Robin Good by Rohit Bhargava About Rohit Bhargava. Open Source Software Tools And Directories: Where To Find Them, How To Evaluate Them. If you are searching for Open Source software, where do you find good directories and collections of OSS tools, and how do you evaluate the many candidates available?

Open Source Software Tools And Directories: Where To Find Them, How To Evaluate Them

Photo credit: Ophelia Cherry Unless you are looking for popular popular open source software - such as the ones available in the SourceForge top downloads or the few ones backed by vendors like Apache, Linux, MySQL, PHP, eMule, GIMP, OpenOffice or VLC, Google search might not be your best solution to find specific open source software to suit your needs. For example, if you search for an open source web editor on Google, you won't find BlueGriffon, a web editor based on the Firefox rendering engine Gecko (a tool I recommend to try either if you are an experienced or a beginner web author).

Looking at Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn lists of favorite open-source tools, it is clear that these OSS tools are definitely not something the average person has ever heard of. How do you find good open source software, easily? 1. Content Curation – How To Quickly Add Value As Information Marketers. March 16, 2011 Content Curation – How To Quickly Add Value As Information Marketers By Dr.

Content Curation – How To Quickly Add Value As Information Marketers

Mani Sivasubramanian in Writing Content curation, a term that gained popularity in 2010, is the art of culling relevant, valuable and useful information from the vast ocean of data, and presenting it in a cohesive, interesting and comprehensive style that gives a ‘big picture’ view of a specific niche topic. No longer can anyone claim that they can peruse and make sense of all the content that exists (and is being constantly added) on even a very narrow range of subjects. 47 million websites were added in 2009 and an estimated 550 billion documents exist online today. The role of a content curator was first proposed around 2004, when the catchy term ‘Newsmastering’ was introduced by Robin Good of MasterNewMedia.com to describe a dedicated content analyst who would gather, collate and categorize content from various sources and compile it for consumption by those who are interested.

Absolutely not. Le Guide de la curation (3) - Les outils.