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Infografía sobre curación de contenidos. The role of curators in storytelling as tribal influencers and bankers. We are increasingly confronted by more and more content, and that is why many of us appreciate services that help us discover the gems.

The role of curators in storytelling as tribal influencers and bankers

Google tackles the problem with advanced search algorithms, but we also rely on brands and publishers. Another solution, to the problem, is the role of the curator. Do you want to learn what curating is? Please watch the video above. Many companies and organizations use influencers to help them reach out to people. Curators as dumpster divers I was in a discussion with Olga Kravets, a netnographer, and she proposed that curators serve their tribe like dumpster divers. Something really interesting happens in the curation process, because stories don’t have intrinsic value. Curators represent a new type of tribal leadership that operates bottom-up and peer to peer. Curators can be utilized by organizations as tribal translators, guides and messengers.

Curating and sharing stories should be understood as part of a knowledge economy. Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship. Editor’s Note: Maria Popova is the editor of Brain Pickings, a curation of “cross-disciplinary interestingness” that scours the world of the web and beyond for share-worthy tidbits.

Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship

Here, she considers how new approaches to curation are changing the way we consume and share information. Last week, Megan Garber wrote an excellent piece on whether Twitter is speech or text. Yet despite a number of insightful and timely points, I’d argue there is a fundamental flaw with the very dichotomy of the question. While Twitter can certainly be both, it’s inherently neither. And trying to classify it within one or both of these conventional checkboxes completely misses the point that we might, in fact, have to invent an entirely new checkbox. Las dudas deleznables de una mente dispersa. Curator's ǝpoɔ. Introducing The Curator's Code: A Standard for Honoring Attribution of Discovery Across the Web. By Maria Popova UPDATE: Some thoughts on some of the responses, by way of Einstein.

Introducing The Curator's Code: A Standard for Honoring Attribution of Discovery Across the Web

UPDATE 2: This segment from NPR’s On the Media articulates the project well — give it a listen. Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.” ~ Ray Bradbury You are a mashup of what you let into your life.” ~ Austin Kleon Chance favors the connected mind.” ~ Steven Johnson As both a consumer and curator of information, I spend a great deal of time thinking about the architecture of knowledge. Until today. I’m thrilled to introduce The Curator’s Code — a movement to honor and standardize attribution of discovery across the web. One of the most magical things about the Internet is that it’s a whimsical rabbit hole of discovery — we start somewhere familiar and click our way to a wonderland of curiosity and fascination we never knew existed.

* Pearltrees: Una herramienta para organizar, compartir, encontrar y visualizar información. Herramientas que nos faciliten el trabajo hay millones en la red, pero de vez en cuando se encuentran algunas que reúnen las cualidades que buscamos.

* Pearltrees: Una herramienta para organizar, compartir, encontrar y visualizar información

Este es el caso de Pearltress un servicio gratuito que permite organizar la información que resulta de nuestra exploración en la red y a la vez funciona como marcador social, lo que la diferencia de otras herramientas de este tipo, es que utiliza la metáfora de una árbol de perlas para facilitar la categorización de los temas, los que a su vez se pueden subdividir mediante ramas. De este modo, se obtiene una visualización de nuestra información en una suerte de mapa conceptual muy didáctico. Pearltress se suma ahora a mis herramientas favoritas para curación de contenidos, pero puede ser de gran utilidad en otras áreas como las educativas donde se puede usar para hacer mapas conceptuales multimedia ya que cada perla puede contener un URL, una foto o una nota.

Características. SmartThings. Curation Tools. Recovered Diccionario básico de Pinterest. Content Curation for Education and Learning: Robin Good @Emerge2012. The 5 Models Of Content Curation. Curation has always been an underrated form of creation.

The 5 Models Of Content Curation

The Getty Center in Los Angeles is one of the most frequently visited museums in America – and started as a private art collection from one man (J. Paul Getty) who had a passion for art. Aside from a few well known examples like this one, however, the term curation has rarely been used outside of the world of art … until now. One of the hottest trends in social media right now is content curation – thanks in no small part to the leading efforts of several thought leaders actively promoting the idea. Se habla de … Curadores de contenido en educación. Por Miguel Ángel Ariza Buscar y filtrar en la web, gestionar, descubrir, Identificar tópicos, producir contenido, compartir, citar la fuente, actualizar tópicos, hacerlo con determinado calidad y enfoque, son las acciones que definen un buen proceso de curación de contenidos.

Se habla de … Curadores de contenido en educación

Son muchas y conocidas las herramientas que se utilizan para ellos: Scoop, Storify, Curationsoft, Pearltrees, Page One Curator, Tumblr, Pinterest, Paper.li, Snip.it, … Pero, ¿qué ocurre si hablamos de educación? Curación de contenidos. Curación de contenidos: concepto, exigencias y oportunidades El acceso a la información ha superado, gracias a los avances tecnológicos, las limitaciones de antaño.

Curación de contenidos

Hoy estamos por el contrario expuestos a una intrincada red de datos que precisa de estrategias específicas para transformarlos en valor. La curación de contenidos es una de ellas y se refiere al proceso de seleccionar información relevante mediante una estrategia y criterios previamente trazados y encaminado a la obtención de un informe final. Cyborg no more! The BBC moves to human-edited Twitter feeds. Move over, auto-tweets: This week, the BBC has switched its @BBCNews Twitter feed to all-human curation.

Cyborg no more! The BBC moves to human-edited Twitter feeds

(One small step for a news feed; one giant leap for newsfeedkind.) It’s a lot like the experiment The New York Times tried with human Twitter curation this spring…except that it’s not an experiment. It’s a new strategy. The Art of Curation, Part 1 : Being a Curator. Content curation » Search Results. Megan GarberFebruary 1, 2011 One of the biggest challenges in covering the unrest in Egypt — or, for that matter, in covering any event that’s in some way “foreign” — is determining who can provide relevant and accurate news about the event.

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To curate content is in large part to curate expertise; faced with a frenzy of news updates — some of them true, some of them false, some of them in-between — how do you know which updates, and whose updates, to listen to? How do you know whom to trust? Rich Content Daily: Latest Tips, Tools & Ideas. SmartPress - Custom web publishing from start to finish. Data Driven Journalism.