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Content Curation Is Listening and Engaging. Content curation is the 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.

Content Curation Is Listening and Engaging

But finding and organizing the information is only half of the task. As Mari Smith points out in this video about why curation is important and some tools for doing it. By sharing the information and giving credit to the source where you found the link, you build relationships and a network. I used to describe this process as “Listening and Engaging” but really like focusing it the process around a content strategy – makes listening and engaging much more actionable. Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart). Bruce Lesley is one of a growing number of nonprofit executive directors and senior leaders that use Twitter.

What do the experts say? 20 plateformes de curation à expérimenter. Content Curator - help. ContentWise : Podcasts. Curating Content, Podcasts - Content - Digital Curation - Eqentia. Trafcom News Podcast 107: Content curation by donnapapacosta. Curation is the New Creation. I think it was inevitable.

Curation is the New Creation

First, the web, then blogs. Content is king. Then Facebook, and then Twitter, and social media is real. Long live the king. The king is dead. Damn, I don’t need another social media platform. But those are all so last year. Small wonder that Tumblr, Pinterest, Paper.li and others like them are taking off like crazy. 2012′s going to be the year of content collection, and curating. (Image: click it. Agregar, filtrar y curar contenidos como destrezas esenciales en la educación del siglo 21. Uno de los retos principales que enfrenta el ciudadano digital es cómo enfrentarse a la abundancia de contenidos que está disponible en todo momento. Mientras en tiempos pasados el problema era uno de escasez de información, hoy en día se habla de “infoxicación” y de la fatiga cognitiva que experimentamos al estar siendo bombardeados por los medios. El estudiante del siglo 21 deberá tener las destrezas necesarias que le permitan agregar, filtrar y “curar” contenidos para configurar lo que Alejandro Piscitelli ha llamado una “dieta cognitiva”.

El curador de contenidos online. La nueva profesión para construir visibilidad, autoridad y valor. Por Elia Lombarda A medida que estamos cada vez más sumergidos por una riada interminable de información, los encargados por los contenidos en línea pueden proporcionar un nuevo servicio, valioso para todos aquellos que buscan información online de calidad: una selección personalizada, cualificada de los mejores contenidos y más relevantes y recursos sobre un tema muy específico.

El curador de contenidos online. La nueva profesión para construir visibilidad, autoridad y valor

Curados en tiempo real. Forget Content Curation, Focus on Original Content in 2012. Bianca Brigitte Bonomi: The Art of Curation. The art world can be a fickle place, but to Hans Ulrich Obrist it remains unfalteringly loyal.

Bianca Brigitte Bonomi: The Art of Curation

Co-director of London's Serpentine Gallery, founder of the Brutally Early Club (for busy people who breakfast at dawn), interviewer, archivist, and one of this year's Crunch festival speakers, he is, indisputably, an art world powerhouse. In 2009, he became the first curator ever to top ArtReview's 'Power 100', an accolade previously reserved for artists, gallerists, and collectors including Francois Pinault, Damien Hirst, Charles Saatchi and Larry Gagosian. This year's list, published earlier this month, saw him reach number two. "Twenty years ago the notion of curation was a rather more obscure one", he says. "I remember telling my parents as a child that my dream was to become a curator. Digital Curation: A How-To-Do-It Manual. What Makes A Great Curator Great? How To Distinguish High-Value Curation From Generic Republishing. Today content curation is "sold", promoted and marketed as the latest and trendiest approach to content production, SEO visibility, reputation and traffic building.

What Makes A Great Curator Great? How To Distinguish High-Value Curation From Generic Republishing

But is it really so? Is it really true that by aggregating many content sources and picking and republishing those news and stories that you deem great is really going to benefit you and your readers in the long run? Is the road to easy and effortless publishing via curation tools a true value creation business strategy, or just a risky fad? How can one tell? Photo credit: theprint Let me clarify a few key points: 1. 2. 3. 4. For these reasons, I think that much of the apparent new curation work being done is bound to be soon disappointed by the results it will gain.

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Privacy respected — we will never share your information. Mid-Size Businesses Get Busy on Twitter By Chris Knight | Thursday Feb 6, 2014 In the rush to generate a social media presence, we've seen enterprises speaking from on high and smaller shops boosting their presence through social networks. Now, the middle ground comes to the fore as more mid-sized business ramp up their engagement on Twitter. The Content Strategist as Digital Curator. The term “curate” is the interactive world’s new buzzword.

The Content Strategist as Digital Curator

The local good - Home. Web Aggregation Needs To Get Smarter.