7 Tips To Help You Focus In Age of Distraction: Are You Content Fried! Mindmap by Jane Genovese This morning I learned a new word for information overload – “content fried” from a colleague at the Packard Foundation. It resonated. We have so much content in our professional lives. I’m talking about the stuff we consume daily to keep inform of our professional field. Then there’s the whole other world of organizational content that you need to consume or create to get stuff done! For those of us who work on social media and networks, “content fried” is an occupational hazard. I’m finding that my learning and online work is a fast forward, swimming in the stream experience. Howard Rheingold calls this process managing your attention or “Infoattention” and it is what he has been teaching in his courses. I decided to spend a little bit time reflecting on the diagram and pull out some tips for re-learning focus: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) What are your tips to help you focus in an age of distraction?
Content Curation Content Curation is the process of sorting through vast amounts of web and enterprise based content and presenting it in an organized and meaningful format. An individual who performs this activity is known as a content curator. When training organizations are responsible for providing intellectual or knowledge-based content through an online means of delivery, such as a learning portal, the information that is published must be aggregated, sorted and displayed in a relevant and usable way. This activity is the responsibility of one or more content curators. The growth of content curation as an essential process prompted its addition to the Training Process Framework in 2012. In general, the training profession has identified five specific activities that can occur within the process of content curation: The role of content curation – and the importance of curators – has expanded dramatically with the “information explosion” stemming from the internet and digital technologies.
Creating a Content Curation System and Increasing Social Media Productivity One of the most common questions we hear from prospects and clients is: How can you be effective with social media marketing while preventing it from being a major time sink? To be honest, this is a daily challenge even for us. The fact of the matter is social media marketing is very labor intensive and difficult to scale. Between upfront strategic planning, creating unique content that genuinely helps and engages people, and constantly monitoring customer feedback, time management quickly becomes a struggle. Creating a Content Curation System and Increasing Social Media Productivity Having simultaneously managed social media for Strategexe and multiple clients, I’ve been pushed to find the most efficient ways to stay on top of social media. Below is a description of how I find and organize content for social media updates, which you can easily use for your business! Setting Up a Content Curation System Finding Authoritative Sources Always measure the audience. Wrapping Things Up
The Seek > Sense > Share Framework [This article appears in Inside Learning Technologies January 2014] Simple standards facilitated with a light touch, enables knowledge workers to capture, interpret, and share their knowledge. Personal knowledge mastery is a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world and work more effectively. But what we loosely call knowledge, using terms like knowledge-sharing or knowledge capture, is just an approximation. We are not very good at articulating our knowledge, says knowledge management expert Dave Snowden: “We always know more than we can say, and we will always say more than we can write down.” Becoming knowledgeable can be thought of as bits of knowledge partially shared and experienced over time. Merely being well-read is not enough to be knowledgeable, as possibly first noted by Socrates. The Seek, Sense, Share Framework Capturing knowledge, as crudely as we do, is just a first step. Seeking is finding things out and keeping up to date.
Content Curation Guide for SEO - What, How, Why The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. When it comes to the Internet, I imagine it as the warehouse where the Ark is archived at the end of Indiana Jones – Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Ark is that outstanding content someone has produced and that no other will be able to see again, because it is forgotten and hidden between gazillions of other contents. Apart from the gigantic volume of pages present in the Internet, for a long time, search spam has been making the discovery of reliable sources difficult; and – let's be honest – Social Media has enhanced this issue, because it added even more noise and dispersion. To tell the truth, this problem is not new. What is Content Curation? Since the beginning of time, human beings have collected the best humanity has produced in art, literature, science; we invented the museums, the libraries, the Encyclopedia and have written essays and done research.
Work Out Loud: Personal Content Curation Strategy Part 1 | Rustic Learning Ramblings I’ve been doing a lot of research and experimenting trying to figure out my personal knowledge management strategy. In addition to learning from Harold Jarche and Stephen Dale, I came across a MOOC on content curation a few weeks ago (check it out the platform is really cool!). This is where I found Beth Kanter and her Content Strategy 101 article. In her article, she provides a questionnaire to help you get started. I’m going to work through this questionnaire on this blog to hold myself accountable and hopefully provide others with a bit of inspiration. Content Curation Goals In a previous post I discussed my core desired feelings. What is the value that self-directed learning can bring to your work? Self-directed learning helps me to stay current in my profession (learning & development), gives me the ability to connect with others (a key core desired feeling) and provides me a sense of wonder (this world is amazing and I love learning about it). What do you want to accomplish? My Topics
Digital Publishing: Curation vs Collection vs Experience Content curation can be a powerful way to serve those in your market, and establish a unique brand position that differentiates you from your competitors. Today, I want to explore that challenges of curation, and compare how it differs from merely ‘collecting.’ (Note: by curation, I mean to care for, and carefully select which content is shared, with the idea that removing something can sometimes make a collection even stronger.) Curation has been a big buzz word in online publishing for a long time now. While the word implies many great things: selecting only the greatest content for your audience – it can be a challenge for media companies to do this. With unlimited server space and free distribution, the temptation can be too great to share AS MUCH content as possible, with the theory that they are better serving the many sub-niches of their market. This can be easy to justify. This reminds me of a behavior pattern I have seen before: collections that people have as hobbies.
Future of Curation: 5 Ways Curation is Changing Curation is everywhere these days. If you have not heard, it’s made a mark in almost every area of the online world. In the past year alone, content curation has been on the front page of the New York Times, no less than 3 times. There have been dozens of books written about curation, many specifically discussing curation in the context of marketing. Since 2009, search and news volume on Google for curation has grown more than ten fold. Curation has changed how we receive news content (Huffington Post, Reddit, Drudge Report), how we shop online (Etsy, Svpply), and how we share with each other (Twitter, Pinterest). Similar to blogging 10 years ago, curation is a land grab right now. As content curation become so ubiquitous and the amount of content online continues to grow, curation will have to evolve accordingly. More Human Touch – Curation & Creation Become One and the SameCurrently, becoming a resource on a subject can be achieved through aggregation.