CreativePeople Curator Curator responsibilities[edit] In smaller organizations, a curator may have sole responsibility for the acquisition and care of objects. The curator will make decisions regarding what objects to take, oversee their potential and documentations, conduct research based on the collection and history that provides proper packaging of art for transportation, and shares that research with the public and community through exhibitions and publications. In larger institutions, the curator's primary function is as a subject specialist, with the expectation that he or she will conduct original research on objects and guide the organization in its collecting. In the United Kingdom, the term curator is also applied to government employees who monitor the quality of contract archaeological work under Planning Policy Guidance 16: Archaeology and Planning (PPG 16) and are considered to manage the cultural resource of a region. In France, the term curator is translated as conservateur. See also[edit]
Column Five: Infographics, Data Visualization and Motion Graphics Beth Kanter's Blog Interactivity - Marketing Interactivo Content Curators Are The New Superheros Of The Web Yesterday, the ever-churning machine that is the Internet pumped out more unfiltered digital data. Yesterday, 250 million photos were uploaded to Facebook, 864,000 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube, and 294 BILLION emails were sent. And that's not counting all the check-ins, friend requests, Yelp reviews and Amazon posts, and pins on Pintrest. The volume of information being created is growing faster than your software is able to sort it out. What's happened is the web has gotten better at making data. While devices struggle to separate spam from friends, critical information from nonsense, and signal from noise, the amount of data coming at us is increasingly mind-boggling. In 2010 we frolicked, Googled, waded, and drowned in 1.2 zettabytes of digital bits and bytes. Which means it's time to enlist the web's secret power--humans. If you want to understand how fast curation is growing on the web, just take a look at Pinterest. 1. How will curation evolve?
Howard Rheingold | Exploring mind amplifiers since 1964 Mary Meeker's speech today: Re-imagination of Content Distribution Mary Meeker remains one of the best content curators and summarizers on the current state of the Internet. Her latest presentation delivered today in Rancho Palos Verdes, California at the D10 can be seen in full here courtesy of Business Insider. The presentationshows that Web growth remains high and that mobile adoption is still at an early stage. It also highlights current economic trends in the United States and indicates that there are seriously mixed results in monetizing mobile web use. We thought slide #20 was very interesting showing how terrible average revenue per user is for mobile users compared to desktop ones. If you don’t have time to go through the 125 slide deck a you can get a feel of her views on content distribution in the video below: Post by Dino Joannides
A Few Good Pinterest Tools, Tips, and Resources Back in January, I wrote a post about Pinterest as a curation tool to organize and share visual content I’ve collected in a pleasing visual way. As the platform has evolved over the past few months, there are some other benefits including driving traffic and conversions and more recently how pinning helps encourage audiences to “like” the brand more. I’ve be facilitating a few introductory workshops and briefings about Pinterest for nonprofits with a goal of explaining it, what it does, benefits, and examples of how nonprofits and others are using it. Source Convince and Convert 1. Convince and Convert has a terrific post by Chris Sietsama called ”Abandonment Issues: What To Do With Content Archipelagos” in which he asks you take a bird’s eye view of your content and figure out if there is a content area that is “standing alone” and not integrated into your overall strategy. 2. Repinly is a site that analyzes Pinterest users and content. 3. 4.
The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators I keep hearing people throw around the word “curation” at various conferences, most recently at SXSW. The thing is most of the time when I dig into what they are saying they usually have no clue about what curation really is or how it could be applied to the real-time world. So, over the past few months I’ve been talking to tons of entrepreneurs about the tools that curators actually need and I’ve identified seven things. First, who does curation? But NONE of the real time tools/systems like Google Buzz, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, give curators the tools that they need to do their work efficiently. As you read these things they were ordered (curated) in this order for a reason. This is a guide for how we can build “info molecules” that have a lot more value than the atomic world we live in now. Thousands of these atoms flow across our screens in tools like Seesmic, Google Reader, Tweetdeck, Tweetie, Simply Tweet, Twitroid, etc. A curator is an information chemist. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Content Curation: Bringing Order to Information Overload By Christy Barksdale | Posted | 16 Comments | Filed in: Content Marketing Content marketing, the publishing of relevant, link-worthy content, has been all the rage for marketing professionals for several years. A recent survey conducted by content marketing authority Junta42 shows that companies, especially small businesses, are continuing to spend more on content marketing each year because it is more effective than traditional marketing for differentiation in the marketplace. Leads, sales and client retention are better achieved when companies are resources for their customers and help solve their pain points. Now, the new wave of content marketing has arrived: content curation. What is content curation? Rohit Bhargava defines a content curator as someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online. The content curation debate Curation: The purists vs. the realists Social sharing: Aggregation vs. curation Curated searching