We don’t have a problem of “information overload”… we have a problem of “filter failure”. And even as you’re reading this massive money is being spent to create better filters. And the best filters are those which allow humans and computers to both do what they do best… in a new thing called “collaborative intelligence”.
Content Curation. We’re starting to hear about it all over the place! But what is it?!
Karan Bavandi is the founder of KBucket.com (a curation platform I’m still figuring out). He’s very vocal about content curation and his Twitter account is worth following for that reason…
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Here are a couple of good slide decks on the topic. There are many!
Here are a couple of curation tools (or platforms) to look into. The first is Storify, and I’m using it to write my blog! The second is scoop.it, which is a curation platform many are playing with. The difference is that Storify (in my opinion) does a better job of giving you easy ways to bring content in from the outside.
Storify gives me a Chrome extension, which I love! I can grab pretty much anything from anywhere on the web, and bring it into a Storify story that I’m working on. I can then move it around, add my own editorial comment around it, etc. Very nice!
Here’s the ubiquitous Robert Scoble talking to the Scoop.it founder…
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Be The Curator of Your Favorite Topic! | Scoop.it
Create your topic-centric media by collecting gems among relevant streams Publish it to your favorite social media or to your blog
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Finally, everyone has their opinion on what makes a great content curation platform, and you’ll need to make up your own mind. Here’s a review of a whole bunch.
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30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use
Posted By WebAdvantage.net on Aug 19th, 2011 As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, "information overload" is something we all seem to suffer.
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Has content curation appeared on your radar? Do you as a blogger realize the power you have, not to be a subject matter expert but to be an expert curator?!
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I have to agree about filtering. There is an information overload going on in our society, and most of what passes for “news” is nothing more than a gilded pile of dung. Filtering out things you couldn’t care less about would make things a lot easier.
Excellent curation on curation!
Your opening quote is great, Clay Shirky definitely nailed it with that and was the one that got me interested in this space. It’s fascinating to see what people are doing with the incredible amount information out there.
Content Curation is one the most easy and at the same powerful and effective techniques if we know how to use our brain so that we can convert RAW material into highly PRODUCTIVE stuff.
Anyway thanks a lot for sharing this as nowadays many folks are accepting this techniques in their work and also getting their expected results.
Great compilation of information! I would definitely agree that content curation is a useful and prevalent practice, particularly in today’s marketing, social media, and journalism industries. I would argue, however, that the best content curators are also experts in the subject matter that they are presenting. How else would they accurately identify valuable information? Wouldn’t you say, Alister, that the reason this article is successful is because you are an expert content curator?
I am trying to get my head around the difference between content aggregation and content curation. They are both so close; sharing content written by others.
You mention that journalists are content curators then go on to say…they don’t write so much as organize and represent raw information from elsewhere… would that then be called content aggregation? Content curation seems so very similar it is about rearranging content to make sense of something already written, presenting only the most relevant parts of the formation to readers.
Perhaps the difference is in how it is presented with content curation differing only by the addition of an introduction or explanation from the one organizing the information.
Thank you for the information. I was wondering what content curation was, its less complicated than it sounds!
yes agree about filtering. There is an information overload going on in our society, and most of what passes for “news†is nothing more than a gilded pile of dung. Filtering out things you couldn’t care less about would make things a lot easier.
Thank you for the information. I was wondering what content curation was, its less complicated than it sounds!
Thanks a lot about this post. I was researching about the meaning about content curation and now I have enough to read.
Going through ta content curation recently i was going through it thanks for your tips it will help me in my topics
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