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November 1, 2022 5:30 AM
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Dorlee Michaeli's curator insight,
November 24, 2015 9:07 PM
Robin Good wisely notes that the added value a curator brings to the table is his/her time, the judgment of whether the particular article(s) are of value and what items to highlight.
Jeff Domansky's comment,
August 3, 2016 2:30 AM
Robin, my view is that better tools help us be better curators. Finding higher quality content faster allows more quality time for curators to add more valuable insight. I welcome better time-saving tools. Cheers!
Robin Good's comment,
August 3, 2016 5:00 AM
Jeff: Like if we got a better Photoshop we could do better images. The talent is not in the tools, but in our heads. Tools can help, but they can't make you do better work than what you are capable of. Practice is what does it. My two cents.
cheersitskatie's curator insight,
June 22, 2020 8:10 PM
I think curating content to reflect our own personalities and interests is key in creating a loyal audience with whom we can feel more connected.
Jenn's curator insight,
March 15, 11:08 AM
"When we curate content online, it enhances who we are, both in the sense of... - we learn things, and we help to define ourselves by understanding our own interests - and in a more external way, by allowing other people to better understand who we are. It becomes part of our ethos, part of our personal brand." Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University offers an interesting insight into why curation is such a valuable activity for humankind by pointing out that our efforts to gather, collect and order the information chaos surrounding us, is a critical activity to understand ourselves, to learn more about anything, to make sense of the world we live in. Even at the lowest, most amateurish level of social sharing or bookmarking, our best efforts to collect and order information, even when they are imperfect, incomplete or even inaccurate, do have great value. The value is in the opportunity we create for others to discover, to get a better hint or a better understanding, of what we have collected and sorted. And even when collecting is a personal act of self-expression or a reflection of a pet interest, still, there is value, as "people are a very important way by which we can order our understanding of the world". Content curation enhances who we are because it helps us Understand and Navigate the world we live in through someone else eyes and experience. Inspiring. Truthful. Great perspective from which to look and appreciate the full value of curation. Highly recommended. 10/10 Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKu3HBEgtZ4&feature=youtu.be Original full video lecture by Dr. Gideon Burton: https://youtu.be/JUvdnhanDjU Dr. Gideon Burton: http://english.byu.edu/faculty/gideon-burton https://twitter.com/wakingtiger https://www.linkedin.com/in/gideonburton The Forest of Rethoric an example of valuable content curation created by Dr. Gideon Burton
Grouptech21's curator insight,
March 10, 2016 3:54 PM
Silk is a web tool to publish online spreadsheet-based data on a specific topic. The service, which just released a new version of its offering, allows to easily convert any existing data-set into professional-looking data displays, charts, grids, and lists that can be embedded on any site and which can be viewed in multiple ways. The value of Silk is specifically in making it easy and immediate for anyone to elegantly display and publish data sets in one of several alternative formats which include: Table ListGrid MosaicGroupsBarsMapDonutLinePieScatterStacksHow it works: Import a table from Excel, Google Sheets or any .csv file, select the fields you want to import and Silk does the rest offering you tools to filter, edit and select your preferred visualization approach. You can also create data sets and displays from scratch inside Silk, and set each Silk either as public or private. Why it is relevant for content curators: Silk provides a unique and powerful opportunity to leverage existing data and information assets, spreadsheets and databases and to convert them into highly legible and visually impactful data displays on a very specific topic. My evaluation: Paired with the power of Kimonolabs or Import.io to convert any website or page content into a spreadsheet, it offers great potential in creating value by providing multiple professional formats to display, present and interact with such data. Free forever for public Silks of up to 3000 pages. Try it out now: https://www.silk.co/ Video tutorials: https://www.silk.co/product
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
April 28, 2015 4:18 AM
Via Robin Good: "PressForward is a full-fledged RSS feed reader and aggregator which can capture content coming from any site while allowing full editing and curation abilities. It is an ideal tool for news curators wanting to have a news gathering and discovery tool integrated into their standard publishing and editing environment." #curation
Mike McCallister's curator insight,
April 28, 2015 9:27 AM
Curating and sharing content is an important way of building your authority in your writing niche. If you really want to understand how to curate, follow Robin Good's "Content Curation World" on Scoop.it. Robin shared this WordPress plugin that can help you find and post interesting content directly inside WordPress. I'll be testing this soon.
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
April 27, 2015 8:34 AM
A news curation tool. A possible alternative to Scoop.it. Easier to use, but not as feature rich (e.g. lacks some of Scoop.it social sharing and publishing options)
Reading time: 5 mins
Joyce Valenza's curator insight,
April 27, 2015 8:39 AM
A new curation tool, similar to Scoop.it, without the discover features. Simple and promising for creating on-the-fly boards and organizing topical content. via @robingood
Filomena Gomes's curator insight,
April 18, 2015 9:54 AM
Robin Good's insight:
This article points out in multiple ways and with some interesting supporting data how big is the problem for schools and educational institutions in trying to identify relevant tools to adopt in absence of expert trusted guides that they can rely on.
The Hechingerreport writes: "...school leaders on this new frontier face a daunting challenge: from the slew of highly touted new products, how do they pick the right ones? “It’s hard for our people to know what all of the choices are,” said Penny Hodge, the assistant superintendent of budget and finance in Roanoke. “Maybe there were even better choices and we weren’t aware.” Today’s school leaders must navigate a market with little trustworthy evidence to show what works. Billions of dollars are being spent while educators try to untangle a maze of sales pitches." The problem of identifying the most appropriate tools, services or products is not a problem limited only to the education sector. Just about anyone who is not an tech-expert in his area would have a hard time today finding the most appropriate tools in the midst of so many offerings and so little trustworthy information about them.
"Part of the reason is that credible evidence often isn’t available. Only one-third of school technology directors surveyed said that education technology companies offer reliable data on their products, according to the survey."
The solution to this issue is already starting to emerge in the form of both non-profit and commercial companies who will devote their time and resources to scout, test, verify and review tools while providing the means to search, filter and compare them easily. Graphite.org, Edshelf are just two among many emerging examples of "reputable curation websites, with professional reviews and a social media component" that provide a one-stop solution for those in need of an expert and trusted guide in the tools for education area. Must read for anyone interested in better understanding where we are headed when it comes to choosing tools.. 9/10 Full article: http://hechingerreport.org/as-market-surges-schools-struggle-to-find-the-best-tech-products/
Check also this excellent head-to-head coparison between Graphite and EdShelf: http://www.psla.org/blog/edshelf-vs-graphite/
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
March 24, 2015 4:54 AM
Put simply - Google (and for that matter any commercial search engine) may skew search results to promote their own commercial interests. The question to ask yourself is "are the (search) results good enough?" - I'd say in Google's defence "yes they are".
Reading time: 5mins
Pali's curator insight,
March 10, 2015 8:35 AM
Newsletter marketing is a ploy that is being successfully used by many industry tools and these tools can help you setup your newsletter.
LibrarianLand's curator insight,
March 11, 2015 8:48 AM
Might make a good project for students; create your own newsletter.
Filomena Gomes's curator insight,
April 18, 2015 9:52 AM
Robin Good's insight:
Notwithstanding the viral content-marketing tam-tam keeps selling the idea of content curation as a miracle-shortcut to work less, produce more content and get all of the benefits that an online publisher would want to have, reality has quite a different shade.
Unless your readers are not very interested themselves into the topic you cover, why would they take recomendations from someone who has not even had the time to fully go through his suggested resources?
Can that be useful beyond attracting some initial extra visibility?
How can one become a trusted information source if one does not thoroughly look and understand at what he is about to recommend?
A lot more than the one needed to create normal original content. Read, verify and vet each potential resource, by taking the time needed to do this thoroughly. Make sense of what that resource communicates or represents / offers and be able to synthesize it for non-experts who will read about it. Synthesize and highlight the value of the chosen resource within the context of your interest area. Enrich the resource with relevant references, and related links for those that will want to find out more about it. Credit and attribute sources and contributors. Preserve, classify and archive what you want to curate. Share, distribute, promote the curated work you have produced. Creating it is not enough.
These are many more steps and activities than the ones required to create an original piece of content.
Robert Kisalama's curator insight,
April 18, 2015 11:37 AM
truly Curation should not be merely aggregating different links without taking off time to reflect indeed it is very to end up like some one buying clothes impulsively only to realise you could have done without some of them. |
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Jenn's curator insight,
March 15, 11:08 AM
If you are a novice content curator do not go for quantity. That is not what makes the difference. Go for high-quality, and consistency. Steer away from the temptation of republishing or sharing anything that you have not read and vet in full. "The best curators out there did not build such impressive followerships by carelessly retweeting, sharing or promoting low-quality content. These brilliant individuals: a) never curate an article that they haven’t read in full,
b) never support something they don’t believe in, c) never get lazy. How do you think they would look in the eyes of their fans if they judged content based only on a title and the first two paragraphs? Lack of quality is the number one downfall of content curators. Granted, your audience will not be increasing by the thousands, but if you prioritize quality over quantity the people who choose to follow you will actually matter." My comment: Key strategy n.1 (and n.3) in this article are the only one worthwhile paying attention to. The other ones are, in my opinion, actually misleading. You don't need to focus on latest trendy content and breaking news, curating content other than text is a well known strategy as much as the obviousness of keeping your focus always in sight.
Gilbert C FAURE's curator insight,
December 16, 2017 6:54 AM
principles are very good!
examples are not so well known, so not successful.. to monetize, you should find people interested in paying your time
cheersitskatie's curator insight,
June 22, 2020 9:05 PM
These slides give extremely good examples of successful and profitable content curation in a good range of situations. I think content curators can really benefit by seeing and understanding how strategies, tools, and concepts work together in practice.
Nurita Sánchez's curator insight,
January 29, 2016 3:13 PM
Cómo usar las colecciones: http://www.ilusual.com/como-usar-las-colecciones-de-google-plus-guia
wanderingsalsero's curator insight,
November 2, 2016 4:57 AM
This is interesting because it shows how far the concept of 'Curation' has come in the last 10 years. I don't remember much about it but I remember that in the early days of Blogger, perhaps even before Google bought it, they had a tool or bookmarklet or some little button that had certain curation abilities. My first blog was on Blogger and I remember using that tool. Later, I maintained a Posterous blog for a couple of years...maybe more. I liked Posterous a lot and was very sad when they sold it (Posterous) to Yahoo and then about a year later those jerks at Yahoo closed it down. I thought Posterous was a very nice blog with just the right amount of features to get the job done without getting too technical.
Felix Grobe's curator insight,
June 9, 2018 10:43 AM
Google has just introduced "Collections", for Google+, a new service which allows any Google+ user to group his posts by topic and to create public, shareable collections of his favorite links, articles, videos and images. To use Google Collections, simply go to your G+ profile page and then select "Collections" on the drop down menu appearing on the top left part of the page. "Each collection can be shared publicly, privately, or with a custom set of people. Once you create your first collection, your profile will display a new tab where other people can find and follow your collections." You can either create new posts containing whatever type of content inside a collection, or assign an existing, published post to a collection you have just created. You can create as many collections as you like. Google+ Collections is available on the web and on Android (iOS coming later). My comment: Google+ Collections adds opportunity for creating additional value to G+ users by letting interests drive community engagement. This is a feature that sooner or later any social network will offer. Free to use. Try it out now: https://plus.google.com/collections/welcome More info: Official Google announcement: https://plus.google.com/+googleplus/posts/7ZpGWeou2sV Featured collections: https://plus.google.com/collections/featured See also the official review from Techcrunch: Video tutorial: https://youtu.be/gtVNkbtS9g8
Ken Dickens's curator insight,
April 30, 2015 12:14 PM
Great explanation of why a Content Curation strategy is one of the best ways to build brand preference. We call this a "Give to Get" strategy. It builds relationships and trust. -Ken www.2080nonprofits.org
Dr. Helen Teague's curator insight,
May 1, 2015 9:20 AM
From Robin Goode's scoop note: " "If you can be a guide, a clearinghouse, a trusted place from where to learn, appreciate and understand more, there is no amount of outbound links that is going to counter the magnetic force you will express to those who are interested in what you are pointing to." This is why the fear every company has about content curation - talking about *others* in the same field - has not only no reason to exist, but it is also downright counterproductive as soon as others start using it. Content curation is a venue to make sense of existing information to facilitate access, discovery, comparison, understanding, both on the side of who curates as well as on the one of those who benefit from it. Part of my inspiration in becoming so passionate and interested in content curation, has been ignited by a post that appeared in 2004, on Robert Scoble's popular tech blog.
Those sites will take you to the coolest stuff on the Internet. And by doing that, Engadget and Gizmodo have BECOME the coolest places on the Internet. Just like Craig's List, Google, eBay." Takeaway: The more valuable resources, info and tools you share with your audience/community the more trustworthy and reputable you will appear in their hearts and eyes. "Send your visitors away" is a simple but valuable content marketing advice and it is at the heart of what a good content curator does. Finding and sharing great resources that would have otherwise gone unnoticed. "
Read more: http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2004/11/03/want_some_attention_tell_your.htm
Robert Scoble original post: http://radio-weblogs.com/0001011/2004/10/31.html#a8544
See also this slide deck I did in 2007: http://www.slideshare.net/RobinGood/be-your-own-boss
Image credit: Showing direction by Shutterstock
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
April 7, 2015 6:12 AM
A couple of great finds from master Curator Robin Good. As he notes
"This is an interesting trend as in the past most tools to deliver educational content relied on the author creating and posting only his own materials. The fact that you can now include valuable content published by others opens up the gates both for the curation of lots of existing content into useful learning courses as well as for the issues of whether and how to compensate curated content from others"
Reading time: 5mins
Filomena Gomes's curator insight,
April 18, 2015 9:57 AM
Robin Good's insight:
New interesting tools make it possible to create online courses and full online learning programs, by drastically simplifying the design process while providing simple tools to curate and bring together valuable existing content already published online.
The first I'd like to bring to your attention is Classmill, which makes it very easy to create online courses by providing a very simple and intuitive interface and allowing the author to add with ease his own texts, as well as images, links and video clips coming from elsewhere on the web. Anyone can publish an online course and make it visible to everyone. Only those who register and join in can see the full contents and can participate in the integrated discussion area for the course.
The second one is Learnyst, which goes one step beyond Classmill by facilitating the creation of a full online school with multiple courses and the ability to charge for selected ones.
Both tools are extremely easy to use, and allow the assembly of existing materials, whether owned or produced by others.
This is an interesting trend as in the past most tools to deliver educational content relied on the author creating and posting only his own materials. The fact that you now can easily include valuable content published by others opens up the gates both for the curation of lots of existing content into useful learning courses as well as for the issue of whether and how to compensate curated content from others.
This economic issue though, does not preclude tons of free high-quality content to be re-used and showcased in many new free learning courses and it provides those who want to learn with even more non-commercial alternatives to master their favorite topics.
Takeaway: You are going to see more of these tools and more subject-matter experts create valuable learning resources by bringing together key relevant content produced by others while adding tangible value, perspective and context.
Check out these two tools: - Learnyst - Classmill
Other curation tools for learning moving in the same direction: - Gibbon - Learnist - Educrate
More content curation tools organised in categories:
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
April 4, 2015 11:40 AM
A very useful resource for anyone thinking of delivering on-line courses. Simple to use, and free!
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
April 7, 2015 7:42 AM
Classmill, Finally a content curation tool directly devoted to Online Courses. It's an excellent web tool for teacher, trainers or educators. Easy of use and very intuitive: collect your links, photos, files, videos, articles, clips, etc... and melt them onto learning modules Try it out now: http://classmill.com
Caren Taubman Glasser's curator insight,
March 6, 2015 11:43 AM
@Robin Good always has great information. Check out his online classes to learn what you need to know about content curating.
Gonzalo Moreno's curator insight,
March 6, 2015 3:42 PM
There's always teachers, and MASTERS, like R.Good!
Marta Torán's curator insight,
February 17, 2015 1:31 PM
Newsletter con tus enlaces curados favoritos.
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
February 10, 2015 11:55 AM
Another excellent personal information management tool, HT to Robin Good for spotting. |
Wonderful school project uses musical performance to promote the value of curation for learning.
From an original idea by @JoyceValenza.
(2011)
Lyrics:
Curation, Curation Curation!
Curation, Curation. Curation!
Who day and night must aggregate the content, pull together knowledge, harness all the feeds
And who must make sense of media, tags, and text, keeping learners up to date, at school
Librarian, Librarian
Curation!
Librarian, Librarian,
Curation!
Who do we rely on for creative stuff
What’s best so we avoid the fluff?
Who must point the way to stuff that’s good enough
So we don’t miss the stuff that’s really buff!
The Network, the Network. Curation!
The Network, the Network, Curation!
At ten my three-ring notebook really held all my school stuff.
I know by now that binder can’t contain my research
The student, the student. Curation!
The student, the student. Curation!
And who does TL teach to curate with new tools,
So we can gather knowledge both in and out of school?
The learner, the learner! Curation!
The learner, the learner! Curation!
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Starring:
Ben Vizzachero
Emma Coltoff
Jelli Vezzosi
Jordi Shuster
Daniel MacFarland
Thanks to Monica Femovich
Song parody by
Joyce Kasman Valenza.
Based on "Tradition" and "Matchmaker" from Fiddler on the Roof.
Music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.
Republished and subtitled with permission.
Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial
More info: http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2011/10/22/curation-the-musical/