Leadership Think Tank

Many companies and organizations use influencers to help them reach out to people. Curators are an interesting breed of influencers. However their full potential can only be understood and appreciated through the lens of their tribes. Tribes are groups of people gathering around strong passions or emotions like hiking, gardening or ABBA. Curators do not work in isolation, but in relation to the people that share their passions.

Curators as dumpster divers

I was in a discussion with Olga Kravets, a netnographer, and she proposed that curators serve their tribe like dumpster divers. They dive into containers to rummage through heaps of garbage to find useful stuff that can be re-purposed. When they are done they bring forth their scavenged gifts to their tribe.

Something really interesting happens in the curation process, because stories don’t have intrinsic value. An unshared story is basically like rubbish, lying around without any value. Stories gain their meaning and value by sharing, but it’s not as simple as that. The curator imparts her own value, status and trust, upon the story.

Curators represent a new type of tribal leadership that operates bottom-up and peer to peer. As a member of a tribe, curators will always be more native and relevant than any outsiders will ever be. Within a tribe they are not only appreciated for leveraging their insider skills, but for sustaining and developing their culture.

Curators Are The True Influencers | @scoopit via @RobinGood

The world has changed and so did the economy. From an agricultural to an industrial world, we've now moved into the post-industrial era where knowledge is the true currency and a lot of us are knowledge workers.

In this great post, Elia Morling explains how he views content curators as playing a key role as a "money handlers, changers and lenders all wrapped into one."

Applies to blogs, webs and social media.

Also applicable to libraries!

A fantastic article on why you should curate content, share it and give your personal touch on the matter. 

This short article provides five solid reasons why one needs to curate. Needless to say, I've bought into the idea anyway

Read the other comments, they are better that what I could write. See below.

Here are six of the most common ways you might be holding yourself back at work without realizing it.

What can you learn from the "greatest general the world had seen since Alexander the Great."? What did his costly victory teach him - and can teach us about our need to be right?

Reflections on our first year of 1:1 (success and challenges) using Haiku Deck #ipaded #ipadedu #slide2learn #ettipad #txidea  

Full post here: http://www.techchef4u.com/?p=5132

At the end of 2012, comScore estimated there were 52.4 million tablet owners in the U.S.; Applesold another 19.5 million iPads in the first three months of 2013 alone. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that some companies, such as Roambi, Tableau, and Bloomberg are starting to offer mobile, touch-aware data visualization apps.

But dropping your desktop user interface onto a tablet doesn’t really take the best advantage of all of those touches and gestures now, does it?

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here are plenty of open design questions to work out for touchable data visualization: How to make intuitive gestures that are easy to discover and remember, whether touch may have advantages in data storytelling interfaces, and how to blend gestures into more traditional UI designs, among others. And deep research questions are also waiting to be resolved. Petra Isenberg, a researcher at INRIA in France, published a paper on data visualization on interactive surfaces that stipulates some key questions: “[We] don’t fully understand how touching virtual data affects comprehension or memorability of information,” she writes.

So whether you’re a practitioner or a researcher, there is a lot to work on here. Not only will tablet usage continue to grow, but other opportunities for museum installations, kiosks, and large-format presentation systems offer plenty of use-contexts to explore data visualization that takes advantage of the full interaction bandwidth afforded by these new displays and devices

53% of Social Media is about Tech, Travel and Food (sounds like a Talking Heads song :).

probably true, but so unbelievable! 

Great little trick!

A MUST read!!!

A MUST read!!!

Another useful tool by Google. Great for business and teaching!

This is AWESOME!!  Teachers will LOVE having the ability to add audio comments.

Update/Tip: I tried it out-if you have to change your original document-just copy it and add voice to it-121 Writing doesn't sync with your Google Docs updates.

Instructors are always looking for ways to add audio feedback-I'd much prefer adding voice messages to my student's Google Docs then just text like I have in the past.

I love these kinds of lists, I always seem to find something new.