Scott's comments: At Pacific Ridge School, we are discussing ways to further engage faculty and students in their learning. Thank you for this helpful presentation
Others' comments: "Over the last couple of years, I’ve come to think of my role as a teacher as that of a curator of ideas" says Corinne Weisgerber who teaches Social Media and Communication at St Edwards Unniversity in Austin, TX (if you haven't yet, check out her great prez here).
As she explained in this post, the Curation Project was about getting her students "to set up a network of online mentors using social media tools" and "to identify experts in their field and connect with them in order to build a personal learning network (PLN)."
The idea behing the PNL is to help them discover valuable information through social search that they wouldn't have discovered otherwise.
Interesting project and read.
And great work by the students who used various curation platforms for the project, including Storify and Scoop.it (links in the post) Via gdecugis 
In his recent business trip to Australia, Edelman’s Steve Rubel discussed his thoughts on the future of the media with Yvonne Adele at Social Media Club Melbourne.
Here a few highlights from the article:
"Content surplus as a bankable trend: In an era of self-publication (for brands as well as individuals) and increased noise we’re all faced with the problem of too much content and not enough time. For media companies, scaling this information and providing value through quality curation is a great opportunity to solve this problem for the consumer.
Steve’s top tips for being a quality curator:
a) Be knowledgeable and well read on your subject matter of choice;
b) Save materials for later reading – it’s all an opportunity to be well informed and provide value to others;
c) Focus on depth, not breadth. As Steve said, he knows a lot about a few things, and little about most things.
People want to connect with the human element of a brand and those that work for the organisation.
Journalists and media are now community managers. The have to see their role not only as a reporter/journalist/presenter – but as a brand ambassador who is able to acquire consumers and an build an audience through these channels.
Steve’s top three emerging trends for media?
1) Building business models that incorporate curation;
2) Increased data mining and analytics about real-time engagement with media content;
3) The increased importance of facebook’s open graph.
Read the full article http://j.mp/H17F45
Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSRhDqeBtmg Via Giuseppe Mauriello, Robin Good 
This could become an imporant infrastructure component for #nonprofit content curation - very exciting development. Looking forward to learning more.
Robin Good's excellent summary follows:
From the official page: "extraMUROS is an open-source HTML5 infrastructure built on public APIs that aims to fundamentally change the way people discover, curate and share digital collections of books, images, sounds, video and other media.
extraMUROS is a unique collaboration between the metaLAB (at) Harvard, Frances Loeb Library, the Harvard Library Lab and a network of journalists, designers and developers."
From the official video: "extraMUROS is a groundbreaking project that aims to shape the Digital Library of America into a multimedia library without walls through an open-source HTML5 platform built on public APIs.
Extramuros strives to fundamentally transform how people:
a) Discover
b) Curate
c) Share digital collections.
Extramuros is made up of four key features: Interconnectedness between libraries, museums, and national archives and repositories (Flickr, YouTube, Internet Archive, tec.) of all kinds.
2) Visual Discovery
3) Curation A collaborative curation system open to anyone to bring together collections, exhibitions or galleries combining text, images, audio and video.
4) Multi-Channeling Accessibility online and on iPads and other mobile devices."
Robin Good: This looks like a very promising project, which brings together and pioners some really innovative approaches in search and discovery of content.
As can be seen in the video, a Chrome extension has already been developed, helping active curator to easily collect content in a variety of formats and from very different kind of sources, into browsable collections.
Inspiring. 8/10
(Transcription by Robin Good) Via Robin Good 
The notes below are from Robin Good. It is good to understand the frameworks on which tools are built. It also made me think of my human ways for curating - and that I use a combination of 1, 2, 4, and 5.
-------------- According to the Romain Goday, there are five distinct approaches to content curation. They are:
1. The Expert Approach: Curators
2. The Crowd Approach: Popularity
3. The User Behavior Approach: Personalization
4. The Relationships Approach: Social Graph The social graph is an increasingly used approach to curate information.
5. The Patterns Approach: Emergence
And for each one it provides an in-depth description, pros and cons as well as example of real tools utilizing that approach.
He concludes with a simple but insightful point:
"Most of those approaches are combined by content curation tools in an attempt to increase information relevance for the users.
Tools cannot effectively understand the context of the user.
So the challenge is to reduce the noise without filtering information that could be valuable for the user.
Just as a reminder, it would require 413 IBM's BlueGene supercomputers to replicate the operational capabilities of the human brain. So there is no doubt that successful tools need to leverage the human abilities instead of replacing them."
I would additionally underline, how important it is, for those very tools that claim to cater to curators and content curation needs, to better develop their noise filtering abilities without taking away opportunities for relevant discovery, instead of trying to guess what we may prefer or want.
For all content curation tools this is a urgent challenge to overcome or curators will be very soon incapable themselves of sifting through the huge quantity of news they will be receiving.
(Curated by Robin Good) Via Robin Good, Beth Kanter 
I love a good infographic. And this provides some especially helpful cross-industry insights.
RobinGood: MicKinsey has published a wonderfully curated selection of data from five of surveys about business and web 2.0. Using the interactive, you can track the performance of each technology through the years or customize the view to compare particular technologies side by side.
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Our own IdeaEncore Network (www.IdeaEncore.com) is a platform for nonprofit knowledge sharing that allows customized categorization and embedding your own branded library on you website. Similar to SlideShare and other places for sharing your nonprofit resources and tools.
from RobinGood: A great collection of useful content curation resources, articles, tools and people to follow for those working in the non-profit sector.
It includes the following curated sections: Why Curate?Getting Started Best Practices for Content Curation Tools Additional Resources (In this light you may want to check also the two recordings of my contribution to the last NeVC Conference here:
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With the popularity of the concept of Knowledge Management, more and more enterprises have realized the importance of knowledge, which has already become enterprises'economic resources and the source of competitive advantages. Robin Good: Probably one of the best researched, best produced and most informative video clips about content curation I have seen so far.
Highly recommended. Via Robin Good, Beth Kanter This video does a nice job of making the case for why paying attention to what "friends" say alone is insufficient. Content curation combines diverse perspectives to ensure we don't filter out perspectives that disagree with our own ... and this process of cross-pollination should lead to more innovation.
When Brian Solis called 2011 the "year of curation," he identified a growing trend in how people are addressing the issue of information... Via renee fountain, Robin Good 
Curating and sharing links on the web is a hot space. Delicious has relaunched, and services we’ve written about like Snip.it are trying to get you to share all of your links on its service.
Utopic goes a step further in helping you discover and share links, videos, music, and pictures that are relevant to you with its brand new gorgeous design and visual bookmarking launch.
Utopic had this to say about its new visual bookmarking feature:
With one click you can now save, tag, share and later quickly recover anything on the internet that you find interesting.
Topic-based content discovery through other people sharing your interests is still there as well, albeit with a new design and navigation. Via Robin Good 
I hope to introduce a variety of curating tools to classes and individual students this year. While this is an exciting way for learners to discover how to manage their information worlds, not everyone actually needs or wants to curate every single time they begin research.
Students and teachers can exploit the curation efforts already out there.
In fact, the new curation tools present an exciting new genre of search tool, a tool for scanning the real-time environment, as well as opportunities for evaluating quality and relevance in emerging information landscapes.
Because a couple of my seniors selected autism as an area of interest for their senior project, I’ll use this topic as a sample search in five of my favorite new search tools. Via Robin Good |
The question of how to easily 'share' and provide 'attribution' (to encoureage more sharing) is an important question. I remain unsure if adding a manual layer on top of a hyperlink is destined for widespread adoption. But I'm interested to learn more. Thanks, Maria Popova Via gdecugis It's always good to be reminded not to take ourselves too seriously.
Tx Beth: This is hilarious! Worth a few minutes to listen and laugh. Tx to Noland Hishino for sharing it. Via Beth Kanter 
From Scott Bechtler-Levin: The value of a our indivual "like" is directly related to the consistent level of quality of the content and inversely related to the volume.
From Beth Kanter: This article was curated by Robin Good. He wrote a reflection on the article, quoting different parts and adding a new snappy headline.
For me (Beth Kanter), it's Focus - it's a no brainer. The secret of good curation is a pause - a pause to read the article, think whether or not it is worth sharing, if sharing - add your view.
Here's notes from Robin about Seth's post:
The ensuing noise tsunami will make it rapidly evident that it is not more content or information that we need, but humans -aided by intelligent tools- that can help others find and make sense of the information and resources out there.
"...either be better at pump and dump than anyone else, get your numbers into the millions, outmass those that choose to use mass and always dance at the edge of spam (in which the number of those you offend or turn off forever keep increasing)...
or Relentlessly focus.
Prune your message and your list and build a reputation that's worth owning and an audience that cares.
Only one of these strategies builds an asset of value."
Original article: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/12/the-trap-of-social-media-noise.html Via Robin Good, Beth Kanter ![The Internet Is Full [Infographic] | Nonprofit Knowledge Sharing | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/5FpzIQOz6uyZlCeErFAo4Tl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
"We created this infographic to depict how “full” the internet is. While it’s technically impossible for the web to fill up, it is very clear that web surfers are well past our limits of time and patience it takes to find the best information on the topics that interest us."
Very interesting infographic that explains a real problem: the internet is becoming this infinite source of "information", but when you don't have any filter, it's just become a (stressful) noise. How many times you just have the feeling you can never ever follow "everything" that happens on the web even if you spend hours on it. The web should be this medium that helps us to find faster what we are looking for and not the opposite. Curation is not only a trend, it's just a necessity. We know "how important human curated content has become. Curation is truly a valuable service to web surfers who have neither the time nor the patience to sift through mountains of links and data"
Curation is a means to make the web meaningful again. Publishing your curation work is a great way to control and create a new identified resource of info. Context and Content can't be disconnected anymore.
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Fresh out of the Be Good Be Social Toronto conference, Marco Campana shares in detail both the deck from his presentation on "how to become a trusted source though online curation" as well as his own strategy and workflow when it comes to curate content.
"We need folks whom we trust to lead us to where we would not go on our own.
Ideally, these people will do more than just lead us to good work; they will expand our mind, and widen our social circles.”
In this equation, you and your reputation are key.
What’s awesome for charities/nonprofits is that you already have this legitimacy/authority in your field. People trust you.
It means that they’ll pay attention to what you’re curating/sharing."
Interesting. 8/10
Read the fulla rticle here: http://www.activelypassive.com/2011/11/sharing-is-caring-becoming-a-trusted-source-through-online-curation/ Via Robin Good, Beth Kanter 
From RobinGood: Interesting excerpt from this article:
"Content is in the center of it all.
Few organizations have an overarching strategy that channels all this branded content into a consolidated planning model. In parallel, we see lack of defined leadership for overall orchestration and accountability for content-driven programs.
This will become a business priority as companies seek more discipline in how stories are conveyed – not to mention cost savings that come with more disciplined sourcing, curating and production.
Look for new leaders and content functions to emerge to support a range of marketing disciplines and community programs. And as part impart new ways to help teams understand how content plays holistically within plans that reflect the way people now consume and share content...." [read full article http://j.mp/uGwFo8] Via Giuseppe Mauriello, Robin Good Thanks to @kanter for sharing this. The presentation prepared by Robin Good for the National eXtension Virtual Conference 2011 - gives you a framework for seeking, making sense, and sharing - so that you content curation builds thought leadership and your expertise. This deck comes for a session that Robin and other master curators did for the ExTension (I was supposed to be a discussant, but couldn't make it) The recording and materials from other presenters is here. http://about.extension.org/2011/11/03/2011-national-extension-virtual-conference-great-success/ Via Beth Kanter Excellent presentation delivered from Margot Bloomstein to the Web 2.0 Expo 2011 audience on October 11th on the topic of content curation. Via Robin Good 
Tony Karrer wrote this post on September 7, 2011 - I find it extremely relevant and am interested in looking at the possibility of curators collaborating on content around a specific topic and how that might evolve in the future.
I had the priviledge of listening to Clay Shirky today talk about harvesting collective wisdom and the implications of that. There are no accidents as this piece seems to be exploring an aspect of this subject.
Tony is reacting to a blog post he read, Ville Kilkku titled: Klout, Triberr, paper.li, and the future of content curation. He has some very good observations, too many to list but I've highlighted a few things to set the tone for the article.
Three Major Trends in Curation
**From individual content curators to crowdsourced content curation: Individuals cannot keep up with the pace of new content, even though they have better discovery tools than before.
**Crowdsourcing can, although it is not suitable for promoting radical new ideas: the dictatorship of the masses is unavoidably conservative.
**From manual to semi-automated content curation: Individual content curators are forced to automate as much of the process as possible in order to stay relevant.
**From content curation to people curation: When there is too much content, you vet the content creators, manually or automatically. Those who pass get exposure for all of their content.
****How do these trends interact? This is particularly interesting to me and it will be fascinating to watch this evolve.
****Social networking of the content creator is vitally important in order to create an audience as isolated content becomes increasingly difficult to discover and
****curation focuses on people instead of individual content.
**Build it, and they will come, is dead.
Curated by JanLGordon covering "Content Curation, Social Media & Beyond"
Read more........... http://www.aggregage.com/blog/curation/people-curation
Via janlgordon, Robin Good, Beth Kanter This is an interview Robin Good recorded in Rome, Italy in 2009, over 2 years ago. At the time the bubble around content curation had not yet exploded, making his questions and answers from Gerd particularly interesting.
Curated by JanLGordon covering her topic " Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond" on Scoopit.
Intro:
Gerd Leonhard reminds us that context is just as important as content itself. Not only archiving, organizing and tagging it so it can be found but also adding to the piece by making your own comments, reviews or additional information you may have about the subject.
Intro:
http://www.MasterNewMedia.org - Media futurist Gerd Leonhard explains the relevance of context in content curation. Context is now as important as content, b...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDo6YrJKaoM&feature=related Via janlgordon, Beth Kanter, Robin Good The new Stacks feature allows anyone using Delicious to build a collection of links, photos, videos or other content types, and to tag, sort it and display according to their preferences. Via Robin Good |
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