Content curation is part of an overall strategy to tame information chaos. For me, it’s all about knowing, learning, sharing and teaching, all in one!
Here I am exploring the concept, theory and practice of social networking technologies within the context of libraries and the work of information professionals.
As always, a good compilation from iLibrarian. 
The Google+ Common Name policy will never be the same. Google now allows both nicknames and full-fledged pseudonyms on Google+. 
Anyone can learn how to use social media (an opinion based on five years experience, delivering across four continents, to hundreds if not thousands of people (we’ve lost count), across countless of industries and sectors). We have yet to find one person who couldn’t click a few buttons, be inspired to use online platforms with the technologies they already own plus see the value and benefit it would bring to their role. The golden rule of social media use : it’s just like being in a big room, full of real people. Everyone already has the skill to be human.. 
"Make sure you follow your organization’s policy on social media use, and share it with coworkers whose behavior may pose a threat to your company’s network. A seemingly innocent mistake can not only compromise your own PC or mobile device, but it also can expose your organization to malware that results in the loss of sensitive data. You can also lose your own social identity when the virus writer resets your password and takes over your account". 
When you use social media your behaviour and content is not only a reflection of you but also of your Library. 
People rarely spend their time reading these days, and visits to the library are even scarcer. Most of the time is spent on the internet, using social media websites. The Milwaukee Public Library hopes to win back some visitors with three billboards to snag interest. All of these play on logos of popular websites Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, and encourage users to read a book instead. 
Imagine one fine day Facebook or Twitter suspends your account. You apply for reactivation and then wait until the account is restored, but there is a good chance of your account never seeing the light of the day leaving you with no option but to open a fresh account and start all over again.
Social media plays a dominant role in our lives and it is estimated that 22 percent of all time online, or one in every four and half minutes is spent on a social network. Shutting down a Twitter or a Facebook account literally erases one’s online identity along with the data has been shared with friends over the years... Via Martin Gysler 
In her post about social media trends in 2012 Beverly Macy says content curation is important because people want to know what's important and they want to discover interesting and relevant content.
This is a good read for Librarians stepping into social media and curation. 
But as the digital generation becomes ever more insular, now a string of social networks are seeking to help us reconnect with our neighbours. [Question: what can libraries adopt in this scenario?] 
Curation is already becoming an overused word but it's an increasingly important one. Not least because the way in which we discover content that we like or find useful, and how it gets in front of us or gets our attention, is changing radically. With an explosion of choice and noise, and attention becoming the new scarcity, how we choose to curate what gets that attention (or, as below, how it is curated for us) is hugely important to anyone in the business of creating content. And let's face it, that's now everybody. So here's my take on the three pillars of content curation that will increasingly (and already actively) shape the future of content consumption and distribution: 
Google has announced the inclusion of Social Media Hub, a way to measure social media performance in Google Analytics.
Charles Arthur: Guardian Technology is switching its bookmarking system over from the ex-Yahoo Delicious service (now owned by the YouTube founders) to Pinboard, a paid-for service. You won't notice any difference. So long, Delicious. It's been fun, but in the end the combination of Yahoo's indifference and the attempts by your new owners Avos to turn you away from being something like the plumbing for the net, and into a sort-of news windows, haven't worked out for us. The upshot is that we're moving from your free service to the paid-for bookmarking service provided by Pinboard. It's the end of a longstanding relationship, but at the end of the day (and into the night) we needed plumbing. |
Research is by its nature social. We build on one another’s ideas and we share ours publicly to keep the conversation going. But it’s not social the way Facebook is. Facebook is a data-gathering machine. It’s a blank slate on which we write so that they can aggregate and monetize what we freely share. When I search, I don’t want what I wrote in an email or what I watched on YouTube to change what I find. Sure, there are places where my scholarly interests blur into my idle curiosity and into my social relationships. I also know that my choice of search terms and even the questions I decide to ask will be influenced by things I have read or conversations I’ve had. But somehow, I want search to be pure, not influenced by my own limitations and blind spots. I want to find what is out there, not what I’ve already expressed. I A new study by Millennial Branding, of 4 million Gen-Y Facebook profiles from Identified.com‘s database of 50 million, uncovers that Gen-Y (ages 18 to 29) is inadvertently using their profiles as an extension of their professional personality, even though they are socializing with family and friends. 64% of Gen-Y fails to list their employer on their profiles, yet they add an average of 16 co-workers each to their ‘friend’ group. 
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Like many other business activities, Social Media requires planning, measurement, proper objectives and professional staff member/s to execute. 
You need curation. Web curators aren't writers, because they are more concerned with locating, selecting, and presenting information than writing original works. Curators do, however, write text that frames, explains, contrasts ...
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Robin Good: The Institute for the Future and the University of Phoenix have teamed up to produce, this past spring, an interesting report entitled Future Work Skills 2020.
"Makerspaces just might take over libraries. School of Information Studies professor Dave Lankes seems to think so. In his presentation to New York State librarians earlier this month, he asked the roomful of librarians to imagine libraries as places for people to learn and create, not consume and check out. In another talk he gave in October, he declared, “What will kill our profession is not ebooks, Amazon, or Google, but a lack of imagination.”
What’s a Makerspace?
Via Buffy J. Hamilton, Buffy J. Hamilton, Karen du Toit 
Brief tour of the mobile ecosystem with an emphasis towards "online information" professionals in order to understand the big picture. |
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