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Great source for Information Professionals about curation as a key information skill for 2012:
This great piece was written by Tim Kastelle - it is one of the best articles on curation, the observations and insights take this to a whole new level. So much to digest, lots to ponder about the possibilities that await us in 2012 and beyond.
Here are some of the highlights:
**"We create economic value out of information when we figure out an effective strategy that includes aggregating, filtering and connecting."
**"Filtering is what helps us deal with the vast amount of information available to us."
"...the real question is, how do we design filters that let us find our way through this particular abundance of information?
****And, you know, my answer to that question has been: the only group that can catalog everything is everybody." (Clay Shirky)
**We try to filter information so that we end up with something that is relevant to us – it helps us learn something, it helps us solve a problem, it helps us develop a new hypothesis about the world around us.
**These are all connections – and this is what really drives value creation.
**However, we can’t connect without some filtering going on. So filtering is important, and it’s a term that includes several different sub-types. I can think of at least five forms of filtering.
...we can use these ideas about filtering to help with business model innovation by changing where it takes place in the value network.
**One of Shirky’s points is that since Gutenberg, the economic logic of publishing required publishers (of books, music, movies) to act as filters in order to maximise their investment.
**As publishing and filtering has shifted out to human networks, publishers no longer need to fill this role.
**Someone (or some network) needs to, and since that creates value, it’s something that can perhaps be monetised.
This piece was curated by Robin Good brief commentary by Jan Gordon
Check this video: http://vimeo.com/8748509
Read the full article by Tim Kastelle: http://timkastelle.org/blog/2010/04/five-forms-of-filtering Via Robin Good, janlgordon 
Beth Kanter's comment,
December 30, 2011 1:47 PM
Thanks for picking this up out of Robin's stream. I personally love Harold Jarche model of Seek, Sense, Share - and have adapted as a framework to help those are just starting with curation ....
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"Interesting article by Neil Perkin where he distinguishes 3 aspects of content curation: algorithmic, manual and social. Via gdecugis 
Olivier Cauchois's comment,
December 7, 2011 6:15 AM
Plein de sens! A decliner sur le sujet des digipromos
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![Curating Information & Making Sense of Data Is a Key Skill for the Future [Research] | The Information Professional | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/KrkxRVnH-00QDsqHCUKTTTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Extremely valuable skills for Infrmation Professionals of the future:
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.
By looking at the set of emerging skills that this research identifies as vital for future workers, I can't avoid but recognize the very skillset needed by any professional curator or newsmaster.
It should only come as a limited surprise to realize that in an information economy, the most valuable skills are those that can harness that primary resource, "information", in new, and immediately useful ways.
And being the nature of information like water, which can adapt and flow depending on context, the task of the curator is one of seeing beyond the water, to the unique rare fish swimming through it.
The curator's key talent being the one of recognizing that depending on who you are fishing for, the kind of fish you and other curators could see within the same water pool, may be very different.
Here the skills that information-fishermen of the future will need the most:
1) Sense-making: ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed
2) Social intelligence: ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions
3) Novel and adaptive thinking: proficiency at thinking and coming up with solutions and responses beyond that which is rote or rule-based
4) Cross-cultural competency: ability to operate in different cultural settings
5) Computational thinking: ability to translate vast amounts of data into abstract concepts and to understand data-based reasoning
6) New media literacy: ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms, and to leverage these media for persuasive communication
7) Transdisciplinarity: literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines
8) Design mindset: ability to represent and develop tasks and work processes for desired outcomes
9) Cognitive load management: ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques
10) Virtual collaboration: ability to work productively, drive engagement, and demonstrate presence as a member of a virtual team
Critical to understand the future ahead. 9/10
Curated by Robin Good
Executive Summary of the Report: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapolloresearchinstitute.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Ffuture-work-skills-executive-summary.pdf 
Download a PDF copy of Future Work Skills 2020: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapolloresearchinstitute.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Ffuture-skills-2020-research-report.pdf   Via Robin Good, janlgordon
Beth Kanter's comment,
December 20, 2011 7:34 PM
Thanks for sharing this from Robin's stream. These skills sets could form the basis of a self-assessment for would-be curators, although they're more conceptual - than practical/tactical. Thanks for sharing and must go rescoop it with a credit you and Robin of course
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December 20, 2011 7:56 PM
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Agreed. It's also one of the articles I told you about....good info to build on:-) Delete the scoop?
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Brian Rice wrote this piece for Business 2 Community
"What is in store for 2012? With only two months remaining until the end of the year, there is no better time than now to pause and take a look towards the future."
Here are a few things that caught my attention:
Elias Roman, CEO and co-founder of Songza
First, the easy prediction: more and more of the information we consume on a daily basis (from news to product reviews to entertainment) will come via the social media channels we have opted into and, more specifically, from the information filters we have chosen to subscribe to in those channels.
****In the short term, more information will come from more sources delivered through fewer channels.
Tony Ellison CEO from Shoplet.com
****Social media can insert the missing human touch and allow mankind to tap into the full potential of the internet. Because of this, it is going to transform eCommerce as we know it.
Loren McDonald, VP of Industry Relations at Silverpop
The convergence of mobile, social, local and email, or “mocial,” is forcing marketers to change the way they interact with customers and prospects to ensure that they are where their customers and prospects are, all the time. In 2012 and beyond, savvy marketers will need to cross promote between all channels.
Read full article [http://bit.ly/um8j7u]
Via janlgordon
janlgordon's comment,
November 3, 2011 11:21 AM
Hi Karen, Thanks for rescooping this, nice to meet you here:-)
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