Robin Good: Interesting discussion and video: is social media sharing equivalent to "curation"?
Is it more important to create or to curate?
"The SalesChaosTV guys, Dan Waldschmidt and Todd Schnick, bounce around content curation vs. content creation as means to an end in social media marketing today."
"Content creation or content curation? Are you a curator if you are retweeting the content of others?
Should you be retweeting it at all if you haven’t read it?"
Good points being made. 8/10
Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TS1sDiYjno&feature=player_embedded 
Original article: http://socialmediatoday.com/saleschaostv/562939/content-curation ;
***** I think this is a difference without a distinction. There is much more to curation than the mere RT or repost mentioned here (spoken like a non-curator). You can always tell a non-curator because they think curation is easy. Curation starts with a distinct philosophy, an idea worth reinforcing. This article, for example, fits part of the three conversations I care about: curation revolution, Internet marketing and, like Robin, I care about cool tools, software and startups.
I write more than I curate, well some days approach 50% / 50%, and the one informs the other. I create different content because I curate content and vice versa. My creation is more informed by the reach of my curation. My curation revolves around the polls I noted at the end of the last paragraph.
I like where this conversation ends - that curators inform creation and that makes me happier than when they started. Late bust on Paper.li that seems cheap and thin, but generally, as Robin notes, an interesting conversation. Not sure I would go as far as Robin on this one. Feels more like a thin 7 than a rich 8 for me.
Marty
Excellent explanation from Robin:
« Thank you Marty for your positive comments and analysis. I am giving these guys an 8, because I want this topic to surface more as I think this IS the topic that needs the most discussion.
As you know well, I have long been pointing to Scoop.it how counterproductive is their marketing strategy, which does exactly the opposite of what I'd consider appropriate, and ethical: mixing and replacing curation with personal expression and social sharing which have really nothing to do with each other.
I think that most of the confusion stems specifically from the very fact that those who know nothing about curation, are served these marketing mantras such as "finding great content to share on your social media channels" or "easiest way to build a gorgeous magazine" which they swallow with the whole bag.
Curation has nothing to do with the above.
My "8" to the video is generous, you are correct. But it is given as an encouragemente and sign of appreciation to anyone who sticks his head out more on this topic, rather than looking the other way.
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Robin always has amazing logic for everything he does. He is the father of curation as a concept and this comment and his incredible daily curation demonstrate why. Marty
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