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I really liked this article by Romain Goday from Darwin Ecosystem about content discovery tools and particularly the way he described the element of the "human touch" and why they go hand and hand.
His description of the human part of the equation eloquently describes the process of a content curation.
Intro:
Content discovery tools have been trending towards taking over an increasing part of the selection process by filtering out information.
Content Selection Should Remain a Vital Part of the User Experience
Excerpt:
While tools carry the advantage of computing and aggregating information quickly on the user’s behalf, the user possesses a number of natural skills that tools cannot adequately take the place of.
Here are a few of the most important ones, as they relate to selecting and identifying relevant content:
Users are contextual thinkers:
The relevance of a piece of information depends highly on the context of the informational need.
The motivation and goal of the user determines what information is important and what information is not.
Users possess relevant expertise: The user’s expertise helps them to predict the implications of a particular event.
It also allows the user to identify anomalies that take place in the usual development of an event based on their experience with the topic.
Users make sense of patterns: The human brain can easily understand the relationships between multiple events.
This ability to interpret patterns is critical to understand and identify what is going on and how it’s developing.
Curated by JanLGordon covering "Content Curation, Social Media & Beyond"
Read full article: [http://bit.ly/sUQxGs] Via janlgordon, catspyjamasnz 
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In this video, natural language processing expert Russell Wright from Theme Zoom explains the difference between premium curation for corporations and curation for small businesses.
There is some very good information for small businesses.
Here are a few things Russell talks about:
He suggests tools for aggregating information, (he mentions Curata a lot for corporations and he has a relationship with them and it almost seems like he's plugging them a lot, but stick with it, you might find one or two things that will help you along the way).
Here are a few things he talks about:
**how to have the right site architecture for good SEO
**adding context, how to use curation to show your expertise using the monitization model, he explains this in more detail.
**Provide a better valued insight or create a new conversation, give your opinion on the content you're curating, find a creative way to add meaning without going overboard.
**You have to be clear about what service you're providing, reduce your topics and themes by only having 4 or 5 keywords so you are continually providing valuable information to your audience.
**Don't be too broad, match your topic with your brand message.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV--va4x2n0 Via janlgordon
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Food for thought from Toddi Gutner for Business2Community:
I found this piece particularly interesting and wanted to call your attention to it. It's one of those things we all experience everyday, but do we really stop to ask ourselves this question:
****Are You Mobilizing Communities or Just a Voice in the Crowd?
I've personally covered events online, tweeting the main points live and although I was able to filter and capture the essence of what was going on, I had to go back and really absorb the information and then try to apply it to my business effectively. (not always an easy task) :-)
It's a juggling act but one I think we're all experiencing on one level or another.
Excerpt:
Continuous Partial Attention (CPA) is the process of paying simultaneous but superficial attention to a number of sources of incoming information.
This term, coined by writer and consultant Linda Stone in 1998, aptly describes the scene at the recent Council of Public Relations Firms Critical Issues Forum on Social Revolution:
This is what particularly caught my attention:
**What was the unintended consequence (UC) - these being outcomes that are not intended by a purposeful action?
**They can be positive, negative or have a perverse effect contrary to what was originally intended.
****So are there any unintended consequences to compulsively tweeting from an event or otherwise?
This is a question I have yet to answer. It is sort of like waiting to see what the side effects of a drug will be years after it has been approved.
One UC of CPA may be that peoples’ attention spans (already truncated by USA Today and sound bite television) and
**related ability for analytic thought will be reduced to nanoseconds.
I'd love to hear your Thoughts?
Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond"
Read the full article: [http://bit.ly/vNC1cn] Via janlgordon, Mike Ellsworth
Beth Kanter's comment,
November 28, 2011 3:20 PM
I just rescooped this article because I found it in another source, but here I look further into your collection and find it. I'm curating on the topic information overload and coping skills. I believe that curation can help you pay attention. I experienced this myself .. I was a conference. Many people were tweeting. I was tracking it with storify - doing content curation in real time with twitter versus tweeting helped me pay attention, quickly put together a coherrent record of what happened and make it unstandable to people not in the room.
janlgordon's comment,
November 28, 2011 3:59 PM
@BethKanter
I have covered a few conferences in real-time and it definitely makes you pay attention on more than one level. Being able to put it in a cohesive manner helping people understand what's happening is an art in itself and something you do very well. 
Carla Chapman's curator insight,
October 1, 2014 4:49 PM
Are there unintended consequences for compulsively tweeting? Read on....
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Context (or contextualization) sits opposite fidelity on the implementation ledger. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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This is a great article on curation from Finger Tips Music. There is much confusion out there, some people say content curation is just a buzz word, it is so much more and what I've highlighted below is just the tip of the iceberg.
Curated by JanLGordon covering Content Curation, Social Media & Beyond
Here's what caught my attention:
Curating is not just filtering
****Curators must keep selections to a rigorous minimum.
**One long-running model is the site Very Short List, which selects but one thing a day to inform you about.
****The difference between filtering and curating is, however, more than quantitative.
******A curator aims to present web content in a manner that removes it from the medium’s inherent endlessness as well as its relentless robotic-ness.
****** This can be done only with the care and attention of an individual intelligence.
*******A curator, alive to context and nuance, has a voice, a sensibility, a vibe; there is something inherently idiosyncratic about curating.
http://www.fingertipsmusic.com/?p=7732 Via janlgordon
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This is an excellent tool.
Uso de mapas mentales en la curación de contenidos.