Social Media and its influence

Curation is a term that is rapidly growing in popularity and is directly impacting the world of workplace learning and performance. In a world where the amount of information available to workers doubles every 18 to 24 months, it is impossible to keep up with the seemingly endless supply of it.

 

Learn more:

http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1037/is-content-curation-in-your-skill-set-it-should-be#.UJFxiYGUCLE.twitter

 

Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Jack Patterson, Gust MEES

Robin Good: Everytime I see a new post or article claiming to list the best content curation tools I know I am in for some disappointment.

 

Most of these lists just pick up names from other lists without even bothering to check, test or verify what these tools actually do, whether they are still available. Unfortunately the rush to put out "curated" list of tools and services has created more misinformation than useful lists. 

 

But if you, like me, are on the lookout for new and effective tools to curate your own content or the one of your customers, I have created a comprehensive map of all the curation tools available online and I keep it fresh and updated almost on a daily basis.

 

The map presently lists over 250 content curation tools which you can navigate much more easily than it was possible on my earlier versions of this map.

 

On the right side of the map you will find all of the news and content curation tools available online today. On the left side, you can find bookmarking, link lists builders, clippers and lots of tools to operate with RSS feeds (which are still at the heart of a curator's job).

Full map: http://bit.ly/ContentCurationUniverse  

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Via Robin Good

I selected this piece by Dino Joannides for Lingospot because it tackles a much asked and frequently tackled answered of "What is Curation?" in the most appropriate manner possible. That is to say, he answers the question with an excellent example of curation, complete with multiple links to articles that prove his points.

 

Some points that caught my attention:

 

**Content curation means different things to a variety of stakeholders, be they journalists, editors, bloggers, business executives or marketers.

 

**Fred Wilson the Venture Capitalist and blogger sees curation as an essential element in today's media landscape as indicated by one of his posts here

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**Some argue that curation could actually save media.

 

**Others have argued that there is a new type of curation that is in effect the New Search.

 

**Most people inadvertently already act as curators whenever they decide to post a link or video to their social networks to show their friends they have found great or topical content.

 

He closes by suggesting traditional editors make decisions based only upon content that was produced internally, whereas the newer Curation mixes this with external content. The determination of what is given prominence remains the same.

 

The difference is that now, this role is undertaken by professional journalists, content marketers, bloggers" or in reality, anyone that publishes online".

 

What do you think?

 

Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"

 

Read full article: [http://bit.ly/w81bwP]

Via janlgordon

For this week's #scoopitchat, we had special guest Seth Dixon, and AP Human Geography teacher.

 

Topic was: #Scoopitchat on Curation and Education featuring Seth Dixon

 

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Gust MEES

 

It was a great Chat and I encourage other members from best Curation Platform http://www.scoop.it  #scoopit to take part in the next Twitter-Chat's as well. Teachers and Educators as Students as well should use Twitter-Chat's for BETTER Communication! Remember the "C" in ICT? It's meaning "Communication", use it, please ;)

 

Don't know what a Twitter-Chat is? Please check my Curation about Twitter-Chat's to learn more:

 

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=How+to+Run+a+Successful+Twitter+Chat

 

 

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Robin Good: Sgarf.it is a simple clipping and archiving app which allows you to clip any text or image you find on the web and to archive it, tag it and easily share it on your favorite social networks.

 

Sgarf.it works as a Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer extension which works invisibly in the background. Once you find something interesting on any web page you need only to select it as you have always done it, and by right-clicking on your selection you will be offered to "sgarf" your clipping.

 

Once clipped any content can be easily tagged and shared on your preferred social networks.

 

Free to use.

 

FAQ: http://www.sgarf.it/sgarf/support ;

 

Find out more: http://www.sgarf.it/ ;

Via Robin Good