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Here's a useful post that shows how curators can work best and looks at 10e best curation tools available.

Break through the noise by curating and adding content that your target audience will appreciate. 

A directory of 500+ #Tools for Communication Pros, ready-to-be-used. Tested, sorted, organized...

A good example of content curation at work is the Vox feature collection entitled "40 maps that explain the internet", which showcases in a highly digestible and visual format where the Internet came from, how it works, and how it's used by people around the world.

Although at first glance this may look just as a list of maps with descriptions, there's a lot of curation work that can be appreciated by looking just a bit beyond the surface. 

a) Titles and descriptions are well crafted, short, focused, but consistently clear and to the point. 

b) The 40 maps are intelligently organized into six different groups: 

c) Images of maps sourced from elsewhere are properly credited and linked. 

To the ignorant eye, this will look like "oh, just another collection of maps", but to the avid reader, scholar and to the curious enough to look beyond appearances, the value of this editorial work is on how it perfectly hides the amount of complexity and research work it has required while organizing and presenting an extremely clear and comprehensive body of valuable information on the chosen topic.

Curated by Timothy B. Lee together with editor Eleanor Barkhorn,

designer Uy Tieu and developer Yuri Victor.

A good example of curation at work. 8/10

Full feature: http://www.vox.com/a/internet-maps 

Mapas sobre Internet en el mundo

40 mapas que explican INTERNET

Chulísimo!!

How can content curation in a niche information area be monetized? Ask Joe Wilkert.

He writes: "There’s too much content out there anyway and I certainly don’t need access to even more of it. What I really need is more curation and less volume.

I want someone else to read it all and then tell me what I absolutely need to read.

They act as a filter and I pay them because they save me time and make me smarter."

The article points to the added value that traditional content publishers can offer their readers by opening the gates to community curators, who, by doing what they like the most, can bring back lots of more subscribers and attention to their brands.

"...There are sports experts, business experts, local community experts, etc. These curators are reading everything you’re publishing and picking the best of the best... They in turn publish their lists to a whole new set of subscribers; these readers pay for access to only the content recommended by the curator, not the full editions.

The best curators float to the top and drive more subscriptions than the others and you pay them a commission for each subscriber they bring in. Curators establish brand names for themselves, as in, “hey, if you’re into travel you need to subscribe to Bob Thomas…he finds all the best travel articles so I don’t have to.”

But there's more, as Mr Wilker points out. The opportunities don't end there.

Rightful. Recommended. 8/10

Full post: http://www.olivesoftware.com/3/post/2014/04/-community-curation-by-joe-wikert.html 

Reading time: 3' mins.

See also: http://jwikert.typepad.com/the_average_joe/2013/06/curation-and-personalization-not-discovery.html 

Image credit: Honey dripping by Shutterstock

With so many great writers with great ideas, it only makes sense that we collect the things we find interesting and share them with others.

La curación como herramienta pedagógica para propiciar el pensamiento crítico en la educación.

Habilidades digitales y pensamiento crítico.

of course!

2013

good link

http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/articles/10.5334/2013-02/

What has long arms and raised eyebrows?

Lindsey Weintraub at SocialMediaToday has a short but valuable guide to four key traits a good curator really needs to have.

From the ability to search and tap into sources that should not be what everyone else is looking at, to the ability to know in and out its chosen niche of interest and its players, the good content curator has an uncanny talent for scanning, selecting and triple-verifying anything potentially interesting before even considering showcasing in its selections.

Rightful. Good for anyone just starting out with curation. 7/10

Article:http://socialmediatoday.com/parkerwhite/1236016/what-makes-good-content-curator#

¿Qué aspectos hacen de ti un buen Content Curator?

This is an excellent Curation review.

How do you avoid getting stuck in the loop of content creation without losing out on branding? 

The answer is to leverage content curation. This post is all about how content curation will help you become a trusted authority, boosting traffic, engagement, and sales. Dive in to learn more. 

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=curation

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=blogging

https://globaleducationandsocialmedia.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/pkm-personal-professional-knowledge-management/

https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Blogging

https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=content+marketing

https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=SEO

There are so many content curation pros that it can seem too good to be true. This one time, your suspicions just might be wrong. The below content curation pros are getting results for thousands of companies. It’s a somewhat new idea for content marketing, but the principle is old and has worked for a very long time.

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Curation

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/learn-every-day-a-bit-with-curation/

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/curation-tips-and-tricks-with-scoop-it-rescoop-and-tags/

aggiungi la tua intuizione ...

http://www.vishwagujarat.com/international/proposed-russian-railway-could-connect-london-to-new-york/

効果的なコンテント・キュレーションのマニュアル。ビジュアルで分かりやすくなっています。
Facebookなんかにも応用できますね。

Excellent and exhaustive punch to the gut of the many "content marketing" myths that exist. I would've added a section on Mark Schaefer's Content Shock, but that 1,000 word post is for another time. Between then (when I write the rejoinder) and now read Rand Fishkin's riff on why "inbound marketing" fails and see if you recognize some of your myths, urban legends and untruths about content marketing.

Love the almost RANDOM case view (see the beard slides) since that journey is so accurate to how journeys start, are sustained and end up in a purchase or subscription.

Also discusses visual marketing tend in a cool way (nope, nope, yes on Google).

How content marketing works?

Get ready for the long, entertaining and highly informative trip. I like the section about "content without a community", a real eye opener.

@Neil Ferree You made my day again.

Marty Smith gives us a list of persons who know HOW....We can take a look at thema and see how they curate Content. Thank you Marty!

Possible Inspiring readings for Summer Vacation...

Fascinating!

Makes sense to me.

Curating - how to manage it. And curation experts already exist - they're called Librarians!

If you are serious about your job search or developing your career, you cannot ignore content curation. Not only you need to read a lot of articles in your field to stay up to date but you also need to add some analysis and offer your opinion if you want to build and keep your reputation as an expert. 99% of recruiters are using internet to search for candidates.

Nice to see an over used concept unpicked in greater depth.

Definitely well worth a read

My Thoughts:

You can't teach someone how to learn. You can give them helpful tips and advice, but a single structure for education is not going to work for everyone. It's so much harder for people to learn their true potential, to reach their goals, when they're only shown a single path to them. You show them the path through the forest, but what if there's a rock face nearby that also leads up to where they want to go, and what if they happen to be a fantastic rock climber? It just makes more sense to show someone a map if you can, instead of directing them towards only one path.