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Robin Good: I agree and I have said it before: Curation has nothing to do with personal expression or sharing nor with collecting links, tweets or blog posts that you may find interesting.
Curation is all about "taking care" of something in the sense of helping someone "else" be able to dive in and make sense of a specific topic, issue, event or news story. It is about collecting, but it is also about explaining, illustrating, bringing in different points of view and updating the view as it changes.
Adam Schweigert captures the essence of it elegantly: "...[curation] it almost certainly involves broader responsibility than just tracking a big story and putting together a Storify of how it unfolded.
It’s more than blogging a daily roundup of the stories our audience cares about but our publication is not going to do original reporting on.
It’s more than becoming the Twitter account that people look to because we’re not afraid to retweet our competitors if they have a story that matters to our followers before we can report it ourselves.
Naturally we should continue to do all of those things as well, but I would argue that it is important that would-be curators of news go at least one step further.
Part guide and collector, part interpreter, part researcher, part archivist, the curator of news does all of the above:
a) collects and organizes information,
b) places it in a broader context,
c) mines the archives to surface bits of historical information, advances our understanding of the story and the driving forces behind it and, perhaps most importantly,
d) takes care to ensure that a story is properly maintained and told in the best possible way for our audience to take it in.
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Curation is not really about reducing costs and operating more efficiently (although aggregation certainly is).
Curation is about taking care to ensure that our audience has the best possible information, context and presentation for that information."
Rightful. 8/10
Full article: http://adamschweigert.com/towards-a-better-definition-of-curation-in-journalism/ ;
(Image credit: heyjude.wordpress.com) Via Robin Good, THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY 
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Robin Good: Keemix is a web publishing service which allows anyone to create their own web magazine by easily capturing and editing content already available on the web.
You can create multiple channels/topics covering different topics/interests, share items on social networks and have a personalized Keemix web site with your custom look.
From the official site: "Keemix allows you to gather loved content from the web, mix it into your own custom-designed pages, and share it to inspire your friends and colleagues.
Mixes can be private or public, and administrated individually or collaboratively.
A bookmarklet makes it easy to grab any site, article, video, image or text you may run into on the web.
(Thanks to Giuseppe Mauriello for discovering this) Via Robin Good, Gust MEES, Donna Browne, Kostis Talampiris
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's comment April 18, 2013 3:19 AM
Hi Robin, can you send me the link again for the tools map. I have just tried to open it and my iPad is telling me the address is wrong. Thanks! Elizabeth
's comment April 18, 2013 3:28 AM
Ok, worked it out....needed to download mindomo :)
Víctor V. Valera Jiménez's curator insight,
April 20, 2013 7:35 AM
Otra nueva aplicación en fase beta para la Content Curation que te permite seleccionar, organizar y buscar cualquier contenido (texto, imagen, vídeo) de la Web para después organizarlo en colecciones o listas creadas por ti mismo o por colaboradores o amigos añadidos por ti.
Extensión para Google Chrome, Firefox y Safari a la que se puede acceder por invitación dejando el email en la web de Dragdis: https://www.dragdis.com/
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Robin Good: EduClipper is a new educational curation platform allowing both teachers and students to clip just about any type of content from the web and to organize it into topic-specific clipboards.
Clipboards can be made "private" or public depending on your needs and both their individual content items as well as any full clipboard can be easily shared on all major social networks.
Find out more: http://educlipper.net/ ; Via Robin Good, THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY
Ken Morrison's comment,
July 1, 2012 6:23 PM
I like that these will be seachable so that they can be shared. I'm excited to test drive this. I agree that it may be better than social bookmarking, because even a well-organized diggo tag will have things off topic or for some audiences because we all have different ideas of the meaning of a word used for tagging.
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Thanks to Alan Berkson intelligent use of hashtags as he retweeted his own post dating back to December 2012, and to Trendspottr, who made it easy for me to discover it, I have just run into one of the most inspirational short posts about curation that I have read in some time.
The post is quite short, but it packs such an important truth, that I can't but bring it to you in its full integrity.
"Being able to properly vet might be the most important skill of the 21st Century.
Not curing sick animals.
Not retiring from military service.
I’m talking about “subjecting to thorough examination or evaluation.”
We’ve been trained to rely on experts to do this for us.
If we go back 30 years or so, we would find experts in a limited number of places: academia, government and non-government organizations, and major corporations including media. As I wrote in The Age of Thought Leadership:
“…the Information Age is allowing experts to step out from behind the veil of a corporate (or academic) entity…”
This is a double-edged sword. As individuals we can develop and express thought leadership. However, also as individuals, we can no longer solely rely on third parties for pre-vetting our experts.
Content curation, if intended as the art of helping other people discover, learn and make sense of things they are interested into, is all about cultivating your own ability to become an expert by honing the skills of research, vetting and contextualization.
This is it. Must read. Must share. 10/10
Original post by Alan Berkson: http://blog.intelligistgroup.com/that-third-kind-of-vet/
What should I say more? It's exactly that!
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Curation
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?q=PLN