Semil Shah on Techcrunch analyzes how even light curation and social sharing tools serve increasingly individuals in "discovering" sources, ideas, people and products they do not know yet.
This paragraph struck me:
"There is too much information online, too many pages filled with stock images and no context. Search engines provide significant utility, but we still have to exert energy to find what we need after results are algorithmically surfaced. The new crop of social media companies help discovery come online and threaten traditional search. With these new tools, users are able to clip and collect the bits of the web that they are most interested in and, in the process, disregard the rest as noise."
When or if curator replace traditional search? I still use search when I'm looking for something specific - but when I'm on a hunt to track down resources for a topic I'm writing or teaching about, I go to the curators first to make sense and use search to fill in the gaps.
Hard to say. Maybe never. It depends also on how search engines will evolve and how much of a role me and you will want to play in the post-Google era. ;-)
This is absolutely true for me. I feel somewhat overwhelmed managing information for my personal blog (www.pghlesbian.com) as well as our project blog, both of which requite me to sort a significant amount of information. I find myself coming here and to other curators (as I find them - any leads on good LGBTS curators?) and feeling like my head is a little above water. Thanks!
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Robin Good: Probably one of the best researched, best produced and most informative video clips about content curation I have seen so far.
If you are wondering whether curation could be useful for you or for your organization this video will help you understand better what this new discipline is all about.
Talks about the importance of the role of curator in the context of film, but just as applicable to information curators.
In this Age Of SuperAbundance, one of the things we need more than anything is trusted filters. How do we prioritize what to watch? How to discover new work? How do we escape our echo chambers to be reminded of how expansive our taste really is?
We need folks whom we trust to lead us to where we would not go on our own. Ideally, these people will do more than just lead us to good work; they will expand our mind, and widen our social circles. But where are they?
Steady, smart content curation can grow your audience on lots of social media outlets. It’s list building, social media-style: You help folks find and filter other people’s good stuff.
Last month, I had the pleasure of attending RealTime NY (formerly TWTRCON). The one-day conference, held at B.B. King Blues Club in New York, was jam-packed with sessions, workshops, and case studi...
Memonic is the market leader and pioneer in Knowledge Curation. Set up in Switzerland in November 2009, Memonic has created a leading online note-taking app, featuring the most sophisticated web clipper on the market and an interactive dashboard for collaborative information gathering and sharing. For businesses, Memonic offers tailor-made Knowledge Curation solutions in order to make internal knowledge and information processing more efficient, and more social.
Memonic, announced today that it has launched Memonic for Salesforce*, helping salespeople and marketers close more deals. Developed in partnership with PARX, a prominent Salesforce consulting firm, the application allows users to clip, take notes, select or screenshot any web content – and automatically assign it directly to Salesforce...
The more qualitative your topic is, the more your audience will count on you, on what you curate and share.
The quality of your topic contributes to making you a recognized expert and to the continuous growth of your audience; leading to the engagement of a virtuous circle- quality will no longer be an isolated act.
To go further in this valuable direction, we are introducing the Scoop.it Score, a new metric that indicates the excellence of your work (out of 100). It helps you, as a curator, to measure and increase your topic quality; and it helps to discriminate amongst various topics while searching, browsing or exploring topics.
This Score is calculated based on your activity as a curator (edition, tag, share, etc) and on your audience engagement (views, reactions, etc).
I want to see them before judging them. As an idea I don't see it as bad, though it will likely spur some people to go for quantity and little true quality. But that is already the case, for what I can see and plus, the more noise you have the better you see who can really pick and serve the proper stuff in the right context.
I see lots of curators here being nothing than manual aggregators of anything that is out there on their topic. But they bring in also lots of bad stuff without checking or verifying it.
Time will tell and the gaming aspect may not be such a bad thing after all. Let's play first. ;-)
It looks like the scores are also based, to some degree, on interaction. That point about curation isn't about quantity or speed, but really being able to cull through a lot of stuff and share only the best of the best
We start to see data showing that curation gives a longer lifetime to content. For instance, I gave an example on that post of a scoop.it topic that ended up being discovered and grow trafic quite sometime after e first posts were created. And I keep having these good surprises of seeing thanks or comments on "old" scoops.
I'd be interested to hear whether you feel that too. Any thoughts?
It's tool time, so today's post is about Pinterest, a social curation tool. Pinterest is a curation platform with a specific focus: to help users collect visually rich web pages or uploaded images...
The presentation prepared by Robin Good for the National eXtension Virtual Conference 2011 - gives you a framework for seeking, making sense, and sharing - so that you content curation builds thought leadership and your expertise. This deck comes for a session that Robin and other master curators did for the ExTension (I was supposed to be a discussant, but couldn't make it) The recording and materials from other presenters is here. http://about.extension.org/2011/11/03/2011-national-extension-virtual-conference-great-success/
He provides much appreciated and thoughtful commentary. And the links to RobnGood other curation related resources have even more insights and analysis. A real eye-opener and time saver
Ever since social curation became a hot trend and platforms like Scoop.it started to democratize its usage, a question has been asked: if there are more and more curators, how do you curate the curators?
I believe we're building the answers to that and I like very much the guidelines given in this article by Robin Good - someone to definitely a to be put in the "good" curators group. It is great food for thoughts for the evolution of curation platforms and how to improve concepts we introduced like the Scoop.it Score, the first of its kind and that we started to experiment with a few weeks ago.
The whole debate makes me want to write a follow-up as there would be too much to say as just a comment. But in the meantime I recommend to read these guidelines as they're clearly very good points. Clearly everyone will benefit from levelling up the playing field in social curation and Robin is showing a clear path here.
One comment I'd make is that this post and this debate makes me really happy: a year ago, social curation had to demonstrate its value against algorithmic filtering as this Quora question illustrates. Since then, Panda gave a tough time to filters, which were already losing traction as I pointed out back then on TechCrunch.
Today, the debate has shifted to the next level. It's both fascinating and a great news for social media.
Robin, I love what Guillaume said here - you are definitely paving the way for the rest of us. Thank you for bringing this post to my attention, I really appreciate it. I have more to say and will post later today.
This is a fantastic post - thank you. I like how you lay out the skills of a good curator. Excellent for those us who are trying to teach this skill or improve our own practice.
Earlier this year Tom Foremski brought a collection of fascinating friends and colleagues together to explore the growing notion of content curation on the Internet.
He named this aggregation The SF Curators Salon, and it has had several gatherings since.
A fellow founding member, and one of the original people working with Tom to make the curation salon a reality, is Oliver Starr. As the Chief Evangelist at Pearltrees he is passionate about the future of curation.
At the last meeting he and I talked about the impact of curated content on how people are now finding information on the Internet. I asked him to share a few of his thoughts on the role of curation in search.
Tony Karrer wrote this post on September 7, 2011 - I find it extremely relevant and am interested in looking at the possibility of curators collaborating on content around a specific topic and how that might evolve in the future.
I had the priviledge of listening to Clay Shirky today talk about harvesting collective wisdom and the implications of that. There are no accidents as this piece seems to be exploring an aspect of this subject.
Tony is reacting to a blog post he read, Ville Kilkku titled: Klout, Triberr, paper.li, and the future of content curation. He has some very good observations, too many to list but I've highlighted a few things to set the tone for the article.
Three Major Trends in Curation
**From individual content curators to crowdsourced content curation: Individuals cannot keep up with the pace of new content, even though they have better discovery tools than before.
**Crowdsourcing can, although it is not suitable for promoting radical new ideas: the dictatorship of the masses is unavoidably conservative.
**From manual to semi-automated content curation: Individual content curators are forced to automate as much of the process as possible in order to stay relevant.
**From content curation to people curation: When there is too much content, you vet the content creators, manually or automatically. Those who pass get exposure for all of their content.
****How do these trends interact? This is particularly interesting to me and it will be fascinating to watch this evolve.
****Social networking of the content creator is vitally important in order to create an audience as isolated content becomes increasingly difficult to discover and
****curation focuses on people instead of individual content.
**Build it, and they will come, is dead.
Curated by JanLGordon covering "Content Curation, Social Media & Beyond"
Another great video interview from Howard Rheingold, this time with "Collective Intelligence" guru Pierre Levy.
I found this video very insightful nonetheless the answers and explanations Mr Levy provides are absolutely simple and clear to understand for anyone.
In essence what emerges from the dialogue is that in the process of doing "serious", "quality" curation, even at the personal level, me and you are helping others understand and make sense of their world more easily. It is a virtuous circle and it is certainly an act of collective intelligence from this viewpoint.
Do you have times for the virtual conference yet? I'm going to promote it on twitter tomorrow and through the weekend - can't wait, I know it'll be great! Thanks
This is an interview Robin Good recorded in Rome, Italy in 2009, over 2 years ago. At the time the bubble around content curation had not yet exploded, making his questions and answers from Gerd particularly interesting.
Curated by JanLGordon covering her topic " Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond" on Scoopit.
Intro:
Gerd Leonhard reminds us that context is just as important as content itself. Not only archiving, organizing and tagging it so it can be found but also adding to the piece by making your own comments, reviews or additional information you may have about the subject.
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http://www.MasterNewMedia.org - Media futurist Gerd Leonhard explains the relevance of context in content curation. Context is now as important as content, b...
This is an interview I have recorded in Rome, Italy in 2009, over 2 years ago. At the time the bubble around content curation had not yet exploded, making my questions and answers from Gerd particularly interesting.
@Robin Good
I have paraphrased your comment and added it to the post. You are truly a pioneer and someone I admire very much in the curation space. Thank you for paving the way.
Secret: Read, read, read, and from many different sources. To keep an element of serendipity in my filtering process – in other words, I spend time basically surfing from one good blog post to another (via an interesting commenter, or a blogroll, or tweets). Curating is not about posting the same stuff from the same sources all the time.
In an informal chat at Twitter headquarters on Thursday, chief executive Dick Costolo talked about some of the numbers behind the service (as Erica reported earlier), including the fact that the network has over 100 million active users now.
That may be a long distance away from Facebook’s more than half a billion, but the fact is that Twitter isn’t really competing with Facebook — it’s not really a social network, but a real-time information network.
In other words, it’s a media entity, and the sooner it starts living up to that reality the better.
The new frontiers for content curation tools and services are in a) providing advanced collaborative (social) features and in b) introducing and integrating new and effective, highly visual, delivery formats.
Great points in this article. There's a need for different access options, such as filtering by tag, sorting chronologically, sorting by relevance or rating, anchoring evergreen content and "best of" background resources ... stuff like that.
I remember this being discussed in the newspaper world also. Such as how ridiculous it is that some online news sources will have an article about, say, a war in a country that many people don't know much about - how helpful it would be to point to previous articles with lots of background content.
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