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Scooping this to basically reference it for more tips on curating. We are all works in progress.

With billions of people connected through social media and directly connected with email traditional curators of news and other content have had their business models destroyed but it has not surprisingly taken many years for better models to emerge. 

The widsom of crowds is well known but so is their stupidity (stock market crashes, group think, lowest common denominator in election outcomes...). Better curating tools and systems are beginning to show that valuable curators of the worlds content are able to find their audience and enrich the world with deep insight that replace the extremely low numbers of curators of the past (news paper barons).

Some of these curators will be paid and others do it just for the joy of it. Collectively they will reshape thinking and ultimately the world. 

SCOOPS --  I began using Scoop when I was defining myself a LITE FEET DANCER.  There was no single source of info about Lite Feet dance, a NYC Born Battle dance phenom and YouTube Sensation.  I created LITE FEET SCOOP TO reference for my own resume but also to provide anyone interested a link to the multitude of YOUTUBE Channels, Sound Cloud and personal sites dedicated to this unique art form and the talented dancers who participate. 

Scoop.it helps with the process of curating content. This is a must for your social media.

Curate using this visual map

Curate using this visual map

Valuable collection of the art of curation from Robin Good.

How to sift through large amounts of information...

De l'utilité de Scoop it !

There we go! Justification ;-)

Nice summary of the benefits of using Scoop.it with students and

educators.

Useful for educators - key digital literacy skill

content curation and critical thinking skills

Si vous aviez encore besoin de comprendre l'intérêt de la curation

#curation

L'auteur répond à une dizaine de questions sur la curation. 

"Si la curation n’était que du transfert d’information on pourrait dire que retweeter un article ou re-publier une information sur son mur Facebook est de la curation, ce qui est inexacte.

Pour faire une curation de qualité il faut je pense ajouter de la valeur. D’abord bien sélectionner ses sources, les vérifier et choisir celles qui ont une vraie valeur ajoutée car elles sont des créations originales et pas déjà le produit d’une agrégation.

Ensuite, l’intérêt va résider dans le classement de cette information, son éditorialisation et dans sa redistribution.

La vraie plus-value d’une curation est le classement et ce que je vais rajouter à l’information, un titre original, qui dit quelques chose de notre avis ou de notre opinion sur l’information, une critique ou un angle un peu provocateur fait pour déclencher un débat avec ceux qui nous suivent, bref, une touche personnelle qui rajoute notre propre valeur à l’information partagée.

Mieux vaut publier peu mais avec de la valeur ajoutée."

Angela Dunn has written a great piece on one of my favorite topics, curation - it was the lead post on our launh of Curatti last night.

What makes a good curator?

"You need to have the eye of an editor, a sense of taste like a chef, and your own unique Point of View. It is this Point of View – your taste – that can lead to authority and influence".

Jan Gordon:

Curators who are driven by passion and purpose will be very important to the business community in their chosen niche - it's crucial that we preserve this information for the future. That is why the future of curation is definitely evergreen.

Here are some highlights that caught my attention:

The amount of content is growing exponentially, but our time is limited. Curators are our filters for information overload – the editors of chaos.

The slew of content curation tools that emerged gave way to algorithms. Can a machine have a Point of View? Machines can influence your Point of View. The danger is they can also create a filter bubble.

It is human insight coupled with machine results that can define the very best information edited from a trusted curator’s Point of View.

Evergreen posts, such as “Curating Content for Thought Leadership”,, written by Angela in 2010 are important in that they stand the test of time.  All good blogs need some such articles.

The above, along with all of Angela's posts on the now defunct Postereus, have evergreen links due to a new tool for archiving the web  – Permamarks.

Selected by Jan Gordon for Curatti covering Curation, Social Business and Beyond

Read more here: [http://bit.ly/1ewOFR1]

Thanks, Courtney Ramirez, for including Scoop.it here.

Our goal is precisely that: to maintain a "better quality-to-noise ratio" by maintaining expert-curated content as well as an internal social network filled with engaging content.

Robin Good  of Content Curation World breaks the findings down thus:

a) what people curate as relevant is not generally among the top ranked results according to popular metrics. Good stuff is not the same as what is considered normally popular or authoritative stuff.

b) content curation allows a community to synchronize around specific issues and subjects (as anticipated by Clay Shirky)

c) better and more appreciated curation is of the "structured" kind, providing additional info, meta-data and categorization.

d) curators that are highly appreciated are characterized by consistent activity and by a variety of interests (or viewpoints under the same theme) that they are capable to cover.

This is rather my experience; however, I usually explain it to my clients this way:

a) You can be doing an excellent job, but never receive the recognition, popularity, or traffic you deserve.That doesn't mean you won't be appreciated greatly by the smaller group of people who do find/read your curated works.

b) No matter the popularity of your curation, you can build and have conversations -- but remember, community cultivation not only requires additional time, but a different skill set.

c) If you're going to do it, do it well. Use tools, such as labels and tags, and *always* provide context as well as proper credits and links.

d) Consistent activity is nearly as important as showing some personality along with your knowledge. Your topic may be narrowly focused, but offer additional topics and information about you personally (not just professionally) so that people get a sense of you.

A research paper by Zhong, Shah, Sundaravadivelan and Sastry, King's college London, 2013

See the excellent notes from Robin Good below. Interesting to see more work emerging in this field.

Makes sense to me.

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

La "Content Curation" è una nuova forma di giornalismo? Se lo è  chiesto un giornalista freelance italiano specializzato in tecnologia, Federico Guerrini, in una ricerca commissionata dal Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/news/item/article/newsroom-curators-and-independent-s.html

newsroom curators to engage readers !

Nice review of Scoop.it in an education context.

6this just says it alll

from current contents and reprint requests to now!

eugene garfield, what do you think of changes of scientific virtual networking?