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Content and Curation for Nonprofits
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Nonprofits struggle with finding the time to create content, but the secret is repurposing, reimagining and curating
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I thought the author was another Nancy White who also does visual facilitation and works in the area of development. But it is another Nancy White who works on education. I like how she relates curation to the Blooms Taxonomy (the triangle diagram in the article) and how curation is a higher level of thinking/learning - requires synthesis and evaluation, not just classifying. Robin Good has more: --------------- Robin Good: What does curation mean from an educational viewpoint? And what is the key difference between "collecting" and "curating". She truly distills some key traits of curation in a way that is clear and comprehensible to anyone. She writes: "The first thing I realized is that in order to have value-added benefits to curating information, the collector needs to move beyond just classifying the objects under a certain theme to deeper thinking through a) synthesis and b) evaluation of the collected items. How are they connected?" Excellent definition. And then she also frames perfectly the relevance of "context" for any meaningful curation project by writing: "I believe when we curate, organization moves beyond thematic to contextual – as we start to build knowledge and understanding with each new resource that we curate. Themes have a common unifying element – but don’t necessarily explain the “why.” Theme supports a central idea – Context allows the learner to determine why that idea (or in this case, resource) is important. So, as collecting progresses into curating, context becomes essential to determine what to keep, and what to discard." But there's a lot more insight distilled in this article as Nancy captures with elegance the difference between collecting for a personal interest and curating for a specific audience. She finally steals my full endorsement for this article by discretely inquirying how great a value it would be to allow students to "curate" the domains of interest they need to master. Excellent. Highly recommended. 9/10 Full article: http://d20innovation.d20blogs.org/2012/07/07/understanding-content-curation/ Via Robin Good 
Beth Kanter's comment,
July 8, 2012 1:22 PM
I especially like how she used the Bloom's Taxonomy and related that to curation.
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Beth Kanter's insight:
Always appreciate collection of resources on content curation topic.
wanderingsalsero's curator insight,
May 23, 2013 8:37 PM
This is an evergreen interesting topic. I was especially intrigued with the title up above that said "Social Media Job of The Future". There might be a lot of prescience (sp?) in that choice of words. 
Dawn Adams Miller's curator insight,
May 23, 2013 11:12 PM
Anything from LnD Dave is pure hold and very practical. Enjoy' 
Susan Wegmann's curator insight,
May 24, 2013 8:51 AM
A GREAT resource for the buzzword "Content Curation." Finally! |
The image above amounts to a template for curating a digital space:
Find something timeless to curate.Fit it into a pattern that makes sense.Find a larger context for why this matters.Share widely.I think this fits into Harold Jarche’s simpler seek-sense-share framework.
Why does this matter? If curation is all that Tufte and Bhatt say it is, then why aren’t scaffolds like these being used more often for training and in learning systems? I am using the curation tool Scoop.it to do curation with my freshman comp students. They use Scoop.it as their introductory platform for beginning to acquire the skills Tufte enumerates above that are part of the academic and business spaces they will eventually live in. I am hoping they will demonstrate why it curation matters as they seek-sense-share their way to long and short form ‘texts’ that they will be writing all semester. That will include essays, tweets, G+ community posts, blog posts, research papers, emails, plusses, favs, instagrams, zeegas, slideshares, pictures, and a massive mobile presence from their own digital spaces. Wish me luck.
Interesting links from article and from comments:
http://curation.wikispaces.com/General+References“Digital Media and Learner Identity: The New Curatorship”: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137004864http://www.lkl.ac.uk/people/potterhttp://digitalcurationandlearning.wordpress.com/http://digitalcurationandlearning.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/curatorship-is-a-new-literacy-practice/http://luke-callahan.com/students-must-curate-create-a-portfolio/The image above amounts to a template for curating a digital space:
1. Find something timeless to curate.
2. Fit it into a pattern that makes sense.
3. Find a larger context for why this matters.
4. Share widely.
I think this fits into Harold Jarche’s simpler seek-sense-share framework.
Why does this matter? If curation is all that Tufte and Bhatt say it is, then why aren’t scaffolds like these being used more often for training and in learning systems? I am using the curation tool Scoop.it to do curation with my freshman comp students. They use Scoop.it as their introductory platform for beginning to acquire the skills Tufte enumerates above that are part of the academic and business spaces they will eventually live in. I am hoping they will demonstrate why it curation matters as they seek-sense-share their way to long and short form ‘texts’ that they will be writing all semester. That will include essays, tweets, G+ community posts, blog posts, research papers, emails, plusses, favs, instagrams, zeegas, slideshares, pictures, and a massive mobile presence from their own digital spaces. Wish me luck.
Interesting links from article and from comments:
http://curation.wikispaces.com/General+References“Digital Media and Learner Identity: The New Curatorship”: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137004864http://www.lkl.ac.uk/people/potterhttp://digitalcurationandlearning.wordpress.com/http://digitalcurationandlearning.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/curatorship-is-a-new-literacy-practice/http://luke-callahan.com/students-must-curate-create-a-portfolio/
"A curator, therefore, whether she is a journalist-by-proxy such as Popova or a student completing an assignment in a classroom, not only collects and interprets, but also creates a new experience with it."
Creo que esta definición zanja la discusión sobre si un "Content Curator" es una adaptación moderna al "Documentalista" de los medios tradicionales.
De muy recomendada lectura para los que nos dedicamos a la Curación de Contenidos.