Content and Curation for Nonprofits

Robin's summary:  

 

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.   

 

 

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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.

 

Highly recommended. 

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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).

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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.

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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"

 

 

Read more...........

http://www.aggregage.com/blog/curation/people-curation

 

 

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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.

Recommended. 

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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.

 

Intro:

 

http://www.MasterNewMedia.org - Media futurist Gerd Leonhard explains the relevance of context in content curation. Context is now as important as content, b...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDo6YrJKaoM&feature=related

 

 

 

 

 

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