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Manifesto For The Content Curator: The Next Big Social Media Job Of The Future ?

Manifesto For The Content Curator: The Next Big Social Media Job Of The Future ?
Every hour thousands of new videos are uploaded online. Blog posts are written and published. Millions of tweets and other short messages are shared. The real question is whether solutions like these will be enough. What if you were to ask about the person that makes sense of it all? The name I would give it is Content Curator. In an attempt to offer more of a vision for someone who might fill this role, here is my crack at a short manifesto for someone who might take on this job: In the near future, experts predict that content on the web will double every 72 hours. After writing this, I can't help but wonder if there might already be people out there with this title. Interested in hearing more about content curation? Additional Posts About Content Curation:

What Makes A Great Curator Great? How To Distinguish High-Value Curation From Generic Republishing Today content curation is "sold", promoted and marketed as the latest and trendiest approach to content production, SEO visibility, reputation and traffic building. But is it really so? Is it really true that by aggregating many content sources and picking and republishing those news and stories that you deem great is really going to benefit you and your readers in the long run? Is the road to easy and effortless publishing via curation tools a true value creation business strategy, or just a risky fad? How can one tell? Photo credit: theprint Let me clarify a few key points: 1. 2. 3. 4. For these reasons, I think that much of the apparent new curation work being done is bound to be soon disappointed by the results it will gain. Highly specific news and content channels, curated by passionate and competent editors will gradually become the new reference and models for curation work. Here's is my official checklist, to identify value-creation curation, from everything else. Why Curation?

Del marketing online al Content curation: más allá de la agregación de contenidos Uno de los aspectos del marketing de contenido que está ganando un auge cada vez mayor es el content curation. Según Beth Kanter, la curación de contenidos es el proceso de elegir y filtrar entre la inmensa cantidad de información que se vierte en el medio online y presentar aquella más destacada, de forma organizada, en base a un tema específico. El propio Enrique Dans también nos arroja un poco más de luz sobre el término “content curator”, poniendo de relieve su importancia y relevancia en la red de nuestros días. Tal y como destaca el propio Dans, el “content curator” consume contenido, lo filtra, lo recopila, lo comparte, y aprende a partir de las respuestas al mismo. La diferencia principal respecto a la aggregation content es que la curación de contenidos se realiza de forma manual y siempre se añade cierto valor. Llegados a este punto, ¿en qué se diferencia de la simple agregación de contenidos? Cuenta con altas posibilidades de indexación. Ideal para compartir.

Herramientas del Content Curator | Doculinux El Content Curator es una expresión que proviene del ámbito anglosajón y que ahora, poco a poco, empieza a calar por aquí. Desde el punto de vista profesional creo que los documentalistas tenemos mucho que decir en este sentido y puede convertirse en un futuro nicho de empleo para nosotros. Definiciones hay muchas en internet y muy buenas. Al ser la primera vez que hablo de este perfil profesional en el blog, he decidido partir la entrada en dos, primero tratando de definir al Content Curator y luego elaborando una lista de herramientas que podría emplear en su labor. Definición El primero en utilizar el término fue Rohit Bhargava en su “ Manifesto For The Content Curator: The Next Big Social Media Job Of The Future? A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online. Volvemos de nuevo al tema de la especialización porque, ¿cómo si no iba a ser un intermediario “crítico” del conocimiento?.

Crowdsourcing: Crowdsourcing: définition Late last week I pointed to a Wikipedia entry as evidence that crowdsourcing had become a bonafide neologism. A stronger argument for the term's adoption, however, is that the it's starting to appear without reference to me or the original article in Wired. I couldn't be happier with this development, but I'm also noticing that the word is being used somewhat interchangably with Yochai Benkler's concept of commons-based peer production. Bruce Sterling, a fellow writer at Wired and one of the biggest brains in the business, rightfully pointed out yesterday that it's a mistake to treat crowdsourcing as a synonym for peer production: I could spend all day trying to explain how Jeff Howe's "crowdsourcing" has a different structure than "commons-based peer production." And indeed, there's no hair-splitting about it. Thus the term crowdsourcing (a term, for the record, coined jointly by Mark and myself that day, in a fit of back-and-forth wordplay).

Organiza tus favoritos con Symbaloo Symbaloo es una herramienta muy práctica para organizar y clasificar nuestras páginas web preferidas. Con esta aplicación podemos crear un escritorio virtual muy completo y funcional, con diferentes secciones según la temática de los enlaces que queremos tener disponibles. Crear un escritorio virtual es una labor que a todos los docentes nos interesa porque nos facilita mucho el acceso a la información y, en el caso de Symbaloo, también se lo facilita a nuestros alumnos ya que su interfaz en clara e intuitiva. Podemos compartir nuestro escritorio o hacerlo privado según nuestros intereses y también podemos utilizar la versión "EDU" de la herramienta utilizada cada día por más docentes como PLE. Cómo utilizarla Nos registramos en Symbaloo con los datos que habitualmente se solicitan. Una vez terminado el trabajo en Symbaloo podemos compartir individualmente el escritorio y cada webmix desde la sección "Enviar a mis amistades". Utilidades didácticas Ejemplos Para saber más Valoración media

Content Curation Strategies for Corporate Learning « Media1derLand Welcome to the legacy Media1derland blog site. Please visit our new site for the latest on performance improvement for today’s workplace. In my previous blog post, Your New Role: Learning Content Curator, I underscored the need for corporate learning professionals to begin to let go of content creation and start nurturing a content curation mindset. According to global marketing strategy guru Rohit Bhargava, a Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online. By donning the content curator hat on top of a strong foundation in instructional design and performance consulting, we open doors to a new incarnation of interactive online learning. You’re Probably Already Curating Content If you actively use social media, you have likely already participated in content curation. If you have ever developed learning content, you are wired for content curation. Like this: Like Loading...

Listas como curación de contenido en Twitter Estos días estoy siguiendo muy de cerca la evolución de la erupción volcánica en la isla de El Hierro, Canarias, tengo grandes recuerdos de cuando estuve allí hace ya varios años. Frente a lo que suele pasar en ciertos acontecimientos de noticias, y temiéndome una falta de rigurosidad en la publicación de noticias conforme pasen, lo comenté con Chiara Cabrera, más conocida en Twitter como @Bimbacha, y para más señas herreña afincada en Madrid. @bimbacha decidió crear una lista en Twitter que reflejase cuentas que o bien están viviendo la erupción volcánica en directo, o están bien informados. Y esa lista, comparada con los diferentes hashtags que se van utilizando, son una gran curación de contenido en Twitter, algo que puede servir como ejemplo de cómo una lista de cuentas escogidas da una mejor información global que un hashtag, o que incluso diversos medios de comunicación que no contrastan bien las noticias que reciben.

Are Content Curators the power behind social media influence? By Neicole Crepeau, Contributing {grow} Columnist Are you overlooking some of the most powerful influencers on the social web? Let’s find out. Traditionally, there has been a 1-9-90 rule when it come to creating and consuming content: There’s a new element in this equation, though: Content Curators — people who make a practice of finding content relevant to their friends and followers, and then sharing links to that content. I am making a distinction between a curator and an aggregator who pulls content from around the web, usually related to a specific topic, to display on websites generally to enhance search engine optimization. Of course, we’re all curators to some extent, consuming content and, on occasion, sharing what we find interesting or entertaining. ExactTarget calls these people “megaphones” and says: “Megaphones want to connect, educate, and share resources and information online with others. ExactTarget’s research shows that only 7% of online users are megaphones.

How today’s college students use Wikipedia for course-related research | Head Findings are reported from student focus groups and a large–scale survey about how and why students (enrolled at six different U.S. colleges) use Wikipedia during the course–related research process. A majority of respondents frequently used Wikipedia for background information, but less often than they used other common resources, such as course readings and Google. Architecture, engineering, and science majors were more likely to use Wikipedia for course–related research than respondents in other majors. The findings suggest Wikipedia is used in combination with other information resources. A Great Cities Initiative of the University of Illinois at Chicago University Library.

Welcome To The New Age Of Curation I’m guessing that a lot of you think that now – right now – is a golden age of creation. And in many ways, it is. It’s never been a better time to make art of all kinds, from video games – my own art of choice – through books to filmed entertainment and beyond. Sure, the massive media disintermediation spawned by the Internet has spawned a golden age for creators, at least for touching audiences directly. But finding great, sometimes underappreciated art is the thing we consumers need the most help on right now – especially because there’s so much of it out there, and so much of it that can be easily accessed. That’s why, in many ways, this is the ‘Age Of Curation’, not the age of creation. 1. 2. 3. Get down too deep, and you’ve no idea what’s going on across the entire medium. 5. Some form of this filtration has been in shape for decades, largely in print form, of course.

Content curator, la profesión del futuro Tras leer el post en el blog de Tristán Elósegui sobre los “content curator” ( anglicismo que se queda a falta de una buena traducción en castellano, aunque me temo que nunca llegará, al igual que en el caso de community manager ) donde se habla de profesionalizar la labor de “selección de contenidos”, quiero aportar con mis reflexiones: Por un lado se habla de la posibilidad de cobrar por los servicios del content curator con el fin de que los usuarios podamos acceder a un contenido de calidad porque este viene ya filtrado. Desde luego, hablamos de un filtrado hecho de forma manual por una persona, y no por robots sin capacidad racional. Algunas reacciones que puedo prever en el caso de que triunfe son: Por qué NO triunfará? Porque sería necesario prácticamente un content curator por persona. Y por qué SI triunfará? Y tú pagarías por un content curator? Imagen tomada de la galería flickr de ahnmyrrh. Artículos relacionados: Filtrando contenidos de la red

30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, “information overload” is something we all seem to suffer. It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the “stuff” out there and pluck out the best, most share-worthy tidbits of information, especially if your topic is niche. Let’s face it, Google definitely has its shortcomings when it comes to content curation and the more it tries to cater to all audiences, the less useful it becomes. The demand for timely, relevant content that is specific to our unique interests and perspectives has given rise to a new generation of tools that aim to help individuals and companies curate content from the web and deliver it in a meaningful way. These new tools range from simple, application-specific types such as social media aggregators and discovery engines, to more complex, full-blown publishing solutions for organizations. Comments(65)

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