Content Curation: Share Online Resources with Style (Monday, July 16, 9:30-10:50am) Learn about a host of cool applications for web publishing and presentation, including Scoop.It, Storify, Paper.li, Readlist, Streamified, Flipboard, etc. Presentation for TxLA Annual Assembly Austin, Tx. July 16, 2012

1. Content Curation
Greg Hardin, M.L.S.

2. Content Curation: What is it?
"Curation is the act of individuals with a
passion for a content area to find,
contextualize, and organize information.
Curators provide a consistent update regarding
what’s interesting, happening, and cool in
their focus. Curators tend to have a unique
and consistent point of view–providing a
reliable context for the content that they
discover and organize."
- Steven Rosenbaum
http://www.fastcompany.com/1834177/content-curators-are-the-new-superheros-of-the-

3. CONTENT GATHERING
PERSONALIZED NEWSFEEDS
SOCIAL MEDIA CURATION

4. Trap!t
trap.it

5. Faveous
faveous.com/

6. Scoop.it
scoop.it

7. Prismatic
http://getprismatic.com/

8. paper.li
paper.li

9. Collected
collected.info

10. Storify
storify.com

11. Bag the Web
bagtheweb

12. Readlists
readlists

13. Flipboard
flipboard.com

14. Streamified
streamified.com

15. ifttt
ifttt.com

16. Want to be a content curator?
If you want to be a content curator, you should also follow a
few rules offered by Rosenbaum:
○ If you don’t add context, opinion, or voice, and simply lift
content, it’s stealing.
○ If you don’t provide attribution and a link back to the
source, it’s stealing.
○ If you take a large portion of the original content, it’s
stealing.
○ If someone asks you not to curate their material, and you
don’t respect that request, it’s stealing.
○ Respect published rights. If images don’t allow Creative
Commons use, reach out to the image creator—don’t just
grab it and ask questions later.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1834177/content-curators-are-the-new-superheros-of-the-

17. Curator's Code
http://www.curatorscode.org/

18. Thank You!
Greg Hardin, M.L.S.
Reference Librarian
Texas Woman's University
Denton, Tx
ghardin@twu.edu
@ghardin
slideshare.net/ghardin