1. Content Curation
Tips to inspire
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“Content Curation is a term that describes
the act of finding, grouping, organising or
sharing the best and most relevant content
on a specific issue”.
Rohit Bhargava: trend curator

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adding, aligning, analysing, applying, asking,
building, comparing, conceptualising,
constructing, creating, deciding, designing,
detecting, developing, distributing, evaluating,
filtering, finding, grouping, implementing,
inspiring, integrating, interpreting, introducing,
inventing, judging, listening, matching,
organising, planning, producing, remembering,
researching, retrieving, selecting, sharing,
testing, understanding

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We are all content curators
we ask
we listen
we find
we select
we group
we organise
we create
we share
we inspire

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Designing a house
Needs analysis >
Research >
Select >
Conceptualise >
Plan >
Develop >
Build >
Use

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Content Curation Strategy
Who: your target ?
Why: do they need it ?
What: have you asked them ?
Where: only digital ?
When: time frame ?
How: tools to use ?

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Organising Content
Tagging: key words/tags dictate the quality of content
e.g. tag clouds
Recommendations: based on content consumption
patterns e.g. Amazon
Filtering: filtered navigation e.g. Google advanced
search
Topic pages: single page search e.g. Pinterest
Topic maps: Visually grouped/related e.g. PearlTrees

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Digital archiving
Aggregation: most relevant in one location
Distillation: filtering according to relevance
Elevation: identifying trends and insights
Mashups: merging content to create a new view
Chronology: time based content to show evolving
understanding
Bhargava 2011

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Ethical Concerns
Over curation ?
Informed consent ?
Quantity over quality ?
Combination of curated content with original ?
Attribution ?

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My Communities
Departmental colleagues
School Librarians
Instructional design
Primary Immunodeficiency

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Some tools
Twitter
Linkedin
Slideshare
Facebook
e-Mail groups
Diigo and Delicious
Pinterest
Storify
Shelfari
Scoop.it!
Refme

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Some Gurus
Joyce Valenza
Naomi Harm
Phil Bradley
Robin Good
Jane Hart
Grainne Cole
Will Richardson
Maggie Verster

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Twitter – Joyce Valenza

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Linked In -Naomi Harm

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Slideshare – Phil Bradley

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Robin Good -Scoop.it

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Jane Hart - website

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Facebook

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e-Mail groups - GMail

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e-Mail groups - MWeb

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Diigo

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Delicious

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Pinterest

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Pinterest

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Scoop.it

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Scoop.it

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Scoop.it

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Scoop.it

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Scoop.it

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Refme

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Finally
THINK
t = is it true ?
h = is it helpful ?
I = is it inspiring ?
n = is it necessary ?
k = is it kind ?

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Happy curating – hope you are inspired !
Joy Rosario
jgrosario@mweb.co.za
082 365 4663