Robin Good

Robin Good


189 Quotes

"Glasp.co This is my favorite new highlighter and curation platform. I see it growing on a good solid foundation. It integrates the ability to discover and learn from others on the platform and it has a clean and highly usable interface."
Robin Good
Personal Viewpoint - CM 2
"“Curation is using your expertise in a field to gather great content around a specific theme and present that content in a way that will educate others.”"
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Why To Curate Information
"Living in the information age actually means that our economy, and your ability to succeed and thrive in your lifetime are increasingly connected to your ability to manage and efficiently deal with information."
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Why To Curate Information
"Today, your success and opportunities are not determined anymore by your physical force or by what you physically own, but by: what you know, how skilled you are in finding and managing the information you need who is in your network of contacts."
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Why To Curate Information
"Unless someone verifies, organizes and curates an information resource, it has little value because it is disconnected from other relevant resources in the same information space. There’s no context."
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Why To Curate Information
"Curation provides context to any information item, value and a specific perspective and story to look and appreciate it."
Robin Good
Why To Curate Information
"curation purpose and role is both to give value and context to quality information resources by identifying, preserving and organizing them in ways that they can be discovered and appreciated by others as well as to help an audience better understand, make sense, explore and comprehend a specific topic by providing it with the best resources available and a guiding viewpoint through which to navigate them."
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Why To Curate Information
"When I looked closely at why some people spontaneously curate content it did strike me that most of them do not curate their stuff for the direct purpose to save time, to appear more authoritative or to gain more customers. They curate their resources because they can produce better and more satisfying results for themselves, and when they share them, they can automatically extend these benefits to their customers, contacts, friends."
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Why To Curate Information
"They curate because they care."
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Why To Curate Information
"Information curators are personally interested in what they do, and curating is the only reliable mean they have to deeply learn about their resources, to vet bad ones, to uncover true gems and to organize them in ways that allows them to find, pinpoint and to share important, unique ones, easily among thousands of other ones."
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Why To Curate Information
"They curate because it is useful for them, and because when they share their curated collections they can help other people as well."
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Why To Curate Information
"Content curation is a natural solution to a natural phenomenon: resource abundance."
Robin Good
Why To Curate Information
"Curation helps you save time by providing easy and organized access to information and resources otherwise difficult to find and verify."
Robin Good
Why To Curate Information
"Curation requires vetting, verification, resource-finding, providing a viewpoint and an ability to synthesize and illustrate what is of value in what is presented, while crediting systematically your sources."
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Why To Curate Information
"1) The desire to “take care” of an information space, to organize it, and make it easy for others to extract immediate value from it."
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Why To Curate Information
"2) The desire to share and inform, to educate, to entertain a specific audience."
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Why To Curate Information
"Such desire is generally motivated by a will to help, support, and cultivate a community of people interested in the same topic."
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Why To Curate Information
"7) The will to create something meaningful, of lasting value, even if for a limited amount of interested people."
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Why To Curate Information
"Public, non-commercial digital curation provides a social good, a commons that everyone can benefit from."
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Why To Curate Information
"“Curation’s purpose is to identify and preserve what is important and then share that knowledge back with society.”"
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Why To Curate Information
"Curators help themselves and others by bringing to light the very best of what they have discovered, vetted and added value to."
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Why To Curate Information
"“…the art of curation isn’t about the individual pieces of content, but about how these pieces fit together, what story they tell by being placed next to each other, and what statement the context they create makes about culture and the world at large.”"
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Why To Curate Information
"“Great curation is also about pattern-recognition — seeing various pieces of culture and spotting similarities across them that paint a cohesive picture of a larger trend.”"
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Why To Curate Information
"“Content curation, simply put, is collecting, contextualizing and sharing information, often on a specific topic.”"
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What Is Content Curation
"Content curation is the art of finding, organizing, adding value and publicly sharing digital information artifacts on a specific topic for a particular audience interest."
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What Is Content Curation
"Content curation makes it possible to understand, explore, make sense of a topic, issue, subject, person or event by organizing the best information resources about it (articles, studies, images, video, etc) and providing keen insight and expert guidance into their exploration."
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What Is Content Curation
"The main goal of content curation is to help others discover, learn and make-sense of something they are not familiar with."
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What Is Content Curation
"Here a list of specific reasons that make content curation so compelling"
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What Is Content Curation
"it is hard for a newbie to distinguish a reliable, trustable source from a marketer or spammer,"
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What Is Content Curation
"titling and meta information is often misleading, ambiguous or just not clear enough"
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What Is Content Curation
"relying always on the same sources tends to limit your view and awareness of other new ideas and opinions in your field of interest"
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What Is Content Curation
"[Content curation is] the process of assembling, summarizing and categorizing and interpreting information from multiple sources in a context that is relevant to a particular audience."
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What Is Content Curation
"In the near future, when there will be hundreds of alternative specialty news sources curating tens of thousands of interest areas, it will be you, the reader, who will select your preferred topics and your trusted curator(s) to keep yourself informed."
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What Is Content Curation
"Thus you will see readers gradually move away from superficial and generic information sources (as most traditional newspapers are) to individual curators or news hubs that curate specific topics and interests. The more specific, the better."
Robin Good
What Is Content Curation
"“Content curation is the art of collaging sometimes seemingly disparate content from a variety of sources to make previously hidden truths manifest with a NonZero goal of helping others see, understand, interact with and contribute to emerging ideas, memes and truths.”"
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What Is Content Curation
"“Content curation is the collection of content created by others, then filtered through one’s own point of refer­ence.”"
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What Is Content Curation
"Storytelling is an essential part of content curation, as it is often the perfect vehicle through which one can guide others into the exploration and sense-making of something that is altogether unfamiliar to them."
Robin Good
What Is Content Curation
"Instead of simply providing a classification of information, storytelling provides a communication technology to navigate and explore that information in a natural way."
Robin Good
What Is Content Curation
"“Curation is a form of storytelling that places content within context.”"
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What Is Content Curation
"Curation is an active skill, not a passive one: it’s about identifying gaps in skills and knowledge and plugging them, but also about building communities and networks."
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What Is Content Curation
"In this four-point recipe, I state what I think are some of the key new attitudes we need to consider taking if we want to truly help some of your younger generations move to a higher level of intellectual and pragmatical acumen beyond the one that most get from our present academic system."
Robin Good
Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"1) Learn from Reality — Not Just From a Book or from Someone Talking About It"
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Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"It is better to marry the cause than to question the thing in their head."
Robin Good
Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"The problem is that some of us are so good, so naturally born to be good, that they, in the end, marry the school just like their religion because it would not make sense to them to have invested all those energies otherwise."
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Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"I do not know if the ones who were very attentive did a lot better than me in their afterlife, but that is what I found out, and I see that a lot of people share that feeling."
Robin Good
Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"So think seriously about what you are going to teach your kids in those six months on that spaceship, and then we can talk about school again."
Robin Good
Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"I truly believe that if you have kids today and if you want to think for their future, you should really think as if you were on a spaceship going to some planet out there."
Robin Good
Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"what I realized is that if you stay in that system too much, that system changes you, that system weakens you, that system teaches you that there are only so many options… and that system is meant to feed itself over and over again."
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Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"My second point for the recipe is that if you make all these realizations, you then start using your head, and start using your head, basically means start making questions - something that in school is heavily repressed."
Robin Good
Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"3) Learn by Doing and by Getting Your Hands Dirty"
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Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"Just stop doing that because… I can sell myself, and I really do not want to. You have to find out whether I am really good or I am not. That is my suggestion."
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Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"Most of us have that desire inside, but then we must have knowledge that real life is a little tougher, and so keeping on believing what other people and companies promise you is really a losing game."
Robin Good
Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"So, do not trust what I say, please. Go and find out whether that is true or not on your own."
Robin Good
Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"You have to stop thinking that you have to open a book and enroll in a classroom to get somewhere."
Robin Good
Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"Now, think again. You do not need to go to school. You need to learn some different things - that is not the same."
Robin Good
Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"4) Make Mistakes, Get Experience, Not Certificates"
Robin Good
Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"Because if they come with all these “magna cum laude from X on communication and marketing multimedia studies,” I know that guy is a lost guy for me."
Robin Good
Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"And this is because, whatever I tell him, he knows everything already, and it is very difficult to re-frame his head in a different way because what they teach in those schools is not what we do in real life online. The more they have gone on into those studies, the older they are."
Robin Good
Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"Do stuff, get your hands dirty, make mistakes, and be ridiculed by people a little bit."
Robin Good
Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
"This is my favorite new highlighter and curation platform. I see it growing on a good solid foundation. It integrates the ability to discover and learn from others on the platform and it has a clean and highly usable interface."
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Personal Viewpoint - CM 2
"But, when a startup goes down or gets bought out and the service goes away, your wonderful work may be lost forever."
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The Greatest Risk for Content Curators
"In fact, in my experience, a good percentage of these collections gets lost, and even if you have made a backup, there’s a lot of work to be done to carry all that info to a new platform or service."
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The Greatest Risk for Content Curators
"Could I trust Diigo? Delicious? ZEEF? Scoop.it and others to remain alive and well for many upcoming years?"
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The Greatest Risk for Content Curators
"Curate firstly on your own computer with your own tools."
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The Greatest Risk for Content Curators
"Favor curation tools and platforms that can backup and save your content to major players like Google Drive, Amazon S3, Dropbox, iCloud and others."
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The Greatest Risk for Content Curators
"Utilize curation tools that do have an export / backup / save option for all of the content you save in there."
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The Greatest Risk for Content Curators
"Curate directly on publishing / distribution platforms that are unlikely to disappear altogether:"
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The Greatest Risk for Content Curators
"Curate content on other platforms only where their existing accumulated content value create by users is so large, that even if they fold or get bought out, that content is likely to remain available, even though under a different owner / brand."
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The Greatest Risk for Content Curators
"Startups entering the digital / content curation space should take into serious consideration the fact that in the immediate future new users will increasingly shy off from services and tools that do allow them to find, organize and share valuable resources, but which cannot guarantee safeguards against the possible future loss of their curated collections."
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The Greatest Risk for Content Curators
"For us curators the take-away is that we cannot and should not trust any new web app or tool to curate and preserve valuable information unless the service offers functionalities to reliably back-up or export content collections."
Robin Good
The Greatest Risk for Content Curators
"For content curation startups the take-away is that they must plan and engineer in their new tools, features to export, backup and save to the cloud / offline / the value users create with their collections."
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The Greatest Risk for Content Curators
"New learner-centered methods engage more students and give them the opportunity to build a personal understanding of a topic, by taking in greater consideration the learner and the process by which he builds knowledge and understanding."
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3. From Teaching to Diving: Memorizing Facts Is Not Good Enough.
"Knowledge is seen as an established, objective, authoritative body of facts outside the learner’s experiences or personal preferences, and the role of the educator is to transmit this knowledge, along with accompanying academic skills and attitudes, to the learner’s mind."
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3. From Teaching to Diving: Memorizing Facts Is Not Good Enough.
"the ideal education embraces the exact opposite of transmission: It centers on a learner’s entirely self-motivated exploration of whatever the world has to offer that seems relevant to the learner’s own life."
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3. From Teaching to Diving: Memorizing Facts Is Not Good Enough.
"Learning programs largely based on theory, memorization of facts, will lose competitiveness and students to practical, hands-on, experience-oriented ones."
Robin Good
3. From Teaching to Diving: Memorizing Facts Is Not Good Enough.
"There is no better way to learn something than to research, organize and build a personal framework of information, facts, resources, tools and stories around it in a way that makes sense and explains it cohesively."
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3. From Teaching to Diving: Memorizing Facts Is Not Good Enough.
"To highlight, save and share any content online"
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🚩 Zero Cost Tools for Trusted Advisors
"It is in such situations of information super-abundance that people start to look for and appreciate the contribution from a trusted, expert guide who can provide them with “intellectual binoculars”."
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"An inquisitive mind is an intellect that asks lots of questions and who genuinely attempts to look at reality from different, sometimes opposing, angles."
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"Critically analyzing different viewpoints and interpretations of a specific issue is the best way to understand it and to evaluate the best available strategies to resolve it."
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"You prefer the advice of someone, even if he is not famous or popular, who is going to make his recommendations out of true interest for your specific need, without expecting anything in return."
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"This is who I call a “trusted guide”."
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"That’s how, as more and more people have realized that “brands”, “celebrities” and “institutions” were not honest and transparent about what they publicly said, these same people have started to turn to friends and to direct personal, trustable contacts for news, advice, and for keeping themselves updated."
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"Trusted guides are curators. They curate information around a specific topic over time, while sharing it publicly with others."
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"They differentiate themselves from collectors and coaches because they openly and publicly share their discoveries and know-how without asking anything in return."
Robin Good
10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"Trusted guides are individuals who offer valuable information, in the form of articles, courses, tutorials, video, podcasts or in other formats, on a specific subject-matter."
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"Build their know-how mostly on experience, not on academic study and research."
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"Publicly share high-value information in the form of articles, guides, collections, tutorials and more."
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"Prefer not to be employed by anyone company or organization in order to maintain their independence and credibility."
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"Are driven by a deep personal non-material interest and strong passion for the topic area they curate."
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"Strive to highlight and distill what is most interesting, representative, rare and unique on a specific theme, subject, issue"
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"By adding their own viewpoint and disclosing their prejudices, bias and interests, curators offer a much more credible profile for themselves than the typical official, celebrity and institutional spokesperson."
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"Curators key added value is their genuine and independent viewpoint, not influenced by personal or commercial interests."
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"Examples of Personal Trusted Guides"
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10. The Rise of Trusted Guides
"They are all written by “interested” parties."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Its ultimate mission is to to make sense and share that understanding with others."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Content curation goal is transform information into knowledge by connecting dots, identifying patterns, seeing relationships, uncovering rare gems."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"5) Creates Knowledge"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Although curation can save very significant time to those who benefit from it, it positively does not save any time at all to the curators who exercise it. It does instead save very significant time to those who benefit from it."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"curating content takes significant time, compared to typical blog or article writing, because it requires the author to find, vet/verify, organize high quality information from multiple sources, and to add value and perspective to it before deciding how to present it in ways that make more effective."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"While it certainly can help achieve those results when properly practiced, truth is that it can also, turn out to be the most effective way to lose them when done without competence or attention."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"a) Information Management"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"1) Separates Signal from Noise - Sense-Making"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"“Content curators locate, organize and distribute links to relevant, high-quality content online, voluntarily assuming a quality filtering role that traditional publishers once held. Content curators are opinion leaders.”"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"“The ability to take data — to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades, not only at the professional level but even at the educational level for elementary school kids, for high school kids, for college kids."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"2) Gives Way to the Creation of Useful Information Resources"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Content curation by virtue of its own definition aims to create shared value, by gathering, vetting, organizing, adding value and presenting collections of information artifacts that address a specific topic for a specific audience."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Content curation comes into existence only when “shared value” is generated. Something from which everyone who gets access to can benefit."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"3) Helps in Detecting Patterns and Trends / Predicting the Future"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Content curation makes it easy to spot and identify patterns and trends ahead of others simply because it forces the curator to continuously search and sift through tens of potentially relevant artifacts."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"4) Aids in Comparing, Evaluating"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Content curation can facilitate evaluation and comparison among multiple resources, tools, viewpoints and ideas."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"5) Summarizes, Synthesizes, Distills Complex Information"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Curation by way of its analytical, 360° degree questioning, investigative research approach produces so much organized and well structured information that it can be effectively utilized to synthesize and summarize long, rich and complex bodies of information."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"what the curator does, the interpretation of a complex, esoteric subject, in a way that retains the integrity of the subject, that makes it — unpacks it for a general audience."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"b) Knowledge & Culture"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Content curation is a practical approach to create “explicit” knowledge by researching and thoroughly understanding a specific topic and by sharing the results with those interested in it."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"6) Builds (P2P) Collective Intelligence"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Content curation is an independent, distributed and spontaneous act of collective intelligence whereby many individuals spontaneously contribute and co-operate to the vetting, filtering and organization of the world information."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Social and collaborative content curation will allow human beings to collaborate into organizing and making sense of the world information not in search of one ultimate truth, but by providing multiple paths and perspectives for anyone to find his own."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"7) Preserves our Cultural Heritage"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Content curation extends those missions, by working to preserve, add value and extend the life and discoverability of quality content."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"8) Is an Ethical and Socially Valuable Practice"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Content curation is a practice that has both personal and social values for human beings."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"c) Search & Discovery"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"9) Augments Content Discovery"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"10) Supports Emergence of Independent Authors and Voices"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Curation, in whichever field it is utilized, helps the small, the independent, the unknown quality authors to emerge."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"The area in which Google cannot compete with humans when it comes to providing relevant advice, is trust."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Content curation complements online search by vetting and organizing results according to expert human views."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"as the quantity of information in any given field keeps increasing at a frantic pace, information curators may likely become an indispensable complement to Google search."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Web-search technology is miraculously effective if you already know what you’re looking for, but if you need to stay up-to-date on a handful of topics, search engines suffer from clunkiness and redundancy."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"12) Saves Peoples Time"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Content curation saves a huge amount of time to those who benefit from it."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"But when you search for the best information to learn and understand / make sense of a subject, Google is hardly useful."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"d) Education and Learning"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"13) Is an Effective Learning Approach"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Curation helps to learn and to “know”, as it requires the curator to question, investigate, explore and experiment to construct a personal understanding of any subject."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Curation is also the natural approach that an individual takes in an ideal situation to learn anything he needs."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"14) Helps To Stay Informed and Up-to-date"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"15) Provides Context, Explanation"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Content curation is a learning and explanatory device as it is designed to gather and organize multiple resources and viewpoints on a topic while weaving an explanatory path through them."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"16) Develops Critical Thinking"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Content curation helps to develop a critical thinking approach by forcing the curator to explore, vet and evaluate personally what is of relevance."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Curation trains the naturally curious to explore with a more systematic approach, while maintaining a skeptical, investigative attitude."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"17) Forces To Be Thorough (instead of superficial)"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"To curate it requires to look in depth, beyond the obvious, in search for higher value and meaning that has not already been discovered."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"e) Reputation & Visibility"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"18) Increases Credibility / Boosts Reputation"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Curation is a way to demonstrate one’s own expertise in any given field."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"19) Builds Authority"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"Curation confers authority to those, who demonstrate the ability not only to find and share relevant news and resources, but who can add value by explaining the why and how these have value and usefulness within a specific context (interest + audience)."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"20) Increases Online Visibility (SEO)"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"21) Gives Voice to A Brand"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"brands can curate specific information spaces by finding the best and most valuable resources on a topic and providing valuable commentary and perspective to them."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"f) Relationships & Community"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"22) Helps To Build Relationships"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"By citing, referencing and mentioning other authors, a content curator signals his presence, appreciation and viewpoint to them."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"23) Is Critical in Building/Creating Communities of Interest"
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"As a content curator researches, finds and brings together valuable content from different sources that is of keen interest to a particular audience, he and the public outlets where he shares his curated work, become meeting points for all those interested in that space."
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The Key Benefits of Content Curation
"“Separating the wheat from the chaff, assigning editorial weight, and — most importantly — giving folks who don’t want to spend their lives looking for an editorial needle in a haystack a high-quality collection of content that is contextual and coherent.”"
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Why To Curate Information
"This is why, in the context of the Internet, curation purpose and role is both to give value and context to quality information resources by identifying, preserving and organizing them in ways that they can be discovered and appreciated by others as well as to help an audience better understand, make sense, explore and comprehend a specific topic by providing it with the best resources available and a guiding viewpoint through which to navigate them."
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Why To Curate Information
"They curate their resources because they can produce better and more satisfying results for themselves, and when they share them, they can automatically extend these benefits to their customers, contacts, friends."
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Why To Curate Information
"It is a natural, spontaneous phenomenon."
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Why To Curate Information
"Curation is a human instinct, connected to our desire to select, organize and share the best of what we have, when we have it in excess."
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Why To Curate Information
"“What are some good reasons why I would want to consider curating information in my interest areas?"
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Why To Curate Information
"Why not just write like everyone else does?”"
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Why To Curate Information
"To curate is a more challenging and difficult activity than simply writing."
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Why To Curate Information
"In fact some of the very best written non-fiction content, is actually curated content."
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Why To Curate Information
"It is in fact in the act of sharing that the selfish act of collecting, becomes a social good: curation."
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Why To Curate Information
"3) The need to put order and organization in the information mess that the Internet offers."
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Why To Curate Information
"we have indexed and keep indexing every single information item published on the web, but besides search results lists (generated by a secret algorithm for which we are not given to know the sorting criteria) we have no maps of the territories we would like to navigate."
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Why To Curate Information
"6) The desire to archive and preserve valuable information resources that risk to be lost or tampered with."
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Why To Curate Information
"4) The need to make sense of a certain subject by exploring, collecting and bringing together all of the relevant information connected to it."
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Why To Curate Information
"5) The need to rapidly find specific information resources when needed."
Robin Good
Why To Curate Information
"8) The desire, similar to the one of an artist or of a classic art curator, to help others discover what is not self-evident, obvious, accepted."
Robin Good
Why To Curate Information
"Curation guides interested individuals to discover and learn about a subject in greater depth by gathering and contextualizing the best information available on it and not just a single-expert viewpoint."
Robin Good
Why To Curate Information
"Curation helps individuals learn any subject better and in greater depth than any other approach as it provides the perfect pathway to truly dive, question, immerse and interact with whatever issue or subject."
Robin Good
Why To Curate Information
"Curation promotes a critical thinking attitude and a more comprehensive-holistic-organic view on any subject, instead of the simplistic black / white, true / false perspective adopted in most situations today."
Robin Good
Why To Curate Information
"Curation puts the human individual back in the driver seat, electing him/her as the preferred guide to discover, investigate and learn any subject not by way of referring, passing on, or refining what reported by others but by actually questioning, vetting, gathering diverse voices and viewpoints into a cohesive whole."
Robin Good
Why To Curate Information
"2) Transcription Tools (from audio and video)"
Robin Good
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"5) Preserve and Archive tools"
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"6) Provide Reading Time Info"
Robin Good
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"This is of great benefit to both readers and to Google, who clearly rewards with higher visibility in its search results long-form content that has an integrated index."
Robin Good
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