Content Curation

What is curation? Here are some links to help define the concept of curation.

This interesting link defines curation in a social media context!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stefan-deeran/what-is-social-media-cont_b_3383706.html

These articles stresses on curation for purposes of work like marketers, librarians…

http://www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/articles/valenza2012-v29n1p20.html

http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2012/08/content-curation-need-to-conside/

The following article takes an interesting approach on curation as a creatively filtering content.

http://www.theedublogger.com/2014/06/12/curation/

This link talks about curation from the digital versus traditional perspective.

http://www2.le.ac.uk/services/research-data/rdm/what-is-rdm/digital-curation

Why do we curate? You might be asking yourself, some reasons can be found in these links. This blog offers a personal story on how curation is beneficial.• http://relevance.com/embrace-content-cur

ation-and-enjoy-these-6-benefits/

• http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2012/06/why-do-you-curate-the-3-intents-of-curation-and-how-they-create-value.html

This blog offers a personal story on how curation is beneficial.• http://www.curata.com/blog/the-defi

nitive-guide-to-content-curation/

These links include some of the best curation tools found on the web.

• http://www.jeffbullas.com/2014/11/29/4-content-curation-tools-to-boost-your-content-marketing/

• https://contentcuration.zeef.com/robin.good

• http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2345636/26-free-or-free-to-try-content-curation-tools