3. 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
4. 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-curation-
and-enjoy-these-6-benefits/
• http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archive
s/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-definitive-
guide-to-content-curation/
5. These links include some of the
best curation tools found on the
web.
• http://www.jeffbullas.com/2014/1
1/29/4-content-curation-tools-to-
boost-your-content-marketing/
• https://contentcuration.zeef.co
m/robin.good
• http://searchenginewatch.com/s
ew/how-to/2345636/26-free-or-
free-to-try-content-curation-
tools