Within the room 90% of attendees were checking email before coffee. We are not unique in our profession. A year ago it was about 35%.
Curation is a good news bad news thing.
The Cloud is everywhere and all we do will be linked into the cloud. And it is presented as good.
However, often the are storm clouds too. Essentially all information is now in the cloud and available, but sometimes our job is truly to get less information. Or at lest key information.
30% of people get up and check email in the night. Not good, there's to much informiton and we need to learn to mange it. Our org want us to come up with the right information the right time.
We create 5 exabytes of information every 2 days. In 2003 that was created in the entire year.
Imagine....how old you feel instead of getting a meal you ordered, everything on the menu.
We are on our way to 10 million tweets
120 days of content is uploaded every 3 hours. It would take you 8 years to read one day of content.
Facebook has 140 billion photos. 70 billion to be added this year.
This is why we can keep up with it all. This explosion has happened quickly in the last year or so.
The job that will increase is a curator of all this information. Making sure our communities are getting the information they need.
July 2010 the Internet went from a more organized corporate entity (loosely said) to anyone can publish any piece of content.
Is this just a US thing?
Not at all. The US is ranked 6th in creating and adding content to the web.
- China,
- India,
- Nigeria,
- Russia,
- Iran,
- USA
We need to being to get rid of SEARCH.
Data is suppose to be accurate. But try searching your name on Google. You will find many images, but many that are not you or even not similar to "you" in any manner. Ie a dog named Steve.
What is curation
We are able to organize things in away that algorithms often can not.
Example: 3 foods that go together that are all sweet, but labeled quite differently ad not just "food"
Men and women and machines taking information and collecting it into groups of information.
When someone asks you "did you see something?" then we need to another thanks for sharing that. We become and need to be curators for one another.
Publishers repeople that find information gather and share/broadcast with others.
Example
- "Taste of Home" magazine is completely user generated content.
- TEDx anyone can take the TED logo and use it to create local TED gatherings and sharing of into.
- Patagonia
- You!!! We are also a part of this large set of publishing.
We need thoughtful filters though. This is where humans replace the algorithms that gather information together. We are putting the most relevant information together into groups.
powerful tools
- Think of choosing your clothes each day. You think about what your day involves and choose appropriately. Many us tweet and reshape everyday.
Each of us have unqiue interests , these become part of our indenting.
Perhaps we check in somewhere, but not everywhere. We check in at the places that matter most likely because we want to share the experience and chat with other about sharing the same experience. Example a movie showing.
Gather organize and collect the things that are of interest to you.
Try a curation tool
- Pearl trees
- Scoop.it
- Paper.li
- Storyify
Experiment with these tools. Use them. Try them. Keep the one you like and collect with.
Best practices
- Define quality for your readers. Only share and post the things that matter or fit into your "voice and tone"
- Make context matter. Say something people will remember. Take the time to update headlines. Point out why should it matter to the reader.
- Well-curated will tell a story. This will give it all more value.
- Keep a theme and point of view. People will come to you for your specific point of view on the topic, story.
The web is becoming a human network and no one specific organization.
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