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BOLO 2011 CURATION | The Art of Digital Discernment Josh Yeager, Digital Strategist +
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BOLO 2011CURATION | The Art of Digital DiscernmentJosh Yeager, Digital Strategist +

CURATION | The Art of Digital Discernment +

CURATION|

The Art of Digital Discernment

NCMuseumofHistory.org

CURATION| Introduction

What is “curation”?

• Cutting through the noise

• Ability to differentiate crap from fact

• Hand-selected by humans

• The cream of the crop rises to the top

Flickr: myrrh.ahn

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CURATION | Types

Today we’ll discuss:

• Curated Lists

• Curated People

• Curation Skills

Commonsenseatheism.com

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CURATED

LISTS

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CURATED | Lists

Etsy Treasuries• Curators scour Etsy for their fave items• Group like items together to create

Treasury• Top Treasuries may be hand-selected by

Etsy to be featured on the homepage

CURATED | Lists

Yelp Bucket Lists• Yelpers hand-select from their reviews

and create lists like Top Restaurants, My Neighborhood, Fave Shopping…etc.

• Custom create lists of your liking• Promote & Share curated lists with

“Blog Bling”

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CURATED | Lists

Tumblr• Tumblrs are multimedia blogs• People curate their fave images, video &

audio around a specific theme• Tumblr Archives collate a month’s worth

of posts in an easy to digest format

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CURATED | Lists

Scoville• Scoville curates Foursquare• Every Monday I review my Foursquare

check-ins form the previous week & select a weekly top fave

• I post/promote only the best of the week’s check-ins

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CURATED | Lists

Wikipedia• The success of Wikipedia stems from

content curators• Wikipedians verify content veracity &

manage pages• Go to the Wikipedia Main Page to find

featured content including the daily: – Did You Know…

– Featured Article

– In the News

– On This Day

– Recent Deaths

– Et cetera

CURATED

PEOPLE

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CURATED | People

Facebook• Curate your Friends by creating Lists• Control which updates you share or

receive in your feed• Curate people by regular “un-friending”• Criteria for un-friending:

– Know you IRL

– We’ve interacted in the past 90 days

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CURATED | People

Google +• Curate your Friends by creating circles• Drag people to your circles to follow &

share• Curate the flow of information based on

your personalized circles

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CURATED | People

Klout• Klout assigns a Klout Score from 1-100

based on your ability to “drive action” or influence people in social networks

• Klout categorizes people by categories: Activist, Specialist, Thought Leader, Pundit…even Curator!

• Klout Perks are rewards for Top Influencers – Brand Marketers take note!

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CURATED | People

Empire Avenue• Fantasy stock market game• Buy or sell shares in people based on

their social stock score• The more active, the more influential,

the more valuable people are• Again, brands are using Empire Avenue

to connect with targeted social influencers

CURATION

SKILLS

CURATION | Skills

Dashboarding• Many dashboarding services exist like:

– TweetDeck

– Hootsuite

– Seesmic

– A bazillion others…

• Manage and control massive amounts of information

• Filter information to receive only what is most important to you

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CURATION | Skills

Browser Extensions• Also known as plug-ins or add-ons• Customize or curate your experience

with most browsers• Plethora of Facebook browser

extensions to remove the “annoying parts” of Facebook, blocking Facebook, blocking ads, managing app security or even integrating Facebook & Google +

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CURATION | Skills

Local Search• The internet used to represent a global

village• Unless I’m visiting Berlin, I don’t care

about the Starbucks in the Alexanderplatz

• Local Search represents curated results based on your location & ratings & reviews aide in the decision making process

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CURATION | Skills

Thoora• A service that helps people find, curate

and publish content on the web• Aggregates and uses over 100 signals to

filter, rank, and deliver that content to users for their curation

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CURATION | Skills

Paper.Li• A newspaper service where users curate

and publish the news they choose• Turn Twitter, Facebook & RSS feeds into

online newspapers in just a few clicks

"Curation is the next iteration of information on the web, and I believe

Paper.li has the momentum, passionate publisher base and advanced technology to deliver on the promise of curation and

hand-picked content,“

-Eric Hippeau, former CEO Huffington Post

CURATION | Skills

Digital Curation Exchange• A “town center” for digital curation• Events, jobs, resources, people & more• Hardcore. Academic. Serious Curation!

digitalcurationexchange.org

digitalcurationexchange.org/cdcg

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BOLO 2011CURATION | The Art of Digital DiscernmentJosh Yeager, Digital Strategist +

Josh [email protected]


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