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CURATION | The Art of Digital Discernment +
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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
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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CURATION| the Art of Digital Discernment +
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
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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
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| the Art of Digital Discernment +
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 +
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