Does your nonprofit do content curation as part of its content strategy?  Content curation is the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked and shared with your network.   It is a great technique to keep up with your field.  I've been teaching content curation workshops this year and will teach it in the Middle East at the E-Mediat conference in March, 2012 (more about that in a later post). If that … [Read more...]

What is Content Curation? Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme.  The work  involves  sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information.  A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community. It isn't unlike what a museum curator does to produce an exhibition:   They identify the theme, they provide the … [Read more...]

Content curation is  the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you've cherry picked with your network.    But finding and organizing the information is only half of the task.    As Mari Smith points out in this video about why curation is important and some tools  for doing it.   By sharing the information and giving credit to the source where you found the link, you build relationships and a network.     I used to … [Read more...]