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...]
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Measuring Social Media Outcomes Is Easier than Measuring Hurricane Strength
I grew up in a small town by the New Jersey shore in a house a block from the Atlantic Ocean that my elderly parents still live in today. With Hurricane threatening a direct hit and potential devastating damage, emergency officials called for a mandatory evacuation -- something that hasn't happened in many years. While my family and their home dodged a bullet, like millions in NYC, other locations had catastrophic flooding and there was a loss of lives. We learned that it predicting … [Read more...]
How Does Your Nonprofit Use Data To Improve Results?
Today, NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It's a topic that NTEN's executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.” NTEN is also doing this flash poll to learn how nonprofits make sense of their own data. I'd love to see a … [Read more...]
Content Curation Is Listening and Engaging
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...]
What is the scaffolding for learning in public?
I've been writing about wikis (and other social technologies) can be terrific platforms for supporting professional learning in real time, but it requires a comfort level with “learning in public.” You can learn in public in different ways - self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. The Packard Foundation's organizational effectiveness wiki has an excellent example of this networked approach to public learning … [Read more...]
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