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ing on our field,  it can get out of date quickly.   In today’s world of content abundance,  the skill of  how to find, make sense, and share content that we need to be effective in our work is critical.   Simply put, being a content curator is a method to help you stay informed

ostly about daily practice.   You don’t need to do it for hours, but a little bit everyday will help you

Finally, the sharing – is about giving the best nuggets of content to your audience in a format that they can easily digest and apply it.

Content curation is not about collecting links or being an information pack rat, it is more about putting them into a context with organization, annotation, and presentation.  

For some staff members, content curation can be professional of learning.   Professional development used to be about getting trained or acquiring a specific skill.

Finding the information or “seeking”  is only one third of the task as Mari Smith points out in this video about why curation is important and some tools  for doing it.        Making sense of the information is just as important.  Sense making can be a simple as how you annotate the li

ere’s a few curation tools that are easy to get started