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A great blog on content curation from Beth Kanter from October 4, 2011. The focus on this is content curation for non profits, but is really for any content curation. She quotes and paraphrases Harold Jarche in that content curation is really seek, sense, share. Mentions that content curation is a great professional development tool and helps everyone keep up with what is happening in their field.

Although this article concentrates on content curation for marketing, there are some great tips to remember such as identifying your audience, focus your sharing, make sure your curation is of impeccable quality, curate consistently, brand yourself not your company. Love this quote: " Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer publicly states his Twitter strategy is "find good shit and share it.""

Blog, June 19, 2013, Scoop.it, on how Most Popular leads into reading more in a webiste can be quite distorted to direct reads. Advocates for human curation. "The solution: Human curation. We need to provide readers with lists and collections of content that are popular within a certain field because they are genuinely popular to those who know about or are interested in that field. Most Popular lists on websites are generated by algorithms, making them extremely easy to game (by clicking the same content repeatedly, for instance) which in turn leads readers to believe they've found good content when they oftentimes haven't. It's the job of the curator, as a human, to let other humans know what they (the curator) are finding to be the best pieces of content on a topic - as someone who knows about a specific subject or interest."

Slideshare on why content curation is the new form of communication, and professional content curators are the new superheros. Nice graphics and a clear message about information overload and how people will capitalize and monetize this.

nice scoop.it blog post by Ally Greer, January 30, 2014, on which is better: creating your own content for dissemination or curating the content of others--looks like curating what others do may win more votes but some creation needs to happen also to have a full-fledged marketing approach.

Scoop.it blog posted by Jon Koob, March 5, 2014, on content curation 1. What should I post? (What I care about) 2. Switching between platforms to post the same content is a pain (bookmarklet or Google Chrome app) 3. What do I share and where? (different audiences, platforms determine what you post) 4. All content or some content I've curated? (create information hubs for different kinds of sharing) 5. Should I share things more than once? (YES) promo piece for Scoop.it but it seems reasonable anyway

Love this post by Seth Godin on "too long; didn't read" mentalities as we all proceed in the "checklist mode" of grazing here and there but never stopping long enough to read, understand, and make sense of things. He mentions the importance of "trusted curators" and how it is up to us to decide how to invest our time. Implications for WLS: building dashboards, prioritizing, culling, controlling the incoming flow are all important skills to master for online work. We build on old concepts--dashboard for online focus, leading online--and become trusted curators too to provoke curious second and third thoughts leading to conversions on our site. Excerpt: One option is to read incisively, curate, edit, choose your sources carefully. Limit the inbound to what's important, not what's shiny or urgent or silly. The other option is to assume that you already know what you need to know, and refuse to read anything deeply. Hide behind clever acronyms, flit from viral topic to flame war, never actually diving in. It appears that this is far more common than ever before. Here's what I've found: When I read in checklist mode, I learn almost nothing. It's easy to cherry pick the amusing or the merely short, but it's a quick thrill with very little to show for it.

List of content curation tools with good graphic of tools. This is from March 2014 and there is a disclaimer that new tools are coming out all the time. The comments to this blog add Diigo and ScoopIt. Was interesting to me that Delicious was in this list, but not Diigo.

from the Huffington Post Business, 1/20/15. Tips for using content curation for marketing, but also emphasizes that the value of content curation is in the quality of the seek, and the way it is shared. Recommends annotating and repurposing so you are viewed as a good resource by others.

Has some good ideas (even if they are for academics being reviewed by vitae committees) for curating your online presence, Karen Kelsky, Chronicle HE,

content curation by Mike Ellis; features a video of Dr. Gideon Burton

Blog by Marty Smith on May 29, 2013 on Scoop.it on how social media is leading to a sharing and curation of health care information with huge positive implications for speeding up research, improving health care delivery, informing patients, etc.

Brain Pickings, blog by Maria Popova, master curator, March 9, 2012 Extremely interesting blog on discovering information on the internet and sharing it with others.

great slideshare on how to curate to achieve impact.

A great blog pot by Arnie Kuenn, May 7, 2013 on curating content using various tools. Suggests the rule of thirds for generating your own content, sharing external content, and engaging in conversations

Nice infograph on difference between content sharing and content curation, by Sarah Arrow, February 2013. Concise, attractive.

Great blog post from Upwell, Ray Deaborn, July 30, 2013 on their curation criteria with nice visual as well.

great post by Srividya Kumar on content curation and crap detection

Blog post by Barbra Gago, 9.14.12, on importance of individual information consumption/curation. Excerpt: "The future of knowledge management is about letting employees curate their own information consumption, empowering them to be in charge of their own learning and professional development. Conversations need to be indexed, but so do updates from processes, customer interactions, and news about related projects. External data needs to be brought in to enhance internal data, and people need to be able to act in real-time-not ask 5 different people for a file or wait until tomorrow because their manager is half-way across the world."

Susan Silver provides lots of attractive tips in the 12 Most Magnetic Ways to Curate Awesome Content.