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The World Wide Web has unleashed its secret weapon: humans. An army of talented and diligent curators who are able to sort the 'meh' from the 'wow', while also adding context to content, has emerged. There are plenty of brilliant curators out there, working day in and day out to uncover fantastic content.

"This is the first in a series of videos explaining the shifts we're seeing in the world of content creation. Curation has exploded with the growth of Twitter, Tumblr and now Pinterest. In this video, we wanted to try to get into the heads of some of our favorite curators to understand what makes them tick. Featured curators include: Maria Popova (twitter.com/brainpicker) Joanne McNeil (twitter.com/rhizomedotorg) Peter Hopkins (twitter.com/bigthink) Edith Zimmerman (thehairpin.com/) Anthony De Rosa (soupsoup.tumblr.com) Rex Sorgatz (twitter.com/fimoculous) Piers Fawkes (psfk.com) Tina Roth Eisenberg (swiss-miss.com)"

Since the beginning of time, human beings have collected the best humanity has produced in art, literature, science; we invented the museums, the libraries, the Encyclopedia and  have written essays and done research. We have always looked at those ones, the curators who were knowing the right sources of that knowledge, to which being able to access to will have solved our needs.   Content Curation is the online expression of something, which is in the same nature of human beings: the need to collect and catalogue only the most interesting things about a subject so to share it for the common benefit.

"The Ultimate List of Content Curation Tools, and accompanying map, is comprised of both business grade tools that can support organizations' content marketing strategies, as well as personal curation tools that can be used by individuals for hobbyist or organizational purposes."

"This master class will explore the emerging role of the "Content Curator" and how it relates to the information profession. Topics covered will include: * Search techniques and aggregation tools to find and filter relevant information. * Tips and techniques for organising and categorising information. * How to validate trusted information sources. * Licencing and copyright requirements for re-published information. * Adding value &context to curated content through storytelling techniques * An introduction to a selection of content curation tools. * An introduction to tools that support high-impact and content-relevant newsletters."

Curation tools and web services designed to create learning paths, curriculums, thematic collections and PKM portfolios

Curating the information available within an organization is a growing need, and one that learning and performance professionals need to be able to address. We need to be the people that organizations trust to help replace the endless noise with clarity.

A resource for anyone that wants to learn more about curation and learning.

Finally A Whitehat Solution To Free Traffic Powerful Curation Software To Help You Create Profitable Authority Sites WIthout The Pain Of Doing It Manually.

Machine learning can automate content curation by using algorithms to scan content items, find similarities between sources and cluster them in logical groups. The content then can be tagged accordingly and displayed both proactively and on demand in response to search queries. The goal is to improve the efficiency (and cost) of curation processes while eliminating the "misses" where relevant content exists, but the system fails to connect users with the best resources.

Digital curation on your own Wordpress platform. 

Curated content (vs. original content) draws influencers and your customers in by integrating their information into your content. Don't underestimate the need for human selection, commentary and optimisation.

Robin Good's personal selection of content curation tools. Presented at International Journalism Festival of Perugia on April 16th 2015.

"Here are some articles and videos to help get to grips with content curation. Some are backgrounders, some focused on learning, some on tools."

A useful infographic showing the key aspects of the Scoop.it content curation tool.

Best Content Curation Tools (Mindmap)

"Content Curation Best practice and introduction to tools for collecting, organising and sharing information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest."

Links to news about Curation products and services.

Content curation is an amazing way to engage your audience and increase your social media presence without big investments in content creation.

FEEDWAX helps you curate news, photos, video, tweets, data, and links - streams of information about what's happening in your local area right now. Use FEEDWAX to build location-aware media streams and feed them into n0tice.com or any RSS-friendly platform.