Comprehensive list of content curation tools and services

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.

We are moving to the world of the sons of Socrates, where dialogue and guidance are key competencies… a world where the capability to find information and turn it into knowledge at the point-of-need provides the key competitive advantage, where knowing the right people to ask the right questions of is more likely to lead to success than any amount of internally-held knowledge and skill.

Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn is gone. But on his way out the door, he described the company's massive, deliberate fraud on his customers and the environment as an "irregularity." That's bullshit.

Useful reference links to use of Creative Commons

"In keeping with its ambition to become the world's most open institution of its kind, the British Library has released over a million public domain illustrations and other images to the public through Flickr for anyone to reuse, remix or repurpose. So far, these images, which range from Restoration-era cartoons to colonial explorers' early photographs, have been used on rugs, album covers, gift tags, a mapping project, and an art installation at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, among other things."

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

News Lab lessons are designed to help you learn the best ways to use Google tools for reporting and storytelling.

"Check out Google Trends to see the latest trending stories, or conduct your own analysis. You can also follow us on Twitter for the latest data visualizations from the News Lab team, or visit us on Github to see our latest data releases for journalists."

Launched in March as a beta, Trooclick tracks quotes from news sites and social media and classifies them by topic, showing on one screen who is saying what and whether their comments are 'positive' or 'negative'.

"Cornish's Copyright, the standard work in its field, is indispensable for all librarians and information professionals looking for solutions to their copyright problems."

"Welcome! We've hand picked the best resources on each of these technologies. If you're just getting started, you should be going through resources from left to right, row by row. You can also click on each box to see related boxes."

Crowdsourced journalism challenging the status quo.

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

"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."

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

Save any web page as an RSS feed.

A useful aggregated news sources, similar to Buzzfeed. Add it to your Content Curator's toolkit.

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

CILIP Conference 2015