How curation can increase your authority and expand your influence.
Copyright Oliver Starr, Pearltrees, 2011. Used under a CC attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.
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Can Curation Make You a Better Blogger
1. Can Curation Make YOU a Better Blogger?
How curation can increase your authority and expand your influence
Presented by Oliver Starr, Chief Evangelist, Pearltrees
14. “I’m looking for
“I want to know more about “I know exactly what I’m
something fun/
something in particular” looking for”
Interesting”
Curated Content
Serendipitous Discovery Targeted Search
Highly Random Sweet Spot for Expanding Influence and Reach Highly Specific
18. By adding curation to your skill set
you can improve the quality (and
increase the quantity) of the content
you create and distribute
19. Curating allows you to produce (and
even crowd-source) meaningful
insight without depending completely
on your own original content
20. By understanding the various curation
tools you’ll be able to use them in
appropriate ways -
It’s a shortcut to expanding your
influence!
21. By making it easy for your audience
to curate the content you create, you
become part of a larger conversation
Once you become a major
contributor to this larger group your
influence expands as does your
authority!
Based upon Patrice Lamothe’s Post “The Web’s Third Frontier” which originally appeared on his blog Cratyle.net (http://www.cratyle.net/en/2010/03/11/the-webs-third-frontier/)\n
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Just what is curation? \n
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Don’t believe me? Did you select your outfit today?\n
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The curation process: aggregate items into a collection, make choices about which items from a collection you wish to exhibit, use discernment to make those choice.\n\nIn this case you might have asked yourself, what impression do I wish to make, who will see me, how do I want to be perceived, what is the context of my presentation, etc.\n
Almost everyone. (of course there’s no accounting for taste)\n
Where does Curation fit into today’s web and your workflow?\n
Curated content sits between random / serendipitous discovery and highly targeted search. It is most useful when you know what topic you want to study but don’t know what it is you want or need to know about the topic.\n
It provides context\n\nGives you a broader and/or deeper view of a topic\n\nAllows you to produce meaningful insight without having to depend completely on your own original content\n\nIs an essential part of any content strategy\n
It provides context\n\nGives you a broader and/or deeper view of a topic\n\nAllows you to produce meaningful insight without having to depend completely on your own original content\n\nIs an essential part of any content strategy\n
it is the third natural phase of the web based upon Tim Berner Lee’s underpinning concepts\n
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It provides context\n\nGives you a broader and/or deeper view of a topic\n\nAllows you to produce meaningful insight without having to depend completely on your own original content\n\nIs an essential part of any content strategy\n
Know which tool to use for which kind of curation. they are not one size fits all. find the ones that work best for you for each type of curation you are doing:\n\nReal time news\nTopic\nOpinion\nArchiving\nSearch\n
Use curation as another part of your bigger social media efforts to engage your community and crowd-source even better, deeper, more nuanced content from your fans and the biggest experts on the topics you (or your company) care about most\n