Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Greetings fellow content gatherers!

In today's technology world it is amazing how much content a single person can curate.  Curation seems to have become the new form for expressing feelings and/or knowledge.  Given new tools that exist (i.e. Educlipper) it's become a challenge of who can gather the best resources and compile them in a one stop shop for people to consume.

For those of you who haven't explored the realm of self-curating, I encourage you to check out a couple of tools that I have found useful.  The first tool would be paper.li. This tool allows you to select the content that you want collected for you, and then auto-generates a virtual paper that compiles what it deems to be the best content from the sources you have selected.  If you wanted to start a curated publication, this one is by far the easiest as the site takes care of the daily curating and will even publish it for you to your favorite social media sites.  (If you are interested in mine, the address is http://paper.li/bcgeek)

Another tool to check out for curating is Scoop.it.  Scoop.it allows you to name sources, have them searched daily, and then you self select the articles that you deem relevant to your Scoop pages.  Curating can be a daunting task if you are trying to find all of the information on your own so adding Scoop.it to your arsenal will make your life easier.  Scoop.it also features a mobile app that you can use to curate on the fly. (My Scoop.it pages can be found at: http://www.scoop.it/u/john-phillips)

Go forth and curate friends! Share your links to your curated creations in the comments so I can learn more from you.