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Traduco approssimativamente quanto scritto da Robin Good.

Una raccolta di risorse sulla content curation che raccoglie diversi articoli 60, (in lingua inglese) e li organizza in 8 categorie principali:

1. perché c'è bisogno della curation?

2. Che cos'è la digital curation?

3. aggregazione o curation?

4. tutto sull'audience

5. dove è possibile trovare contenuti di valore

6. che cosa selezionare?

7. strumenti di curation

8, contributi dei partecipanti del corso

Gli articoli sono stati ordinati in categorie utilizzando Pearltrees, questo lavoro rappresenta il risultato di un corso sulla content curation

Curate and scoop it- this one shows you how to curate  effectively

Here's a valuable resource on content curation, "distilled" by the students of the DCurate MOOC lead Martin Couzins and Sam Burrough which organizes over 60 different articles, guides and tools on the topic.

This resources collection is presented in the form of a Pearltrees interactive map, organized into eight sections:

1. Why Do We Need Curators

2. What Is Digital Curation

3. Aggregation vs. Curation

4. It's All About Audience

5. How Do We Find Valuable Content

6. How Do You Decide What To Curate

7. Curation Tools

8. Contributions from participants

If you are new to content curation this is a good resource to bookmark and keep as a reference.

DCurate MOOC sign-up: http://www.curatr3.com/portfolio-item/how-to-be-an-effective-digital-curator/  ;

See also: http://sco.lt/99a09Z ;

Free to use.

Explore the guidemap: http://bit.ly/digitalcuratorguidemap ;

See also: https://gibbon.co/RobinGood/content-curation-guide ;

As she says,  "A great way to illustrate one’s experience."  ~  D

I'd be remiss if I didn't also Scoop this to my Social Media curation stream at the SMLL - social media at the university, with the video lecturers bio illustrated via this infographic tool.  ~  Deb

This is an evergreen interesting topic.  I was especially intrigued with the title up above that said "Social Media Job of The Future".  There might be a lot of prescience (sp?) in that choice of words.

Anything from LnD Dave is pure hold and very practical.  Enjoy'

A GREAT resource for the buzzword "Content Curation." Finally!

Gamification, the art and science of applying game theory to online marketing, is HOT. The world Google Trends graph above confirms interest is high and getting higher. The steepness of the curve maybe its most impressive accomplishment.

Why Is Gamification So Hot
It is hard to think of any Internet marketing that can't be made better with gamification? The curve became very steep as Google began twisting our SEO fates with Panda updates. There is a correlation.

Google's new algorithm cherishes heuristic measures such as time on site, return visitors and pages viewed. Nothing tickles those metrics better than gamification. What is gamification?

Gamification, when applied to Internet marketing contains these components:

* A game with an objective measure, some "material" gains.

* A leaderboard that compares progress in the game.

* Small gains leading to bigger gains.

* A reward system easy to communicate across social nets.

* A game within the game.

* A social horse race.

Material Gain

Klout is a good example of "material" gain. As one's Klout score increases by making waves on the social net "material" gain is realized. For now we will overlook the circular nature of the rewards system (the primary benefit of your Klout score going up is your Klout score going up) and leave an upward swing as "material gain".

Leaderboard
Scoop.it's My Community is a great example of a perfectly conceived and executed leaderboard. Your track isn't against the top of the stack since seeing Robin Good or Michele Smorgon (@maxOz) visitor counts would be de-motivating. In fact, Scoop.it started with My Community that shared the top of the leaderboard before changing to just a Scooper's immediate competitive set (much more motivating).

Small Gains
Small gains are always the stepping-stones to bigger gains. The nature of a well-constructed game is the reward system never stops but does ratchet up the more it is played. This ability to slide rewards with play creates a cocaine-like addiction. It is no mistake that the leading troll on Reddit explained his self-destructive behavior as, "I did it for the points," as if anyone should understand his addiction.

The interview, not a Reddit player looked at the man as if he was insane. Reddit's gamification was both means and end and the reinforcement came so fast and furious this man was overwhelmed to the extent his life is in ruins from chasing "points". 

Social Points
Klout and GetGlue are good about prompting sharing of achievement across social network. Sharing reinforces the gain and sells the game.

Game Within The Game
On Scoop.it the daily game is views and the game within the game is views against your immediate competitive set as expressed in My Community. On a workout site the most pushups or greatest weight loss can be games within games. Games within games are wheels that increase engagement. Players who play the game within the game are twice hooked and may be the games greatest advocates.

Social Horse Race
The most valuable competitions are close ones. There is something in human nature that wants to root for the underdog that wants the thrill of victory. We care more about races when they are close, so gamification designers must find ways to insure competition. Scoop.it insured competition when they changed from top of the stack My Community to allowing each player to see their competitive set. If one or a few players run off and leave the pack the game must be reformed to promote competition or it won't endure.

Other Resources
I wrote what may be the first gamification white paper for Atlantic BT last year:

Gamification: Winning Hearts Minds and Loyalty Online

Gamification Summit in SF April 2013

Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal

Traduco liberamente la recensione di Robin Good dall'inglese.  

Spiegare cosa sia la content curation - cura dei contenuti a qualcuno che non lo sa non è semplice dato che vi sono molte definizioni, articoli, concezioni e interpretazioni che la riguardano.

Per offire un aiuto a chi avesse necessità di spiegare la content curation sono qui presentati 5 gruppi di risorse:

1) Content Curation - Definizioni

raccolta delle migliori definizioni di content curation

http://bundlr.com/b/content-curation-definition

2) Content Curation -video

30 brevi clips video che introducono alla content curation

http://huzzaz.com/collection/content-curation-what-is-it

3) Content Curation - infografiche 

oltre 110 infografiche che spiegano cosa sia la content curation

http://www.pinterest.com/robingood/content-curation-visualized/

4) Content Curation - strumenti

oltre 100 tra i migliori strumenti per la content curation

http://contentcuration.zeef.com/

5) Mappa sugli strumenti per la content Curation - collezione di strumenti

più di 600 strumenti per la content curation (organizzazione pubblicazione, categorizzazione, scoperta, ecc)

http://bit.ly/ContentCurationToolsSupermap

Never heard of it - must be worth sharing :)

This link is invaluable to support an understanding of content curation. 

It's great to see a crowdfunding (crowdsource funding) site for Education! Have a look and see if your education or training activities might benefit from such funding or at least the exposure to this community online.

Interesting idea!