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To be visible online, we're caught between a rock and a hard place: we have to publish more and we have to publish better. We must curate or die. 
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The battle: original vs aggregated content. From PR Week
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
The description of "aggregated content" sounds a lot like content curation... To me, aggregating is much more like scraping. However, there are good points in here.
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Curation is nothing new, but online content curation is still in its early stages. Many content marketers are still unsure about what constitutes ethical content curation. If you're in this group, ...
Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight,
November 22, 2013 10:32 PM
Most of this is common sense, really. But I can't drive home enough two of the points: Properly credit by prominently linking to the original source and Using quotes only; not the entire article. Also, inserting your own point of view is great -- however, sometimes there are reasons not to; for example, time constraints which have you quickly offering a link and/or when reiterating is like beating a dead horse.
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Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
Robin Good of Content Curation World breaks the findings down thus: a) what people curate as relevant is not generally among the top ranked results according to popular metrics. Good stuff is not the same as what is considered normally popular or authoritative stuff. b) content curation allows a community to synchronize around specific issues and subjects (as anticipated by Clay Shirky) c) better and more appreciated curation is of the "structured" kind, providing additional info, meta-data and categorization. d) curators that are highly appreciated are characterized by consistent activity and by a variety of interests (or viewpoints under the same theme) that they are capable to cover. This is rather my experience; however, I usually explain it to my clients this way: a) You can be doing an excellent job, but never receive the recognition, popularity, or traffic you deserve.That doesn't mean you won't be appreciated greatly by the smaller group of people who do find/read your curated works. b) No matter the popularity of your curation, you can build and have conversations -- but remember, community cultivation not only requires additional time, but a different skill set. c) If you're going to do it, do it well. Use tools, such as labels and tags, and *always* provide context as well as proper credits and links. d) Consistent activity is nearly as important as showing some personality along with your knowledge. Your topic may be narrowly focused, but offer additional topics and information about you personally (not just professionally) so that people get a sense of you.
Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight,
October 15, 2013 3:58 PM
Robin Good of Content Curation World breaks the findings down thus: a) what people curate as relevant is not generally among the top ranked results according to popular metrics. Good stuff is not the same as what is considered normally popular or authoritative stuff. b) content curation allows a community to synchronize around specific issues and subjects (as anticipated by Clay Shirky) c) better and more appreciated curation is of the "structured" kind, providing additional info, meta-data and categorization. d) curators that are highly appreciated are characterized by consistent activity and by a variety of interests (or viewpoints under the same theme) that they are capable to cover. This is rather my experience; however, I usually explain it to my clients this way: a) You can be doing an excellent job, but never receive the recognition, popularity, or traffic you deserve.That doesn't mean you won't be appreciated greatly by the smaller group of people who do find/read your curated works. b) No matter the popularity of your curation, you can build and have conversations -- but remember, community cultivation not only requires additional time, but a different skill set. c) If you're going to do it, do it well. Use tools, such as labels and tags, and *always* provide context as well as proper credits and links. d) Consistent activity is nearly as important as showing some personality along with your knowledge. Your topic may be narrowly focused, but offer additional topics and information about you personally (not just professionally) so that people get a sense of you. 
Carmenne Kalyaniwala's curator insight,
October 16, 2013 2:17 AM
A research paper by Zhong, Shah, Sundaravadivelan and Sastry, King's college London, 2013 
AnneMarie Cunningham's curator insight,
October 17, 2013 8:28 AM
See the excellent notes from Robin Good below. Interesting to see more work emerging in this field.
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There’s a lot of talk about content curation; but is anyone making money?
Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com's comment,
October 3, 2012 8:31 AM
Indirectly I've monetized my use of Scoop.it by driving traffic to my websites. I'm working on a whitepaper that will explain how. Right now I'm still gathering analyitic results for it.
Guillaume Decugis's comment,
October 3, 2012 9:37 PM
Looking forward to read that Brian! I'm curious what you guys think of a solution like http://linqia.com - we've been exchanging with their founders on whether it could be a good solution for our users or not. Nothing decided yet but as we're discussing monetization, I'd love to have your thoughts (or anybody else's interested in that).
Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com's comment,
October 5, 2012 1:16 AM
I've always wondered about the legal part of putting ads with curated content. Say I scoop a New York Times article word for word and there is an ad displayed on Scoop.it with the copied article.
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But what does curation mean? How is that really different from blogging? And why on earth would we need another means of adding to information overload?
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