Why To Curate Information

Content curation is a natural solution to resource abundance.

Some people voluntarily curate content for the direct purpose of producing better and more satisfying results, saving time, appearing more authoritative or gaining more customers.

Information curators are personally interested in what they do, and curating is a reliable way to learn about their resources, uncover true gems, and organise them in a meaningful way.

Curation requires vetting, verification, resource-finding, providing a viewpoint and an ability to re-organise what is of value.

• Curation takes more time and effort than writing.
• It takes more competence, experience and skill than writing.
• You need to be a subject matter expert.
• You need to immerse yourself completely into a subject.
• To curate effectively, you must be driven by more than compensation.

• Curators desire to organise an information space and make it easy for others to extract immediate value.
• The desire to share, inform, educate, and entertain a community of people interested in the same topic.
• The need to make sense of a subject by exploring, collecting, and combining relevant information.
• The need to quickly find specific information.
• The need to archive and preserve valuable information resources.
• The will to create something of lasting value.
• The desire to help others discover what is not apparent.

Curation helps people understand and learn better.

Curation guides people to discove and learn about a subject in greater depth.

Curation saves people time by bringing the right information into focus.

Curation facilitates discovery of new or rare or unknown valuable resources.

Curation helps to uncover and identify patterns and relationships between information resources.

Curation promotoes a critical thinking attitude

Curation invites questioning, participation, contribution, and improvements.

• Curation helps people understand and learn better.
• Curation guides people to discover and learn about a subject in greater depth.
• Curation saves people time by bringing the right information into focus.
• Curation facilitates the discovery of new or rare, or unknown valuable resources.
• Curation helps to uncover and identify patterns and relationships between information resources.
• Curation promotes a critical thinking attitude
• Curation invites questioning, participation, contribution, and improvements.