We live in the age of information, meaning that our ability to succeed are increasingly connected to our ability to manage and efficiently leverage information. Stephanie Hatch Leishman, a former MIT social media strategist, states that “curation is using your expertise in a field to gather great content around a specific theme and present that content in a way that will educate others.”

Curation is a vital skill

An information resource has value only when someone verifies, organises and curates it. Without context, it is disconnected from other relevant resources. It's like having an ingredient without a recipe. Curation gives context to any information item to look at and appreciate. When the information resource is curated and contextualised, it gains value and usefulness.

Information lacks context

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 natural drivers

Curation requires vetting, verification, resource-finding, providing a viewpoint and an ability to re-organise what is of value. <ul><li>Curation takes more time and effort than writing.</li><li>It takes more competence, experience and skill than writing.</li><li>You need to be a subject matter expert.</li><li>You need to immerse yourself completely into a subject.</li><li>To curate effectively, you must be driven by more than compensation.</li></ul>

Curation is more challenging than writing

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

Motivation to curate information spaces

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 attitudeCuration invites questioning, participation, contribution, and improvements.

Curation benefits

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

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The true purpose, motivation and rewards behind searching, collecting, adding value and sharing great collections of information. Whether you realize it or not, the fact that we are living in the age…

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