Finding great content to share will make others more aware and show them how much you really care. Remember, we’re defining these phrases for purposes of being a resource – content curation and knowledge sharing. Once you get these “Three Keys&# – you’ll be able to focus on what RSS feeds to subscribe to, who to follow and retweet on Twitter, and what to write about on your blog. Finding Your Three Keys for Great Content Curation is a post from: ConverStations. This is sometimes a tough exercise – and it should be. MORE >>

This simple and somewhat elegant service played a role as a curation journal of sorts for its users, who could discuss an article (or its best parts anyway) downstream. One user, Paul Simbeck-Hampson, wrote in detail on Google+ , that Amplify "was a community of thoughtful considerate people who took time to engage, share and support one another around topics that were meaningful - it was like a grown ups meeting place," adding that even while discussions on curation and copyright flared up, Amplify made many changes to be on the right side of content owners. MORE >>

Others are getting my good content. Or maybe I should just say they are getting my content, whether it’s good or not, well that’s in the eyes of the reader now isn’t it? Being a content producer is brutal, it’s hard and it never ends. Because content, in and of itself, is constantly being redefined and producing it is constantly a challenge. Content for the consumer, is like crack, the more we get, the more we want. No longer is average content acceptable. Content churns the machine. Sometimes it sucks. The flip side? MORE >>

But the subject line, “This is WTF We Mean By Curation,” compelled me. Does the word “curate” really belong alongside “Hehehe” (not a word, by the way) and “Glocal” (I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone with a brain say this out loud) as one of the 20 “words we’d just as soon never write or see or hear spoken again?” As content creators, our readers rely on us to help them cut through the white noise of the Internet. Good content requires more than the simple assemblage of information—any fool with an RSS feed can do that. MORE >>

Anyway, they've kindly let me reproduce it here, so here it is : One of the most remarkable quotes of the last couple of weeks came from Christopher Bailey, CCO of Burberry, who said: "We are now as much a media-content company as we are a design company, because it's all part of the overall experience."  "  Seems like everyone's in the content game now. With an explosion in the amount of content vying for our attention, quality content curation of all kinds has a high value. Original column here. Please try again. MORE >>