Curation is the big new buzzword this year in social media circles — collecting information in a strategic amassing of selected information that’s presented in a new way to draw out the subtleties and patterns that might not otherwise be noticed when looking at the group in toto. Curation is an art form into itself. Are you a curator or an aggregator? But a good curator, like a good collector, will focus on a specific niche or seek out that subtle pattern that can only be discovered when the pieces are assembled. That is real curation. Much more. MORE >>

I’d love you to tak a look at this post by Rohit Bhargava:   Five Models of Content Curation. This is a pretty good deconstruction of how we actively curate content for you here on SocialFishing, and it’s a useful way to think about particular kinds of posts you could be posting on your association or nonprofit blog relative to your industry topics. Content curation, or the organizing, filtering and “making sense of&# information, is a role every association should be focusing on very consciously by now. Curation for community building, I suppose. MORE >>

In July, I participated in the Social Curation Summit in New York City. Here are 9 noteworthy sound bites from Twitter that represent the variations in conversation, people and moments – my curation from within the Social Curation Summit. People turn to curation when search stops working. everyone now is a curator. “Human curators have become essential software” says author of #CurationNation Steven Rosenbaum – @socialtimes. Blog social curation Social Media Social Media Marketing Social Curation Summit MORE >>

decided to check out what it was and discovered a really neat new content curation [.] Content curation news: Have you heard of Kuratur? Interviews Social Media content curation content curation tools KuraturThose who have followed my career for the last two or three years, know how much I love interviewing people behind great ideas. few weeks ago, I started noticing that the @Kuratur handle kept sharing my content on Twitter. was written by Cendrine Marrouat for her social media blog, Creative Ramblings. MORE >>

I’ve been talking a lot lately about content curation lately, and our contributor, Erik Deckers, is all about content creation, which has led to some “Tastes great! Someone else curated the collection. It’s falling to the curators to make sure the best stuff is shared, while the bad stuff is ignored. That’s why publishing carries some pretty important expectations that everyone should know, whether they’re creators, curators, or just want to have conversations about these bigger ideas. Less filling!” ” types of discussions. MORE >>