Content Curation is a term that describes the act of finding, grouping, organizing or sharing the best and most relevant content on a specific issue.
It is such a powerful idea because curation does NOT focus on adding more content/noise to the chaotic information overload of social media, and instead focuses on helping any one of us to make sense of this information by bringing together what is most important.
This is a good nuts-and-bolts discussion of curation as a verb. I still haven’t read anything to confirm or refute my hypotheses around what museum curation is and the direct analogs with content curation.
For example, anyone can put some skulls and arrowheads and bits of cloth and yellowed parchment in a room together. In my mind (granted I have much reading to do on the subject, as I mentioned), it is the curator’s role to research the items, validate their authenticity, make connections among the items in terms of historical chronology and significance, produce a content layer over and above the research layer that articulates this context, and finally arranges the content in such a way as to make the physical experience of the objects for the new visitor one that sustains interest throughout, remains memorable thereafter, and — in the best of all worlds — changes the visitor’s perspective permanently.
Anybody got a blog post like that?