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5 Tips for Great Content Curation
http://mashable.com/2012/04/27/tips-great-content-curation/
5 Tips for Great Content Curation
You’ve heard the buzz word — curation — being thrown around like it’s a gadget we all know how to work. In reality, good content curation isn’t as simple as pushing a share button.
It’s actually a combination of finding great content and following some simple best practices on how to successfully share that content.
If you’re a curator looking for some boundaries in what feels like the Wild West, here are five best practices to consider.

Pocket ... desktop and mobile curation App
http://getpocket.com/
Pocket ... desktop and mobile App for curation
Put articles, videos or pretty much anything into Pocket.
Save directly from your browser or from apps like Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and Zite.

MentorMob : Curation ... but just videos
http://www.mentormob.com/
MentorMob : Curation ... but just videos

Pinterest is an online pinboard
http://pinterest.com/
Pinterest is an online pinboard
Pinterest allows you to organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web.
You can browse pinboards created by other people to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests.
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30+ Cool Content Curation Tools
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30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use
The demand for timely, relevant content that is specific to our unique interests and perspectives has given rise to a new generation of tools that aim to help individuals and companies curate content from the web and deliver it in a meaningful way.
These new tools range from simple, application-specific types such as social media aggregators and discovery engines, to more complex, full-blown publishing solutions for organizations.
Here’s a look at over 30 content curation tools (mostly free, but some paid / professional tools as well) that will help you cut through the clutter of your information stream to find the gems.

10 iPad Apps for Web Curation
http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/2012/01/10-ipad-apps-for-web-curation.html
10 iPad Apps for Web Curation
Curation vs. Aggregation? Curation is such a necessity these days. The overwhelming wave of information we are exposed to is drowning us in facts and opinion. Not only do we need to be curating the information that we are consuming but we need to be insisting that our students have the skills and necessary tools in which to curate their own world. I have listed a number of capable curation apps that can help to do just that.

Digital Curation Blog
http://digitalcuration.blogspot.com/
Digital Curation Blog
Blog inspired by the Digital Curation Centre to discuss issues relating to the curation and long term preservation of digital science and research data.

Digital Curation Exchange
http://digitalcurationexchange.org/
Digital Curation Exchange
The Digital Curation Exchange has been created to serve as a “town center” for YOU: the practitioners, researchers, educators, and students of digital curation. Create an account and add your digital curation events, jobs, resources, or questions and discuss what others have shared in the comments section.

BagTheWeb
http://bagtheweb.com/
BagTheWeb
BagTheWeb helps users curate Web content. For any topic, you can create a "bag" to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web.
Beyond most curation tools' capability, BagTheWeb enables users to build networks of bags.
This way bags can be linked together to provide rich and complete information about any topic.

Scrible
http://www.scrible.com/
Scrible's changing how the world works online by transforming Web-based research.
"We're bringing Web-based research into the Internet Era by empowering people to mark up web pages in the browser and manage and collaborate on them online."

Web2 Start Pages : Digital Curation Tools
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/infolit/startpage/
Web2 Start Pages : Digital Curation Tools
Web2 start pages could be considered as curation tools although many do not allow the collaborative element in the tool .. and so should be considered as an individual tool and not social.
This is a list of Web2 Start pages on the Shambles website.

Curation : Hashtag Twitter Stream
http://tweetchat.com/room/curation

PearlTrees : Digital Curaton
http://www.pearltrees.com/
PearlTrees ... designed initially to help organise your online footprint or personal learning network ... but I suspect that it will turn out to be very useful in other areas not yet considered.
e.g. curriculum or topic planning

Scoop.it [area on Shambles]
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/scoopit/
Scoop.it [area on Shambles]
"Scoop.it is a FREE publishing-by-curation platform.
We provide a service making curation a simple and new form of expression on the Web. Thus, you can easily create your online magazine.
We want everyone to be a publisher and be heard everywhere."

Wikipedia : Digital Curation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_curation
Wikipedia : Digital Curation
"Digital curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets.
Digital curation is generally referred to the process of establishing and developing long term repositories of digital assets for current and future reference by researchers, scientists, historians, and scholars. Enterprises are starting to utilize digital curation to improve the quality of information and data within their operational and strategic processes."