APLIC 2014 - Beth Kantor on Content Curation

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Using Content Curation for Professional Learning: Seek, Sense, ShareBeth Kanter, Trainer, Author, Blogger

APLIC ConferenceApril 2014

Beth Kanter: Master Trainer, Author, and ChangeMaker

http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com/aplic

My nonprofit tech work begins ….

Content Curation for Nonprofits circa 1994-1996

Are you a content curator?

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Scale

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Just 2 Words

What is your burning question about content curation?

What do you already know about content curation?

Share Pairs

Content curation is the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and

sharing the very best with your network.

The Content Curator is a Sommelier . . .

• Transdisciplinarity• Sense-making• Social intelligence• Cognitive load

management• New media literacy

“Learning is the work, work is learning” –

Jane Hart and Harold Jarche

Tweets links related to organization’s mission and work as a bipartisan advocacy organization dedicated to making children and families a priority in federal policy and budget decisions.

SEEK SENSE SHAREIdentified key blogs and Twitter users in each issue area

Scans and reads every morning and picks out best

Summarizes article in a tweet

Writes for Huffington Post

Helps him do his work

Feeds a network with quality content

Engages with aligned partners

Tweets best of best

Great Content Curation: Practice, Skills, Tools

Framework: Harold JarcheNetworked Learning Is Working Smarter

Seek

Sense

Share

Seek

• Define objective, audience, and topics

• Vets• Trusted Sources• Scouts• Filters – experts and

network• Use discovery tools

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http://www.bethkanter.org/content-curation-3/

Sense

• Product: Blog post, report, memo, presentation

• Selects• Annotate, Archive,

Apply• Add value• Optimize headlines• Edits• Excerpts• Links• Classifies

Share

• Share at the right moment• A steady diet of good stuff• Comments• Credits• Recommend other curators• Crowdsources• Transparent

Small Group Exercise

Framework: Harold JarcheNetworked Learning Is Working Smarter

Seek

Sense

Share

Share Pairs

• What have you thought about or already do as content curation in your practice?

Curating Efficiently: How To Avoid Getting Content Fried

1. When you start curating information, does it make you feel anxious?2. When you are seeking information to curate, have you ever forgotten what it was in

the first place you wanted to accomplish?3. Do you add links to your Scoop.It or other collections without reading and thinking

and annotating the article?4. Do you experience frustration at the amount of information you need to process

daily?5. Do you sit at your computer for longer than 30 minutes at a time without getting

up to take a break?6. Do you constantly check (even in the bathroom on your mobile phone) your email,

Twitter, Scoop.It or other online service?7. Is the only time you're off line is when you are sleeping?8. Do you feel that you often cannot concentrate?9. Do you get anxious if you are offline for more than a few hours?10.Do you find yourself easily distracted by online resources that allow you to avoid

other, pending work?

Self-Knowledge Is The First Step

A few quick assessment questionsAdd up your score: # of YES answers

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What’s Your Attention Focusing Score?

• Understand your goals and priorities and ask yourself at regular intervals whether your current activity serves your higher priority.

• Notice when your attention has wandered, and then gently bringing it back to focus on your highest priority

• Sometimes in order to learn or deepen relationships -- exploring from link to link is permissible – and important. Don’t make attention training so rigid that it destroys flow.

Source: Howard RheingoldNetSmart

What does it mean to manage your attention while your curate?

Manage Your Attention, Not Just Your TimeVisualize on PaperEstablish RitualsReflectionManage Electronic DistractionsManage Physical SpaceJust Say No

A Few Tips

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One Minute of Silence: What is one idea that you can put into practice next week? Write down on an index card

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Thank You!

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