Content Curators Are The New Superheros Of The Web | Social Media and its influence | Scoop.it

"Yesterday, 250 million photos were uploaded to Facebook, 864,000 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube, and 294 billion emails were sent. No wonder content curation is one of the most important jobs of our digital age.

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Which means it's time to enlist the web's secret power: humans."

 

I just love the way Steve Rosenbaum talks about curators, don't you?

 

He coined the term when we interviewed him at SxSWi and Steve definitely knows what he's talking about, being the author of Curation Nation.

 

He gives interesting guidelines to all would-be curators in this post: even if you're already one, you might find them useful. And if you're not a curator yet: "All you need is a web browser and a cape. The rest is up to you."

 

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Via Guillaume Decugis