Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Your world grows with every authentic creation, every genuine connection, every true expression.
Not because you're trying to be discovered, but because you're focused on what's worth discovering.
Don't create something to be consumed. Create something to be explored.
Not because you're trying to be discovered, but because you're focused on what's worth discovering.
Don't create something to be consumed. Create something to be explored.
Matt Gottesman • Don't Create Something to Be Consumed... Create Something to Be Explored
Curating isn’t extra work.
It’s simply letting people see what you already notice.
It’s simply letting people see what you already notice.
Jon Schindehette • The Role of Taste
"The most credible form of advertising comes straight from the people we know and trust. Eighty-three percent of online respondents in 60 countries say they trust the recommendations of friends and family". - Nielsen 2015
Abhishek Maran • The Traditional Two-Sided Marketplace is Dead
…curators; like a museum curator pulling works together for an exhibition, they organize the avalanche of online content into something coherent and comprehensible, restoring missing context and building narratives. They highlight valuable things that we less-expert Internet surfers are likely to miss.
Kyle Chayka
The Art of Personal Taste
Holly Meredith Bossung • The Art of Personal Taste
In Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture , Eilean Hooper-Greenhill documents how museum work “has involved the establishment of a canon” through which order is created “by giving authority to certain texts, figures, ideas, problems, discursive strategies and historical narratives” (Hooper-Greenhill, 2000b, 20). This process of “boundary... See more
Curating the Digital World: Past Preconceptions, Present Problems, Possible Futures | MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013
Museums and the their role in developing culture - Boundary maintenance and the curation canon: can there be rules for what is of value and what is not?
Opportunity to update the museums and art gallery curation canons as well as those of who curates content and resources - of whatever kind - online
The more you sample, the better and broader your taste will be. The more you stick to what already speaks to you, the more limited and narrow your taste.
How to have good taste
Content Curation Toolkit 2.0
Based on existing SuperGuide but with the use of affiliate links for tools
Collecting and organizing all tools needed / connected / related to the job of curating content. Organizing them into separate groups defined by the need / activity / problem. Joining affiliate programs of tools / apps that offer such opportunity.
... See moreThe phone is not the enemy. The enemy is fear—fear of stillness, fear of silence, fear of being alone with one's own thoughts.
So let this be the final word: use it, but do not be used by it. Hold it, but do not be held by it.
And above all, remember: the truest moments of life happen in the spaces where there is no screen.
So let this be the final word: use it, but do not be used by it. Hold it, but do not be held by it.
And above all, remember: the truest moments of life happen in the spaces where there is no screen.