Robin Good
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@robingood
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 more“Love is more important than opinion.
If people love each other, the most varied opinions can be reconciled.
That’s why one of the most important tasks for humanity today and in the future is that we must learn to live together and understand each other. “
Rudolf Steiner
Question the common belief that happiness is the primary purpose of life.
Consider instead that a life aimed at being useful—creating, helping others, and making a difference—could be more fulfilling and meaningful.
Darius Foroux via Glasp
Listen up, guys: this is good [drawing a question mark on the board]... and this is bad [drawing an exclamation point].
Good is doubt, when you meet someone who doubts, relax, it means they're a good person, it means they're democratic, tolerant.
But when you meet these ones [pointing at the exclamation point], those who are certain, with unwaverin
"empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them"
Ivan Illich - Deschooling Society
Learning and
"School does offer children an opportunity to escape their homes and meet new friends.
But, at the same time, this process indoctrinates children with the idea that they should select their friends from among those with whom they are put together.
Providing the young from their earliest age with invitations to meet, evaluate, and seek out others wo
"Expert curation occurs when an actual human being who is, theoretically, an expert in a given topic, weighs the quality of the information presented in making her source selections.
Expert curation can also include an editorial element, in which the expert not only judges content for quality but also provides a point of view."
Source: Att
... See moreCurating = Unpacking for a General Audience
Thomas B. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, shares in this TED video, his journey to become a respected museum curator, and the valuable discoveries and insights realized along the way.
This passage, in particular, struck with me louder than a thousand words:
"We live in an age of ubiquitous information, and sort of "just add water" expertise, but there's nothing that compares with the presentation of significant objects in a well-told narrative... what the curator does, the interpretation of a complex, esoteric subject, in a way that retains the integrity of the subject, that makes it -- unpacks it for a general audience."
Top three Public Domain resources online.