Content curation is rapidly becoming an essential skill for learning professionals, but many have yet to take the step of putting it into practice. In this session, you’ll learn how to use curation for moving beyond the traditional packaging of courses to provide better, more efficient solutions for your learners, stakeholders, and yourself. Bring your laptop to test drive top curation tools that can transform your media consumption from a deluge of data to a world of wisdom. Learn to craft a solid content curation strategy while introducing the tools and techniques you can use to build a powerful, efficient curation workflow to fit your personal needs and preferences.

Think about it. Isn’t a lot of the work L&D already does really just a form of curation? The process of creating a course is virtually the same as the curation process. You start by identifying your goals and doing some analysis of your audience. You identify topics and that leads you to a collection of resources from which you cull the best information to present in the proper context.

“Curation is using your expertise in a field to gather great content around a specific theme and present that content in a way that will educate others.” Stephanie Hatch Leishman

Why You Should Curate

There are several reasons you should consider adding curation to your skill set. First, the pace of change today is faster than ever and the lifespan of skills and information is getting shorter and shorter. The average shelf life of a business competency has dropped from 30 years in 1984 to 5 years in 2014. To be successful we must learn more things and do it faster.

“In a world of rapid change and increasing complexity, the winners will be those whose rate of learning is greater than the rate of change and greater than the rate of their competition.” 

Tom Hood

Here is a brief comparison between courses and curation.

As if that isn’t reason enough, Jane Hart has shared some information that tells us the people we serve value the things curation can do much more than traditional courses and workshops.

Scaling Organizational Learning

I’m a strong believer that curation can help organizations increase the amount and speed of learning that takes place. Which in turn makes the organization smarter and more agile. We should be teaching people how to be curators as part of their Personal Knowledge Mastery process.

Getting Started with Curation

Here are a few things to help you get started with your curation efforts.

If you can answer these three questions from the perspective of the people you are curating for you will be heading in the right direction:

1. What are their goals and pain points?
2. What information do they want?
3. What awareness do they need?

I’ve created this curation workbookto help guide anyone looking to get started with developing their own personal curation process.

Most people are familiar with the feeling of drinking from the fire hose when consuming content online. Great curators are ruthlessly efficient in the way they take in information The key is setting up a process that maximizes the signal and reduces the noise. For me, Feedly is the foundational piece of the puzzle.

Here is a brief overview of how my curation process works.

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Here are a few tips for getting started with each step of the process:

• Keeping Up in a Busy World
• Feedly
• Social Bookmarking
• Read It Later Apps
• Buffer

I’d love to hear from you if you have any questions or comments. And I’d love to hear what your process is too!

 

Curation Resources

Grab a copy of this free Curation ebook packed with useful curation topics including strategies, tools, tips and more.

To learn more about getting started with integrating tested marketing techniques into your L&D programs download this free ebook from Bianca Baumann.

Got questions? Interested in bringing this workshop to your organization? Let’s talk!