FACETS- Find, Assess, Choose, Explain, Tailor, and Share

FACETS- Find, Assess, Choose, Explain, Tailor, and Share

Week 12

November 17, 2014

           

           I have to admit that much of social media and in particular, social media curation, was uncharted water for me prior to this course. On an experimental basis, I decided to go through Listly to find, assess, choose, explain, tailor and share content that was of personal interest to me. For that reason, I began to search for anything related to Sardinia, Italy. This was a useful exercise to give Listly a trial run before trying to find content on mindmapping.

            What I first encountered was a tremendous sum of information out there on the subject of Italy, and more specifically Sardinia. It was initially overwhelming. It brought to the forefront how much effort goes into finding and filtering. Finding quality resources was a challenge. There were many sites, articles, and videos that I sifted through, which were more about promoting a service or product versus education on the region, culture, arts, music, or history. Since I thoroughly love the topic of travel, and more importantly travel to a place I have never been such as Sardinia, it was more of a pleasure than a pain.  This is what Beth’s blog referred to as being one of the biggest challenges in becoming a content curator—getting past the feeling of “content fried” or so much good content with so little time to digest it. For me this was the latter and not so much the former.  She contends that there are techniques to use that can minimize our feeling of being distracted. I’ve yet to acquire the discipline to make it easier and flow.

            In short, this experience of curating content has lead me through the process of finding, assessing, choosing, explaining, tailoring, and at last sharing on both Facebook and Twitter. Now I’m ready to tackle being a Content Curator for Mindmapping.

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 Sardinia, Italy