Content curation is nothing new to journalists. They’ve been scanning news wires and selecting the best to share with readers before Al Gore invented the Internet. So when a journalist from the Poynter Institute shares advice on content curation, pay attention. Julie Moos has great insight on balancing originality with curation and inclusion vs. exclusion. […]
Gathering Knowledge
I don’t know what to write today. I have no blog ideas. So I’m going to skip writing today. I tried. Honestly. Here’s where I looked: RSS Feeds: I have an impressive library of RSS feeds that I monitor. That’s where I found this great post on finding blog ideas from Duct Tape Marketing. Which […]
Sometimes if you’re not solving the problem, you’re making it worse. The trouble is that we don’t always know how to tell the difference between solutions and complications. Seth Godin noted this very succinctly in an eye-opening post: I was talking to a colleague about all the noise out there in the world, all the […]
I like to talk about filters. But what are they? I see a filter as a process that separates interesting, informative and reliable content from everything else that bombards us daily. Let me show you an example. I have Google Reader organized by folders. The folder I label “Inspiring Commerce” has more than 70 sources […]