Curating & Filtering the Web
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Tony Wagner’s Seven Survival Skills as defined by business leaders in their own words
► CRITICAL THINKING & PROBLEM SOLVING
► COLLABORATION ACROSS NETWORKS“Our mantra is that you lead by influence, rather than authority.” (Cisco)
► AGILITY & ADAPTABILITY
► INITIATIVE & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
► EFFECTIVE ORAL & WRITTEN COMMUNICATION“The biggest skill people are missing is the ability to communicate: both written
and oral presentations. It’s a huge problem for us.” (Cisco)
► ACCESSING & ANALYZING INFORMATION ► CURIOSITY & IMAGINATION
Source: http://www.tonywagner.com/7-survival-skills
if we paused the web for 60 seconds...
we would miss more than 1500 new blog posts,
almost 100,000 new tweets,
20,000 posts on Tumblr,
600 new videos (>24 hours) uploaded to YouTube
and at least 3,000 new images on Flickr.-Gizmodo
(also see 24 Hours of Flickr Photos exhibit)
... and in the past month
3 billion photos and
20 million videos have been
uploaded to Facebook
- Steve Wheeler
Source: GIZMODO http://gizmodo.com/5813875/what-happens-in-60-seconds-on-the-internet
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GOAL:LOW volume
HIGH relevancy
curation“select, organize and look after
the items in a collection (or exhibition)”
- Meriam Webster Dictionary
digital curation“organizing, filtering and
‘making sense of’ information on the web and sharing the very best of content
with your network”
- Judy O’Connell
2 opportunities for learners...
FIND great curators
BE a curator
- Jeff Cobb
RSSReally Simple Syndication
70% Surfing Rule12 Tips for Better Information in Half the Time by Tim Ferriss
RSS Reader (e.g. Google Reader)
StumbleUpon (SU)
Delicious / Diigo
curation tools
Paper.li
Scoop.it
PearlTrees
curation tools
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