Content Curation


EContent describes Content Curation is the act of identifying, collecting, and presenting digital content that surrounds specific theme subject matter.  The content that can be curated includes text and audio and video files, graphics, animations, and images. The curator blog has published a lot of content curation tools that make content curation easy. Read more.

 After content curation what happens next? Letting people see your work. How? Through social media, websites, blog, etc. In this post, I explore the blogging option. Let's begin. 

 There are many platforms for blogging. These include Medium, WordPress, Wix, and Blogger. Some of these platforms are free but come with limited support or option. A blog can be created in a few minutes after signing up. I have tried a number of these platforms and I have decided to use Blogger by Google because it currently supports the structure of how I want my blog to look like. All you need is a google account.
   


One thing I find amazing with Blogger is that there are many free templates to choose from. 
FIY in this video. 

Next, I curate content with Storify. There are many others to explore. Storify allows content curation from the web including social media networks. A keyword search will display tonnes of materials from which you can select the ones relevant to you. There is room for writing your own story in addition to the curated content. You can share your story or embed it on another site. FIY in the video below.



Find out more information on Content Curation on Storify
 


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