curating & filtering the web

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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