Let’s chat on social, learning and knowledge creation benefits of curating, reblogging and commenting
The chat is about the enrichment on the topic and the connections established between the original author, the curator and the final reader as outcomes from the activity of curating, commenting or reblogging. We could compare the similarities, differences, benefits and costs of the 3 methods as well as possibilities of combining them.
Let’s start with a few definitions:
Reblogging is the mechanism in
blogging which allows users to repost the content of another user’s post with an indication that source is another user. The most common forms of reblogging are retweets and shares. The reblog can include a user commentary. Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reblogging Depending on the size of the extract and the size of the commentary reblogging and curation rejoint. Major difference with curation is that it’s done directly on the curator’s blog (or timeline) mixed with his own contents.
Content curation is the process of collecting, organizing and displaying information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest. Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_curation
=> We are really talking about manual curation in this chat.
Commenting: adding an
annotation or written remark. More specifically using the blog commenting capability to add comments and start a conversation.
All four actions will involve:
- An original post
- An original author, the person who wrote the original post.
- Another agent named curator, commenter depending on the action.
- A commentary: A short piece of text based on the original post.
- A final reader. Someone who will find the original post via the action of the curator and based on the commentary.
Possible outcomes are:
- Gain of exposure for the original post. Some would talk about amplification.Indirectly this adds to the original author reputation.
- Quality contents at reduced cost for the curator. This is only true if the sum of the contributions, curation and commenting appears in special location. Some app may be able to gather them all under one page. See below my links. Indirectly this may adds to the curator reputation.
- A Way to stay current for the curator. Turning watch and skimming news into a productive activity can serve as an extra motivation. (See https://twitter.com/Quinnovator/status/566054836173414400) and the work on Harold Jarche on PKM
- Gain of time and attention for the final reader. He may not have found an interesting post or not in a limited time. It could also happen that the reader saw the reference to the original posts but didn’t pay attention to it but will eventually decide to read it based on a second mention by the curator.
- An engagement between the original author and the curator. They may not know each other in which case it will be a new contact or it is the continuation of a relation.
- A discussion on the topic.
- An engagement with the final reader.
- An enrichment of the topic via the conversation and the engagement.
What I’m interested in from the point of view of social, learning and knowledge management is this enrichment and the connections established between the original author, the curator and the final reader.
My links
As an example of how various contributions may show up I’m listing below the links for me (Bruno Winck).
PKMChat being about Personal Knowledge Management encompass Knowledge lifecycle in general. Our first chat was about learning, acquiring Knowledge. Our second is about sharing it. Week after weeks we will switch from one end of the lifecycle to another while exploring all the channels that could be used: social, formal, writing, videos. Feel free to suggest topics by tweeting to @pkmchat.