Not the individual but the network is the most refined filter

There is a great article here about Gerrit Visser who has been digitally curating content since “just after the internet was invented” in 1996.

Quoting

“I think the curator (not the strategist) will have four main roles:

  1. Searching, filtering and selecting content to become a taste-maker for the target audience.
  2. Providing curatorial leadership to help other workers within an organization understand what makes valuable content for the brand — so they can be enlisted to create and maintain content based on these evolving criteria.
  3. Spotting trends, and feeding these to the strategists who will use them to help define future direction.
  4. Distributing — identifying channels and fine-tuning them.”

Looks a lot like what I try to achieve here at blog/My Digital Footprint and I massively depend on recommendations and comments from others …..