I am Robin Good, a passionate researcher of content curation since 2004, writing you from Holbox island in Mexico.
My goal is to assist indie entrepreneurs who are expert about a topic in creating valuable resources that are useful for others and that are also economically profitable.
Who is this for:
indie entrepreneurs, creators
journalists
subject-matter experts, consultants, advisors
The Free edition of this newsletter offers: - key insights and trends relating to content curation, organizing information and related monetization and business models.
6 real-world examples with detailed info (niche, business model, platforms, authors) along with my notes on the curator’s job and connected business opportunities.
Key Curation Insights
1) It’s Insights We’re After, Not More Information
Everybody is saving, bookmarking, sharing and even making a copy of interesting stuff they run into.
But the issue is, after months have passed how to find again what you actually need and how much effort you have to make to go through it, to re-read and to understand what was that had touched so deeply your interest.
This is where having a curation approach makes all of the difference. By adding relevant context, interpretation and perspective to the why that content is important for a specific audience one can embed ready-to-be-used insight that if properly archived and categorized can be used again and again as a just-in-time learning resource.
“In the knowledge economy, employees have no problem getting access to content. In fact, they are flooded with it all day every day...
Similarly, workers have no problem curating content. In fact they gather it, filter it, sort it, categorize it and hoard it all day. They bury themselves with it and then rightfully complain they are overloaded and overwhelmed.
Each of us bookmarks hundreds of web pages and files away documents on our hard drive knowing we will forget the key nuggets but thinking we will return to them someday.
When we need to call upon the relevant resource, we wind up digging all over the place trying to refind it, and if we succeed then have to reread it and the cycle starts all over again.”
Though you may not see it right away, there’s a growing vacuum between those who create and report the news and those seeking information.
“They [curators] are not on the front lines, covering a particular beat or industry, or filing a story themselves, but they are responding to a reader need.
With a torrent of content emanating from innumerable sources (blogs, mainstream media, social networks), a vacuum has been created between reporter and reader — or information gatherer and information seeker — where having a trusted human editor to help sort out all this information has become as necessary as those who file the initial report.”
Discover 12 new interesting curation tools and apps to organize information, create collections, to draw concept boards, information maps and ideas graphs.
Capture, curate and format your newsletter with the minimum effort
Pinterest meets Miro digital boards where to organize, collect, illustrate and map ideas and resources
Visual searchable workspaces to organize and share ideas, notes, projects, resources. Nested boards, infinite canvas.
Information organizer can capture from any web page or app you have open. Simpler than Obsidian. Intuitive.
Most powerful information organizer I have seen to date. Local, encrypted, P2p syncing. Fully customizable.
Note taker. Second-brain. Friendly PKM. Graph view. Bi-directional links. No folders. Works with objects and properties. Generous free version.
Collect, organize and share links and bookmarks with your team.
Collect and organize notes, ideas, files. Easy import and capture from the web. Web, desktop (Mac and Win), Chrome extension, iOS and Android apps. AI-assisted labeling.
Curate mini-guides about books, articles, podcasts or any topic of general interest. mini-guides consists of an overview, three insights, and a wrap-up and can be read in under 5 minutes.
Curate snackable knowledge bundles on specific topics. Offers monetization opportunity.
Create collections, boards, folders and share them with people. Integrates with Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive.
Find and share highly-relevant content on your preferred topics, ready to be shared on Facebook Groups/Pages and LinkedIN. AI-content discovery assisted. WordPress-enabled.
World Passports Catalog Complete directory of world passports, ranked, scored and comparable by benefits in terms of access and mobility.
Library of Web Apps User Flows Huge inspiration catalog of web applications and user flows examples (48,400+ of screen examples from 470+ web applications).
Films-Based Image and Clips Search Engine 800K+ searchable catalog of licensable images and clips coming from movies, ads and music videos.
Best Trending Daily Clips From YouTube Under 5-minutes video compilations of best trending curious, funny and forgotten clips from YT.
Real-World Examples of Commercial User Flows Growing library of 3,5K screen recordings of typical user flows (such as onboarding, purchasing, upgrading, etc.) on tried and tested real-world apps and online popular products.
Strategy Toolkit To Launch Any Product Online Big bundle of useful launch strategies, resources and templates.
The above are all online projects that monetize by organizing existing information.
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