Guest post by Larry Kunz.

Two years ago I hadn’t heard of content curation, and you probably hadn’t either. Now it’s everywhere. The steam of content is turning into a flood. (Brett Swanson calls it the exaflood.)

As a technical communicator, if you’re not already assimilating content from all across the organization—as well as from your customers—you soon will be. In fact, your customers won’t wait to be invited to the party.

This subject fascinates me, and I like to read everything I can about it. I’m noticing something: as the flood of content increases, the flood of content about content curation is increasing too. Blog posts. Slide decks. Webinars. All with their attendant tweets, RSS feeds, and email notifications.

I’m not alone. As I was preparing this piece, I ran across an article in which Ian Greenleigh wrote that he has trouble handling all of the “shiny” new stuff being written about content curation. Like Greenleigh, I have a column in TweetDeck labeled #curation. Unlike Greenleigh, I don’t have ADD—but I still find it devilishly hard to keep up with everything.

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