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 Help:Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThere are almost no limits when creating books from Wikipedia content. A good book focuses on a certain topic and covers it as well as possible. A meaningful title helps other users to have the correct expectation regarding the content of a book. Via Robin Good 
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If you want learn more about social media curation and/or start your own scoop.it you should read this excellent and detailed blog post from Shirley Williams. [note mg]
Are you asking the following questions: “What is social media curation?” and “How does it add value?” Are you like many business owners trying to get your head around curation and the associated benefits? Well I have come to realize, you are not alone!
In an earlier post I defined curation. In this post I would like us to revisit that definition and share how value can be gained by demonstrating how to use Scoop.it.
Reminder of What’s Social Media Curation?
With the exponential growth of social networks and blogs, the amount of information on the internet can be overwhelming and time consuming. Consequently, the role of the social media curator has become increasingly more attractive. Social media curation is when you filter, select, review and reposition quality content on the web for a specific audience and/or topic...
Read more: http://bit.ly/IRXDad Via Martin Gysler
angel Graham's comment,
May 8, 2012 6:45 PM
These are all very good things. I do some already. Some I need to implement. Thank you.
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Robin Good: A valuable resource for anyone interested in the creation, organization and preservation of digital collections for the humanities, is this curated selection of resources and citations made available by the DH Curation Guide.
"The DH Curation Guide is a compilation of articles that address aspects of data curation in the digital humanities.
The goal of the DH Curation Guide is to direct readers to trusted resources with enough context from expert editors and the other members of the research community to indicate to how these resources might help them with their own data curation challenges."
DH Curation Guide: http://guide.dhcuration.org/index.html
Of particular interest in this collection:
The concept of collection from the user’s perspective by H. L. Lee.
A framework for contextual information in digital collections by Lee, C. A.
Thematic Research Collections by Palmer, C. L.
A framework of guidance for building good digital collections by NISO Framework Advisory Group
Full guide: http://guide.dhcuration.org/collections/ Via Robin Good
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For those of us marketing High value products online this great little tool can help us gather and organize the necessary information we need to help others learn about a specific subject - Chk out what Robin says abou this tool:
"Few people know that it is actually possible to curate Wikipedia content into custom print books or PDF / OpenDocument ebooks that contain exactly the content you want in the order you specify."
(Robin Good)
For thosse of us marketing online this tolol is worth checking out
Tim
I just love this democratisation of everything; here's self publishing delivered to a keyboard near you courtesy of Wikipedia ...
It's worth keeping in mind that some 'publishers' try to sell books based entirely on Wikipedia content.