Did you miss this week's #ContentWritingChat? Check out our recap featuring guest host, Guillaume Decugis, for tips on content curation in 2016!
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This is the write-up by ExpressWriters of the tweet chat they invited me to join as a guest host last Tuesday.
ExpressWriters is a great platform of writers, ie content creators and it was refreshing for me to see how much the debate around content creation vs curation has changed.
5 years ago when we were starting with Scoop.it, a lot of content creators were concerned about content curation: some felt it was theft, others noise. A French blogger even wrote that content curation was "de la merde" (shit in English, if you'll excuse his French).
Every innovation brings fear and concerns: just look at the many fights between taxi drivers and Uber. Most of the time for a lack of understanding as well as a resistance to change: some bloggers who had built an audience through great effort didn't want to change their habits or acknowledge that there were other ways to add value than creating 100% original content (who create 100% original content anyway? We all build on top of other people's idea and have always done so...).
Since then, many have demonstrated that you could build a large audience by adding value to other people's content. And content curation has become an accepted practice. So it was great to see such a great community of writers embrace content curation during this vibrant tweetchat!
This is the write-up by ExpressWriters of the tweet chat they invited me to join as a guest host last Tuesday.
ExpressWriters is a great platform of writers, ie content creators and it was refreshing for me to see how much the debate around content creation vs curation has changed.
5 years ago when we were starting with Scoop.it, a lot of content creators were concerned about content curation: some felt it was theft, others noise. A French blogger even wrote that content curation was "de la merde" (shit in English, if you'll excuse his French).
Every innovation brings fear and concerns: just look at the many fights between taxi drivers and Uber. Most of the time for a lack of understanding as well as a resistance to change: some bloggers who had built an audience through great effort didn't want to change their habits or acknowledge that there were other ways to add value than creating 100% original content (who create 100% original content anyway? We all build on top of other people's idea and have always done so...).
Since then, many have demonstrated that you could build a large audience by adding value to other people's content. And content curation has become an accepted practice. So it was great to see such a great community of writers embrace content curation during this vibrant tweetchat!
This is the write-up by ExpressWriters of the tweet chat they invited me to join as a guest host last Tuesday.
ExpressWriters is a great platform of writers, ie content creators and it was refreshing for me to see how much the debate around content creation vs curation has changed.
5 years ago when we were starting with Scoop.it, a lot of content creators were concerned about content curation: some felt it was theft, others noise. A French blogger even wrote that content curation was "de la merde" (shit in English, if you'll excuse his French).
Every innovation brings fear and concerns: just look at the many fights between taxi drivers and Uber. Most of the time for a lack of understanding as well as a resistance to change: some bloggers who had built an audience through great effort didn't want to change their habits or acknowledge that there were other ways to add value than creating 100% original content (who create 100% original content anyway? We all build on top of other people's idea and have always done so...).
Since then, many have demonstrated that you could build a large audience by adding value to other people's content. And content curation has become an accepted practice. So it was great to see such a great community of writers embrace content curation during this vibrant tweetchat!