“There is no delight in owning anything unshared”
Seneca
Curate: to pull together, sift through and select for presentation, as music or Web site content. Dictionary.com
Before there was the social and digital web, most of what we saw as news and inspiration was the result of choices made by a limited number of professional “editors”. Today, that number has increased exponentially as platforms like Facebook have given us all the ability to become “editors” by simply curating (sharing the content that we find and love) for our online friends and fans.
A great example of this shift can be found on YouTube -a social platform featuring “gazillions” (48 hours of content uploaded every minute) of videos that run the gamut from impossibly amateur and uninteresting to highly polished productions (and everything in between).
One of our recent fave video finds is “1950’s Womens Beauty Salon” from Glamour Daze, a YouTube channel with 2.5 million views! We found it while searching beauty salons on YouTube, were hooked from the opening line, “To women, a beauty salon is more than a feminine barber shop”, and immediately knew we to had to share…curation at its best!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfFvJVRcVaE&feature=youtu.be
We also found this super juicy video on “curation” from devour.com (awesome video curation site) that simply and beautifully describes what curation really means and why it’s important.
PS: This blog was inspired by our passion of curating; finding engaging and empowering content that we love and feel compelled share.
(shared with LOVE from your curating passionistas Nina + Gordon)