Today’s guest post is written by Susan Young.

Content curation is the hot ticket item in social media and business these days.

Content curators — or editors — find, sort, categorize, and distill the big data and vast amount of content that’s available.

While Google alerts will locate and list stories and articles, and platforms such as Paper.li may work for amateurs,  good content curation requires the human factor — someone with a pulse — to make sense of the collective information chaos.

Content curation is so much more than simply compiling lists and dropping articles, blog posts, and images into pretty templates.

It is a big time business. (more…)