Curation is the act of selecting, organizing, and presenting information and this applies to online content as well as libraries, museums and the suchlike.
Here at Emily360.com I really value good interesting content. In that spirit I will curate or excerpt content from top quality sources on the web as well as creating my own original content.
The Internet was created on the foundation of linking, sharing, and recommending good content on the web. Curation means finding good, well-written, and highly relevant material for my website.
If I have chosen some content from your site, I am giving it my vote of approval. This not only means that I may excerpt your content, I also give it my highest recommendation, and encourage readers to view your content on your website with a direct link back your source material.
My curation is designed to send my readers to your site so you get new visitors exposed to your top quality content. I curated your content because it was outstanding in some way.
If you wish me not to curate content from your web site, simply contact me, and request your story be taken down. I will quickly comply with your take down request, and put you on my list of sites never to excerpt from.
Most publishers and websites are extremely happy to receive additional exposure and readership for their content as a result of curation.
Curation Policy:
Most online publishers recognize the value of having their stories and articles:
- quoted
- commented on
- debated
- discussed
- linked to
- have new readers exposed to their articles
Social sharing of good content extends its reach, impact, traffic levels, and ultimately the profit of the original publisher’s website.
I am excerpting your content to inform my visitors, and to point them to the original source of the excerpt. I want my readers to discover and visit your content, and your website. I want you to be more than pleased that I quoted, referenced or utilized your content.
“Fair Use” standards, practices, and legal decisions are still evolving online. I like to think our standards are a cut above the strictly legal interpretation of fair use. I trust that I have higher standards than “Fair Use.”
If you are not delighted to be excerpted and linked to by my site, just let me know and I will immediately correct the situation.
I excerpt your content exactly the same way I hope others will curate my content.
If you like a story on this site, feel free to excerpt it as generously as you wish. In return, please just give a clear credit, link back to the original page on this site, and give some encouragement for interested readers to visit my original web page.
Please take as much of this website’s content as you think your readers will enjoy. Just link, credit, and encourage the reader to visit the original site.
- That is what I do
- That is what built the Internet
- That is what social sharing is about
- Everyone benefits with shared content following this policy
Most Importantly…
Sharing, curation and excerpting standards are still evolving online. My standards may very well differ from yours. If you want me to be even more generous with links and credit let me know. If you feel your story has had too much excerpted, let me know. I will try to fix it rapidly.
Please use the contact form if you have any queries about the policies outlined here.
I may also publish user generated content. I request that all web site users also follow these curation guidelines, but I cannot police every single submission.
If you are a copyright owner & would like material removed from this site, please read my DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) policy and “take down” procedure. This is my take on the copyright law in the USA, which makes “the circumvention of electronic and digital copyright protection systems” a criminal act. In the UK, accidental copyright infringement is a civil matter, normally rectified by a quick reaction to a complaint.