One of the great things about my particular community, I’ve discovered, is that people aren’t afraid to ask me questions. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been writing a lot about curating content online both here and at 12most.com. Martina McGowan tweeted me and said, “This all sounds great. How do I get started though?”

The socialization of media democratizes content creation, and broadly distributes content curation, and information access. Because social media is distributed over the Internet, information, news, and content can become available in near real time.

What to Consider When Evaluating Content Curation Platforms for Marketing ... the basic steps in content curation for marketing purposes are straightforward: ...www.psgroup.com/Content-Curation-Evaluation-Framework-...

Content Marketing as defined by Brian Clark, founder of CopyBlogger.com = Giving away information with independent value in order to sell something related.

The new frontiers for content curation tools and services are in a) providing advanced collaborative ("social)" features and in b) introducing and integrating new and effective, highly visual, delivery formats.

We all structure our lives to accommodate the traits and idiosyncrasies that make us—and the people around us—“us.” You may appease your Type A colleague’s competitive spirit by giving him all the credit on a project, or if you are a slow mover in the morning, you know to only book meetings after a time when you’ve had the chance for a cup of coffee.

When stuck waiting in the grocery checkout line, I’ve been known once or twice to flip through the magazines displayed to entice impulse buyers and entertain people like me. Without fail, there is always at least one magazine with a quiz in the back with titles such as, “Are you a Facebook addict?”, “Do you make a good first impression?” and “Which hairstyle should you try?”

If you’ve been following the articles on this website, you know we’ve been hitting the post-Panda SEO scene quite a bit. This is no accident. See, even though it’s been seven whole months since the Panda Update, we still haven’t figured SEO out. In fact, we’re just BARELY scratching the tip of the iceberg. We do have progress, though, and in this blog, we share the latest and most up-to-date SEO information as soon as we get it.

Content curation is the art and science of finding and sharing quality content on a specific topic. Curation helps you build an audience. You then have a larger group of people with whom to share your own content, and who can spread the word.

The proliferation of the Internet has transformed the way we create, publish and distribute content. Think about the pre-Internet era when companies were at the mercy of content publishers for distribution of content, and where consumers had very few options and meager resources for information gathering. Today, the situation is exactly the opposite. The Internet has made a publisher of each one of us. We now have a problem of plenty – there is too much information available for consumers but it is scattered across the web in different forms, across social networks, and in different languages. And now the ...

When I work with a client who doesn’t have an email marketing strategy in place, one of the first things I do is encourage them to get one up and running as soon as possible. Yes, I do get pushback from my clients about this, but strangely, it’s often not using email marketing per se that bothers them. In fact, they love the potential results. What worries them is this question: “But…what do I write about in all those emails?”

When Microsoft’s Bill Gates wrote his essay containing the phrase “content is king,” a snowball of reality began rolling down this digital mountain we all reside upon. It is true, content of all kinds is still king, and will always be, but the ways in which audiences consume it, this is what communicators need to understand – this is the so called “leading edge” of digital speak. I know, volumes have been written about this subject, in case the reader is condescendingly chuckling. But, what about those reading this from “out there” who are not Brian Solis? Who are not ...

"Curation" is a buzzword (even if it isn't technically a word…unless you count the 14th century French definition meaning "to cure") that's smokin' up the interwebs these days. Launching into the blogosphere virtually from nowhere in 2009, it's now one of those terms that's essential to any digital marketer on the cutting edge (or for anyone who wants to sound like one).

In my previous blog post, Your New Role: Learning Content Curator, I underscored the need for corporate learning professionals to begin to let go of content creation and start nurturing a content curation mindset. According to global marketing strategy guru Rohit Bhargava, a Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online. As content curators for corporate learning, we are tasked with providing context and filters for learning content that not only guide learners to the appropriate formal learning opportunities, but also timely informal assets their peers ...

Its true we’re on information overload. We use multiple social networking platforms, which have different audiences and expectations. If you’re considering your audience, you’re wondering how you can add value. And if your considerting your schedule, your wondering how you can possibly catch everything? Enter: Twitter curation.