1. Articles in category: Tips & Best Practices

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    1. How to Use Content Curation as a Business Model

      Explore Visibli Social Analytics (Aug 7 2012)

      How to Use Content Curation as a Business Model

      Tips on how to use content curation in your business - and increase your ROI.

      Sometimes called curation blogging, curation means posting collections of valuable and useful links, videos, podcasts, infographics, etc. on a specific theme. Think of it as a link round-up with informed commentary from you added to the mix.

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      Mentions:   Content Curation   Curation

    2. My 5 secrets to sharing great content 15 times a day

      Explore The Buffer blog (Jul 27 2012)

      My 5 secrets to sharing great content 15 times a day

      Quick tips on how to become a prolific curator and share content 15 times a day:

      I’ve found 15 times per day a good number to aim for, since it is a Tweet every hour in the peak times of the day for my followers, and once every two hours at other times. 

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      Mentions:   Blog

    3. 4 Essential Content Marketing Tips For Start Ups

      Explore Website Content Made Simple (Jul 27 2012)

      4 Essential Content Marketing Tips For Start Ups

      Here's some great insight into the value content curation can add to your marketing repertoire for a smaller business.  

       

      As a start-up, you want your company to make a splash in the marketplace. You want the equivalent of a ticker tape parade, complete with an all-star marching band and giant balloon floats. (Who doesn't love giant balloon floats? And costumed characters tossing candy to spectators?) Content marketing can help you get that kind of attention from prospective customers and the media.

      Here are four tips to help you do it right.

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      Mentions:   Content Marketing   Business Blog   Blog

    4. Following the leaders is not a recipe for social media success

      Explore spr.ly (Jul 26 2012)

      Following the leaders is not a recipe for social media success

      Techniques using the social web - exploring if they will work for you.

      If Brian Clark and Darren Rowse (some of the biggest names in blogging) started their blogs today and followed their own advice, they would fail. It’s tempting to look at how successful people have made their reputations and copy their techniques. You may even get some results. But what made them successful was originality.

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    5. How to Use Content Curation as Part of Your Social Media Strategy

      Explore Milwaukee SEO Company (Jul 25 2012)

      3 quick tips to being a good content curator:

      You’ll be able to keep your credibility as a content curator if you can provide fresh, interesting content to followers on a regular basis.

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      Mentions:   Content Curation   Curation   Content Curation Strategy

    6. An introduction to the Data Curation Lifecycle Model

      Explore Kevin the Librarian (Jul 23 2012)

      An introduction to the Data Curation Lifecycle Model

      Kevin, a medical librarian and archivist, presents a data curation model for librarians that parallels the content curation process followed by many marketers:

      Digital preservation and data curation are two areas that librarians should be very keen to pursue. With the influx of research data that is created, there should be plenty of work out there for librarians to utilize their skills. The collaborative and organizational nature of data curation work is ideal for a librarian’s skill set.

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      Mentions:   Curation

    7. Educators as Curators: 8 Steps to Bringing Your Students the Best of the Web

      Explore Educators as Curators (Jul 23 2012)

      Educators as Curators: 8 Steps to Bringing Your Students the Best of the Web

      Dr. Corinne Weisgerber promotes the concept of educators being Guggenheim-like curators:

      We feel the metaphor of curation seems particularly suitable to our current educational environment. If you think about what a curator at a museum does, it is very similar to what we believe a good educator should be doing.

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      Mentions:   Blog

    8. How Content Curation Enhances SEO

      Explore blog.atomicreach.com (Jul 19 2012)

      How Content Curation Enhances SEO

      Overview on how Content Curation can help with SEO:

      Content curation is about discovering, gathering and distributing relevant and interesting content on a specific topic or subject matter. By using a curation platform and displaying curated content on your website, your brand’s Website can be kept  up-to-date and feature solid and topical content.

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      Mentions:   Content Curation   Curation   Search Engine Optimization

    9. The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation

      Explore Beth Kanter's Blog (Jul 13 2012)

      The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation

      Beth Kanter summarizes insights from her recent webinar on the benefits of curation:

      Curation has nothing to do with personal expression or sharing nor with collecting links, tweets or blog posts that you may find interesting.   Curation is all about helping your audience dive in and make sense of a specific topic, issue, event or news story. 

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      Mentions:   Robin Good   Content Curation   Curation

    10. Understanding Content Curation

      Explore Richmond is for everyone (Jul 12 2012)

      Comparing collecting content versus curating content.

      There are many buzzwords and phrases prevalent in education today. “21st Century Learning”, “Blended Learning”, “Personalized Learning”, “Flipped Classroom” – just to name a few. The one that has recently caught my attention and curiosity is “content curation.” I manage a grant project in my district designed to assure students acquire “21st century skills”

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      Mentions:   Content Curation   Curation

    11. 5 Compelling Reasons To Curate And Repurpose Your Content

      Explore Website Content Made Simple (Jul 6 2012)

      5 Compelling Reasons To Curate And Repurpose Your Content

      Five reasons why you should curate, plus a new spin on repurposing content as an act of curation:

      Locating and organizing all this great content is part of the curation process. Taking a piece of content such as a video and creating a slideshow or white paper out of the information within is repurposing. 

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      Mentions:   Lee Odden   Content Marketing   Curation

    12. Seven Ways to Make Your Content King, Part 1

      Explore adotas.com (Jul 5 2012)

      Two part article on content marketing strategies to employ without breaking the bank:

      Even in a time when content production far outpaces our collective capacity to consume it, however, there’s actually a way content producers and marketers can harness the tools of this seemingly noisy environment to set themselves apart from the pack.

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      Mentions:   Content Curation   Content Marketing   Curation

    13. Content Curation Sneaks Up on Marketers

      Explore Social Media Today (Jun 30 2012)

      Ardath Albee gives a few tips on how to curate within Twitter in a framework of Curation with commentary, Inspired Curation and Directed Curation:

      Curation can be integrated sharing. For example, when I quote statistics or opinions from analyst reports in a blog post, I'm curating that information. But I'm wrapping it with my own thoughts and ideas to perhaps apply a different take or perspective. I'm adding something I hope is valuable to the original source information.

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      Mentions:   Content Curation   Curation   Blog

    14. The weekly/monthly content roundup

      Explore B2B Marketing Agency (Jun 29 2012)

      Great tips and notes on how to create a round up posted - including examples.

      A weekly curated list of 50 posts has generally not been curated enough. Cook it some more, and come back when you’re down to less than 10 of the best of the best.

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      Mentions:   Content Marketing   Curation

    15. Content Curation On The Go: How To Discover and Distribute The ...

      Explore Internet Marketing (Jun 20 2012)

      A quick list of mobile content curation apps for your phone - with visuals. Which one is your favorite?

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      Mentions:   Content Curation   Curation

    16. Tips for Getting Started with Content Curation

      Explore simplemarketingnow.com (Jun 20 2012)

      Tips for Getting Started with Content Curation

      Christine Whittemore covers some best practices for Content Curation gleaned from an info360 panel with Pawan Deshpande and Arnold Waldstein:

      Arnold, Pawan and I discussed content curation intensely in preparation for your session. Out of those conversations, I extracted several Content Curation tips or best practices for you to think about as you get started curating content.

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      Mentions:   Pawan Deshpande   Content Curation   Curation

    17. Why IFTTT Could Be the Killer Blogging Tool for 2012

      Explore Pushing Social (Jun 20 2012)

      Interesting article on how IFTTT can be repurposed as a curation tool:

      Bloggers are busy folks. We shoehorn post writing, promotion, and networking in between day jobs, family time, and sleep (sometimes). That’s why I get all warm and fuzzy when I discover a time saving tool that works as advertised. The latest tool, “If Then Then That” (IFTTT) has got me shouting from the roof tops.

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    18. How to Maintain Great Content Curation

      Explore The Effective Marketer (Jun 19 2012)

      A few high level tips and tricks to effective content curation.

      Doing content curation right takes a lot of time and requires almost as much investment as creating original content.

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      Mentions:   RSS   Content Curation   Curation

    19. How to create great content in 15 minutes

      Explore PR Daily News (Jun 19 2012)

      Great tips and new ideas for generating new content for your brand.

      Let’s examine ideas about using micro-content for your social media strategy, assuming you are testing the water and only have 15 minutes a day to devote to this activity.

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      Mentions:   Chicago   PowerPoint   Blog

    20. Top 5 Most Shareable Content Types

      Explore Website Content Made Simple (Jun 18 2012)

      Top 5 Most Shareable Content Types

      With so much content that you can share, how do you pick what will be the most well-received by your audience? This article provides a brief overview of five types of content that work well.

      Truly shareable content establishes authority and builds the social capital of a website in the form of comments, likes, shares and links. It's the substance of brand engagement

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      Mentions:   inbound marketing   Blog   Marketing Strategy

    21. Bring Meaning to Chaos! Download Info360 Content Curation Resources

      Explore simplemarketingnow.com (Jun 15 2012)

      Bring Meaning to Chaos! Download Info360 Content Curation Resources

      Follow-up and presentation notes from the Content Curation: How To Bring Meaning to Chaos presentation on 6/14 in New York City.

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      Mentions:   Pawan Deshpande   Content Curation   Curation

    22. 5 Tools to Help With Content Curation

      Explore HelpAttack! (Jun 14 2012)

      Holly Caruso covers 5 of her favorite personal curation tools that help her get information she needs every day as a consumer rather tahn a marketer:

      How do I save time sorting through my emails and searching on the web for news that matters to me and my organization? Personalized Content Aggregators. There are a ton of ways to find news online and there are more and more platforms that focus on personalizing your news stream based on interests. So, after spending hours searching for the best, I’ve found five that, from hence forth, will make my search and ...

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      Mentions:   Content Curation   Curation

    23. More Ideas for Content Curation

      Explore In Context MultiMedia (Jun 14 2012)

      6 Minute video discuss content curation techniques along with a short list of key content curation industry professionals.

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      Mentions:   Pawan Deshpande   Content Curation   Curation

    24. What's a 'CURATED' Email Campaign?

      Explore sem-group.net (Jun 14 2012)

      What's a 'CURATED' Email Campaign?

      Great article providing a new take on how to optimize your email campaigns and engage your audience more fully using a curated email.

      It’s really a powerful way of providing your email subscribers with something they don’t usually expect. It’s an idea to keep them well-informed, educated and entertained so that they start looking at you as a ‘niche expert’. It’s all about winning the trust and gaining the confidence of your email subscribers.

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      Mentions:   Content Curation   Curation   Blog

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