Pinterest has become the Internet’s new social media darling and since its launch in 2010, people have been flocking to this visual social network to pin pictures of what they like, curate collections and share them with the world.

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.

Online marketing technology company HiveFire released a report this morning looking at the way marketers collected curated content through 2011, and analyzing which practices and strategies were most successful in engaging readers.

ADOTAS – In the latest episode of the video interview series The Future of Engagement, marketing consultant and Influence People head Murray Newlands sits down with longtime tech reporter — and current publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher — Tom Foremski to discuss current issues from Foremski’s point of view as a journalist. Foremski talks about the segmentation of media and the importance that poses in building relationships with people (for anyone engaging in media), the ethical issues around paid or sponsored content even while (as Newlands points out) ad revenues are going down, the benefits of “content curation,” and how anyone (from a publisher’s or a marketer’s side) can “cut through the noise.”