- Curate Content [INFOGRAPHIC] (socialmediatoday.com)
Curate Content and Get Tons of Traffic [INFOGRAPHIC]
- The Content Curator’s Toolbox (socialmediatoday.com)
- Why Curate? Why Create? Why Do Anything? (blog.swayy.co)
First 2 paragraphs are garbage but I liked the comparison of creation and curation.
- SEO for Curators (wpdrudge.com)
From yours truly, 5 steps to getting your curation site in great SEO shape.
- 17 ways to become a better curator (econsultancy.com)
An "all killer and no filler" post on how to do what you're doing better. I see posts like this all the time but this one had some great content. I'm a big fan of alerts and RSS, I love Buffer, and I try very hard to avoid the obvious.
- Mashable: Tips for Content Curation (mashable.com)
Mashable says: "Be Part of the Content Ecosystem; Follow a Schedule; Embrace Multiple Platforms; Engage and Participate; Share. Don’t Steal."
- 4 tips for great curation “from” the master, Ken Burns (enterprisestrategies.com)
Storyboard First, Filter Intelligently, Don’t Become Part of the Problem, Know When to Create and When to Curate ... good stuff! Long article but worth it.
- NY Times: The Trouble with Curation (nytimes.com)
RE: Pinterest, Tumblr, etc. : "Web sites like these to escape, destress, perk up, calm down, feel something, not feel something, distract themselves and ... modulate pleasure and arousal." Well-written and spot-on in my experience. Also: "... collecting online is a form of self-expression for people who don’t create." Not everyone who curates can't create but it can be a substitute.
- A VC on Curation (avc.com)
Fred Wilson: "I'm a big fan of curation in these services. Twitter has lists. Etsy has favorites. Tumblr has tag pages. These are all variations of curation in services that have a lot of noise in them." Great comment: "Art stored randomly in a room is a warehouse. That same art curated and distilled becomes a gallery."
- Creating vs. Curating Social Media Content For Your Business | Social Media Today (socialmediatoday.com)
Creating unique social media content for your business, and curating relevant content for your audience, are both valid approaches to filling your content pipeline. This said, there is no single approach that will yield the best results.
- Three Reasons Content Curation is Overrated in B2B Marketing — B2B Digital Marketing (b2bdigital.net)
An important article, in my humble opinion... Eric addresses thought leadership, taking shortcuts, and differentiation. I agree that curation does not a thought leader make. I also think, though, that there is more value to be had than just "leading the conversation."
- Content curation: usually a bad idea? (compendium.com)
I liked Frank's honesty on here. Content curation is such a buzzword these days, it's getting used to mean "anytime you use someone else's content." Some great points on how to do it right.
- The Curators Code (curatorscode.org)
A important movement of folks looking to standardize attribution and connect the web in a more semantic and human way. Also one of the best-looking sites I've seen in a while!
- Curisma is Pinterest for tech (curisma.com)
Not a bad idea, really. Browse through what's there and indicate what you "want" and what you "have."
- The age of curation | Vivi’s startup blog (okvivi.com)
"I feel that nowadays we are in the age of curation, where more and more users are participating into this giant experiment, like never before, discovering that they can express themselves and whom their are through curating the internet for others."
- The Difference Between Content Curation and Link Spraying | Social Media Today (socialmediatoday.com)
Content curation is not just sharing links. As such, Twitter isn't curation. Erica explains the difference between just distributing links and thoughtful curation.
- Magnify is a video curation platform that raised $1M on it’s way to $7M (venturebeat.com)
Magnify calls themselves "The Video Curation, Publishing, & Monetization Platform." Another layer of monetization on top of YouTube?
- Bundlr repositions towards curated media (journalism.co.uk)
Another day, another curation-based social network. In this case it's extra meta, a site that curates curated media. Very clean site, though, worth at least a look.
- Soon: Flipboard for Android (ubergizmo.com)
The popular curated news app, Flipboard, is going to become available on Android. I'm an, iOS user but I definitely prefer that apps are available cross-platform because it (a) makes the apps better for everyone and (b) makes sure certain companies don't sit on their laurels!
- Content curators as superheros? (fastcompany.com)
Stand tall, curators! This is a familiar statement - there's too much information so we need humans to filter - but Fast Company provides some great numbers on how big the data deluge really is. "The web needs you."