curation
- Creating vs. Curating Social Media Content For Your Business | Social Media Today
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.
- Magnify is a video curation platform that raised $1M on it’s way to $7M
Magnify calls themselves "The Video Curation, Publishing, & Monetization Platform." Another layer of monetization on top of YouTube?
- SEO for Curators
From yours truly, 5 steps to getting your curation site in great SEO shape.
- Three Reasons Content Curation is Overrated in B2B Marketing — B2B Digital Marketing
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."
- Bundlr repositions towards curated media
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.
- 17 ways to become a better curator
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.
- Content curation: usually a bad idea?
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.
- Soon: Flipboard for Android
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!
- Mashable: Tips for Content Curation
Mashable says: "Be Part of the Content Ecosystem; Follow a Schedule; Embrace Multiple Platforms; Engage and Participate; Share. Don’t Steal."
- The Curators Code
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!
- Content curators as superheros?
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."
- 4 tips for great curation “from” the master, Ken Burns
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.
- Curisma is Pinterest for tech
Not a bad idea, really. Browse through what's there and indicate what you "want" and what you "have."
- 4 Steps to Take to Go Forth and Curate
4 good tips for content curators just getting started
- Curated Collection of Mid-Century Furniture
Not the usual thing we post... but curation happens everywhere. Look at the apartment in this story. There's more stuff than you could imagine fitting in one apartment but, somehow, it works. This is the difference between just gathering and actually curating.
- Content curation is one of 2012′s top ten emerging marketing trends
Also included: experiential marketing, unplugging, authenticity (being "real" is back in fashion)
- Huge Content Curation Guide from SEOMoz
I'm a big fan of everything that SEOMoz puts out and this one promises to be incredibly useful for the curation fanatics out there!
- Music Curation Video by PBS
Really good video on how music, music reviews, and music blogs are getting curated to help people find new artists and tracks.
- Robin Good, the “Curation Guru,” sharing curation tools
Robin Good has been doing this stuff for quite a while and seems to really understand a lot about this culture and where it's going. Here's his giant mind map of the tools out there to help with this task.
- Is Pinterest’s Push-Button + Boards Formula Really Going to ‘Change the Web’?
"It’s the social content curation, stupid." I guess but is that what Pinterest offers above all else? You can certainly do the same thing elsewhere. I think it's the pretty pictures... stupid.