Web Curation And New Professions: The Content Curator

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See on Scoop.it – Social Media, Curation, Content Today Excerpted from article on Mashable: “Today, however, curation encompasses a whole new catalog of professions, brands and tools — and most revolve around the web. A curator ingests, analyzes and contextualizes web content and information of a particular nature onto a platform or into a format [...]

3 Essential Content Curation Best Practices to Boost Content Marketing Performance via @toprank

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Creating original content is resource intensive and while some companies that have all the copywriting resources they need (that’s an exception not the rule) it makes sense to curate content in addition to publishing original articles and media. Curation is the cornerstone of being useful on the social web by finding, filtering and adding insight [...]

What Makes a Good Content Curator?

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Part of being a Social Media Manager is culling the infinite sources of the web for the latest news, information, and resources relevant to your industry or target market. As a Social Media Manager, the content you share reflects your competence and expertise, and reflects how in-touch you are with the industry, thought leaders, influencers, [...]

How Content Curation Can Take Your Marketing Strategy to the Next Level

This is a great piece written by Christina Walker who is a  professional freelance web copywriter with several years’ experience in web marketing and SEO copywriting. She lists some valuable tips here which I highly recommend following to garner much better result’s with your curation efforts. Curating Content Helps You Make Connections and Build Relationships [...]

Content Curation 101 – Social Solutions Collective

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For many of us, content curation is a new term. We’ve heard of curators – but that conjures up visions of a librarian or someone who works in a museum. Content curation isn’t much different. It’s the collection of quality content on a particular topic or variety of topics. Any good marketer is using content [...]

Content Curation Sources for Online Marketers | B2B Inbound Online

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Content and online marketing go hand-in-hand. Hundreds of bloggers are creating their own content, either for personal or business blogs. Some even have enough of their own posts to share without duplicating. The rest of us may wish we had that much output, but it’s not always feasible. Luckily, there is content curation – the [...]

Social Media is for Branding, not Selling

Every so often as a content curator I read an article where there is a real wow factor. As in I am blown away by the writers insight, knowledge and expertise into their subject matter. As a curator I am always looking to find and present you with the creme de le creme of content, [...]

Selecting a Digital Curation Tool by David Kelly

  In today’s world of ever-growing digital content there is a seemingly infinite amount of information available. Finding what you need, when you need it, is increasingly challenging. Fortunately, there is help: digital curation. Digital curation is a growing need for anyone who routinely uses the Internet, and is especially important for workplace learning professionals, [...]

Curators Are Poised To Help Drive Context Marketing

  2013 is almost upon us and with the new year there will certainly come some new marketing trends. Most of us in the know understand about content marketing, inbound marketing, and using platforms to spread the word about our company, product or service. Developing relationships now is key in order to thrive, and in [...]

30+ More Content Curation Tools

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One of our most popular posts is 30+ Cool Content Curation Tools, which is a great list of over 30 different tools that will help your discover, share and curate content for your blog, website or social media presence. Our readers have left a lot of great suggestions in the comment section for additional curation [...]

TED Curator Chris Anderson On The Conference’s Past, Present & Future

  TED, the international conference known for tackling “ideas worth spreading” just topped a billion views for its videos. That’s a billion with a “b.” That milestone didn’t just happen on its own – TED has been gathering momentum online for a decade. The first step came in 2001, when TED’s current curator Chris Anderson’s [...]

:: Algorithms Can Help Curators Pre-Filter, Discover and Learn From Like-Minded Colleagues ::

See on Scoop.it – Information Economy   Robin Good: Alexis Dufresne of Faveeo, an up and coming information filtering and discovery tool not yet available to the general public, has been posting some interesting articles on topics related to news curation, filtering and discovery.   In particular, I found interesting his recent analysis on automated [...]