Content Curation

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Meaning


Content Curation
Concept of Content Curation

Content curation  is an art of
compiling information from a variety of sources and presenting them in a
creative manner in front on your audience. Content curators compile the already
available information from a variety of resources scattered around the web and
compile them together in an organized fashion before their audiences. The
curated content form a bunch of related content and satisfies specific user
tastes. One may curate content on Cinema and gather the available content from
the web together and all the cinema loving audiences might visit the content
channel to find all the related information organized creatively in one place.
This happens with the help of already available content curation tools.


Content Curation vs Content Marketing


Content curation  is different from
content marketing in the way that the former uses available content on the web
while the latter generates content on its own. It is the new form of content
marketing and many businesses are using it as their marketing strategy.

 How to Curate Content?


Curating content is easy, we have several tools which help in compiling
information from several resources and presents then before our audience in an
interesting manner. You need to have links to various resources which you want
to compile and then you may head forward to any of the listed content curation
tools listed below. This process is easier than content marketing and also fun.

Content Curation Requires Creativity

You need to be creative enough to get the most out of
content curation. Choosing the most relevant links, collecting images that goes
well with the content, giving appropriate description to it and adding
a personal touch into it are some of the ways you can add creativity to
your content. Following the guidelines below would help to
enhance your creativity while curating content:- 
1- Have adequate knowledge on the topic for which you want
to curate content.
2- Gather possible sources of authority content.
3- Be versatile in choosing the sources i.e choose videos,
infographs, slides, PDF’s etc.
4- Find out some recent sources of content related to your
main theme. (Hint: Use Google real time search)
5- Find out images for sources that are not having images of
their own.
6- Write a description with a universal appeal.
7- Start sharing the content at regular intervals remaining
active throughout the day.
  
Some good examples of Content Curation

(50+ list of Content Curation Tools)

1- Scoop.it
2- Curata
3- Curationsoft
4- Paper.li
5- Googlereader
6- Pinterest
7- Mytweetmag
8- Bundlr
9- Netvibes
10- Newspin
11- Utopic
12- Trapit

Content Curation Tools Get traffic
Content Curation Tools- Easy traffic (Content-Curate-Traffic)

13- Faveous
14- Collected
15- Kweeper
16- Pinboard
17- Tweetedtimes
18- Iflow
19- Pearltrees
20- Yoolink.fr
21- Retickr
22- Historio.us
23- Shariest
24- Memolane
25- News.me
26- Stribe
27- Getprismatic
28- Zootool
29- Bagtheweb
30- Bonzobox
31- Skloog
32- Crayon
33- Mysyndicaat
34- Mediaheroes
35- Yourversion
36- Pageonecurator
37- Digg
38- Zemanta
39- Chirpstory
40- Snip.it
41- Trailmeme
42- Qrait
43- Sphinn
44- Technorati
45- Flipboard
46- Storify
47- Newsmix.me
48- Diigo
49- Flocker
50- Dropmark
51- Schoox
52- Feedly
53- AtomicReach

Also See:-

Social Media tracking tools
Top 5 Social Media tools
List of free Seo tools
List of Social Media sites
Social Media Widgets for Websites
Social Media and SMO

4 Comments

  1. newmodel August 2, 2012
  2. Joydeep Bhattacharya August 2, 2012
  3. Anonymous August 3, 2012
  4. Joydeep Bhattacharya August 3, 2012