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Social media managers need to share interesting content with their audiences. It’s part of the new way customers buy. Sharing content from the company’s own blog is easy, but you need to share content from other sources, too. By sharing content that’s not about your brand, you can avoid being too self-promotional on social media. You can also build awareness of your brand and improve your credibility. While there are clear benefits to content curation, it’s not easy. Social media managers could spend a lot of time looking for great content to share, and they may wonder if they’re doing it right. Here are seven tips for easier and more effective content curation....
Content is king! Blah, blah, blah. But you need content curation as much as creation in your strategy. Get the tools and tips you need to do it right. So, curation involves finding and sharing content that you believe will benefit your audience. But there’s one more crucial step that many people forget: read. Don’t simply share something because it’s the right general topic, or written by the latest industry influencer. Make sure it’s worthy and relevant to your audience....
Why content curation? First off, you’re likely already doing it in some capacity. According to Curata, more than 83% of marketers curate and share content from third party sources with their customers or prospects. Secondly, content curation can add value, quality and credibility to your content marketing efforts and your brand. Curata also reports that over 50% of marketers say content curation has increased their brand visibility, thought leadership, SEO, web traffic and buyer engagement, and 41% of marketers say the number of quality or sales-ready leads increased, too. Finally, as previously mentioned, content creation allows you to create quality, compelling content in less time. As TopRank Marketing’s CEO Lee Odden wrote in his book Optimize: “Pure creation is demanding. Pure automation doesn’t engage. Curating content can provide the best of both.” Whether you’re thinking about adding content curation to your tactical mix or looking for ideas to boost the quality of your curation efforts, below we offer some best practices, tips, tool suggestions and some examples of how brands are doing it....
If content marketing is a teenager who’s left home, then content curation is its ever-present romantic attachment.
Like teenage love, content curation holds a strong sway over content marketing. That’s what happens when you’re in love.
Content curation may never reach content marketing’s prominence. But it’s increasingly important to your overall content marketing strategy. It’s not just something that’s nice to have. (Note: The Week and John Oliver’s This Week Tonight focus solely on curated content.)...
Did you miss this week's #ContentWritingChat? Check out our recap featuring guest host, Guillaume Decugis, for tips on content curation in 2016!
Via Guillaume Decugis
Do you manage several social media accounts?
Are you having trouble keeping them all active with fresh content?
Content curation plays a key role in keeping your social profiles and pages active, and your audience satisfied.
In this post I’ll show you how to quickly and efficiently post curated content across all of your social networks using Sendible with Feedly and Zapier....
It’s interesting to see that content curation is evolving from an opportunity to a necessity as Julia McCoy from ExpressWriters recently noted in the Search Engine Journal explaining how we must curate content in 2015.
Why is that happening? Why is this accelerating?
As communication shifts from traditional methods (PR, advertising, old-style SEO…) to new ones (content marketing, inbound marketing, social media…), professionals and businesses can not only become their own media: they have to. This is something Brian Solis noted about brands a few years ago, as social networks started to become significant for content distribution, when he said they needed to become media to earn relevance. But today, this is not about brands anymore: social networks are not just significant, they are dominant. They became social media and they’re just the main way we receive and consume content. Even search evolved to reflect that and Google changed their algorithms in a defensive way. Today, this about every company, big or small and whether you think of your business as a brand. Not just businesses but professionals too have to build their personal brands and show thought leadership through the content they publish. At Scoop.it, we like to summarize that by saying that:
You are the content you publish.
But another thing changed as well: after an initial period where we learned how to like, follow, subscribe or mark as spam, we, as content consumers, are regaining control. We have tools to filter the noise, we learn how to manage information overload. So in this new world of communication, professionals or companies who want to get heard need to consider this question:
Do people listen to you because they have to or because they want to?...
Many businesses focus heavily on creating fresh, high quality content. Although content creation is an indispensable part of content marketing, content curation is powerful as well. It can add value to the content you already have, allow you to connect with your audience more effectively, and give you the freedom to focus on creating content that will truly benefit your brand.
According to the Content Marketing Institute, “Content curation is a means by which we either supplement or promote our brand’s point of view to our specific audiences within the context of how the ‘world’ is talking about that particular topic.” Although it’s true that a lot of curated content comes from outside sources, you can also curate your own content by using content your company has already created....
Excerpt from article written by Dennis Shiao and published on Scoop.it Blog:
"Every time I visit the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, I see something I’ve never seen before.
Wouldn’t it be great if our content collections drew as much interest, respect and admiration as the collections at MoMA? In order to achieve this feat, we need to become highly effective content curators.
Let’s consider seven habits:
1. Focus on Goals What are your goals around content curation? If you can’t answer that question, stop right now. Stop reading this post, too. Go answer the question, then return when you’re done.
2. Have Empathy You’ll need to have empathy for your target audience. In other words, the better you understand their thoughts, interests and challenges, the more effective you’ll be at content curation.
3. Be Careful, Cautious and Selective
Make sure you read (and digest) every piece of content you curate. Curate high quality content only, leaving the marginal pieces to the proverbial cutting room floor.
4. Editorialize
Don’t just share content, tell us why you like (or dislike) the piece. What can your target audience learn from reading it and what are the key takeaways? In a sense, editorializing creates a nice blend of creation and curation.
5. Provide Attribution
Providing attribution shows respect and helps drive visibility and awareness to content authors. As you curate, look up the author of the article (or blog post) and explicitly acknowledge them.
6. Understand What’s Timely and Trending
Sharing fresh milk is good. Sharing spoiled milk is rotten.
If you find content that is time sensitive, consider whether the “sharing window” has already passed.
7. Have an Eye for a Great Title
Not everyone will be as thorough as you when reviewing content. A lot of people will click on a link solely because of a compelling title. As you sharpen your curating skills, you’ll begin to figure out what separates great titles from good titles. If you come across a great article that has just a good title, consider changing the title text when you curate..."
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
Content curation is a useful part of any content marketing strategy though it should not be used as a cheap or quick alternative to creating original content. Content curation takes time. You need to read carefully and decide if resources are relevant, if they are unique and if they are of value to your audience. In doing this you will use your own expertise, judgement and your own insight.
Rather than simply sharing you may provide a summary, add context or add your personal perspective. In this way you really begin to add value and authority as a content curator.Content curation complements the development of your own content and can be very useful for your audience as it saves time and adds value in a world of content overload. In this article we explore how you can use Google+ for your content curation....
Content curation is a tremendous opportunity for brands to provide a useful and ever-engaging service for time-poor consumers who are eager to learn, research and be entertained.
When it comes to content, consumers both enjoy and suffer from a plurality of choice.
With something like 2 million new articles published to the web each day, the options can be paralysing for consumers. By curating content from various sources and bringing them together in a branded hub, brands can distill the digital ‘wheat from the chaff’, so that consumers don’t have to....
Curation is sometimes confusing.
Everyone has a different definition and it's used in many different ways as part of content and marketing strategies.
I asked 10 of my favorite curation experts for their best tips, tools, their favorite curator and suggestions on innovative uses of curation.
Each is a curator on Scoop.it, my favorite curation tool and channel. New and experienced curators are really going to learn from their advice.
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Content is king. Create more content. Write more blog posts. That's the story that many content marketing gurus and social media gurus have been preaching for the last few years. It's a story and an idea that has been talked about so frequently that we're now living in a world that is overcome with content. It feels like every topic is being written about. It feels like every acquisition is being analyzed. It feels like it's impossible to keep up with all the great content being created and shared. Which is why now more than ever, there is a real need in the world for people who curate great content....
For the online marketer the world just gets tougher each day. Inbound marketing and content marketing are great techniques, but the time, effort and strategy needed to drive sustainable results for a B2B company is daunting. Thankfully content curation tools provide relief by helping business provide relevant content to their readers in a quick time.
With multiple types of content curation tools & platforms available its difficult to understand what would work best for your business. Content curation platforms are using videos to promote and educate their prospective buyers to showcase how effective their solution is.
Sales is increasingly seeing the use of videos in the following areas :
- Overview video of a product / solutions
- Intro / Getting started video using animation & UI Mockups
- How To Videos
- Youtube Promo / Promotional Video
- Infographics / Statics bundled to create Use case videos
In this article we look at 20 video marketing examples used by content curation tools that are on the spot. Watch these videos to get ideas for marketing your own content curation solution....
If you’re not already practicing content curation on your non-profit’s Facebook Page, you absolutely should be! Content curation is the practice of finding and sharing high-performing content from other Pages. This practice allows you to post more often and increases your Page’s reach and engagement. This case study shows the effects it had on Northshore Veterinary Hospital’s Facebook Page after just a week of practice. (If you’d like to dig into the strategy of content curation further, this article is for you.) Brita Kiffney is one of the lovely veterinarians at Northshore and is responsible for managing their Facebook Page. We had the pleasure of sitting down with her one day and diving into their Facebook Page and strategy. When we first spoke to her, she was posting as little as one post or fewer per day. When she had the time to upload an original picture of one of her patients, she would do so. If she didn’t have time that day, she wouldn’t. But even with how little she posted to their Page, they still enjoyed solid engagement from their fans. This told us that Northshore’s Page had a ton of untapped potential waiting to be unlocked....
Repurposing is a common best practice among the most effective content creators: you can be much more efficient and prolific if you take a single idea and turn it 15 different ways rather than trying to come up with 15 brand new ideas. Ideas are super hard to come by, and when you get a great one you have to grab on with both hands and squeeze as much value out of it as you can. If you’re not sure what I mean by “repurposing,” think of it as taking a great idea and building off it to create something completely new. Kind of like IKEA Hacking, but for marketers. Repurposing comes in three different flavors: - atomization, which is breaking a single asset up into smaller pieces; - aggregation, which is pulling smaller pieces together into larger long-form assets; and - amplification, which is using the themes & messages of your core content to create related pieces that build the strength of your brand’s connection to the idea/topic overall. We’ll dive into each option separately so you can think about which method or methods makes sense for your content mix and marketing team....
To remain competitive, brands have become increasingly focused on creating a higher quantity of content, while still striving to maintain quality. Unfortunately, the quantity and quality struggle is real for so many B2B and B2C marketers alike.
Along with finding the right people and creating a sound content strategy, there is the matter of finding the right tools to integrate with your process and help you reach your goals. With the help of Alan Belniak (Content Marketing Manager and Social Media Lead at Alignable), we reviewed 12 of today’s top content marketing tools to save you the legwork.
Below you’ll find key benefits for each tool as well as the “wow factor” that is unique to their solution. As an added bonus, we also asked experts from each of these companies to share their best content marketing tip to provide you with some additional information to add to your content arsenal....
Guillaume Decugis, CEO, Scoop.it:
"Given this is one of our most frequently asked questions, we felt we should design a comprehensive guide on this topic with not just explanations on how content curation helps SEO but also data, results, lessons learned as well as advice and best practices from top SEO experts.
All of this in a visual and easy to read Slideshare format.
So if you still believe content curation is duplicate content or if you want to learn how to make the most of your curated content to improve your search rankings, get our Guide to Content Curation Benefits for SEO now...
...If you haven’t used content curation as part of your content marketing strategy, you could be missing out. Content curation sites and pages frequently attract audiences because they fulfill a very real need to skip through the clutter and find valuable content. People simply don’t have the time nor the patience to pore through pages of Google results, Twitter feeds, and Facebook messages in order to find the items that want. Content curation offers up a considerably faster and potentially useful avenue for discovery.
When you curate content well, you can build up an audience of people who depend on your ability to point them towards the resources they need. You become an authority figure, a trusted source. And in the internet, that trust is invaluable....
You can’t just snap your fingers and produce great content. To get stories and images that people actually care about, you need to address the higher-order problems your customers are facing today or will face tomorrow. You have to do the sustained work of thinking through these problems and coming up with relevant insights.
Consider Adobe’s new content-marketing strategy. Several years ago the company’s mainstay business of graphics applications was struggling against new competition, including free software. In response, executives made a concerted effort to step back and think about customers’ most important graphics-related problems. They saw that although online retailers were putting up fancy websites, the companies weren’t connecting their accumulated consumer data to the pages in order to drive sales. So Adobe invested in R&D and made some analytics-based acquisitions in order to develop a platform to make that possible. Dubbed the Marketing Cloud, this new platform would enable websites to show the right images to the right customers at the right time....
Small businesses take note: It's no longer about your products and services. It's about giving your customers what they want and need--and not old-fashioned marketing.
What is content creation and curation? This is just a way to describe the way companies create--and share from other sources--stories and information that their audiences find compelling. Those channels have attempted to disintermediate the traditional relationships that existed between, say, Inc. Magazine and entrepreneurs or IBM and CIOs of global banks. Any company with an online presence can now be a publisher and curator.
The biggest change for small businesses is marketing. It’s no longer just about your products and services--it’s now also about your customer’s wants and needs.
Sure, you know that already, and hopefully you base your sales strategy around it. But your content and online presence may still be mired in the old marketing mentality.So become a content creator and curator. You can get pretty far with these five steps...
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Here are seven content curation tips to make your job easier.