Posted by Greg Elwell on Tue, Jan 04, 2011 It's widely accepted that creating compelling and relevant content and publishing it on a consistent basis can lead to a bevy of benefits for the digital marketer. Namely, increased traffic, links, SEO authority, leads, thought leadership status and sales growth.

30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use

The Neiman Journalism Lab had an interesting story by Tim Carmody recently on “Journalists have lost control of the story”: Twitter, tech bubbles, and the nostalgia of the technology press.  It discussed how the “accelerated news cycle of blogs, Twitter, and other digital media forces the technology press to work at the same speed as the investors they cover.” They quoted Thomson Reuters’ Connie Loizos who said. “Thanks to Twitter and, to a lesser extent, other social media like Quora, infor...

The debate over the rules of content creation and curation continues to rage. We spoke to some experts for their opinion on the issues surrounding copyright and monetization.

I’d love you to take a look at this post by Rohit Bhargava:  Five Models of Content Curation. I think he is spot on with his five models, which I’ll list below. This is a pretty good deconstruction of how we actively curate content for you here on SocialFishing, and it’s a useful way to think about particular kinds of posts you could be posting on your association or nonprofit blog relative to your industry topics. Content curation, or the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” informa...

Joe Pulizzi is a leading author, speaker and strategist for content marketing. Joe is founder of Junta42 and the Content Marketing Institute. This blog looks at the trends in content marketing, and how marketers can learn to think and act like publishers. Click here for Joe's Speaking Engagements and Detailed Bio. Connect to customers with compelling content! The rules of marketing have changed. Instead of loud claims of product superiority, what customers really want is valuable content tha...

Content curation has been getting a lot of attention recently. We’ve covered what it is, why it’s valuable and offered best practices on how to curate content on your own. Yet, if management systems can be designed to manage content, why not build one to curate content?. Topic: Web Engagement

Content Curation involves setting your content free, targeting the right market segments, organizing your content and be discerning with who you are sharing it with.

An interesting aspect of the culture of sharing on social networks is that of content curation. This is the act of pointing your followers to content from other people. Anyone who sometimes uses Twitter to send people to an interesting...