Curation Tips And Tools Roundup
Strategic content curation is time-consuming if you want to do it well. Check out this Peep Strategy article, which lists effective tools, strategies, and tips.
Strategies For Finding Great Content
Are you struggling to find content to share? Josh Spector shares 3 strategies to try, including joining a niche community.
Discovered via For the Interested.
How Much Effort Are You Giving?
“I’m convinced that remixed (curated) content is largely a waste of time for writers and readers”
If you’re re-reading that sentence, you’re not alone. Jakob Greenfeld dismisses the value of curation. Why include it if I do think curation has value? Because it’s better to understand opposing opinions than to ignore them, and I do think he makes some strong points.
Here’s what I agree with:
“Valuable content that truly advances the conversation and gets the attention of people you really want to connect with is never effortless.”
Feels like what he’s really against is lazy curation. Me, too.
Curate the thoughts and ideas of others, but use them for context building and to think and express new, fresh thoughts and ideas.
Discovered via For the Interested.
This recent Hootsuite article by Michelle Martin covers content curation from a few angles:
Read it here.
Discovered via Social Media Today.
Are You Maximizing Your Curated Content?
You curate content, then what? Here’s a helpful infographic from Andrew Hutchinson with 8 ways you can make the most of your curated content.
Improve Your Curation With Data
How much do your metrics affect your curation? Iskra Evtimova shares what role data should play as well as other best curation practices here.
6 Content Curation Tools To Try
Curating is easier with the right tools in your toolbelt. Lejla Hadzimahovic shares 6 tools that might just help here.
10 Tips To Shake Up Your Content Curation
Ever feel like you’re stuck in a loop of sharing the same content over and over? Sean Begg Flint shares how you can break the cycle by curating unique content with these 10 tips.
Content Arbitrage: Why And How This Strategy Could Work For You
In this Animalz article, Ryan Law explains a strategy you can use to avoid the trap of creating commodity content: content arbitrage.
He defines it like this,
“Content arbitrage happens when we take this existing content from one place and—with minimal effort—leverage it for higher value somewhere else.”
The key, though, is helping your audience understand why it’s valuable to them. Think of yourself as a content interpreter, not just a curator.
Learn how to implement this strategy here.
Is Curation Actually Creation?
Maybe it’s time to stop contrasting curation and creation, and instead, acknowledge that curation is an underrated form of creation. This Digital Spark Marketing article might help us reframe our thinking.
