Great Finds in Webworld

A tactical guide for Google Plus covering page creation, daily management, and key optimizations with other Google products... You can start right now with your Google+ [note mg]

Taking full advantage of the SEO and PPC benefits associated with a strong Google Plus presence requires creating a complete Google Plus Brand Page. The following post serves as a tactical guide for Google Plus covering page creation, daily management, and key optimizations with other Google products.

For more detail on the SEO benefits of Google+ for individual user accounts, check out AJ Kohn’s amazing and comprehensive post.

Read more: http://www.rimmkaufman.com/blog/google-plus-brand-pages-complete-guide/06042012/

Robin Good: A great presentation by Ross Hudgens on the value of looking at other great content and ideas and turn those to your advantage, without in any way stealing or taking unfair advantage of other's people work.

Recommended. 9/10

Full presentation: http://slideonline.com/presentation/94-link-building-by-imitation  ;

Robin Good: Valuable analysis of two very different approaches to news curation on the Intigi blog.

Justin Lambert writes: "The argument for content curation is no longer an argument.

Curation is the only means by which anyone can really make sense of the flood.

But there are a lot of different forms of large-scale curation, from the purely automated aggregation of RSS feeds to hand-selected, best-of-the-best link lists.

Not to mention the smaller-scale curation going on all over the social web by individuals sharing interesting and valuable links with their personal and professional communities."

In this first installment of a six-part series on curation, Mr Lambert explores and analyzes the differences between Techmeme, a curated tech news aggregator and Daring Fireball a one-man-band writer wittfully curating a unique variety of Apple related bits.

Good analysis. 7/10

Full article: http://blog.intigi.com/lessons-learned-from-top-curating-sites-techmeme-and-daringfireball/ ;

There is certainly no shortage of online bookmarking sites but if you're still on the hunt for that perfect way to bookmark your favourite posts and sites, Annotary is the perfect marriage of a social and visual bookmarking service, ...

"Over the weekend, Microsoft quietly launched an experimental social network called So.cl. which combines facets of social networking, search, and media sharing with a user interface resembling Google+.

Users are encouraged to search for information about a particular topic, then compile the best results - textual content, images and videos - into a single post.

So.cl is initially targeted to students. It may end up being useful to that market, but it's unlikely to get traction as a mainstream social network."

Here's why: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsofts-new-social-network-socl-its-like-google-for-wonks.php ;

Microsoft Social Network: http://www.so.cl/ ;

SEO social media tools, social network service, engagement, tag library, twitter...

There is no shortage of Twitter Tools.

For tagging content well, Saul Fleischman's team has a hunch you would prefer concise, tight data on tags related to your content, tags associated with a word string you provide.

Hence they are designing a tool that will help you isolate the best topics and tags to associate with your content – based on the constraints of networks that you share on and also based on topic/tag popularity on different networks.

Ready to try a new tool that lets you search a term and gives you the most associated tags – for numerous social networks?

They are taking beta signups – Ritetag is right here:  http://bit.ly/KeN9yZ ;

By Saul Fleischman - http://bit.ly/KeMMVc ;

Source: http://bit.ly/Kw5I89 ;

Beth Kanter wrote a very complete and interesting piece in NTEN's latest edition of their quarterly journal for non-profit leaders. You have to download the journal but it's worth it and it's free (you just need to register). 

It's been fascinating for me to see how non-profits seem to embrace Social Media in general and Content Curation in particular - Beth of course being a key advocate in that move.

The broader take-away that I see for those of us in all sorts of organizations, as independant professionals or SMB-owners is the validation it brings to the model. When tightly-budgeted NPO's embrace a practice as a group, you can bet they're not wasting their scarce resources on a hype. They have to be efficient and as Beth puts it in the article: "Putting content curation into practice is part art form, part science, but mostly about daily practice. You don’t need to do it for hours, but 20 minutes every day will help you develop and hone the skills."

This is precisely where we see the opportunity with curation for professionals: building up a good practice that fits with one's daily routine and that -as Beth puts it - brings great "unexpected benefits".