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This is a great piece by Heidi Cohen on why your marketing needs content curation and 12 attributes of a successful curation strategy.  This is one of the best articles I've seen on this topic in a very long time.

 

As I said, I've seen many pieces on curation but if you're like me, everytime I read about this, I always find something new or am reminded of ways I can polish what I'm doing.

 

Here are some of the highlights.........

 

Intro:

 

Why Your Marketing Needs Content Curation

 

At its core, content curation is like a great editor or blogger who brings his unique taste and understanding of his target audience to his selection of the best content for his readers.

**He provides context for the content so that it's more than a collection of information

3 Reasons your content marketing strategy needs content curation:

1. Offering your audience a combination of original and third party content provides a branded context for your work

2. Curating other people's content positions you and/or your organization as a tastemaker in your field

3. Creating sufficient content is a marketing and business challenge

12 Attributes of a successful content curation strategy:

Here are a few things that caught my attention:

 *Has defined measurable goals

As part of your content marketing strategy and by extension

your marketing plan, content curation needs objectives that

are associated with your business.

**Targets a specific audience

. *Content curation like other forms of content marketing requires

understanding your readers' marketing persona

 

** Involves a community

 

*As with any social media or content marketing, your

audience should be at the heart of your content efforts.

 

**Clay Shirky says it best:

 

"Curation comes up when people

realize that it isn't just about information seeking, it's also

about synchronizing a community"

Selected and reviewed by Jan Gordon covering "Curation, Social Business and Beyond"

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By Pawan Deshpande, CEO, HiveFire.  "Last year my company, HiveFire Inc., shared the results from our B2B Marketing Trends survey".

 

Here's what they found and found:

 

**82 percent are incorporating content curation

 

Click through to this recent post titled “Content May Be King” for more content curation definitions and trends.)

 

**The fact that this represents a notable increase (up from 48 percent) from the Content Curation Adoption survey that we issued earlier that year sent a strong message that curation is gaining favor amongst marketers.

 

For our Curation Habits Report, we analyzed over one million articles curated by our customers to identify:

 

which curation methods drive the highest engagement rates and identified some interesting trends.

 

Here are a few things they found:

 

Original Content vs. Third-Party Content

 

On average, approximately 87 percent of curated content are third-party articles and 13 percent are original content.

 

**Additionally, on sites where there is a mix of original and third-party content

 

**original content receives approximately 17 percent more click-thru activity 

 

**Curated sites that have between 16-30 percent original generate the most pageviews.

 

Capturing Reader Attention

 

Throughout the analysis, it became clear that there are several ways that curators can draw attention to their content.

 

**For starters, articles that included a picture generated 47 percent more click-thru activity than articles without. 

 

Medium snippets (between 141 and 1,200 characters) generate 20 percent more click-thru activity than small snippets (140 characters or less) for any given curated site.

 

Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"

 

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