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Where To Find Good Alternative Sources for Content Curation

Where To Find Good Alternative Sources for Content Curation | SM | Scoop.it


Robin Good: If you are looking for ways to expand your horizon of content sources that you can use to find valuable content for your curated news channel, Pawan Deshpande, founder and CEO of Curata, has done an excellent job of listing and describing the many alternatives available to you.


While many beginner curators rely on their set of RSS feeds and on simple web searches to find new and interesting stuff on their topic of interest, there are a dozen more content source types that can be tapped to find relevant stuff. This article helps you start learning where to look to find them.



Useful. Resourceful. 8/10


Full article: http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2012/12/sources-content-curation-inspiration/




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ben bernard's comment, January 9, 11:40 PM
thanks ! http://www.scoop.it/t/direct-marketing-services my newly made scoop.it :)
Dennis T OConnor's curator insight, February 3, 2:08 PM

Learn to curate, then tech curation to your students.  This process embodies information fluency skills and critical reading.  This is the sweetspot for hitting the Common Core Standards and doing what you love: research! 

Elizabeth Hutchinson's curator insight, February 3, 3:01 PM

Looks like I have some reading to do :) 

 

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How to Use Hashtags on Twitter: A Simple Guide for Marketers

How to Use Hashtags on Twitter: A Simple Guide for Marketers | SM | Scoop.it

A simple guide to understanding how to effectively use Twitter hashtags in marketing and how you shouldn't! [note mg]

 

Every time we host live webinars (and as this long list suggests, that is quite often), quite a few attendees get confused about what to do with the hashtag we provide. What is it? What does it do? How do you create one? Let me explain!

 

What is a hashtag?

 

A Twitter hashtag is simply a keyword phrase, spelled out without spaces, with a pound sign (#) in front of it. For example, #inboundchat and #ILoveChocolate are both hashtags.

 

What does a hashtag do?

 

A Twitter hashtag ties the conversations of different users into one stream, which you can find by searching the hastag in Twitter Search or by using a third-party monitoring tool such as HootSuite.

 

Read more: http://bit.ly/K8LKcQ


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angel Graham's comment, May 8, 2012 7:26 PM
I need to learn more about hashtags and twitter. This should help out a bit more. I'm learning to use a few. Thank you.
Martin Gysler's comment, May 9, 2012 5:20 AM
It's my pleasure Angel! Using Hashtags is finally simple, which is sometimes difficult is to remember to include them in posts ... :)