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May 15, 4:53 AM
Thank you very much for curating my article, Tom!
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Putting content curation front and centre in your content marketing planning I've been spending some time this week writing a content marketing plan for a. Marketing topic(s):Content marketing strategy.
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Great article on curation. This gentleman Danyl talks some about how he is helping a client use curation to be an instrumental part of their content marketing plan. 23 tips. Delete the scoop?
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If you use social media as a broadcast channel to only share your content you will not be successful. You should actually share more of other people’s content rather than your own as long as you find really good content to share. In this article we outline 5 tools that will help you find and share great content to your followers which will help significantly to increase your value to your community which in turn means you will be more successful.
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You will be hard pressed to find two more benefitial people to give you the in's and outs of social media and how to think outside the box. This is a guest post by Ian Cleary of Razor Social who's blog was just recently named one of the top blogs by Social Media Examiner, and it's posted on Socialable.co.uk which is from Lilach Bullock who was just named by Forbes as one of the most influential woman in Social. It doesn't get any better. If I were you I would follow them both. 
Martin (Marty) Smith's curator insight,
May 10, 3:00 PM
Great post on tools that are moslty new to me. 
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May 12, 5:36 AM
Op de juiste tijdstippen versturen. Weet wie je lezers zijn. Delete the scoop?
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Excerpted from article on Mashable:
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
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Always great curation coverage from Giuseppe Mauriello. See how curation is growing. What will some cool jobs be? Any ideas anyone? 
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
May 10, 4:57 AM
I think this statement captures the essence of the piece: "A curator ingests, analyzes and contextualizes web content and information of a particular nature onto a platform or into a format we can understand". I tend to think of it as the skill required to separate news from noise. #curation 
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May 10, 5:22 AM
#SocialMedia Governance: what's the role of the Content #Curator. Good article from #Mashable 
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May 10, 10:51 PM
Excelente artículo en Mashable de Stephanie Buck que nos habla de este nuevo perfil profesional que está irrumpiendo con fuerza en el marketing de contenidos, el Content Curator. Delete the scoop?
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Breaking news, MARIETTA, GA—Widely regarded as one of the online world’s brightest personalities, sources confirmed Friday that famed 28-year-old social media rock star Ryan Wasserman, better known as @RWthinks by his legions of passionate fans, makes roughly $28,000 per year. Delete the scoop?
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Mural.ly - Google Docs for Visual People. Thousands of creative people from all over the world are using Mural.ly to grow ideas. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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Seems interesting although I haven't tried it yet. Right away I think of brainstorming with visual cues. 
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April 23, 2:54 PM
Imagine what your community could come up with if they used Mural.ly! It could be an excellent way to see where what you're offering lines up with what they desire. 
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April 28, 12:19 PM
Another excellent wall to "Pin up", organize and share content Delete the scoop?
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“When it comes to live chats or hashtags, Twitter does not make it very easy for users to find relevant content. Unless they rely on a third-party tool.
Meet Rob Schutz, the founder of Chirp Guide. In this exclusive interview, you will learn how you can use this service to find discussions that matter to you across a broad range of categories.”
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Chirp Guide adds value to Twitter for sure.
Cendrine Marrouat - www.cendrinemarrouat.com's comment,
December 18, 2012 3:16 PM
I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like a very nice option!
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Content has evolved into a 24x7 phenomenon. These 5 new tools can help you spot hot content and share it before anyone else.
This maturation of social media networks like Twitter has (in part) created a need for a more dynamic approach to content curation. Rather than doing your research at the beginning of the week and scheduling your content shares at the coveted peak click periods to assure maximum visibility, a new emphasis on real-time content discovery is in play. Unfortunately, this type of real-time content discovery had to be performed manually which both consumed a lot of time and made discovery more like prospecting for gold with a pan than sweeping a metal detector over the web. But that’s changing… Here, in no particular order, are five new tools that can dramatically improve your ability to discover and curate content in real-time without getting your hands dirty… or as dirty. Delete the scoop?
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Advertisers lost control of the media years ago when the Internet gave all the target audiences the power to run their own message delivery systems.I’m not sure we’d fully recovered from that peaceful revolution when another gigantic wave hit us, then another and another: Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, blogs, Yelp, Foursquare, and on and on. The whole Social Media thing can be very confusing which partly explains the problems some companies are experiencing with it.
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September 6, 2012 5:00 PM
Thanks for picking up Social Media What's The Point Heiko. Marty
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Ready for another post-IPO Facebook acquisition rumor? Newsgeek reports that the deal size could be between $80 million and $100 million. This is pure speculation at this point, and we currently don’t have any sources backing up the story, but it’s an acquisition that would make a ton of sense. In fact, Face.com has long been rumored to be an acquisition target for Facebook, even way before there was talk about the social networking company going public. Delete the scoop?
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Word-of-mouth is gold and social media is the vessel we use to promote it, but how exactly is it accomplished? As businesses we are always looking for ways to lower the cost of acquiring new customers. Via Sam Wee Delete the scoop?
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This is the first in a series of videos explaining the shifts we're seeing in the world of content creation. Curation has exploded with the growth of Twitter, Tumblr and now Pinterest. In this video, we wanted to try to get into the heads of some of our favorite curators to understand what makes them tick. Featured curators include: Delete the scoop?
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Composed of over 1013 neurons, the human brain has been said to have more synapses than stars in the universe. How do you begin to understand all the madness compressed into the three pound ball of flesh? I have no idea, and I don't trust anyone who claims to know either. However, there are some clever approaches to chipping away at the problem. At the systems-level, the brain distributes computation over multiple regions. A good analogy is a peer-to-peer network that distributes number crunching across multiple computers, where each computer is specialized to perform some specific aspect of the computation. Abstract this by simply calling the computers "nodes" (which can represent anything, for example, brain regions) and the connections "edges," and viola! you have reached the entry point of network theory, which is a quantitative and visual approach to understanding how nodes relate to one another and how networks function as a whole. Delete the scoop?
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Guy Kawasaki is a special advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google. He is also the author of APE, What the Plus!, Enchantment, and nine other books. HubSpot invited Guy to reveal the secrets behind his incredibly active and popular social media profiles that enable him to reach million
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Hey Tom George here, I don’t often right introductions to the content I curate, but this warrants one. This is pure social media gold, so read it and weep! If you are not familiar with Guy Kawasaki he is a major player in social and else ware, a published author, speaker and much more. Here he shares his way of doing things. And with like in excess of 4 million people on Google Plus following him and over 1.5 million followers on Twitter, not to mention Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn and more, this might actually be a very good way of doing things.
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May 13, 3:36 PM
Guy Kawasaki is successful for a reason. He is organized and sees the big picture.
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Blog post at New Media Expo Blog : Brilliant Bloggers is a bi-weekly series here at NMX where we look at the best posts from around the web all surrounding a specific topic. E[..]
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Some very useful resources listed on curation. More then a few you may have missed. Delete the scoop?
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The challenge [for social networks] is to create something of permanent value for the community, to offer more than a temporary spotlight. Via gdecugis
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Looking at the article it's almost comical. With the exception of LinkedIn, all the other popular social media platforms know nothing about creating valuable original content. They simply have created optimal conditions for user generated content. I would really be impressed if Facebook generated some of their own content, but why would they when they have you to do for them. 
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May 13, 4:29 PM
What I might be trying to investigate through inquiry... 
Sandrine Delage (Borgé)'s curator insight,
May 19, 4:19 AM
Tanks. Show the importance of the strategy and the implementations in LinkedIn, Facebook ... I agree about the accurency of LinkedIn in this matter. Delete the scoop?
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Today marks a historic moment for one of Silicon Valley's biggest and well-known companies. It has been a decade since LinkedIn was founded as a business-related social network and ...
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LinkedIn turns 10 years old.Not sure if I got the story of how it changed the way we work. Good article. Delete the scoop?
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100 Amazing Social Media Statistics, Facts And Figures 2012 Did you know that there are Via WordPress SEO & Social Media, roberto toppi
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Nice info graphic with a catchy headline 
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100 Amazing Social Media Statistics, Facts And Figures 2012 – infographic /@BerriePelser Delete the scoop?
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Via Robin Good
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For those of you that enjoy reading the New York times Compendium allows you to curate and categorize your personal selection of New York Times content. 
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December 10, 2012 10:33 AM
The New York Times Compendium is a content curation tool that allows you to clip, comment and curate collections of stories and images from the New York Times. The web-based service allows anyone to sign-up easily using Facebook or Twitter and to start populating new content collections with their favorite NY Times content. A standard bookmarklet for capturing content is available, and there are three types of layout to display your content collection: list, gallery and timeline. Free to use. More info: http://www.nytimes.com/compendium/about/ Getting started: http://www.nytimes.com/compendium/start/ Try it out now: http://www.nytimes.com/compendium/ 
Fast Moving Targets's curator insight,
December 12, 2012 4:18 AM
Mooi gedaan. The New York Times heeft zijn eigen knipseldienst die het eenvoudig maakt foto's quotes en andere inhoud te bundelen. Een persoonlijke knipselkrant, een eigen plakboek, een lokale Pinterest. Zie bijvoorbeeld een verzameling van recensies van restaurants. 
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December 12, 2012 8:31 AM
NY Times version of Pinterest. Do you need a paid subscription to use? Delete the scoop?
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I love a good infographic! After all, knowledge is power and the visualization of data makes absorbing information all the easier. Well-designed infographics have a way of pulling me into a subject I’d normally never care to know about. As a designer I can attest to the crazy amount of time it takes to make a compelling, useful infographic. I have to say I knew about many of the great links, resources and tools I’ve linked to here on this post before but I dug deep and found some new and exciting infographic tools that I’m willing to bet you haven’t seen before. Items 1-5 under the Data Visualization Tools and Software category are sufficiently capable of arming even a novice designer with the ability to produce a powerful infographic (though I’m sure experts will find them handy as well). In short, if you love infographics, data visualization and information design as much as I do, you’re going to love this post. As always, leave me a comment with your thoughts and suggestions! Delete the scoop?
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Everyone has within them the desire and the means to make life a masterpiece, it maybe hidden in the recesses of their soul or buried amongst the pain of living an existence but it is there waiting to be discovered. Via Gregg Breward Delete the scoop?
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People ask me all the time why I’m so excited about Google+ as a marketing tool. After all, it doesn’t (yet) have anywhere near the user numbers of social media juggernauts like Facebook or Twitter. Doesn’t it just make sense to go where the numbers are?When I hear that I stop and wonder if it’s really 2012. Broadcasting to the big numbers was the way to go for the Mad Men of the 60s, but savvy marketers like Seth Godin realize that these days it’s all about the tribes we lead. In other words, if you can connect with a smaller group of people who are passionate about what you’re selling, you don’t need to fire a shotgun at big crowds. This brings me back to why I’m such a Google+ evangelist. I haven’t seen anything anywhere any time so readily available to anyone and everyone that can help you find and connect to your tribe as powerfully as can G+. Delete the scoop?
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Laura Paine has a simple answer when asked why Pinterest exploded in popularity at this particular juncture in Internet history. The former reporter watched her newspaper cut positions, go from being a daily to a weekly and focus more on creating short, Q&A pieces, video and photo galleries in an effort to cling to dwindling online traffic. "People aren't really reading anymore," said Paine, who now works for the public relations firm InkHouse. A new Engauge white paper breaks down the make-up of the average Pinterest user and shows that the end result of less reading is more of a focus on content curation than creation. The timing of that trend, combined with a stunning design when Internet users are focusing more on visual than text, has allowed Pinterest to explode in popularity. Delete the scoop?
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South by Southwest Interactive officially drew to a close Tuesday with the 15th Annual Interactive Awards. The awards honored not only well-known sites and services from the past year such as Pinterest and Storify, but also highlighted sites, services and apps that you may have never heard of. While Highlight was certainly the most buzzed-about app at this year’s conference, the Facebook-stalker video-maker Take This Lollipop was the one walking away with the Best in Show award from SXSWi. It also took top honors in the Experimental category. Delete the scoop?
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Most of us know how rewarding and fun curating content can be. In my opinion curation helps to build bridges between conversations and fosters community. Not only is it an excellent way to stay on top of a subject and continue to learn about it, curation opens doors to new worlds and is the foundation for a more global collective intelligence. Are you in love with curating? I am! And so is Cendrine Marrouat