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What we have here is a failure to communicate. Cool Hand Luke's famous quote applies to SEO and content marketing in the age of a semi-autonomous almost sentient ranking algorithm as this excellent INC post shares.
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With the amount of content that is shared on the Internet every minute, it’s no surprise that many people feel overwhelmed by the quantity of information out there. This is why content curation is becoming an essential digital literacy skill for teachers and students. Via Guillaume Decugis, Jan-Olof Steen
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Content curation is a great way to learn "the game"" of digital marketing. Filtering the world provides more reach, creates community faster and costs less than;...well any tactic we know.
T. Ryno's curator insight,
November 13, 2015 5:13 AM
Content curation is certainly an important digital literacy skill, very useful for citizenship as a whole. An awesome tool to increase the current level of critical thinking.
Janine Roy's curator insight,
November 29, 2015 8:33 PM
Content curation has become an essential digital literacy skill for teachers and students.
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Everything you need to know before you can start to sell digital products online even without a large following.
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Why I'm Not A SEO
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We Added a page on top gamification tools such as SweetToothRewards.com (affordable gamification), Badgeville and Bunch Ball.
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Total Haiku Deck Views: 73,549
% Increase: 5% (10-2 - 11-4)
+ Views: 3,324 (in a month)
Trending Decks
#1 Crowdfunding Tips From The Clash http://shar.es/10JzN6
+127% views gain 330
#2: Gamify Content Marketing http://shar.es/10JzyC
+115% views gain: 618
#3 Tomorrow's Ecommerce http://shar.es/10Ji5W
+115% views gain 248
#4 Invisible Giant of the New SEO http://shar.es/10Jiw0
+113% views gain 428
#5 Five Holiday Design Tips http://shar.es/10JiIE
+112% views gain 92
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Startups Tips From Warren Buffett http://shar.es/10JiM2
total views 8,100
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Gamify Content Marketing Blows Up
Yesterday I mentioned Gamify along with two other trending Haiku Decks. Gamify gained 1,010 views (+40% gain) in a day. A move that big usually means someone BIG shared. We will look around and figure out who to thank, and hope you will check out and share Gamify Content Marketing too.
THANKS.
Successful content marketing engages over time. Engagement needs online community and a role shift from content creators to community curators and GAME creators.
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Book by Alistair Croll and Ben Yoskovitz about using data to build a better startup faster, part of the Lean Startup series with Eric Ries and Ash Maurya from O'Reilly
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Reading Lean Analytics now and HIGHLY recommend it.
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Dove Men+Care’s digital campaign for Father’s Day riffs off the idea that dads are sick of their Ward Cleaver image and want credit for changing diapers, making dinner and consoling heartbroken teens. But this creative isn’t all touchy-feely—it’s based on some hard data.
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I'm tired of the MAN as IDIOT trend. 2014 seems to be a redemption year. Men and dads are leading the charge. For a long time the cardboard "stupid man" populated commercials, movies and TV for far too long.
I get it. The pendulum swings hither and yon, to and fro. Perhaps one of the web's conversational benefits is brands see customers as people instead of "consumers" or "users".
We are neither simply consumers or users.We are people caught in a divine comedy. MEN aren't cardboard stereotypes meant to supply a cheap punchline or a cliche or two. We men are hard working, confused and learning as we go much like our beautiful sisters.
If the web can eliminate nasty yet ubiquitous cardboard stereotypes every man on the planet will be in the web's debt. What great "men are for real" campaigns have you seen this year?
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Klout, Context & Links
This post links to my G+ summary in prelude to my http://www.curatti.com blog post tonight. Here are some preliminary thoughts on the page of notes I took during Dixon Jones talk.
Links & The Real Value of Content
Dixon works at Majestic SEO (http://www.majesticseo.com/ ). Majestic is asking the right question - what is the value of a link. They've even created tools that help intelligently answer that question.
"Inbound links" as a measurement is clouded by "bot spam". In a great example of the power of the "flow" tool Dixon shared. Even more powerful was an example of Majestic SEO vs. two competitors. On a purely inbound link review Majestic doesn't win.
But are all of those links valuable? Value is contextual and any spammy ways of inflating inbound link numbers need to be discovered and factored out.
Once links are run through Majestic SEO's "trust flow" tool evaluating where links came from and the respective trustworthiness of sites sending links in Majestic wins the comparison.We finally have a tool to separate white and black hats.
Think of that for a second. If you were to simply use aggregate inbound links you would buy ads with Majestic's competition or, and this is worse, you might think the competition's inflated (probalby by spam) value is something you should buy.
Once the Majestic SEO tool separates wheat from chafe a more accurate and "influential" picture emerges. SEOs and Internet marketers know how to parse page spread, social following and inbound links to pierce the veil of most who spam, but, for an outsider, "most links" may translate into "most trusted".
There is the web's biggest rub. Since the web is an interconnected system discovering if real people who have real value are passionate about a site tool, or brand with metrics such as high inbound links or big pagespread (pages in Google) is the only way to make an informed decision UNTIL Majestic wrestled context and content to the ground.
Curagmai & Majestic
The reason our Startup Factory funded startup Curagami and Majestic fit together like Lego blocks is relationships between a site and its 1% Contributors, 9% Supporters and 90% readers. Curagami helps FIND the Contributors, Supporters and Readers and Majestic helps define each of member of those "tribes" by their CONTEXTUAL influence. I may not have high Klout and be irrelevant for a conversation about women's fashion, but be perfect to help discuss cycling (since I rode a bicycle across America in the summer of 2010). .
If the first job is to FIND Contributors, Supporters and Readers and the second is to ask them to JOIN with Contributors and Supporters high on the Ambassadors list then the 3rd job is to contextually empower advocates in each group. We know the future is about community and real people not bots are the building blocks of online community.
What Dixon shared today and Majestic SEO has been working hard on is helping marketers know what kind of ASK will work best for Jill, John and Bob. Jill might know women's fashion, pets and be a car mechanic in her spare time. John may know email marketing, gourmet cooking and wines. Bob may know finance and cycling.
Curagami helps find 'em & Majestic helps define 'em in order to create an ASK that works. Powerful and very cool tool since the future is about building community and not every Contributor, Supporter and Reader who visits your site is the same. As we begin to create "rich personas" thanks to tools such as Majestic and Curagami our content relevance will go up, and up and UP.
If you are thinking more content relevance = more LOVE and MONEY we agree :). M
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We created Curagami to answer a single vexing question. What content should you create and why? Our Curagami Reports answer that question for you.
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Best Content Marketers is a great quesiton we answer in a different way focusing on best day-to-day content marketers from Scoopit, Gplus & Medium.
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Top Haiku Decks
Haiku Deck is an easy to use cool tool perfectly timed for the visual marketing revolution we find ourselves within. We've created more than 30 Decks, but 11 stand out.
They stand out because they've been viewed more than 101,000 times, have almost 1,000 social shares and are the kind of easy to create content curation helping to define the lean content movement so dear to our friends at Scoop.it (another great lean content / visual marketing tool).
See our top 11 Haiku Decks
http://www.curagami.com/top-haiku-decks/?v=7516fd43adaa
See All of Our Haiku Decks
https://www.haikudeck.com/presentations/Martin.Smith
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SEO #1 organic listings are great, but not all keywords are equal - of Scenttrail Marketing's top posts the most promise comes from a Google #3 because ...
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A lot of B2B companies in boring industries are intimidated by content marketing or just skip it all together. So what you’re not writing about the newest tech gadget that appeals to the mass market? Your content might not matter to most of them, but it does matter to some—your customers and your potential customers.
Year But We're Boring
I hear that complaint as the chief excuse for everyone from HVAC to Lawyers when it comes to content marketing. This post shares 3 ideas any B2B site can use to win hearts, minds and loyalty with content including;
* Take A Stance.
* Tell A Story.
* Make someone's life easier.
Of those three ideas we favor the last two and particularly like Q&A content as a way to accomplish #3.
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Asking the right questions in the right way is key to online marketing success. How SMBs can compete with Amazon isn't as important as what is their why and how are they learning from Amazon's web marketing power.
Surf These Waves To FIND Your Blue Oceans:
* Appification & Gamification
* Wiki-ization.
* Social Shopping Nowists.
* FofF Proxy Marketing
& Find other surfable marketing trends on our Discover Blue Oceans Haiku Deck: http://shar.es/1gQgRb
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Why is Content Marketing key for 2015 Conventional, single-thread, one-way, disruptive mass communication – like the television commercials that brands have long subsidized – is on the way out. T…
Yes 2015 is the year of content marketing, but be sure to read Content Marketing's Unfinished Symphony on Curagami:
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We shocked a SEO Meetup suggesting 90% curation to 10% content creation. This deck explains why you MUST curate content. Content curation is a CSF (Crtical Success Factor) for online marketing.
7 Reasons You Must Curate Content
* Can't Create Sustainable Online Community Without Curating.
* Reach.
* Costs.
* Digitally Listening (is different).
* Authority.
* Tribes.
* Sustainable Online Community (so important its worth two listings).
Content curation is how you TEST and so protect your site's content creation. Content curation lowers your content creation costs and insures your current SEO ranks. Bet you agree, after flipping through this Hailku Deck (slides) content curation is a CSF (Critical Success Factor) for digital marketing.
Promise to follow with a deck on our favorite tools for content curation with @Scoop.itat the top of the list.
WOW, over 500 views in six hours thanks to Haiku Deck making Content Curation: 7 Reasons You Must a Featured Deck:
https://www.haikudeck.com/gallery/featured
Go directly to the deck
http://shar.es/1X0Rrc
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Bad links can kill your website's hard-won authority, reputation & traffic. Use Google's disavow tool to protect your site's traffic from SEO bandits.
This post shares two harrowing tales of "spam link attacks". One I experienced and, with my great team, fought our way out of one October several years ago. The other SproutContent.com share happened recently (so still an issue). Learn how to protect your hard-won digital assets from spam link attacks.
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Haiku Deck Data
Slide decks create effective storytelling online. If your content marketing doesn't include slides it should. Here why:
# Haiku Decks: 36
Total Views: 64,504
Average Views: 1,709
Top 10 Average Views: 4,014
Top Deck Views: 7,548
Gain Last 6 Days: 2,762
vs. Scoop.it views? Haiku Deck +217%
Trending Haiku Decks:
Crowdfunding Tips From The Clash +260% http://shar.es/11KMHp
Gamify Content Marketing +109% http://shar.es/11KMst
Invisible Giant of the New SEO +14% http://shar.es/11KM4I
Gamify was added to Haiku Decks' Featured area. Crowdfunding tips from The Clash was Tweeted and included on GooglePlus. None of the 36 Haiku Decks we've created came back with 0 new views (that's impressive). A week ago we wrote a Curagami post about Top Haiku Decks (http://www.curagami.com/featured/buffet-tools-conversations-top-haiku-decks/ ) and provided a link to a spreadsheet with links to all decks (bit.ly/1towd0F ).
That post plus features by Haiku Deck in their two community galleries (Featured and Popular) produced almost 6,000 views. We've been talking about the need for a profile page to help promote all Haiku Decks and the team at Haiku is working on it.
That was the advantage we created by developing a page with links to all decks. We could share that single link and people could decide what decks interested them.
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The power of text analytics is now readily accessible through intuitive and openly available software. Running analysis is straightforward enough, as the examples in this article illustrate. However, the prerequisites of impactful insights haven’t changed. Proper problem definition, domain expertise, and stakeholder engagement are key to well-guided mining and actionable output—whether you’re improving a user interface or the broader user experience.
Thanks to @Luis Costa for this great Scoop. Was looking for something like this just the other day as we discussed ways to understand the sentiment of online reviews :). M
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Marty Note - Digital Listening Is Different
Cendrine and I are having a great conversation on G+ about the nature of listening online. Cendrine's great post shares TIps and Tools so you can become a tuned online listener.
Great post. Here is what I shared on G+:
Are You Listening...Digitally?
Digital #listening is different. Conversations provide nonverbal clues missing online, but online provides other kinds of clues. Online clues are easy to walk by without even knowing you just missed a clue.
Examples of missed online clues abound and include:
* Small Follow Back % (sends "we don't listen" signal).
* Pushing only YOUR content (need to act less proprietarily to become or act as an #authority ).
* Not curating or rewarding #ugc (User Generated Content).
* Not responding to @yourtwitter mentions with RTs and thanks.
* Not responding to direct @yourtwitter messages.
* Not responding to Twitter DMs in a timely way (can be made worse by not following enough people to be able to DM).
* Not being present on a major social net (like +Google+ ).
* Not asking questions & then curating response.
etc...
Could go on and on, but you get the idea. LISTENING online is different and few do it well.
FIND G+ Conversation
https://plus.google.com/102639884404823294558/posts/FgYhn3zoQQL