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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. 
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Bang Ouch Blow Up SEO Infographic
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Why I'm Not A SEO
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Enjoyed speaking with Janet Kennedy in this podcast interview, but Janet posted as 009 [title]. Typing name of the episode into Google it didn't come up DESPITE Janet and I being connected in circles.
I would have had to know Janet's archive number of "009". We suggested Janet move 009 to the back and that created good and bad news. Good news it fixed the URL. Bad news is it wiped the tweets and social shares widgets clean (mostly). Worth that pain though as explained here.
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Some great tips captured from some of the best Marketing managers who have worked with ODigMa.
Solid tips from fellow marketing pros here.
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So, how can you harness this knowledge to your advantage? Let’s look at some of the most notable studies on the subject and how you can apply that directly to your blog.
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Learn how you can stay up to date on the latest SEO trends and algorithm updates.
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![What Makes Content Relevant & Valuable [Infographic] via @cendrinemedia | BI Revolution | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/-PLZQudgvLSBFI6BgnNMUjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Following my second article in my weekly free advice series, I decided to create a simple infographic to make the information clearer for you. I hope you will find it useful.
Content marketing's biggest challenge may be understanding not all content is equal. And how unequal your content is may be very different than a different website or business vertical. Your content inequality may be different than mine even if we are in the same biz.
Here is a great infographic by @Cendrine Marrouat - https://www.cendrinemedia.com that helps put content's context in perspective.
Love the "take note of" section. Marty
It's not rocket science. Good content must be compelling/engaging, audience- targeted, timely and consistent (take note of the "take note" section-smart reminder tips)
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Internet marketing's "perpetual motion" machine is based on content creating community and, after winning hearts and minds, community becomes conversion.
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Let's face it, Google+ is not going to go away like Google Buzz or MySpace. More and more users are becoming familiar with Google+ and using it every day to connect and communicate.
Not only is G+ not going away in many cases it represents the most disruptive tool out there. Facebook and Twitter are usually red oceans of competitive furor. G+ on the other hand is often a blue ocean waiting to be used.
WHY? Because G+ has a learning curve and it came out at a time when everyone had just about had enough. These days you can never "have enough" (lol) so use these 8 ways to get more G+ followers to your branded pages for the win.
My GPlus
https://plus.google.com/+MartinWSmith/posts
One of my branded Pages for CrowdFunde
https://plus.google.com/b/108889653680917133080/+Crowdfunde_GPlus/posts
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Creating online scale is the hardest job you will ever love. This Haiku Deck shares tips learned from $30,000,000 in online sales and scaling CureCancerStarter.org, a new website to help crowdfund cancer research.
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SEO Controversy
The SEO controversy seems to be understanding exactly what Gooogle has and has not killed with their algorithm changes. This post explains the history from the first time I heard "SEO is Dead" two years ago right up to present day where any marketing unsupported by social signals is a dog that just doesn't hunt.
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Holiday Ecommerce Tips Magazine shares our secret trends, ideas and tips so you can have a record-setting holiday sales online this holiday season.
Monday - 5 Ecommerce Storytelling Tips
http://www.curagami.com/ecommerce-holiday-5-storytelling-tips/?v=7516fd43adaa
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http://www.curagami.com/ecommerce-holiday-5-storytelling-tips/?v=7516fd43adaa
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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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Haiku Deck Stats
Haiku Deck (http://www.haikudeck.com ) continues to be one of our favorite visual marketing tools. We believe slide decks are a new marketing channel and our Haiku Decks views prove the point.
Total Views: 78,940 +107% in a month for a gain of 5,641 views across 37 Haiku Decks
Trends
Warren Buffett Tips for Startups still #1 with 8,521 views
http://shar.es/11m9Bx
(gained 105% in a month or 428 views & is a Featured Haiku Deck).
7 Reasons You Must Curate Content
Fastest TRENDING Deck
http://shar.es/1XRPV7
(2,571 views in first week & now a Featured Haiku Deck)
Holiday Web Design
Next fastest trending deck
http://shar.es/1XRLb1
(1,087 Views or 116% gain in a month)
Gamify Content Marketing
Broke 5,000 views & continues to grow faster than Buffett
http://shar.es/1XRMgv
(5,091 views #4 and up 106% vs Buffett's 105% & A Featured Haiku Deck)
Top Ecommerce Trends 2015 (new today)
http://shar.es/1XRN6k
Has 188 views in three hours
As our content works its way into Haiku Deck's community we see faster lifts for new content. 7 Reasons You Must Curate Content was our fastest deck to clear the 2,000 views hurdle beating Warren Buffett's Tips For Startups. Our Ecommerce Trends Deck, published this morning, may break 500 views its first day.
The team at Haiku Deck are great content curators and they support their "power users" with social shares and mentions. They do such a great job creating online community we created a deck about them too (http://shar.es/1XRNN8 ).
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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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Winning Ecommerce
When the BIBLE of your industry writes as laudatory review as The Absolute Sound, the bible of audiophies, just did for Curagami beta partner Moon Audio a watershed moment just happened.
The Absolute Sound is known for its editorial honesty and TOUGH reviews. Here they are as accurate as ever describing the sound I hear from my Silver Dragon headphone cables better and more concisely than my efforts.
This amazing review got me to write the 5 Ecommerce Secrets post I've been meaning to write for a month. Here are 5 tips every ecommerce team should steal from Moon Audio:
Find 5 Moon Audio Ecommerce Secrets here
http://www.curagami.com/featured/winning-ecommerce-5-moon-audio-secrets/
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Storytelling is the new SEO shares examples of how your website and online marketing can tell engaging stories to win the NEW SEO.
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Do you have a blog with great content, but miss out on the traffic you hoped for? Make your audience remember YOU by learning the secret to a memorable Blog
Great "ditch digging" blogging tips.
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SEO helps you get recognition from all quarters for your business. It boosts your marketing strategies and gets you more clients and consequently sets the sales register ringing. The only drawback of…
The New SEO eliminates the free lunch many enjoyed before. The days when keyword mapping could create a sense of false popularity, popularity from understanding how to play the keyword game slightly better than others, is all but gone.
This post from Business2Community provides a solid overview of how to retrain your muscles to the new SEO where your content's ability to create real community has never been more important.
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There is only one way to break out of the rat race and eliminate all competing rats - create EPIC Personal Branding. Here's how. Added a Epic / Not Epic table.
What about you? What things do you know of that USED to be Epic and now not so much? What things are NEW and Epic? .
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![How to Share Infographics on Social Media - Best Practices [Infographic] | BI Revolution | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/Y3VW4mgDK1_Gm-PDS0fg2Dl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
You should share infographics with your readers and social media fans! This post will show you how to do it the right way.
Cool tips infographic about how to share infographics with attribution and on different social nets.
If you thought sharing infographics was beyond you reach, take a look at his simple guide. It gives you some simple guidlines for how to do it and reap the benefits.
Golden rules or olden rules - innovation in infogrpahics is breaking some if not all of these rules!
Using infographics in social media, and how to do it right!
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Human history is littered with examples of how rebuilding is so much swifter and more complete if whatever preceded it was wiped out. Of course, that has typically come after something very bad has happened.
Ego vs. No Ego
Loved this Curatti.com post by @AndyCapaloff. Any discusses the need to "set free the beers" online, to let what works now dictate our Internet marketing reactions INSTEAD of insisting upon some outdated ideology.
Internet marketing only has one time - NOW. To not accept what is happening now is ego-writing checks you can't afford. I found a solid demonstration of "ego" when an analysis of top 10 online retailers showed most follow back less than 1% of their followers (Is Ecommerce Stuck In The Mud http://curatti.com/is-ecommerce-stuck-in-the-mud/).
Andy suggests finding your accepting mind, the mind you would have if everything was destroyed or you were starting from scratch, is a great way to be as an Internet marketer. Agree!
Andy's Curatti post
http://curatti.com/invention-v-reinvention-in-the-age-of-disruption/
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Owning Conversations
Owning conversations means curating related content without worrying over if competitors created it. Owning a conversation means you know that the conversation is happening.
We suggest using Scoop.it and Paper.li to help "spider" the social web. When you "own" a conversation curating realted content, adding your take via Scoop.it-like snippets and being creful with attribution and how you use curated content (to avoide dupe content penalties) you are acting like a Google Authority. Have to act like an authority for a long time before Google trusts and rewards you.
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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.
Content curation has become an essential digital literacy skill for teachers and students.