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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A good list from one of the top social media experts - Heidi Cohen. I see many consultans, sales professionals, coaches, speakers, and advisors just throwing links and crap against the wall hoping some of it will stick.
Good content creation requires a thoughtful, well-defined, targeted approach that requires an investment of time vs. just sharing links with your network. This example of a curated content by Jan Gordon on Heidi's article is good illustration of how content curation should be delivered.
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This is a really good article about content curation. There is nothing wrong with doing content curation, as it provides insight from multiple sources. As this article points out, the trick is curating content that adds value to whatever it is that you are adding the content to. In my case, it's my blog. I've followed most of these guidelines instinctively, because I want to provide quality information to share with fellow technical communicators and e-learning specialists.
Read this one carefully, as it's chock full of good advice.
--techcommgeekmom