Content curation is when an individual (or team) consistently finds, organizes, annotates and shares the most relevant and highest quality digital content on a specific topic for their target market. Curation is a great way to support your created content strategy, publish content consistently and keep track of your favorite information sources. Enlightened content marketers are using a content mix that is only 65% created, with the remainder being 25% curated and 10% syndicated.

My hope is that this map will help you or your organization navigate the growing world of curation and find a tool that best fits your content needs.

The Purpose of this List

If you’re all caught up on The Ultimate Content Marketing Tools List, then you already know the content marketing tools universe is vast—and still expanding. Marketing and technology are constantly joining forces to provide marketers with simpler solutions to publishing higher quality, more relevant content for their audiences. Whether you’re part of the 71% of marketers increasing spend on content this year, or you’re just looking for a tool to help keep track of news and social media, this list of curation tools will help cut through the curation clutter and make sense of what differentiates each application, service and platform....

Curation Tools by Areas of Application. Curation Tools by Formats & Tech. Content Discovery Tools. RSS Feeds Management all gathered and curated by Robin Good.

Although there are more than 100 types of content that one can actually create, we dilute most of our energy and resources in producing what most others do, news and light article content, without ever considering that there exist a ton of other content alternatives that could be utilized.

This is why I have decided to create this catalogue of content types. To remind writers and editors, that there are a tens of alternative opportunities for creating valuable content and that it is only up to me and you to pick them up and use them.

While there have been other attempts at listing and cataloging formats and types of content that can be published online (which I have listed and referenced at the end of this article), I have tried to improve upon them, not just by extending the number of formats covered (over 100), but also by identifying relevant examples, and where possible, appropriate tools, that can be useful to create that specific type of content....

Curation Tools by Areas of Application. Curation Tools by Formats & Tech. Content Discovery Tools. RSS Feeds Management all collected and shared by Robin Good.