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In the following post you’re going to learn the benefits of running your own membership site along with some of the best membership plugins on the market – that includes free and premium WordPress plugins so there’s something for you, whatever your budget.
If you’re new to this membership site thing, then what you need to know is that there are a lot of people running niche membership sites that charge a monthly amount to subscribers in exchange for regular and usually exclusive content and they are making a killing.
Why are membership sites such a great business model? Subscription fees are recurring, it’s not just like selling an eBook where you get one payment from a customer and then that’s it.
...A few examples of sites that do this include – Marketing Profs, EConsultancy and Smart Insights...
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Jeff Domansky
July 3, 2013 8:05 PM
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Successful content marketing demands a wide range of skills. You must research and develop the right content for your audience, as well as execute and monitor your campaign. Luckily, there are plenty of online tools available to assist with every aspect of content marketing.
Here is a list of tools for content marketing. There are research and content development tools to identify and serve the interests of your audience, publishing and distribution tools to launch and manage your campaign, and optimization tools to track your content and results. Many of these tools are free.
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Jeff Domansky
July 1, 2013 3:09 PM
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Why join storination? To create in less than a minute a beautiful Storyboard with awesome content curated by you and others.
Storination lets you create online communities called a Nation, where people share social stories on the same topic. After opening your Nation, you organize your Storyboard, a virtual space where anybody can contribute by adding his own Storify story.
How to start a Nation ? Connect with your twitter account and open your first Nation. A Nation is an online community on any kind of topic. It's a space where you and other people add into a storyboard social stories. Customize your Nation like a blog by uploading a logo, and a large cover. Now, you can publish a Storify story by collecting photos, video, tweets... or If you prefer, just import social stories directly from Storify to your Nation.
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Jeff Domansky
from Content Curation World
July 1, 2013 2:17 PM
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A simple way to browse the social web
Via Robin Good
Apple released a list of its most 25 most-downloaded free apps of all time....
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Jeff Domansky
from Digitized media
June 30, 2013 11:05 PM
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When you want to add artistic effects or drawings to your website or printed material, try Serif’s free drawing and graphics software. It’s free to download and you don’t need any artistic background or design experience.
Via Baiba Svenca, Jim Lerman, Tim Pixley
Last week, I talked about how social media content curation could help you to never run out of ideas for your network marketing blog. As promised, I will go over the most popular and helpful content curation tools that you could use for free to produce great content for your audience. Content curation tools have become the new generation’s digital content platforms which had evolved from just gathering links or content aggregation such as Delicious, Digg or Google News. Keep in mind though that these tools are simply enablers and that you do need to produce original content to satisfy the search engines....
Robin Good: SeeSaw is a new web app which allows you to easily monitor social media news streams on any topic and in real-time. You can pick and select which news stories to find by using hashtags, or specific search keywords. Once Seesaw starts visualizing the live social stream on that topic you can begin to save, pull together into collections and/or share them on your social media channels. Each search you make can be saved and labelled and reloaded and updated in real-time with one click. Very useful for monitoring specific topics and finding relevant stories to collect, share or post. Free to use. Login with Twitter. Read more: http://sees.aw/about-us/ Try it out now: http://sees.aw
Via Robin Good, Giuseppe Mauriello, Jeff Domansky
Excerpted from article on Poynter.: "The new Web service uses the links and photos you share on Twitter or Facebook to populate a Web page. For an individual journalist, RebelMouse can build a website that harnesses all your social media curation work into a Web product. For a news organization, RebelMouse could also be a tool for aggregation projects. One page could represent all the content your news staff is tweeting. Another one could pull in content from a hashtag for a crowdsourcing project. Visually, RebelMouse looks a lot like Pinterest. Functionally, it is in the same product space as Storify, but different in key ways: - More permanence; - More automation; - No embedding, yet. Pricing is extremely affordable — free for basic usage, and if you want to use the site at a custom domain name (instead of rebelmouse.com/username) it’s $3 a month for an individual or $3 a week for a company." Read full article here: http://j.mp/Kz2XD4 Request an invite here: http://www.rebelmouse.com
Via Giuseppe Mauriello, Jeff Domansky
Pinterest and Instagram have been two of the hottest social platforms of 2012. Their success has spawned hundreds of imitations, with developers (and investors) trying to get a piece ...
of the increasingly lucrative image sharing pie. We’ve even seen a mash up of the two in the form of the aptly titled Pinstagram (genius, I know).
But now its time to wrap your head the next emerging trend; video sharing apps (or ‘Instagram for video’ apps). The big question is, which one will emerge as the superstar of the pack? Well, let’s meet ‘the pack’ and then you can decide for yourself. Ready? Lights. Camera. Action! [Adam Vincenzini profiles 10 video apps worth exploring - JD]
From Journalism.co.uk: "The content curation website Bundlr has just announced a new version of its service which allows for embedding of content from a wide range of sources.
By partnering with Embedly the site now supports over 200 sources of content, including Storify, Pinterest and Amazon, for users to add to their bundles. Embedly is the service that the new version of Twitter uses to embed photographs and articles in your Twitter stream and is used by a host of other sites such as Reddit and Bitly and comes as a WordPress plugin.
While Bundlr was originally seen as an alternative to sites like Storify, which can be used to create stories from curated links and content, Bundlr's focus is now on creating a top-level resource for curated content around a story or topic." (Source: Journalism.co.uk) Try it out: http://bundlr.com/ ;
Via Robin Good, Ken Dickens, Jeff Domansky
Robin Good: SeeJay is an upcoming aggregation, editing and publishing platform to curate real-time news content gathered from citizen journalists, reporters, bloggers on the scene.
SeeJay promises the easy collection of multiple types of content, from images to videos and tweets (specifically from Instagram, YouTube and Twitter) by specifying a specific theme or #hasgtag as well as the publishing of curated sets into dedicated topic/news channels. From the official site: "SeeJay organizes and publishes your selections online. You can instantly post them in galleries, infocharts & timelines in your website/app."
More info: http://www.seejay.info/ ;
Via Robin Good, Jeff Domansky
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Jeff Domansky
July 6, 2013 2:58 PM
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Social podcasting player Audioboo , which enables users to record unlimited amounts of audio, announced that it can now be integrated with Twitter media cards.
Audio that is recorded on Audioboo can now be shared on Twitter directly through the platform and played through a bespoke embed in Twitter’s timeline without opening a new window.
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Jeff Domansky
July 3, 2013 7:58 PM
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...According to Content Marketing Institute’s recent B2B Content Marketing report, 9 out of 10 B2B marketers are using content marketing, and 45% plan to increase their spending on content marketing over the next 12 months. More marketers are shifting their content creation efforts in-house, but at the same time, producing enough content is their biggest challenge heading into 2013.
Marketers certainly need to focus less on producing more content and turn their attentions towards producing quality content. And, while content marketing is more than just tools and needs a solid strategy to be successful, there are a plethora of tools out there that can make the job of creating content just a little bit easier.
Here are 26 of my favorite content marketing tools that can help you with everything from generating ideas down to distributing your content...
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Jeff Domansky
from Content Curation World
July 1, 2013 2:25 PM
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Content curation: tools to help you find and share great content from other people alongside your own content.
Via Robin Good
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Jeff Domansky
from Content Curation World
July 1, 2013 2:13 PM
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Check out this post and discover how to instantly analyze sentiment on Twitter with this new VS iPhone Twitter app!Introducing The New vs. App for Instant Twitter Sentiment AnalysisHow the vs. app worksIt’s easy to get started, simply by coming up with two topics of interest. After you enter two topics to compare, vs. searches the latest, freshest tweets available mentioning those topics. Each of the two topics gets a vs. score like you see above.The score can fall in the positive or in the negative or right in the middle, which is zero.The topic with the higher score wins the favor-ability challenge!...
With a wave of a hand or lift of a finger, you’re about to change the way you use your computer. The Leap Motion Controller senses how you move your hands, the way you move them naturally. So you can point, wave, reach, and grab. Even pick something up and put it down. Just like in real life. It’s an amazing device for the things you do every day and for things you never thought you could do. Just $79.99.
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Jeff Domansky
June 30, 2013 10:54 PM
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For this feature we have rounded up some of the best and most useful Filmmaking Apps for the App Store. As more filmmakers explore the possibilities with these powerful mobile devices, we are sure this list will continue to grow.
Giuseppe Mauriello: Private beta Storination is content curation tool that provides the first community-oriented platform based on the Storify publishing tool allowing journalists or any user to collate a group of Storify stories around a topic and allows others to add to the storyboard. Yesterday I received an invitation code as beta tester. I attached a screenshot about my dashboard: I am testing and editing it with my tweets and some sources from this my topic on Scoop.it. From official website: "Storination lets you create online communities called a Nation. It's a space where you and other people add into a storyboard social stories. Customize your Nation like a blog by uploading a logo, and a large cover. Now, you can publish a Storify story by collecting photos, video, tweets, embedding URL... or If you prefer, just import social stories directly from Storify to your Nation. A storyboard is an online set of Storify stories curated by you. After opening your Nation, Storination allows you to compile into a storyboard your stories and other people's stories created in Storify. It's very easy to organize your storyboard by adding or removing stories. With the 'favorite story' feature you highlight stories easily..." Try out it and/or request an invite here: http://storination.com
Via Giuseppe Mauriello, Jeff Domansky
Social Media Measurement: How to use the new Social Reports features inside Google Analytics to help evaluate and measure your social media campaigns.
Via Jose H. Flores, Jeff Domansky
Right now people are using their smart phones to scan QR Codes which allows them to either download information, or be taken to a web page of some sort. I happen to love QR codes, when they are used strategically. But this new technology adds several new dimensions. A lot. Rather than scanning a code, Aurasma’s software, which is a free downloadable app for smart phones, recognizes images. The company actually describes it as a “virtual browser”, but I’m not sure that terminology does it justice. When you see an image that is accompanied by the company’s “A” logo, you know that you can scan it. Once the image is recognized, it takes you to an augmented reality experience that brings that image to life, and allows you to interact with it.... [Great PR, marketing potential - JD]
There’s no denying how much easier it is to read lengthy articles when there are pictures and photographs interspersed throughout the text. Text alone can get overwhelming and boring, so having a pop of color or an interesting graphic to look at gives our brain a nice little break before we continue on throughout the article. However not all pictures come out exactly as we want them to, which makes photo editing an important part of the blogging process. And unless you’re a photo snob, you probably aren’t itching to spend a lot on photo-editing supplies. Luckily the Internet is stocked with free photo-editing websites, and some make photo-editing not only easy but also fun.
These five come out on top in terms of good, free photo-editing websites...
Giuseppe Mauriello: I "scooped" this service called Clipboard when it was in private beta, October 15, 2011: http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-content-curation/p/548503878/new-powerful-curation-tool-clipboard-saves-pieces-of-web-pages Today Clipboard, that allows users to save parts of Web pages, is no longer in private beta. From review on The Next Web: "Clipboard was founded by Gary Flake, who previously founded Microsoft’s Live Labs, Yahoo Research. Flake sees Clipboard as a service closer to Dropbox, then he does Pinterest. While Pinterest is more for vanity sharing, his company is all about capturing the important parts of the web for your own purposes, whether you want to keep your clips private or share them with others. Along with coming out of beta, the site has launched its own feature called “boards”, which Flake tells me was the original concept for the site. Users can now put together all of the things that they clip into a Pinterest-style board and share them publicly or just with specific people. By using Clipboard, you can not only share links, you can share the actual context of what interested you in the first place, with the code from the page completely intact. So if you wanted to clip an IMDB page, all of the links to the actor pages would remain. This beats the current Pinterest experience of simply grabbing an image..." Read full article here: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/05/31/clipboard-officially-launches-adds-boards-and-could-become-your-new-inbox/ Try out it: https://clipboard.com
Via Giuseppe Mauriello, Jeff Domansky
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Useful reviews of top tools if you've thought about creating a membership, training, education or community site. Doesn't have to involve a paid model and can be built on a simple "join-up" subscription where you want to build a mailing or subscriber list in return for providing good information.