To be successful with content marketing and social media, content curation is vital. To grow your influence in today’s world, you need to be a great content resource for others so you can help them filter out all of the noise. Content curation is one of the Cs of a successful social media strategy.
What is content curation?
Content curation is acting like a museum curator where you go out and share the best of other people’s content.
Why should you curate content?
Content curation is an excellent way to help you generate ideas for your own content creation. It is also an easy way to share content because you don’t have to create content from scratch. And it helps you grow your authority on certain subjects such as social media, content marketing or public relations.
People and brands who find the sweet spot of content creation and content curation are successful on social media and with content marketing. According to Curata, more than 50 percent of marketers who curate content enhance their brand visibility, thought leadership, search engine optimization (SEO) and website traffic. If you want to learn more about content curation, you may want to read the beginner’s guide to content curation, a busy person’s guide to the content curation and/or 5 ways to succeed with content curation.
What is the difference between content curation and content aggregation?
Content curation uses the human touch while content aggregation uses a computer. If you are using a computer you are doing content aggregation through automation and algorithms to find content. Content curation is a process where you hand pick the best content and share it with your audience through social media, your website or blog. You should read how do content curation and content aggregation differ?
5 content curation resources
To help you save time, I provided you with my go-to resources for content curation.
1. SmartBrief Newsletters
These newsletters provide executive summaries each day of the most relevant industry news, keeping busy professionals like you up-to-date with the latest news and information. They have more than 200 niche email newsletters on topics such as business, leadership, enterprise IT, careers, social business, marketing, digital, sales, business travel, etc. The editors cull through more than 10,000 major media outlets and blogs to find the freshest and most relevant information.
Take action: Subscribe to the SmartBrief newsletters.
2. Who’s Blogging What
This email newsletter is a go-to source for marketing and public relations professionals who want to stay current on social media, search marketing, email marketing, digital marketing and web analytics. It provides links to the latest news and developments in digital marketing. The email is sent out every Thursday. The articles include hot topics, new strategies and how-to articles. Their tagline is that they “spot things that digital marketers need to see.” If you are looking to keep yourself up-to-date and sharp in today’s era of digital disruption, this email newsletter is for you.
Take action: Subscribe to the Who’s Blogging What newsletter.
3. LinkedIn Marketing Solutions Blog
Almost every Friday, Alex Rynne publishes a trending content blog post that summarizes the must-read marketing articles that week. She provides you with the link to the article and provides one to two sentences on why she feels that the article is worthy of your attention.
Take action: Subscribe to the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions blog.
4. Convince and Convert Definitive
These newsletters pick the best content from around the web on the topics you want to know and learn more about it. These newsletters are sorted by topic. There are four newsletters produced each week. Monday is digital marketing, Tuesday is social media, Wednesday is content marketing and Thursday is the Convince and Convert blog. You can change the amount of content you want to receive each week.
Take action: Subscribe to the Convince and Convert Definitive newsletters.
5. Quartz Daily Brief
If you are looking to keep up-to-date with the most important and interesting news in the world, the Quartz Daily Brief newsletter is a great content curation resource. This newsletter works nicely across a lot of different platforms (desktop, smartphones, and tablets) because it is a text newsletter that doesn’t have big images. You can choose your time zone (America, Europe or Asia) so it is delivered at the right time.
Take action: Subscribe to the Quartz Daily Brief newsletter.
What would content curation resources would you add to this list?
