Content Curation World

BundlePost is a social curation web app which allows you to easily find relevant posts on the topics of your interest and to auto-schedule their republication on your preferred social media channel with your custom hashtags and Twitter names.

The service has been out there for over a year, but it has recently updated its website and service features.

BundlePost taps into your selected set of RSS feeds and Google Alerts (not for much longer) and aggregates relevant posts according to your theme and keyword specifications so that you can review, edit and modify those that you want to get published.

Scheduling and distribution features allow you to set exactly where and when you want each piece of content to be published.

BundlePost integrates perfectly with HootSuite, allowing you to upload days of ready-to-go scheduled content for any social network in minutes, and with its hashtag system is capable of creating folders for each of your campaigns, clients or accounts that coincide with a specific topic.

"Within each folder you designate the keywords and phrases that you know will be found in the text of the content curated by Bundle Post, as well as what hashtags you want the system to replace them with. You can also identify any words or phrases that will be contained in the text of posts and have Bundle Post automatically replace them with a specific twitter name, making it an active link when posted."

My comment: The perfect tool for social media and content marketers looking for the easiest way to post relevant content to their social media channels automatically and over time. If you are ready for a pretty "Spartan" interface but have a strong need to automate your social publishing needs, this solution may be worth checking out. Outside of my personal doubts on the effectiveness of this approach, the tool delivers tremendous time saving features for those looking exactly for this. You ca have automate FollowFridays. If instead you wonder from were all this extra information noise in your Twitter and social media accounts comes from, you now have another possible suspect.

Free 30-day trial available (no credit card required).

More info: http://www.bundlepost.com/

How it works: http://www.bundlepost.com/tour

Pricing: http://www.bundlepost.com/pricing

A growing number of big brands have started to utilize social media tools to aggregate and curate the best and most relevant voices talking about their products and offers and to bring them together into one unique online social media hub.

From Cisco to Intel, IBM and DELL, the understanding that both the customer and employees are the true, trusted voices of a company, will gradually replace the artificious, paid for and detached advertising heritage is slowly, but steadily growing.

Lee Odden writes about it: "Growing social participation is motivating many companies to aggregate content produced and curated by the brand’s own employees.

This is a compelling opportunity to harvest the brand’s own collective wisdom. A single destination for curated social content fuels a brand publisher model that supports brand storytelling, content marketing, PR and even SEO objectives." 

In this article you can find 10 real-world examples of social media hubs from big brands. Go explore them and see what are the traits and characteristics that make them so valuable to these companies.

Resourceful. Good examples and resources. 8/10

Full article: http://www.toprankblog.com/2013/06/brand-social-media-hubs/ 

*Check what other "social media hubs" technologies exist out there, by checking this section of the Content Curation Tools Supermap.

ContentGems, formerly Intigi, is a web platform that allows you to gather, filter, edit and curate the most relevant content in your field of interest.

ContentGems makes it easy to set up your own custom sources or to find for you the most relevant content based on your keywords and it can publish/share both to all major social media as well as to your own WordPress site.

Key features include:

• Custom RSS sources    
• Monitor Twitter accounts
• Daily email digest    
• Share with Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Buffer, HootSuite
• Share to WordPress sites
• Share to RSS feeds   
• Custom sharing templates
• Collaboration

Monthly plans start at $19/mo.

Free 30-day trial available. No credit card required.

Pricing: https://contentgems.com/pricing

FAQ: http://support.intigi.com/home

More info: https://contentgems.com/