Content Curation World

I share a lot of feelings and views with Lauren Fairbanks though I do not see things exactly the same way she does. But then again she is a content marketing specialist and I am an explorer of how curation can help us beyond business goals.

I can't but agree and applaude her when she writes: "...big issue that mass curation creates is a problem that Doug Kessler of UK content marketing firm, Velocity Partners, calls “the deluge of content marketing“.

This means that companies and individuals who create half-assed content (think: rehashing old news or someone else’s original idea just to have something to post) create a mass of garbage online that’s more difficult for potential customers and clients to sift through to find information that’s actually going to be useful for them."

Likewise when she advises to pay more attention to what is being curated: "... there aren’t any software solutions that I’ve seen that actually do a smart job of curating content.

Yeah, you can pull in a bunch of content that revolves around a certain keyword ... but curating content in a smart way that will actually help drive your business goals takes putting in actual time and effort to find really great, really useful content..."

And when she begs brands and self-proclaimed curators to stop to simply copy and paste pieces of content from other magazine articles while not adding anything of their own: "Copying and pasting from multiple articles isn’t going to help you create useful content that’s going to help build your brand or sell your services.

Neither is trying to automate the content curation process so that you take all of the work out.

You get what you put in, and if you’re not willing to invest time and money into curating the right way, you shouldn’t expect to see a positive ROI from it."

Problem is, as I see it, that they might get back for a while a lot more than what they invested for, simply because there are still to many people unable to appreciate or distinguish rehashing, copying and pasting and simple republishing from true curation. But we will get there, as the taste of true lemons, isn't the one of limes.

Rightful. Provocative. 8/10

Full article: http://stuntandgimmicks.com/blog/what-is-content-curation/

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If you are looking for visual content, diagrams and infographics that can help you introduce the concept of "content curation" to your top management, customers or students here is a free resource that you can use right away.

Over the last two years I have been collecting all of the relevant visual materials that I deemed useful to serve this very purpose: introducing the ideas and concepts behind content curation to those who know nothing about it.

It's now time to share it.

You can find this visual collection here: http://pinterest.com/robingood/content-curation-visualized/