MyCurator Content Curation Software Tips and Ideas

I gave this presentation at WordCamp Atlanta March 2017. Content curation is a great starting point for busy business people to get started with writing on their site.

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RSS Systems: Your Own Business Intelligence System!

Post author By Mark
Post date March 16, 2017

RSS Systems: For Many Business Owners and Advisors an Unexploited Opportunity!

This article is by Ian Campbell at Business Transition Simplified. Ian has been a long time customer of MyCurator. He writes here about the importance of setting up an RSS system to provide a daily stream of articles about your industry, competition and economy.

Think of it as a business intelligence system providing important news without you having to search for it. MyCurator is a great tool for setting up this type of system. Its AI based training system will allow you to narrow in on the articles most important to you, weeding out up to 90% of off target and junk information.

Click on over to his site to read the article, and he also has a wealth of information about long term planning and valuation for your business.

A person who organizes and maintains an RSS System can be thought of as someone who generates their own individualized news funnel focused entirely on internet content related to one or more specific topics that person is interested in.
If you are a business owner, imagine automatically receiving a daily stream of articles in one summarized package that with little time commitment and little out of pocket cost will keep you and your management team up to date on things that may directly or indirectly impact your business, including – as you elect and organize:
industry data, trends, and competitor news.
industry specific and broad-based technological advances.
ongoing business consolidation in your own industry(ies) and industries populated by suppliers to your business and its customers.
the world and country-specific economies, central bank policies, government fiscal policies, regulatory policies, and government debt, and the financial markets.

View Original at www.businesstransitionsimplified.com

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Using Google Image Search to Find Original Source

Post author By Mark
Post date February 2, 2017

One of the hardest tasks in curation is tracking down the original source of an image. Even if you start with the original source of an article, the images used in it may, and probably did not, originate with the same author.

To track down the original source, try using Google Image Search to find it. Its amazing how accurate it is in finding multiple copies of the image on the web. Unfortunately, it still takes a lot of digging to figure out which one is the original. The following steps will get you started.

Finally, if you can’t find the source, make sure you use a thumbnail. Using just a thumbnail, and not a larger or full size image, is good practice and seems to be a way to share an image without knowing where it is from.

In Chrome, you can right click an image and choose Search Google for Images. Otherwise go to google image search and drag the image into the search box.
A page will open with links to where that image is found. Scan for an obvious source for the image. Click on it and use the link to credit the image. If it is a stock photo site, you will often have to pay to use it.
Many times you’ll have to dig deeper, click on the “view other sizes” link.
A new page will open with photo links of where the image is found. Usually the largest image is where the original photo is held. Scroll over the top of the images to see the site info. You may have to click through a couple sites before finding the original source.
Once you find it link properly.

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Common Myths about Content Curation

Post author By Mark
Post date November 22, 2016

9 Common Misconceptions about Content Curation

I’ve heard a lot of these in my contacts with clients and at WordCamps this year. This article brings the most common myths together in one place, with solid answers for all of them. Content Curation is not a short cut or a magic bullet. It takes some work. MyCurator can help, but it doesn’t do it all.

If you’ve spent any time in the content marketing space recently, you’re probably well aware that content curation is a major topic of conversation. It appears that most people fall into one of two camps: either you’re totally gung-ho about content curation or you think content curation is killing the industry.

View Original at upcontent.com

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Delivering a Cloud Service through a plugin

Post author By Mark
Post date September 8, 2016

Akismet, Jetpack, Disqus, all of these big companies are utilizing the cloud to deliver services through a plugin. Can a small WordPress development shop even attempt this? Yes, you can, and it’s not that hard to do. Heavy volume processing, shared data across clients, AI and big data are just some of the services you can more easily deliver through the cloud. In the attached presentation I will cover some of the key concepts that you need to know to get started including:

Identifying processing best delivered through cloud services
Architecting a cloud service plugin
Building a cloud service on Amazon with PHP/Apache
Communication between your plugin and the Cloud Service
Tips, volume metrics and other lessons learned in 4 years of supporting Artificial Intelligence and volume processing through a cloud service plugin

Here is the PDF Presentation: Deliver a Cloud Service through a plugin

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How Lazy Content Curation Is Ruining Your Influencer Relationships

Post author By Mark
Post date August 29, 2016

This is a good article by About Erika Heald at spinsucks.com about the many ways that content curation can be done badly. It gives nice insight into how it feels to have your work copied without attribution. Worth a read and has some tips to re-iterate good practices at the end.

In the start-up marketing world, I’ve often heard the adage “ask forgiveness, not permission.” Unfortunately, it seems many content producers are living by this advice, and unwittingly sabotaging the very influencer relationships they hope to build through their content curation process .
You see, influencers are tired of having their name and hard work appropriated by brands they don’t know.

View Original at spinsucks.com

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Curate Content that Inserts You Into the Conversation

Post author By Mark
Post date July 26, 2016

Improve Your Content Curation Strategy with These 5 Tips

This Post from Marissa Burdett on Hootsuite provides a new angle on how to think about curation. I like her focus on inserting yourself into conversations rather than just posting content.

MyCurator is a great tool for finding and posting content, but how you approach your curation is key to its success. Read her articles for some fresh ideas. Do you think it helps your curation process?

To make a stronger impact, think of curation differently: it is not a replacement for interaction, but rather a tool to spark conversations. #HootChat regular, Martin Lieberman, puts it this way:
If all you do is push content, all you’re going to get is retweets. If you engage, you’ll get a whole lot more replies. Which do YOU want?
Thinking about curation as an active process inserts your brand into the equation. It’s okay to use tools to automate the process so long as you are involved before and after content is shared. Remember, good curation doesn’t end with a shared link—take it one step further and engage.

View Original at blog.hootsuite.com

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5 Reasons Why You Should Use Content Curation as Part of Your Blogging Strategy

Post author By Mark
Post date June 6, 2016

As a blogger, you may think you are generating enough content. As this article points out though, content curation adds a new element to your work. It allows you to “offer your reader the world and a broader information experience.” MyCurator it makes it easy to begin curation on your WordPress blog. And our Notebooks capability allow you to save up interesting articles for more complex curations or as source information for your original content.

Content curation has been around for a while, but many bloggers, including book marketers, don’t realize the advantages or benefits it offers.
This form of marketing comes in various forms throughout the internet. Of those variations there is one common thread: content curation is related to article marketing, or more specifically to content marketing.

View Original at 4rvreading-writingnewsletter.blogspot.com

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How To Create Free Content For My Website: Small Business Owner Guide

Post author By Mark
Post date May 10, 2016

As the snippet below says, this author shows you examples of content you can create for your small business site. I like the article because it shows a broad range of content possibilities. Also it covers all the bases, from curation to some simple to do content creation. MyCurator can help with all of these ideas, and our Notebooks feature can help you gather information for a round-up post of many articles.

I’m sure that by now you know the benefits of content marketing. But, if you run a small business, probably the last thing you want to do is focus on creating great content right? And creating content is only one piece of the content marketing puzzle.
I’ll show you several examples of content that you can create for your small business with almost zero writing from your part and almost no money (your time costs so there’s no such thing as zero cost).

View Original at www.trafficsorcerer.com

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