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What happens to all of the Images found by MyCurator?

You may find that your  Media library is filling up with images as MyCurator finds articles for your content curation.  MyCurator not only pulls in the full text of an article, it also collects the images found in the article.

MyCurator only stores one image per article in your media library, usually the first image it finds. All of the other images you see in an article are just links, they aren’t stored in the media library. Still, that may be a lot of images stored if you get a lot of training posts per day.

Fortunately, MyCurator always deletes images for any Training Posts that you do not make into a live WordPress post. Training Posts are automatically deleted after 7 days (you can change this in the Options Admin tab) along with the stored image. So while you may see a lot of images in your media library, it doesn’t grow forever, ending at about your average amount of Training Posts per week.

If you would like, you can turn off image capture by clearing both of the Image capture options in the Basic tab of the Options menu item.

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Retraining a Curation Topic in MyCurator

Lets say you want to go in a different direction with your curation.  You are still focusing on the same topics and keywords, but you are looking for a different type of article than before.  With MyCurator, that means you want to change your previous training for your Topic.

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High Volume Content Curation with MyCurator

I’m sure you’ve noticed that more and more content is appearing in your Training Posts if you have any broad alerts, searches or news feed type of Sources.  It can seem overwhelming to work through it each week.  Some of our high volume clients using MyCurator process 100’s of articles per day!

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Discovering “Outside the Box” Content for Curation to your Blog

With the rise of content curation, you are seeing the same articles appearing over and over.  It just doesn’t help your readers to bring them the same articles they see at many other sites or in their twitter stream.  So how do you find those interesting, unknown articles, sites and writers?

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Training MyCurator Articles on your Live Site

The training capabilities of MyCurator are a great way to find and prioritize the best content for your site.  The little green thumbs up and red thumbs down give you a simple way to provide feedback about which articles you like or don’t like.  These ‘thumbs’ are what we refer to as the training tags.  You may also see them on your live site, and this article talks about when they show up and how  to hide them.