Blog Content Curation

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Blog content curation places you as a blogger in the role of curator of all that is useful and relevant in your niche or industry. Not unlike the curator in a museum who sorts through the museums vast holdings and selects the perfect objects and tells the story of those object to visitors, so will you when you start curating content be selecting and adding value to the best information available on your chosen topic.

Why curate blog content?
Let's say you're an expert in the world of underwater basket weaving. Anyone doing a search on that topic might return millions of responses, which might simply leave them feeling overwhelmed at trying to make sense of all of that information. Searching for information online has been compared to drinking from a fire hose. When you engage in content curation, you cull through the most relevant and valuable information about your topic because as an expert you know how to pick and choose the best content. You add value when you add your thoughts to the articles, videos and other bits of content that you will then share with your audience.

Now that you've gotten a feel for what content curation is, let's explore exactly how you go about it, and what tools have become available to make it easier for you to do it in a systematic way.

Blog content curation 101
The process of curating content is fairly simple. You collect the best content from other sites, you select the content that you would like to share with your audience, and then you add your unique content to the existing article. You always link back to the original site where the article came from, so this is not stealing content.

With blog content curation you will no longer be at a loss for coming up with new ideas for blog posts. You will be combining your original blog posts with curated content, which will help keep your blog fresh and full of different ideas and points of view on your topic.

Content curation tools
Curated.by Self-described as, "a growing collection of topics & interests
edited, organized and curated by everyone." Curated.by makes it easy for users to create "bundles" by collecting and organizing content around specific topics. You can also share your bundles using social media links.

Storify.com has created a space for users to, "tell stories by curating social media." You can collect and curate photos, video, and tweets and publish them as short, simple stories which can then be embedded on a blog or anywhere online.
Topsy.com uses tweets from Twitter.com to determine how popular a link is. It's a great tool for finding trending topics, discovering new topics online, and for finding out what the most popular topics are right now in real time.

Getting started with content curation
One of the best ways to get started with blog content curation is to seek out those in your niche who are already doing a great job of it and follow their blogs.

For more tips and strategies for using content curation to generate traffic and grow your business online visit http://mcreasite.com/blog.
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