Are You Using Curate.us and Repost.Us?
I'm doing a content curation case study of sorts and this morning I found a great article that I wanted to "curate" onto my blog and it had this little button at the top that said "repost". Of course I clicked it and low and behold a little drop down box appeared with the code to repost the article on my blog. Can't get much more convenient than that!
So, I did a little research and found out about these two cool sites, curate.us and repost.us.
Curate.us puts a button on your toolbar which allows you to easily curate any post. You can decide where to "clip" the page and it has buttons to share the post at twitter, facebook, blogger, posterous, tumblr and livejournal as well as the code to paste onto your site. You can choose the url that the shared post links back to. Curate.us also has stats that show you the total screen clips, quotes(not sure what this is yet), clips and views.
Here's a pic I took of what a clip looks like when posted on your blog:
Repost.us puts a button on YOUR site that allows anyone to click and embed your articles. They just click and a dropdown box appears with code that you paste into a post or html page - it embeds a cool looking image clip of the article which links to the article on your site. I think once they click it, the full article is embedded on the site somehow (I'm not exactly sure how that worked but sometimes I saw the clip and sometimes the full article embedded right on the site) at the bottom of the embed it puts a "resource box" of sorts that says where the article is clipped from, that it is used by permission and gives a link so the visitor can clip it and put it on their site (can you say viral?).
Repost.us has a wordpress plugin that makes it super easy to add to your website and it looks like they might also have a paid model where people pay to syndicate your articles (how cool would that be to just write a great article and have people pay you to repost it on their sites?).
Seems like these two resources would be great for those of you who are writing your own high quality unique content and for those who want to share other great articles from around the web.
I'd never heard of these two sites before, have you? Is anyone else using this and, if so, what are your results?
Lee
So, I did a little research and found out about these two cool sites, curate.us and repost.us.
Curate.us puts a button on your toolbar which allows you to easily curate any post. You can decide where to "clip" the page and it has buttons to share the post at twitter, facebook, blogger, posterous, tumblr and livejournal as well as the code to paste onto your site. You can choose the url that the shared post links back to. Curate.us also has stats that show you the total screen clips, quotes(not sure what this is yet), clips and views.
Here's a pic I took of what a clip looks like when posted on your blog:
Repost.us puts a button on YOUR site that allows anyone to click and embed your articles. They just click and a dropdown box appears with code that you paste into a post or html page - it embeds a cool looking image clip of the article which links to the article on your site. I think once they click it, the full article is embedded on the site somehow (I'm not exactly sure how that worked but sometimes I saw the clip and sometimes the full article embedded right on the site) at the bottom of the embed it puts a "resource box" of sorts that says where the article is clipped from, that it is used by permission and gives a link so the visitor can clip it and put it on their site (can you say viral?).
Repost.us has a wordpress plugin that makes it super easy to add to your website and it looks like they might also have a paid model where people pay to syndicate your articles (how cool would that be to just write a great article and have people pay you to repost it on their sites?).
Seems like these two resources would be great for those of you who are writing your own high quality unique content and for those who want to share other great articles from around the web.
I'd never heard of these two sites before, have you? Is anyone else using this and, if so, what are your results?
Lee
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