Content curation is the process of filtering, grouping, and selecting the information that comes to us from different sources. But how can we more easily like that information? These tools help us on a day-to-day basis.
Content curation is a term that is increasingly present in our content marketing strategies. It becomes necessary to manage all the information that comes to select an interesting one. Content curation can remain defined as searching, filtering, reading, organizing, and customizing the content we find and then sharing it with our audience.
It is not about creating from scratch but about finding and organizing existing content to present and optimize it under a new context.
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Content Curation Tools
Nor is it about indiscriminately collecting information without more (which is what an RSS reader does), but about making a critical evaluation to see if a content fits the context in which we will present it.
To carry out this work in the most optimal way possible, you can help yourself with content curation tools. My favorites are these:
Buffer
Setting it up is very simple. You have to connect the social profiles we want to publish. Then choose the times and days in the configuration and then select what we want to share and where.
The best way to start using it is to install the browser extension, ensuring that every time you browse a page that interests you and wants to share it with your followers, you can do it immediately or schedule it for the time you choose.
The good thing about using Buffer is that you can write many messages at one time. And it also provides shorteners that give us statistics to see which updates have worked best, knowing the number of clicks the links have. The people to whom we reach or the times that content has remained shared.
It is as if you were viewing all the information in a personalized magazine since its navigation is magazine style, which favors reading. It allows you to turn pages to access all the information you want. You can select the type of news you want to see, the categories and subcategories, and even choose related topics to be later able to share them directly on your social networks (Twitter and Facebook).
Feedly
It is effortless to handle, you have to add those blogs or websites that interest you, and then it will directly show you the publications of those blogs day by day. You can organize the content by folders.
It is a straightforward and intuitive platform, you categorize news in the blink of an eye, and it presents you the contents in magazine format.
It is a free newsreader, perfect for collecting articles that we want to read later. This can save videos, images, messages on Twitter and any web page, and all this in reading mode to avoid distractions.
It acts like its name says – pocket-sized – and that’s where it keeps all the articles you can’t read. Also, think about us a little so that we can rest our eyes, providing two versions in addition to the white one: a dark one with a black background and a sepia one.
If you are any of those who read on your mobile or tablet, you can also change the screen’s brightness or listen to the articles if you do not feel like reading them.
Linkedin Pulse
Created by Linkedin at the end of 2013, it differs from the rest of the newsreaders. It transforms the different sources that we add as news into a mosaic of images that invite us to read and make us more selective on each of the topics that more interest us.
You have to add news, select them and go reviewing them. Those you have read remain marked in a darker color, and the rest stay the same color.
It integrates perfectly with Facebook and Twitter and is also perfect for accessing all the professional news in our sector. Of course, the content remains predetermined by the network of contacts we have.
Although the tools always give us the necessary support, ever the best content curator is yourself.
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