Content curation is often described as a product of the Digital Age, but earlier forms of news aggregation were already being practiced in the early 90s. In this article, Jonathan quotes industry thought leaders on how they run their content curation strategies.

To be a good content curator, you must think like a museum curator, observers noted. Marketers need to assemble collections of uncommon pieces that will resonate with their audiences.

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A current content curator discussing his successes and business benefits for his curation efforts. Cendrine is intimately familiar with his reading audience and knows what types of content they are most interested in.

Whenever I come across content that I know will benefit my audience (e.g, an article, infographic, tool, video…), I feel a tingle to the spine. The urge to share does not leave me until I actually do.

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We’ve discussed a number of times on this blog how to and how to not curate content ethically and with providing clear attribution. This blog post provides another view on how to curate and the differences between curation and scraping. Also, how to protect your content from those pesky content thief’s.

We’ve experienced content scraping ourselves and have found many of our blog posts published word-for-word without source credit or attribution and often times, carrying another author’s name. Plagiarism isn’t cool.

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This article provides and interesting perspective on how you should evaluate curating content and what makes sense for your business. From choosing high quality content, reviewing trends within your industry to doing it consistently, there are a number of pieces to evaluate before diving into a curation strategy.

If creating your own fresh content each day is simply not an option, content curation allows you to turn your site into a spot where visitors come to find out what they need to know that day.

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From 140-character tweets to 14,000-word print books, most content marketers now understand the value of producing content of varying lengths and format. But those that try to churn out equally high volumes of content at every length will soon find themselves collapsing from sheer exhaustion.

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BraveNewTalent is an online community destination for enterprise level folks looking to make connections and learn from other within their industry. They are currently using curated content to help keep a healthy stream of relevant content flowing into each of the discussions.  Here’s an interview describing how communities can be build starting with curation.

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Pawan Deshpande of Curata publishes a comprehensive guide of 77 content marketing tools organized by the need they solve for marketers who are use content as a part of their strategy.

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In recent weeks, there are have been two near identical high profile acquisitions by search titans Yahoo and Google for news summarization apps.  In late March, Yahoo snapped up Summly, a news summarization app for a cool $30M from a 17-year-old founder using licensed technology from SRI International.  Almost exactly a month later, Google mirrored that acquisition with one of its own of Wavii.  This article explains why those acquisitions happened and what they mean for marketers.

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There has been much buzz in the past few days about Google’s acquisition of Wavii for about $30M.  Just a month prior, many were upset by another announcement from Google that they are killing Google Reader as of July 1st. Upon closer inspection of Wavii, there are a lot of functional similarities between the Wavii and Google Reader. Here’s a deeper look at what some of Google’s plans may be for Wavii.

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When it comes to curated content, there are two predominant models for utilizing third party content: unlicensed content, and licensed content.  As you contemplate your curation strategy, it’s worth understanding the pro’s and con’s of each. Here’s a quick overview on each, and how to think about which is right for you.

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