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Some Wars Start Small: The History of Boko Haram — The Nib — Medium. Content Marketing Is A Strategic Solution To A Strategic Problem. How YouTube is Changing the Media Landscape in Asia. YouTube is already established as the world’s most popular video site.

How YouTube is Changing the Media Landscape in Asia

To that point, it sees more than one billion unique visitors each month, many of whom go in search of funny videos or music, but there’s a whole lot more to it. The Content Marketing Process Roundtable. 3 Game Changers in Online Marketing. Graham Cooke is the CEO of QuBit, a technology company specializing in advanced website data collection, analysis, and optimization products.

3 Game Changers in Online Marketing

He was previously a senior product manager at Google. Follow him @thegrahamcooke. Times are changing for web marketers, particularly those dealing with online retail marketing. Customers are getting harder and more expensive to attract and retain, and new technologies are emerging at breakneck speed. SEE ALSO: The Anatomy of a Killer Content Marketing Strategy. The best examples of street art in 2012 (48 pictures. The 30 Most Hilarious Autocorrect Struggles Ever. The Brand Gap. How to Consistently Out-Curate Your Competitors. What’s the next big thing in search?

How to Consistently Out-Curate Your Competitors

It kind of depends on who you ask and how much booze is swirling around in her coffee cup. It’s local… no, it’s social… no, it’s mobile… no, it’s A + B + C = EMC² x 3. ReadWriteWeb’s Richard MacManus argues that the next big Internet thing is… wait for it, wait for it… topic pages. Vsauce Demystifies YouTube. This Year on Twitter. 2012.twitter.com.

This Year on Twitter

Content Curation. Drucker’s Knowledge Worker in the Age of Social Media: Announcing Enhanced LinkedIn Integration Scoop. Over half a century ago, management guru Peter Drucker presented the concept of the knowledge worker.

Drucker’s Knowledge Worker in the Age of Social Media: Announcing Enhanced LinkedIn Integration Scoop

Compared to the manual laborer, the knowledge worker focused on quality over quantity and worked more independently as problem solvers. Drucker said the key to improving the productivity of the knowledge worker is to allow them the freedom to innovate, learn and grow. 5 Ways Marketers Can Use Paper.li For Brand Monitoring. As a content marketer, one of your primary concerns is very likely how to maintain a steady flow of relevant and compelling content, both original and curated, that will "wow" your community and keep them engaged and informed.

5 Ways Marketers Can Use Paper.li For Brand Monitoring

Once you've achieved that goal, the next concern may be which tools you and your team can use to monitor as well as keep other colleagues and departments informed about the content being produced and shared by both your company and the community... and for a reasonable price. The good news is that today content marketing tactics don't need to cost you an arm and a leg and neither do monitoring services. Some of the largest names in social media as well as brands are mashing up services and tools, including free ones, alongside paid services.

As a marketer you may be using Paper.li already as an inbound marketing tactic to publish a digital newsletter and attract the right audience through curated content. Communications and PR. Content Isn’t King – It’s a Foot Soldier. From the earliest days of the Internet, when I was busy building newspaper websites armed only with a 14k modem and a well-thumbed copy of HTML for Dummies, I’ve heard the phrase “Content is King” being bandied around as if it was the solution to all known online marketing problems.

Content Isn’t King – It’s a Foot Soldier

I’m a great believer in the power of content marketing. Great content should be the foundation of any online marketing strategy. Without relevant, engaging and timely content your email marketing, social media marketing, SEO, PR and even paid search campaigns are destined to fail. The 50+ Best Ways to Curate and Share Your Favorite Social Media and News Content. There’s so much information online just begging to be curated: news, social media, images, video, websites… the list goes on.

The 50+ Best Ways to Curate and Share Your Favorite Social Media and News Content

Reading great content from my favorite blogs and websites is one of my favorite down-time activities. Curation May Be Hot But Creation Is Still Cool. 5 of the best Star Wars Disney memes. Rock on! 5 enduring fashions inspired by music. 5 essentials for your content marketing strategy. You've heard the overused phrase "content is king.

5 essentials for your content marketing strategy

" But what does that mean, really? Search, social, and strategy It started when relevant, fresh content became a key factor for search engine optimization, which plays a huge role in positioning your company as an industry resource and expert. 12 Steps to Real World Content Curation (Cybernetics and Beyond) 21 Reasons Why Your Content Marketing Strategy May Be Headed for Trouble. The role and value of content marketing has dramatically changed in just the past year.

21 Reasons Why Your Content Marketing Strategy May Be Headed for Trouble

Everything You Remember About 30 Years of CDs [PICS] Sony launched the first commercially available CD player on Oct. 1, 1982, changing the way music lovers consumed tunes. While MP3s and digital music players have dealt a near-fatal blow to the compact disc, we still have fond memories of the music technology. Remembering leafing through the liner notes of your favorite band's new album?

Or trying in vain to remove a scratch that caused your favorite song to skip? Why Content Curation is Usually a Bad Idea. Mapping the World's Most Seductive Shrines to Coffee - Claire Cottrell. Studies suggest that coffee does have several health benefits; coffee shops are efficient places to work; and taking the time to enjoy your latte in a well-designed coffee shop is good for your soul.

T.S. Eliot, quite possibly the greatest English language poet of the 20th century, oh-so eloquently reflected on the passing of time by saying, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. " So have we Thomas, so have we. From the borough of Brooklyn to Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Tokyo, and every other hub buzzing with creative productivity, we suspect that if they're not all jump starting their days with Nespresso at the crack of dawn, they're fueling their weary world with the rich, velvety, caffeinated goodness of some damn good direct trade, shade-grown beans roasted on vintage gear, pulled by an expert hand.

Interactive media resources. Present knowledge in different and (if you do it right) compelling ways engage active participation by the entire class instead of broadcasting to it like a passive audience This Mindmeister mindmap lists collaboration and interaction tools. Storify Drag and drop elements from Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, blogs to create a story that you can Tweet, blog, embed. Page Curation launches on English Wikipedia. Bring Together the 2 Big Trends of 2012: Curation + Visuals. Curation was the word on marketers’ lips earlier this year. This report from Altimeter in March confirmed “Curation is taking over the digital content scene.” The 30 Best Content Curation Resources for Marketers and Business Pros. Urban legends: The world’s 5 most creative cities. Everyone knows about London, Paris and New York, but what other creative cities are setting the world alight?

INFOGRAPHIC: Using Curation to Create the Perfect Content Marketing Mix. How To Curate Conversations With Storify. Ann Mack on Maggs On Media. 8 Steps to Building a Strong and Fulfilling Blog. Thousands of Video Lessons on Every Subject. Feast Your Ears On Fresh Jams From Musicians You Love At Hipset Via YC’s Tracks.by. InstaGrok demo. Like it or Not, Information Must Be Your Product.

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The 7 most iconic film-stills in movie history. Back in the day, these photos had an important role of summing up the films narrative and key characters and enticing people into seeing the film. Curation. The 99 Percent. 25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist In English. Approximately 375 million people speak English as their first language, in fact it's the 3rd most commonly spoken language in the world (after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish). Interestingly enough it's the number 1 second language used worldwide - which is why the total number of people who speak English, outnumber those of any other.

Mango Desserts Recipes. — Scobleizer. - How We Will Read: Maria Popova. The 90 Year Evolution of Movie Posters. Content Curation.