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26 Free (or Free-to-Try) Content Curation Tools. Content is still king, but it isn't always practical or cost effective for marketers to produce brand-new, meaty, thought-leadership level content pieces on a regular basis. That's where curating content can come in handy. Content curation offers a nearly limitless method of fueling your inbound marketing efforts. Unearthing and sharing the quality content of others allows you provide your audience fresh content on a regular basis to serve any interest, industry, or market. What's more, sharing and celebrating the work of others helps get you on their radar and can forge valuable, long-term relationships with the content authors.

To help you curate, here's a list of 26 tools you can use to find, aggregate and share your content with the world, be it in a blog roundup, big list of resources or to share via social. Note that some of these tools do all the work, and some are merely tools that lead up to the share. 1. Price: Free business account; Promoted Pins offered as a premium service 2.

Mural.ly. Curation: Creatively Filtering Content. We are living in an era of information overload. So much content is shared online that curation is needed as a way to get value out of the information flood. Content curation is the process of shifting through the vast abundance of content on the Internet to select the best, most relevant resource, on a specific topic or theme, so that we can organize, manage and collate the content for ourselves and share with others. Content curation is about working smarter and not harder. Content curation is also a reflective process; as you curate resources you reflect on their value. Reflection makes new information stick in your brain. Why is curation important? Curation is a life skill and an important part of being digitally literate. While at the Edutech National Congress & Expo I curated the best resources shared from the Edutech conference into a Flipboard magazine.

The purpose of this post is to showcase all the different ways content was curated at the Edutech National Congress & Expo to: 1. WebList - The place to find the best web lists on the web. Popplet | Collect, curate and share your ideas, inspirations, and projects! LiveBinders - link compendium. Clipica: Paste the web. Bounce. Pathbrite. StumbleUpon. Scoop.it. Pinterest. 25 Ways To Use Pinterest With Bloom’s Taxonomy. EduClipper. Symbaloo.

Scrible. MentorMob - Learn What You Want, Teach What You Love - MentorMob. URL In Berlin, Germany - ThisIsLike.com. Knotebooks - Anyone can contribute. Everyone can learn. Evernote | Remember everything with Evernote, Skitch and our other great apps. Edshelf.