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Comparison of Curation Tools

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6 Content curation apps for the iPad. It's always great to discover new things all by yourself, but often curated content that's brought to you from links your networks have shared is a much quicker and more efficient way to consume all kinds of news, rather than spending hours browsing all around the web for it.

6 Content curation apps for the iPad

There are many who would argue that if you're using Twitter "right" (I hate it when people say there's a right or wrong way to use a social network) you don't need a separate app or service and you can glean all of the important stuff directly from your stream. However, one of the reasons so many people buy iPads is because content is often tailored to look SO DAMN GOOD on them, an appeal many of our favourite content curation apps have perfected. We've collected together our top 6 content curation apps specially for the iPad and although they all do a similar job and rock the grid-like look, they're all unique in their own special way too.

Forget Storify: 4 Plugins for Curation Journalism with Wordpress. Curation seems to be the new trend in online journalism.

Forget Storify: 4 Plugins for Curation Journalism with Wordpress

Not many users have the time to read millions of tweets or watch dozens of Youtube videos each day. Journalists can become curators of these art pieces of modern news media by picking out the most interesting user generated postings. A great tool for that is storify.com – I wrote about it some weeks ago. Cloud computing is great – but I rather prefer to have as much control over my content as possible. So I decided to use my WordPress CMS and not Storify. Here is a list what you need: 1.

It’s not a graphic but a text – so, your visitors can copy or retweet it with just one click: Yes, It's True: Ben & Jerry's Introduces 'Schweddy Balls' Ice Cream Flavor 2. You want to add a video from Youtube, Vimeo, Google Video, Flickr and other platforms to your post? 3. I really like this plugin (download it here)! 4. MapPress is a simple and slim plugin to add Google Maps to your blog (download it here). 10 Powerful Tools for the Busy Content Curator. 10 Powerful Tools for the Busy Content Curator Posted by Christine Parizo on Mon, Sep 19, 2011 Content curation doesn’t have to be a time-suck.

10 Powerful Tools for the Busy Content Curator

Sometimes it’s difficult to build your own content, and with the proliferation of Tweets, blog posts, Facebook status updates, content curation can be an effective solution – sharing information posted by others. Content is extremely important in reputation-building and gaining the trust of followers, and being able to effectively share information makes your own content more valuable.

Here are 10 tools for that make content curation easier and make it worth your while. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. These are only 10 of many content curation sites that are available. What are the best content curation tools for daily use?