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10 Real Time Content Discovery Tools for Curation, Engagement and Sharing. The influence of search on content beyond Google, Bing and Yahoo is pretty amazing.

10 Real Time Content Discovery Tools for Curation, Engagement and Sharing

Just think of all the social media monitoring platforms that have launched – they’re all essentially search engines. Another category of online tool that relies on search are content discovery tools (just like Google is a content discovery tool). Except this category of content discovery weights content shared on social media channels more heavily and often provides the ability to organize and flavor search results based on an analysis of what your own social networks are posting and sharing links to. Real-Time content discovery tools are handy for a number of reasons, namely being able to identify upward trending content aligned with topics or entities you are tracking. There are a number of tools including Google itself that are useful for surfacing this kind of content.

Sulia – With a trial account, you can connect with LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter or Facebook and then pick trusted sources. BuzzSumo. Content Discovery: 3 Essential Tools for finding great content to share. 380 Flares Twitter 217 Facebook 26 Google+ 42 LinkedIn 59 inShare59 Buffer 36 380 Flares × Content Discovery is a really important part to Social Media Marketing.

Content Discovery: 3 Essential Tools for finding great content to share

You need to find and share great content which sometimes includes your own! But finding great content is so time consuming and time is a luxury we cannot afford! In this article we discuss 3 very useful tools we use on a daily basis that helps us find great content worth sharing. 1. Scoop.it is a content sharing and discovery platform based around interests. When you create a board based on the keywords Scoop.it suggests content based on what is popular. When you create a new board based on keywords Scoop.it will suggest some content based on what’s popular.

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RSS. Goodbits - Instant Newsletters. 10 Places to Find Content & Inspiration. In any profession, some days are just more exciting and productive than others.

10 Places to Find Content & Inspiration

Maybe you’re not busy (right…) or maybe you’re just putting off something you’re not looking forward to doing. Next time you find yourself staring blankly at your computer screen and you know you’re likely not getting much done (let’s face it, it happens to the best of us), take some time to discover new content. You may use it for your next blog post or that piece of research you’ve been working on, or for content curation to share on social media, which can lead to new followers. At the very least, content hunting can be a productive way to spend rainy Saturday mornings.

I’ve been a victim of both procrastination and rainy Saturdays, so I’ve learned to ease that nagging voice and go looking for valuable content every time I’m feeling unmotivated. 1. You can also find and follow public lists that other people have created by going to Facebook Add List. Content Discovery Tools by Robin Good. Curation of the Web. Finding great content isn’t getting any easier.

Curation of the Web

Search engines do what they can, but for many of us they’re not always adequate. And because we only have a few interests at any given point in time, we look for other ways to collect and sort through all the available material on the Web. And that’s where curation comes in. Curation has been going on forever, but I think we’re going to see even more of it in the years to come. And I don’t think it’ll focus primarily on computers doing the work–there has to be the right balance between the organizers, community and technology to get curation right.

Product Hunt is a good example. Product Hunt actually led me to two other interesting curated resources: Happy Inbox (which tracks the best newsletters out there), and AddonList (which tracks the best products for developers). GrowthHackers is another great curation example. Curation is about people. Curation isn’t just about “the best links” on a subject. Photo courtesy of YLev.

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Beth Kanter, bethkanter.org “I love list.ly because it lets me correct short, well-curated and organized lists of resources for my audience.“ John Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing “I love lists and turns out so do my readers - the Listly tool makes putting together visually pleasing lists to run with my posts a joy and the fact that people collaborate on and share the lists makes the posts even stronger Joe Pullizi, Content Marketing Institute “We use Listly to keep track of all media and event coverage for our events, as well as research lists and review lists.

Chris Dancy, ServiceSphere “Without Listly our community could not have democratized content, conferences and participation. Need Help? Ping.it. Faveeo.