Top 10 Content Curation Tools to Get Started - DreamGrow. Content marketing drives real results for companies.
It builds trust, generates ROI and sales. But nothing good comes easy. Creating a successful content strategy can be a long and challenging process. Coming up with epic content, integrating content marketing into the overall marketing strategy and lack of budget are only a few difficulties managers face on a daily basis Can you guess the number one challenge content managers have identified? Turns out the biggest problem is finding the TIME to come up with fresh content: Source: CMI So what’s the solution? Well, as you know, content can be original or curated. Original content has higher value than filler content but curated content has a crucial, yet underestimated, role in your content mix. Let’s say, you add a new friend on Facebook. Content curation has many benefits. Saves time and energyElevates brand visibilityEstablishes thought leadership and authorityIs relevant to your audience (as it’s from them to them) But here’s another BUT. Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco Announces Launch Pad Finalists.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- O'Reilly Media, Inc. and UBM TechWeb, co-producers of Web 2.0 Expo, Web 2.0 Summit, Gov 2.0 Expo and Gov 2.0 Summit, today announced the five companies chosen to participate in this year's Launch Pad, sponsored by Elance and supporting sponsor, Zoosk.
Launch Pad is a program designed to spotlight new products or technologies to the Web 2.0 market and will take place during Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco at the Moscone West Convention Center, happening May 3-7, 2010. For more information visit: www.web2expo.com/sf. The five finalists were selected from over 80 submissions based on their innovation and value to market. Each finalist will present for five minutes in front of Web 2.0 Expo's audience and judging panel of industry experts who will provide real-time feedback. Web 2.0 Expo's panel of judges includes: Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb, Dave McClure of 500 Hats and Ellen Pack of Elance. To read the O'Reilly Radar, visit: About O'Reilly. A new web paradigm. Good-bye Wikipedia, hello something else. Wikipedia was the first great, high profile success story of Internet mass collaboration and produced a well-loved reference used with obsessive frequency by an entire generation.
But it is past time for us to build new forms of knowledge commons. Wikipedia is a website, controlled by a foundation. It is the work of, theoretically, the entire Internet but it is not a global commons. One tiny group can, and did, blackout the entire site for a period specified by them. Wikipedia has survived so long by being hyper aware of and sensitive to their user community, it is highly doubtful they would ever become evil, but it is nevertheless centralized control of what ought to be a global commons. As an old node in the idea of free information, Wikipedia has a rigid hierarchy of tradition and established editors.
When Wikipedia was created, in 2001, it was a fascinating and liberating tool to work with. We also need new information in the repository. Like this: Like Loading...
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