47 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed
Now that Mashable Connect has ended (see you next year, friends!), it's time to continue engaging, inspiring and empowering on your own. What better way to start than by checking out our best digital media resources? This week, we've covered how to use Pinterest for your wedding, how to make sure your company engages intelligently on social media and how to build a mobile app without hurting your wallet.
4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web
Steven Rosenbaum is a curator, author, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Magnify.net, a real-time video curation engine for publishers, brands, and websites. His book Curation Nation is slated to be published this spring by McGrawHill Business.
15 top-notch content curation tools
Content curation tools play an important role in the content planning and publishing process. Before we provide you with our picks for the Web’s best content curation tools, let’s go back a step revisit the origins of content curation and the specific role it plays. The role content curation plays across the social Web Content curation has risen in significance for a number of reasons: 1. Curated content is more cost-effective than producing (only) original content.
12 Essential Tools for the Content Marketer
Marcia Kadanoff is the CEO and founder of Open Marketing, an online agency specializing in content and inbound marketing. One of the questions marketers get asked most often starts like this. “I think I get content marketing, but what kind of content works best?” The short answer is that there are at least twelve types of content you can utilize as part of any content marketing plan. In this case, the focus is on content that can extend your brand's reach, beyond your website or blog.
Do Your Students Know How To Search?
The Connected Student Series: There is a new digital divide on the horizon. It is not based around who has devices and who does not, but instead the new digital divide will be based around students who know how to effectively find and curate information and those who do not.
Content Curation: A Beginner's Guide To Curating Content
Content curation is a valuable strategy for all content marketers. More than simply re-sharing content, curation is a way to provide extra value to your followers while highlighting your own industry expertise. Bonus: Download our free, customizable social media calendar template to easily plan and schedule all your content in advance.
Button Placement
As feng shui is the art of placement, web shui is the art of placement in terms of your web design; or so the Internet has unofficially coined the term as such. While the layout and usability of your website are critical to your visitor conversion success rate, the placement of your social media buttons (in particular your SocialFollow button) is going to have a direct effect on the success of your social media marketing campaign. It is no secret that the more you spread yourself across the World Wide Web, the more exposure you will get. All this is generally to the end of getting more traffic or conversions, depending on the function and purpose of your web identity. Social networking has become the most common platform for addressing potential visitors directly and has proven to be an extraordinarily effective marketing strategy.
Curation tools - eLearning - The University of Queensland, Australia
What is a content curation tool? A content curation tool allow you to collect information from a variety of multimedia sources and present and organise it in a meaningful way around a particular theme. These tools allow students to sift, sort, arrange, annotate, share and publish research resources.
Content Curation: How to Easily Find Great Content to Share
Do you curate content for your blog and social media sites? Want to discover how to find remarkable content to share? To learn how to explore content curation, I interview Ian Cleary. More About This Show
Get the Share Button
Add CopyNShare to your ShareThis Widget. Check the box on Step 3 to start tracking your users' copy and paste shares. FAQs . If your site is not hosted on any of the blogging or CMS platforms listed above, please select 'Website'. All our widgets are mobile compatible.
Thing 6: Curation Tools
No doubt you’ve heard all the buzz over the past year or two about “digital curation” or “content curation” and maybe wondered what it is all about? Traditionally, we think of a curator as someone who selects objects, interprets context and manages collections in a musuem. It also describes what librarians do with their collections, aka: ‘collection development’. And if you’ve ever selected, evaluated and organized a collection of great web resources for a research project, then you were doing “digital curation.” So why the explosion of digital curation?
60 Minutes to a More Efficient Social Business Strategy
Josh S. Peters is the co-author of TwittFaced, and is the social media manager at The Search Agency. Follow him @JoshSPeters. Every company should run a quick social media audit each quarter to make sure content is properly optimized and every aspect of their social presence aligns with their brand. The great news is that it shouldn't take more than an hour to perform.
3 Tips for Effective Social Media Contests
Curt Finch is the founder and CEO of Journyx, a company that offers time-tracking and resource management software. Connect with him and Journyx on Facebook and Twitter. Justin Palmer of Palmer Web Marketing has run dozens of social media contests for his clients, and gaining “likes” and “followers” is something he does with relative ease. So, for any company that wants to run a social media contest to gain new business, Justin has the following advice: Don’t. SEE ALSO: 10 Companies That Hit the Bullseye With Online Contests
