There are two steps in the procedure of content curation.
The first is to find outstanding content that your readers will love.
You can do that through feeds, alerts and other tools.
The second step is to present the content.
There are numerous and different places where you can share content with your readers.
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Your Blog Curating content on your blog can expand the range of your followers, it can also add SEO power, and helps you keep posting fresh content when you're low on ideas.
When you've been writing and posting articles to your blog for a while, it's easy to run out of fresh and new ideas.
Curating content for your blog helps you create original posts that your followers are interested in.
The one great advantage is that you don't have to be an expert on any niche related topic to find articles related to that topic and comment on them.
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Facebook Fan Pages Facebook Fan Pages offer an even more "social" place to share your curated content.
Create Fan Pages that highlight sub-topics within your niche.
You can even create separate pages for each specific topic.
Find content to share via Facebook and post it directly to your page, or share content from other sources.
Articles, blogs, videos, and images all work well.
Make sure that you use your pages as a means of engaging with your audience and not just publishing.
Don't run them on autopilot.
When there are comments, questions or other activity on the page, respond and engage with your audience.
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Infographics Infographics are really nothing more than curated content presented in a graphic form.
You take content from various sources and create a graphic that presents this content to your readers so that they can take it in at a glance.
Infographics are especially good for taking complex ideas and breaking them down into a more easily digestible form.
Online tools and templates are available that help you make creating Infographics easier.
Once you create the overall design, it's only a matter of plugging in the content and then tweaking to make it more visually appealing.
Also, a great thing with infographics is that you can give them away to your followers and allow them to re-use them or even add their own name to them.
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Email Newsletters Curated content offers a great way to keep your email subscribers informed and entertained.
It takes much more than promotional offers to keep them tuned in.
When you send your subscribers a steady stream of fresh content that answers a problem they may have, updates them on a new procedure or is just interesting to them, you stay on their radar and by doing this can establish your reputation as a valuable information source or the go to guy for their own problems.
One of the best ways to choose the right topics for your emails is to come right out and ask your list what kind of content they'd like to receive from you.
Your subscribers will also give you feedback in the form of analytics.
Watch open rates to find out which content is most interesting to them.
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Social Curating Sites Sites like List.
ly and Pinterest are social media networks designed for curating content.
These are wonderful because they allow you to find and publish content in one place, as well as interact with other users.
Look for sites that are loaded with features that help you customize your content curation.
No matter where you publish, always remember to add something of your own to the curated content.
Just sharing a link on Twitter isn't content curation; neither is copying and pasting sections of someone else's article to your blog, even if you give them attribution.
Try using your curated content as the basis for explaining your opinions, giving insights on a new topic, or exploring the opinions of others.