You are most likely a curator and you don’t even know it.  If you’ve ever shared a great song or a useful article with friends then you fit the description.

The definition of content curation is the collection and sharing of content such as articles, videos, pictures, tweets, songs or other pieces of digital content.  Marketing experts across the board are predicting that content curation will become exceedingly important for businesses in 2012.

Content Curation Software Providers

FlashIssue – A different way to get your message out
CurationSoft – Enables content curation for bloggers and social media
Lingospot – Algorithmic publishing platform for curators
Curata – Content curation software
LOUD3R – Real-time content discovery, curation & publishing
OneSpot – Helps you recommend content for your audience
Daylife – Cloud publishing platform
Eqentia – New generation web content publishing
Aggregage – Creates online communities by bringing together content
CI Thread – Content marketing, production and distribution
Curationstation – Improves content marketing

Tools for Content Curators

Google Reader – Pulls together new content from any website you add
Google Alerts – Monitors the web for new content based on your keywords
Google News – Indexes news from all over the web
BlogRank – The top blogs in one place
Delicious – Find and collect cool stuff and share easily
Digg – Latest headlines, videos and images
Alltop – All the top headlines for a given topic
POPURLS – News and content aggregator
Yahoo News – News indexed by Yahoo
Bing News – News indexed by Bing
Reddit – Stories are indexed based on popularity
Fark – Real news that’s real funny

Content Curation Websites

Clipboard – A place to save, organize and share the web
Scoop.it – Easily publish online magazinese
Curated.by – A collection of topics curated by the public
Storify – Create stories using social media
keepstream – Organize tweets with curation
lynk.ly – A place to find out what cool links are being shared by your friends
mySyndicaat – News, blogs and business information aggregator
bagtheweb – Helps users curate web content
pearltrees – A place to collect, discover and share things you like
bundlr – Create topic pages with photos, videos, tweets and documents
Redux – Video content curation

Content Curation News & Blogs

FlashIssue Blog – Daily source for the most useful content curation info
Content Marketing Institute – Solid source for industry news and trends
Curata Blog – Daily news site promoting Curata
Aggregage Blog – Tony Karrer talks about how content can engage audiences
CurationSoft Blog – Blog for the software provider
Web Ink Now – Smart commentary on marketing and leadership strategies
Chris Brogan – Valuable insights on creating successful content channels
Read Write Web –  Technology news, reviews
Mashable – Web related news on social media, technology, content, etc…

Content Curation & Social Media

LinkedIn Content Marketing Weekly – The top 5 most useful articles for the week
LinkedIn Content Marketing Help – Solid group, good way to brainstorm and get help
LinkedIn Content Strategists
Twitter Content Curation

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