Content curation can be a great way to start regular posting to your blog. As part of the process you can learn to become a better writer and post more original content. The MyCurator WordPress plugin at http://www.target-info.com can help with this process.

1. How Content
Curation makes you
a Better Writer
and increases your ....

2. Content Famine

3. Content Famine

4. Information Overload

5. Curation as Aggregation

6. Curation as Aggregation
Example Sites
● Supply chain news: http://chainamagazine.com/
● Russian Fashion: http://moya-moda.ru/
● Sports Zone News: http://sportszone-news.com/

7. Curation as Filter

8. Curation as Filter
Example Sites
● St. Louis Carpenter: http://newcastlecarpentryservices.com/category/home-improvments/
● EU Media Freedom: http://blogs.eui.eu/cmpf/
● Home Tips: http://www.hometipsworld.com/

9. Curation as a way to Create

10. Fully Curated
Example Sites
● Garage Floors: http://allgaragefloors.com/garage-floor-epoxy-tips-tricks/
● Wizard of Guitar: http://www.wizardofguitar.com/
● Internet Billboards: http://www.internetbillboards.net/

11. Is Curation Plagiarism?
Not if you follow the golden rule:
Attribution, Attribution, Attribution
But then....
Why would I send traffic to another site?
In Addition:
● Don't copy the full text, just excerpts
● Make it your own with comments, opinions

12. Discovery

13. Discovery

14. Discovery

15. Sharing

16. Sharing

17. Curating

18. Curating
● Make it a regular practice
● Ask 'why this' before
posting curated articles
● Learn to become a good
curator - build your 'eye'
○ Add value to your
community
○ Build a story
○ Highlight the unique
○ Point/counterpoint
○ What to read this week

19. Curation - A Self-study
Course in Writing
● Disciplined, regular discovery of articles,
authors and writing examples
● Start with 'reactions' to practice writing your
opinions and ideas
● Expand to longer comments and opinions as
you gain confidence
● Feedback from your community and the
wider web to judge progress
● Curation can lead to more and better original
content for your blog or site

20. Content Curation
Resources
● Curation 101 - http://www.bethkanter.org/content-curation-101/
● How Content Curation can Improve your Search
Rankings- http://www.quicksprout.com/2012/06/07/how-content-curation-can-improve-your-
search-rankings/?utm_source=feedburner
● Six reasons why your business needs to curate
content - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-
marketing/advertising/six-reasons-why-your-business-needs-to-curate-
content/article4408440/
● Winning the SEO Battle through Content Curation
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2011/10/31/winning-the-seo-battle-through-content-curation/
● When did Content Curation Begin? http://ronvanpeursem.
com/2013/03/when-did-content-curation-begin/

21. Content Curation Tools
http://www.mindmeister.com/55395228/content-curation-
tools-the-newsmaster-toolkit-by-robin-good-2012
● Getting Started
○ Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest
○ Scoop.it, Storify, PearlTrees
● Moving to a higher level
○ Rebelmouse, Curationsoft, Paper.li, List.ly
○ Curata, Publish.this, Percolate, Rallyverse
● WordPress Focused Plugin
○ MyCurator, Curation Traffic