4. Pawan Deshpande
• CEO and founder, Curata
– pawan@hivefire.com
– Cambridge, MA
– Twitter: @TweetsFromPawan
5. Christine B. Whittemore
• Chief Simplifier, Simple Marketing
Now
– cbwhittemore@simplemarketingnow.com
– Kinnelon, NJ
– Twitter: @CBWhittemore
6. Today’s Conversation
• Explore ‘Content Curation’
– How to bring meaning?
– Why marketers use it?
• How is Content Curation evolving?
– The Content Curator
• Best Practices for Success
– Words of Wisdom
11. Search vs. Research
“…Even interesting
becomes noisy and
ineffective without
context and connections.”
http://arnoldwaldstein.com/2011/04/choosing-context-over-friendship-to-filter-the-social-web/
12. How Do People Get
Information?
Clara Shih, CEO, Hearsay Social
http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/9841-the-role-of-social-media-in-financial-services-marketing
27. @GetCurata
@TweetsfromPawan
“We doubled our traffic this quarter over last.”
“We have e-newsletter open rates of
20-25% and more than doubled newsletter
subscriptions in only 4 months!”
“I’ve tried to do this [have a curated site] before, and
the cost would have been astronomical – even just
the interface would be $5,000 - $10,000; it would
probably require a full-time staff member working on
it, and we spend maybe 20 minutes to an hour a
week working on it.”
28. What Are Best Practices
for Success?
Search vs. Research
Information vs. Solutions
29. How is Content Curation
Evolving?
What About The ‘Content
Curator’?
31. Curatorial Words of
Wisdom
1. Find a topic to curate
2. As you curate, never, ever forget your
audience
3. Make it easy to share!
4. Being ethical matters
5. Think beyond your brand or business
32. Identify A Topic to Curate
• The competitive landscape
– What does it look like?
• The topic
– Does it resonate with the audience?
• The content
– Is there enough to curate?
33. Focus On Your Audience!
• Collect content based on specific criteria
– Synthesize, organize, simplify
• Offer a distinct, but consistent point-of-
view
– Be relevant & meaningful
– Create context
• Invite interaction and build a community
34. Make It Easy To Share
• Extend the content and conversation
• Includes social and traditional digital
options
• Be invited into customers’ inbox
• Build engagement & community
35. Ethical Considerations
• Create, curate, but never pirate
– Share only a portion
– Attribute the source
– Link prominently back
– “Follow Google ‘rule of thumb’”
• Think beyond your own brand *
• The human element
– Create original content
– Annotate curated content
5/17 AMA Webinar Deshpande/Rosenbaum
Best Practices for content curation are derived from the Fair Use doctrine, codified in Section 107 of the copyright law.
36. Think Beyond Your Business
• Bring together diverse perspectives
– Peers
– Community
– Competitors
– Vendors
– Industry experts – including Bloggers
• Differences of opinions add credibility
& trustworthiness