Gail Zahtz
When this list started, there were only a handful of single user and group public and private online curation tools. We now invite you to come back with us to see how these platforms from the start have evolved, and new content curation tools that have come out in the past few years. Feel free to add your own items or vote through as we develop the list.
Content marketing is going to be bigger than ever this year. Ninety-two percent of marketers are already using content marketing. More than half of B2B and B2C marketers are increasing their content budgets in 2014. While the fundamentals of good content will never change, the tools and tactics — even the way people consume content — continue to evolve, and documenting your content strategy impacts your overall success. Check out this comprehensive guide to tools for creating and curating, promoting and distributing content — customer information included.
The easiest way to follow your favorite All your favorite blogs in one place
Add the blogs you want to follow and you'll get all of their new posts in a feed on Bloglovin! And yes, you can add any blog.
Discover what's popular in fashion, beauty, interior design, food & more.
Find new interesting blogs or simply stay up to date with what's hot right now
A kind of combination of a blogging network and a curation of blogs you want to read within categories, and then those you can add.
Turn your curation into posts, pages and ongoing resources right on your site. Curation Suite is the most complete content curation platform you can find for WordPress. Works with any theme and any plugin you have.
$97 one time payment
CURATION SUITE™ PLUGIN + LISTENING ENGINE
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Listening Engine addon is like having a team of full time expert content assistants searching the web 24 hours a day, 7 days a week looking for prime content for you to curate, publish, and share. The Listening Engine delivers top quality content right to your WordPress dashboard. And the best part is that you don’t have to spend hours setting it up, our expert team fine tunes the Listening Engine specifically for you and your market.
Here's a few features:
Places you can curate from:
PLUGIN BUNDLE...$19
THEME BUNDLE .$27
ALL-IN-ONE BUNDLE ...$47
Curation Suite is a content curation platform for WordPress. Works with any theme and any plugin you have.
Curation Suite is one time fee of $97 and Listening Engine is $9.97 a month
Curation Suite
Listening Engine
An online magazine that curates your information in magazines by topic- ones that you have written or shared and/or ones suggested by Flipboard. Create an awesome cover, have a brief and clear name, and create a way that your audiences can enjoy the content visually and in long form text. There is also a strong community of support for Flipboard including a weekly tweetchat on Wednesdays at 10 pm ET, a #FlipboardFriday series of shares, and an active community on facebook.
Listly is lists made easy. With a chrome extension, the ability to upload from any website, auto share, ranking and embed into Wordpress (with a Wordpress plug in also), List.ly makes it easy to curate anything, especially from the web. The multiple formats offered via pro now ($9.99) also enable you to make your content on your websites become full posts while you're curating as you are browsing. Ranking. List Posts = Traffic. Per listly, they help bloggers & brands curate, crowdsource, and engage readers via live embedded list content inside blog posts.
Engage your audience using a real-time content marketing tool that sources content from all over the web. Discover Livefyre's content curation platform. Enterprise Level ($) Engagement cloud, visualization apps, conversation apps, social library.
Engagement Cloud
Social Library
Conversation Apps
Visualization Apps
Content Hubs
Storify 2
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Engage your audience using a real-time content marketing tool that sources content from all over the web. Discover Livefyre's content curation platform. Enterprise Level ($) Engagement cloud, visualization apps, conversation apps, social library.
Please note! The engagements are all from twitter or instagram. This is not across all of your platforms, only those two.
Engagement Cloud
Social Library
Conversation Apps
Visualization Apps
Content Hubs
Storify 2
Request demo for pricing
Paper.li gives you access to an ever-expanding universe of articles, blog posts, and rich media content. We automatically process more than 250 million social media posts each day, extracting & analyzing over 25 million articles. Only Paper.li lets you tap into this powerful media flow to find exactly what you need, and publish it easily on the web and in social media.
Features (free or Pro for $9 a month)
Pro Only
Pinterest is my most heavily used content curation tool. It's highly visual- in fact, if you don't have a great picture with the post or page, it isn't worth saving. Pinterest is divided into boards that you create to choose how you want to group your content. It's 100% free.
I hazard to guess that many people use Pinterest for fun for saving photos that they find across other Pinterest users by just going to Pinterest and saving a pin (previously called repinning) and putting them on their board. I, however, link through to every article, read them, and save the ones that I find not only visually appealing, but a product, article or website that I want to go back to later. A general rule of thumb for me is that if I could plan on including it a its own article or within an article, then it gets pinned.
Pinterest is easy to save from across the web with a Pin-it button on your upper tool bar. Smart publishers are also using the Pinterest API to enable all of their photos, videos and images on their site to have a "pin it" button right on the photo. What more, for cross platform sharing, you can share your pins onto twitter or facebook and so save/curate on Pinterest and then share it on the other sites. Finally, Pinterest offers widgets so that you can save boards on your websites and the latest pins that you have saved on the board will go on your website (think side bar size more than a full page of content.)
One of the best features about Pinterest is that they do all of the SEO for you. If you actively pin in a category and you have an active audience, you will find your pins within google images, and your boards on the first page of Google search. There is nothing a user needs to do for this magic to happen.
For those who look at Pinterest only as another social media (and honestly, if anything could improve first, I think it's not so social, and it's really hard to engage conversation around the pins and the topics) relook at it as a solid form of curation in your program. (Using Pinterest to promote your brand is another use for it and a different list entirely.) Happy Pinning!
When you find something you want to view later, put it in Pocket. Pocket integrates with over 1500 apps, which also means that you can share what you've saved in a multitude of ways.
Pocket is free, or you can go premium. The uses below are all for the free plan.
*The premium plan *
(at $4.99 a month if paid month by month) enables you to do something I haven't seen elsewhere- you have permanent access to the article, so even if the website goes down or the article is no longer online, you have it saved in your pocket.
Key features for free pocket included with pocket premium:
SAVE FOR LATER
Put articles, videos or pretty much anything into Pocket.
Save directly from your browser or from apps like Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and Zite.
Ways to Pocket:
Your Web Browser
Via Email
From Over 1500+ Apps
VIEW WHEN READY
If it's in Pocket, it's on your phone, tablet or computer. You don't even need an Internet connection.
View Pocket:
iPhone and iPad
Android
Kobo
Your Web Browser
While a bit dated (e.g. picket now integrates with over 1500 Apps versus the few hundred in the video) http://www.JenniferHerndon.com does a pretty complete job of teaching you how to use Pocket for saving your content from across the web to read later.
It has won many awards for this Apple and Android app. It appears to be a very easy way to save content from everywhere you find it across the web. Jennifer Herndon explains that pocket is most like "Pinterest for yourself."
Pocket offers a great accessibility feature which is Listen (text-to-speech): Open any article and tap the More button to start listening to your content. Adjust the speed of the reading by sliding the scroll bar from Slow to Fast.
What is not clear is how easy pocket is to use to share your curation with others- we'll give it a try and let you know, in the meantime, let us know your experiences!
Scoop.It has remained true to its roots as a social media and content aggregator easily saved and published in a beautiful masonry grid fashion. The screen shot above shows the differences in features and prices of basic (which is now only one scoop) versus premium levels. With Scoop.It you discover content via items that you find and share, suggestions based on the content areas in which you publish or show interest. Then you select which items are included to go out (curation) and then it publishes across any part of the web/social platforms.
It is very fast and intuitive to use and you can publish it within the scoop.it site, integrate it into your wordpress or wix site, or use it as a newsletter, mobile app, or targeted site/ page based on content and audiences.
In re-evaluating content curation tools from the past several years, I find that this has both stayed true to its' original intent of being a very user friendly and fast way of sharing mixed content and also growing to be able to use across the many platforms you may have developed.
Content marketing software for small marketing teams and small business. Save time planning, curating, publishing and distributing content. Generate SEO, traffic and leads.
Content Distribution and Scheduling Social Media
Content Calendar and Library
Advanced Content Curation
Trello is a free card sorting collaborative curation tool or project management tool The Trello Business Class gives you extra, business-grade administrative controls and security along with all the power of Trello for $8.33 a month per user- paid annually.
Free
Trello Gold All the features of Trello, plus…
Business- $99.96/user/yearEverything you love about the free version of Trello
Enterprise $249.96 a year/userAll of the robust features of Trello Business Class
Twitter lists are a way that I keep track of the people with whom I connect and what they do. But in this article, you'll find many ways that you can use Twitter lists to curate people and events in ways that you may never have thought possible. Here are 23 Seldom-Used Ideas for How to Use Twitter Lists.
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