This is a great piece by Heidi Cohen on why your marketing needs content curation and 12 attributes of a successful curation strategy. This is one of the best articles I've seen on this topic in a very long time.
As I said, I've seen many pieces on curation but if you're like me, everytime I read about this, I always find something new or am reminded of ways I can polish what I'm doing.
Here are some of the highlights.........
Intro:
Why Your Marketing Needs Content Curation
At its core, content curation is like a great editor or blogger who brings his unique taste and understanding of his target audience to his selection of the best content for his readers.
**He provides context for the content so that it's more than a collection of information
3 Reasons your content marketing strategy needs content curation:
1. Offering your audience a combination of original and third party content provides a branded context for your work
2. Curating other people's content positions you and/or your organization as a tastemaker in your field
3. Creating sufficient content is a marketing and business challenge
12 Attributes of a successful content curation strategy:
Here are a few things that caught my attention:
*Has defined measurable goals
As part of your content marketing strategy and by extension
your marketing plan, content curation needs objectives that
are associated with your business.
**Targets a specific audience
. *Content curation like other forms of content marketing requires
understanding your readers' marketing persona
** Involves a community
*As with any social media or content marketing, your
audience should be at the heart of your content efforts.
**Clay Shirky says it best:
"Curation comes up when people
realize that it isn't just about information seeking, it's also
about synchronizing a community"
Selected and reviewed by Jan Gordon covering "Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
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