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Favorite About Us pages shares an e-commerce master class video on how to create a great About Us page and asks for your favorite About Us Pages examples.

Great About Us Pages:

* Tell A Story.
* Share Values

* Outline a Movement

* Help Build Community

Share your favorite about us pages in reactions (on Scoop.it), comments on the Curagmai post or email martin(at)Curagami.com.
Thanks, Marty  

Via Martin (Marty) Smith

The experts at the Nikon magazine N-Photo explain which camera settings you really need to get to grips with, and which you can manage without…

Via Tiaan Jonker

Note: May 27th, 2015
I wrote this post at the end of 2012. I was frustrated. My doctors, hospitals and healthcare providers don’t understand “social me”. Convinced recognizing my links, likes and loves in social media is an important part of helping me feel better I wrote Martin’s Hug for Healthcare – the 1,000 word rant. 

Today heard HOPE from my friend Janet Kennedy, founder of http://www.GetSocialHealth.com . Janet told me about the Mayo Clinic's upcoming social media summit. There is hope in the universe. 

Via Martin (Marty) Smith

Drunk? Angry? Stupid? All of the above? Cancel that email with Gmail's Undo Send feature.

Via Tiaan Jonker

This post shares a story, a story of a piece of content written for @ janlgordon curatti.com. How did Startup Trends 2014 II go from being a laggard at social shares to outshining its brother post (Startup Trends 2014 I)?

Ongoing curation and GPlus provide the answers and proving why we are all content curators now. The piece also shares some "down the SEO rabbit hole" content curation and creation perspective.

Promise to write more "down the SEO rabbit hole" content soon.

 

Via Martin (Marty) Smith

Netflix data shows a propensity for "binge watching". How do we create content marketing to encourage a binge?

 

This Haiku Deck shares tips on how to make your content marketing "binge friendly". 

Via Martin (Marty) Smith

Working hard on a SaaS set of publishing tools and was analyzing what it takes to "cross the chasm" from unknown SaaS to successful, well loved tool. Here is what I found:

* Critical that a new tool create community. 
* Haiku Deck demonstrates this idea with their feature gallery:
http://www.haikudeck.com/gallery/featured and Scoop.it with their posting wall. 
* Community must scale in size and diversity. 
* Diversity creates community "intelligence".
* Community intelligence helps monetize. 
* Money helps create new tools. 
* New tools help build community faster. 
and so on creating a positive virtual cycle. 

Tools can solve a problem like Haiku Deck (easy access to creative commons), plant a flag on an emerging trend (Scoop.it and Paper.li) and mashup scaled systems such as ZipCar.com.  

Via Martin (Marty) Smith

The little things in the new mobile OS that make the big difference - our expert guide to getting the most from iOS 7.

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"One of the most common goals for filmmakers and DP's today is achieving a film look when shooting on video. I'm often asked "which digital camera..."

Via Robin Good

How you use your camera will depend greatly on what type of shooting you do, but these 6 settings you should definitely by heart!

Via Tiaan Jonker

Fancy the new iPhone 5s released earlier by Apple? Then it is that time of the year again where you need to sell your old iPhone, so it is easier on your w

Via Tiaan Jonker

Future of Content Marketing For Online Merchants
Online merchants are learning hard lessons about content marketing. Mainly that it takes a lot of time, effort and money. What if you could increase your customers engagement, support and loyalty without spending an arm and a leg? Interested?

This Curagami post shares tips on how to think like a magazine editor - at least an online magazine content editor. It shares five tips including:

• Find 3 – 5 content groups that interest your visitors.
• Decide your schedule (we recommend monthly updates at first because that is a big commitment that must be kept to gain trust).
• Curate content from trusted sources such as brands, manufacturers and even competitors.
• Automate at least one of your content groups with feeds.
• Find and nurture free visual media sources such as Haiku Deck.

 
Read more about evergreen content and why thinking like a magazine editor can help your online store create TRIBE and MONEY on Curagami:

http://www.curagami.com/ecommerce/magazine-ing-content-5-tips/?v=7516fd43adaa  

Via Martin (Marty) Smith

101 Amazing PC / Internet Tricks no one told you before

Via Tiaan Jonker

Kelly's Community
@Kelly Hungerford is my friend even though we've never met. Kelly is also one of the best online community developers in the world something she proved working with one of my favorite "get more, do less" tools – Paper.li.  So we couldn't help but lay down a riff embedded within her great Why Your Business Needs Community post. 

Via Martin (Marty) Smith

If you're using Facebook, you're giving the company a ton of information about yourself which it is selling to advertisers in one form or another.

Via Tiaan Jonker

What is content curation and how can it help SEO? This post shares how content curation creates more reach faster and protects your Internet marketing.

 

Note
This post is a response to Your Guide To Conent Curation for SEO by @jaysondemers (Jayson DeMers) for Search Engine Journal. Jayson's post is dissonat to my content curation experience in several important ways.

Your Guide To Content Curation For SEO is brilliant, includes orginal thinking and cagegorization I haven't thought of or about and gets more right than wrong.

That said, it felt important to sit on the ground and discuss where my content curation experience over the last three years differs from Jayson's declarations.

 

I linked his post and be sure to read mine and his, comment and share your thoughts since understanding what content curation IS and how it relates to SEO feels important :). M

Via Martin (Marty) Smith

Here are the content marketing tips for #startups and #smbs shared in this post:

1. Create content before, during and after events.

2. Support great posts about you by writing about them.

3. Don't SELL, CURATE instead.

4. Create content with an eye toward what you want.

5. Tools matter.

http://scenttrail.blogspot.com/2013/11/5-quick-easy-content-marketing-tips.html ;

Via Martin (Marty) Smith

How can content create Dylan's sense of space? How can stories confuse, thrill and teach? What your content's tone? Confident? Fun? Mysterious? Kind? Are words music? Do they sing off the page?

Wait before you roll eyes and click away. Why create content? Writing is an intimate act, a share between siblings, a whisper in an early quiet dawn. Great content is calm. We read or listen because we must.

Tangled Up In Blue.

Via Martin (Marty) Smith

With Facebook's new TOS laying claim to YOUR photos that you post to them, Pressgram emerges to help you take control over your online photographs.

Via Tiaan Jonker