(Part 2/2) Twenty Content Curation Tools For Your Inbound and Content Marketing Strategy

More curation tools will pop up as the staggering amount of data we produce increases.  Last month, in his article: “We are on track for 518% global growth this half-century,” Ross Dawson reports how the global economy has grown by 60.6% from 2000 to 2012.  Consumerization of IT, mobile technology and broadband internet access give each of us the technical potential to become a media publishing house.  Blogging, vlogging and digital photography are three ways million of bloggers are contributing to the onslaught of digital information.  I remember my first 386 PC with the luxury of a “huge” four megabyte of RAM (Random Access Memory) and 45 megabyte of hard-disk.   À propos, twenty five years later, Yahoo’s Flickr offers one free terabyte of data storage to every account owner.  What an amazing technological step forward!   

 

Yesterday, we reviewed thirteen curation tools so let’s move on to the second part of the list.

 

14. Spundge

 

I recently read Christina Walker’s article “Best Content Curation Tools for Entrepreneurs and SMBs, and discovered a comment made by gregarious Facebook Queen Mari Smith mentioning Spundge.  Spundge is a platform that helps curate information, collaborate and create new content.  I have already opened an account and this far, I am very positive about it, thanks to Mari’s recommendation.  

 

15. Paper.li

 

Paper.li is an interesting and somewhat serendipitous way to curate information.  As a publisher, you have the choice between Twitter accounts, RSS feeds, Google + sources of information.  You are not limited to one paper, but the consistency of the quality content cannot be guaranteed since the algorithm selects most bits and pieces for you while automating Paper.li‘s daily publishing.

 

16. Scoop.it

 

I don’t scoop a great deal of articles but Scoop.it is a great way to aggregate relevant information.  Search out the “Scoopers” who aggregate your topics of interest, and just start following them,   This will give you additional ammunition for your content marketing strategy and additional information for your Twitter followers.  

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17. Alltop

 

Guy Kawasaki created Alltop  a few years ago.  Alltop  is a platform that helps you personify your news-feed.  I use Alltop as a dashboard for local and international news from my favorite British, American, French and German newspapers.  Thanks to a great website layout, Alltop gives you an overview by just hovering the mouse over each headline.  This is an ideal way to catch up with the news without having to open every single link.  Unfortunately, the choice of topics is limited.   

 

18. Pinterest

 

Pinterest is the new social media kid in town and my favorite platform for infographics, video and images aggregating.  

 

19. LikeHack

 

LikeHack is a fairly new content curation tool that assist busy people aggregating relevant stories based on your topics of interest.  

 

20. If This Then That

 

At first sight, If This Then That (IFTTT) might not come across as a very “flashy” tool.  It does take a little bit of tweaking and getting used to it, but don’t underestimate this powerful tool and do invest time into getting to know it.  You will be very grateful because your invested time will surely pay off.  Under its hood, If This Then That  hides hundreds of possible recipes/combinations that can trigger all sort of commands combining more than fifty social networks such as Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Diigo, Evernote, Feedly and Youtube in so many ways:

Image Credit: http://www.ifttt.com

Here are two personal examples of how  I use If This Then That

–        File every single tweet I make via Buffer to my Evernote account

–        File all other tweets (except Buffer) to my Evernote account

 

Buffer & Hootsuite

 

Buffer is by no mean a curation tool but a fabulous way to pace your messaging during the day.  I use Buffer on a daily basis and recommend it in combination with Hootsuite another heavyweight client that will assist you posting all your messages on Twitter, LinkedIn, Google + and Facebook while spreading them accordingly.  Hootsuite and Buffer can also be used as Social Media Measuring Tools (SMMT).

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If you have any additional tools you’d like to have mentioned please let us know and we will add them in an upcoming post.  Content curation is moving forward and more tools will pop up as the tsunami of digital data goes on.  I am looking forward to your comments and suggestions, but until then, I wish you happy content curation.

 

– Twenty Content Curation Tools For Your Inbound and Content Marketing Strategy (Part 1/2)

– 11 Ways on How to Generate Twitter RSS Feeds For the Reader of Your Choice

– How To Create RSS feeds From Your Favorite Twitter Hashtags and Tweeps

– Six Reasons Why Social Business Strategists should read Mark Fidelman’s Socialized!

– Seven IT Eras Leading CIOs to Become One of the Key Evangelists to a Social – Business Strategy (1/2)

– Seven IT Eras Leading CIOs to Become One of the Key Evangelists to a Social Business Strategy (2/2)

– 5 More Ways for SMBs to Establish a Social Business Strategy (2/2)

– 5 Ways for SMBs to Establish a Social Business Strategy (1/2)

 

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10 more ways to create RSS feeds and News for your Content or CMS (Part 3)

10 ways to create RSS feeds & Google News for your Content or CMS

In my endeavor to expand on my first two articles I published in my still very green blog, I came across some great resources, thanks to Market Samurai an excellent SEO Program made by a talented group of dedicated people in Australia! I was able to extract some of their RSS feeds and transform them for you to make them fit your local, international or even extra-terrestrial content curating needs. Please review my first post to get a little bit of background on how to create Twitter-lists or Twitter single account RSS feeds as well as word searches with hash tags and much more!  While you are at it check out Part 2:  I summarized information concerning Flickr, YouTube and much more!! 

 

I want to give credit to Piers Dillon-Scott @pdscott an Irish neighbor, who runs an excellent website in Dublin! So let’s start creating those RSS feeds so that we can search our information gold nuggets, curate the appropriate content and satisfy our digital knowledge cravings!  

 

Okay let’s dive right into it and start with Flickr search! Last time we covered how to search Flickr from Twitter but now we will search directly within this wonderful treasure chest! Please review all the BOOLEAN search terms (AND, OR, MINUS) if you need and also bear in mind that your RSS feeds will need to be URL encoded!

 

1. Curating Pictures content from Flickr:

 

a) Creating your feed  made of “2 Parts”: http://m1.pipes.vip.sp1.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=4j69t3pl3RGllxMrbrsjiw&_render=rss&num=10&q=

So let’s say we are searching for: “Content Marketing” OR “Inbound Marketing” OR “Content Curation” (including the Boolean term: OR): http://m1.pipes.vip.sp1.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?id=4j69t3pl3RGllxMrbrsjiw&_render=rss&num=10&q=”Content Marketing” OR “Inbound Marketing” OR “Content Curation”.

 

b) URL encoding the feed:

http://m1.pipes.vip.sp1.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=4j69t3pl3RGllxMrbrsjiw&_render=rss&num=10&q=%22Content%20Marketin

g%22%20OR%20%22Inbound%20Marketing%22%20OR%20%22Content%20Curat

ion%22.

 

2. Curating key words from Google Blog Search:

 

a) Preparing the feed with the word: “content marketing” (3 Parts):

-“http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=”

-“Your search Query”

-“&ie=utf-8&num=25&output=rss&tbm=blg”.

Let’s add to the search the following terms: Content Marketing OR Inbound Marketing OR Convenience Marketing OR Content Curation:

 

b) URL encoding the feed (3 parts):

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Content%20Marketing%22%20OR%20%22Inbound%20Marketing%22%20OR%20%22Convenience%20Marketing%22%20%22Content%20Curation%22%20OR%20Curating&ie=utf-&num=10&output=rss&tbm=blg.

 

– It is possible to combine any BOOLEAN terms in your search with: OR, AND or MINUS, which can also be written “-“ (View previous posts for a review of this subject). 

– You may also vary the number of “entries” you are requesting: The default value is 10 (the third part of the above feed): Increase it or decrease it at your leisure: if too high, Google will (most likely) not understand your query!

– So remember URL encoded you are not allowed to have any spaces: 

 

3. Curating Content from Google News:

 

a) Preparing the feed with the word: “content marketing”:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=”Content Marketing”&ie=UTF-8&nolr=1&output=rss&num=10.

 

b) URL encoding the feed amd adding more terms including OR:

“Content Marketing” OR “Inbound Marketing” OR “Convenience Marketing” OR “Content Curation” OR Curation:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22Content%20Marketing%22%20OR%20%22Inbound%20Mar

keting%22%20OR%20%22Convenience%20Marketing%22%20OR%20$22Content

%20Curation%22%20Curation&ie=UTF-8&nolr=1&output=rss&num=10.

 

4. Curating content from YAHOO News:

 

a) Preparing the feed with the word: “content marketing”:

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=”Content Marketing” OR “Inbound Marketing” OR “Convenience Marketing” OR “Content Curation” Curation&ei=UTF-8.

 

b) URL encoding the feed:

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=%22Content%20Marketing%22%20OR%20%22Inbound%20Marketing%22%20

OR%20%22Convenience%20Marketing%22%20OR%20%22Content%20Curation%

22%20Curation&ei=UTF-8.

 

5. Curating content from YouTube Videos:

 

a) Preparing the feed with the word: “content marketing”

Search for: “Content Marketing” OR “Inbound Marketing” OR “Convenience Marketing” OR “Social Media”.

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/videos?vq=”Content Marketing” OR “Inbound Marketing” OR “Convenience Marketing” OR “Social Media”&orderby=published&max-results=25&alt=rss.

 

b) URL encoding the feed:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/videos?vq=%22Content%20Marketing%22%20OR%20%22Inbound%20Marketing%22%20

OR%20%22Convenience%20Marketing%22%20OR%20%22Content%20Curation%

22OR%20%22Social%20Media%22&orderby=published&max-results=25&alt=rss.

 

6. Curating News from Yahoo Answers:

 

a) Preparing the feed with the word: “content marketing”

http://answers.yahoo.com/rss/searchq?p=”Content Marketing”.

 

b) URL encoding the feed:

http://answers.yahoo.com/rss/searchq?p=%22Content%20Marketing%22.

 

7. Curating Content in Scribd via bing.com:

 

a) Preparing the feed with the word: “content marketing”

http://www.bing.com/search?q=”Content Marketing” site:scribd.com/doc/&format=rss.

 

b) URL encoding the feed:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22Content%20Marketing%22%20site%3Ascribd.com%2Fdoc%2F&format=rss.

 

 8. Curating Content from Go Articles via Bing.com:

 

a) Preparing the feed with the word: “content marketing”

http://www.bing.com/search?q=”Content Marketing”site:goarticles.com/article&format=rss.

 

b) URL encoding the feed:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22Content%20Marketing%22%20site%3Agoarticles.com%2Farticle&format=rss.

 

9. Curating Content from Article City via Bing.com:

 

a) Preparing the feed with the word: “content marketing”:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=”Content Marketing” site:articlecity.com/articles intitle:by&format=rss.

 

b) URL encoding the feed:

http://www.bing.com/search?

q=%22Content%20Marketing%22%20OR%20%22Inbound%20Markting%22%20sit

e%3Aarticlecity.com%2Farticles%20intitle%3Aby&format=rss.

 

10. Curating Content from Article City via Bing.com:

 

a) Preparing the feed with the word: “content marketing”:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=”Content Marketing” site:ezinearticles.com&format=rss.

 

b) URL encoding the feed:

http://www.bing.com/search?

q=%22Content%20Marketing%22%20site%3Aezinearticles.com&format=rss.

 

 

(Beautiful Sunset on the Elbe River near Hamburg March 10th 2012)

 

Do you know any other ways of creating RSS feeds? Would you please share them or make any suggestions?

Please give me a shout and leave a note! I will update this mail and include your tip or recommendation in this post! (probably part 4)!

So Let’s all gather better curated information and successfully  achieve our goals and aspirations!  Don’t forget to: follow me on Twitter: Thank you!

10 additional ways to create Twitter RSS feeds for your CMS or content curation needs (Part 2)

Generating RSS feeds from Twitter is for most of us a very important tool since we often strive to search and find specific real-time information, pictures, music, podcast or a combination of several by adding Boolean search terms! Thanks again to our Irish Twitter Friend Piers Dillon-Scott from whom these additional resources are based and summarized on thanks to Piers: @pdscott.

 

 

10. Picture Search via Twitter

a) Twitter search:

https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/new york pic.twitter.com OR flic.kr OR

twitpic.com OR yfrog.com OR twitgoo.com OR pinterest.com OR instagr.am OR

flickr.com OR imgur.com

 

b) Turning the Twitter search into an RSS feed for your Reader

http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=Paris%20pic.twitter.com%20OR%20flic.kr%20OR%20twitpic.com%20OR%20yfr

og.com%20OR%20twitgoo.com%20OR%20pinterest.com%20OR%20instagr.am%20

OR%20flickr.com%20OR%20imgur.com

 

11. Picture search from a specific author

a) Twitter Search:

https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/nytimes pic.twitter.com OR flic.kr OR

twitpic.com OR yfrog.com OR twitgoo.com OR pinterest.com OR instagr.am OR

flickr.com OR imgur.com

 

b) Turning the Twitter search into an RSS feed for your Reader

http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=nytimes%20pic.twitter.com%20OR%20flic.kr%20OR%20twitpic.com%20OR%20

yfrog.com%20OR%20twitgoo.com%20OR%20pinterest.com%20OR%20instagr.am

%20OR%20flickr.com%20OR%20imgur.com

12. Twitter picture search from a specific user

a) Twitter Search:

https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/from%3Aphotojournalism pic.twitter.com

OR flic.kr OR twitpic.com OR yfrog.com OR twitgoo.com OR pinterest.com OR

instagr.am OR flickr.com OR imgur.com

 

b) Turning the Twitter search into an RSS feed for your Reader

http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=from%3Aphotojournalism%20pic.twitter.com%20OR%20flic.kr%20OR%20twitpi

c.com%20OR%20yfrog.com%20OR%20twitgoo.com%20OR%20pinterest.com%20O

R%20instagr.am%20OR%20flickr.com%20OR%20imgur.com

 

13. Advance Twitter Search for the latest videos being tweeted that mention Social Media or Content Marketing in YouTube, Vimeo & Youtu.be

a) Twitter Search:

1. Use the following string for realtime information: https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/

2. Then adding: New Zealand, YouTube.com, Vimeo.com and YouTu.be with the Boolean search parameters: AND or OR (Remember to capitalize those “TERMS”: and you will get the latest videos on New Zealand:

https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/Social Media%20youtube.com%20OR%20vimeo.com%20OR%20youtu.be

b) Turning Twitter Search for the latest videos in YouTube, Vimeo & Youtu.be Twitter search into RSS Feeds for your reader:

1. Use the following string including Boolean search with

http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=

2. New Zealand as a first search example (String confirmed and works)

http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?

q=New%20Zealand%20youtube.com%20OR%20vimeo.com%20OR%20youtu.be

3. Social Media Marketing as a second search example (String confirmed and works)

http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?

q=Social%20Media%20Marketing%20youtube.com%20OR%20vimeo.com%20OR%

20youtu.be

4) Social Media Campaign as a third search example (String confirmed and works)

http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?

q=Social%20Media%20Campaign%20youtube.com%20OR%20vimeo.com%20OR%

20youtu.be

 

14.  Searching Twitter for the latest videos being tweeted that mentions Brian Solis or Nike:

a) Twitter Search

Use the following string: https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/ and add @BrianSolis or @Nike for example.

b) Turning the Twitter search for the latest videos being tweeted that mentions Brian Solis or Nike into a RSS Feed: http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?

q=%40briansolis%20youtube.com%20OR%20vimeo.com%20OR%20youtu.be

http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?

q=%40Nike%20youtube.com%20OR%20vimeo.com%20OR%20youtu.be

                                    

15.  Searching Twitter for the latest videos being tweeted from a specific Twitter Account:

a) Twitter Search string

https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/from:@Sony youtube.com OR vimeo.com OR youtu.be

b) Transforming the Twitter Search string into an: RSS Feed:

http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?

q=from%3ASony%20youtube.com%20OR%20vimeo.com%20OR%20youtu.be

http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?

q=from%3A%40Sony%20youtube.com%20OR%20vimeo.com%20OR%20youtu.be

 

16. Combining Media (Pictures & Videos)

a) Twitter Search:

https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/olympics pic.twitter.com OR flic.kr OR twitpic.com OR yfrog.com OR twitgoo.com OR pinterest.com OR instagr.am OR flickr.com OR imgur.com OR youtube.com OR vimeo.com OR youtu.be

b) Turning the Twittesearch into a RSS Feed:

http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?

q=olympics%20pic.twitter.com%20OR%20flic.kr%20OR%20twitpic.com%20OR%2

0yfrog.com%20OR%20twitgoo.com%20OR%20pinterest.com%20OR%20instagr.am

%20OR%20flickr.com%20OR%20imgur.com%20OR%20youtube.com%20OR%20vi

meo.com%20OR%20youtu.be

 

 

17.  Searching Twitter for the latest podcasts, songs and music sound files on Twitter:

a) Twitter Search:

https://twitter.com/#!/search/Lalo Schifrin crunch.fm OR swift.fm OR

tinysong.com OR tunebirds.com OR twt.fm OR spoti.fi OR spotify.com OR

grooveshark.com OR boo.fm OR audioboo.fm OR last.fm OR itunes.apple.com OR

itun.es

b) Turning the Twitter search into an RSS Feed for your reader:

http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?

q=Hiromi%20Uehara%20crunch.fm%20OR%20swift.fm%20OR%20tinysong.com%

20OR%20tunebirds.com%20OR%20twt.fm%20OR%20spoti.fi%20OR%20spotify.co

m%20OR%20grooveshark.com%20OR%20boo.fm%20OR%20audioboo.fm%20OR%

20last.fm%20OR%20itunes.apple.com%20OR%20itun.es

 

18.  Searching Twitter for the latest podcasts, songs and music sound files from a specific person: 

a) Twitter Search:

https://twitter.com/#!/search/officialadele crunch.fm OR swift.fm OR tinysong.com OR tunebirds.com OR twt.fm OR spoti.fi OR spotify.com OR grooveshark.com OR boo.fm OR audioboo.fm OR last.fm OR itunes.apple.com OR itun.es

b) Turning the Twitter search into an RSS Feed:

http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?

q=LadyGaga%20crunch.fm%20OR%20swift.fm%20OR%20tinysong.com%20OR%2

0tunebirds.com%20OR%20twt.fm%20OR%20spoti.fi%20OR%20spotify.com%20OR

%20grooveshark.com%20OR%20boo.fm%20OR%20audioboo.fm%20OR%20last.fm

%20OR%20itunes.apple.com%20OR%20itun.es

 

19.  Searching Twitter for the latest podcasts, songs and music sound files from a specific person: 

a) Twitter Search:

https://twitter.com/#!/search/from:@sonymusicglobal crunch.fm OR swift.fm OR tinysong.com OR tunebirds.com OR twt.fm OR spoti.fi OR spotify.com OR grooveshark.com OR boo.fm OR audioboo.fm OR last.fm OR itunes.apple.com OR itun.es

b) Turning the Twitter search into an RSS Feed:

http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?

q=from%3A%40sonymusicglobal%20crunch.fm%20OR%20swift.fm%20OR%20tiny

song.com%20OR%20tunebirds.com%20OR%20twt.fm%20OR%20spoti.fi%20OR%2

0spotify.com%20OR%20grooveshark.com%20OR%20boo.fm%20OR%20audioboo.f

m%20OR%20last.fm%20OR%20itunes.apple.com%20OR%20itun.es