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Curation is Not Aggregation

Firebelly

Curation is the big new buzzword this year in social media circles — collecting information in a strategic amassing of selected information that’s presented in a new way to draw out the subtleties and patterns that might not otherwise be noticed when looking at the group in toto. Curation is an art form into itself.

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Content Creation? Curation? Focus on Publishing Instead

Firebelly

I’ve been talking a lot lately about content curation lately, and our contributor, Erik Deckers, is all about content creation, which has led to some “Tastes great! Someone else curated the collection. This last part is important, because that’s where social media is taking us. Less filling!”

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Talking The Social Media Walk

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Lars Plougmann via Flickr, Creative Commons Really, if you just read through the comments, there’s your follow-up blog post… but since I promised you one, you’re getting one. All the comments were thoughtful, but there were a few that made me think a lot more about this whole “social media&# thing.

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24+ Sites to Find Free Images You Would Actually Use for Your Marketing

Buffer Social

Our social media management tool incorporates image posting because we know how important that element is to engage your followers and fans. But there’s one question we get asked quite often: Where can you find free images that are high quality and cleared to use for your blog posts or social media content?

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13 Sites to Find Free Creative Commons Music for Videos

Hootsuite

Fortunately, you can score (no pun intended) the perfect soundtrack for your next video for free by using free creative commons music. As with free stock photos and free stock videos , you can peruse creative commons music libraries to find exactly what you need. What is creative commons music?

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3 Websites Bringing Diversity to Stock

Later

These Black-owned and founded stock photography websites all have one thing in common: they each want to create a space where marketers can find diverse stock photography suitable for their audiences. These websites are perfect if you want to diversify your social media content.

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12 of the Best Guides and Sources for Free Stock Images

Webbiquity SMM

20 Sites to Get Free Stock Images for Commercial Use by Social Media Today. ” 53+ Free Image Sources For Your Blog and Social Media Posts by Buffer Social. When you search on Every Stock Photo it pulls images from dozens of sources across the web”), and Wikimedia Commons.