This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. The top items from StartupRoar This Month are some really great pieces: Too Busy for Social Media Marketing Could Be Fatal. The Only Reason to Participate in Social Media. For example: Entrepreneurship as a Science – The Business Model/Customer Development Stack. Startup Tools. MORE >>

Great post by Robin Hamman, who leads the Social Media practice at Headshift, Curating, Not Moderating, the Flow of Content and Participation.  He discusses how the value of using aggregation and curation: A simple enough idea, in practice curation of external and social content has been relatively difficult for media brands and other organisations to put themselves at the centre of the flow of information and content around them. It’s different from mere aggregation services because there is an editorial layer and a social layer. They choose what to feature.  MORE >>

For Social Media Informer , it’s social media for business.  Organizing – For Browse My Stuff, this is where the social signals and topics come into play.  Using Browse My Stuff that has curated content sources and automated filtering based on social signals , I have immediate access to a really nice page that’s essentially a constantly updated Top 100 list for a large number of topics that fall under the site.  Study: Most Effective B2B Social Media Tactics are IT ‘Lite’. Social Media for B2B. What is Curation? Summary. MORE >>

Crowd-Driven: The selection of articles / posts is handled by a crowd of people as is done in social news sites such as Sphinn, Digg, Reddit, etc. For example, Social Media Today (SMT) makes full copies of human selected articles.  As a blogger, I’m continually facing the question of whether I should syndicate my content and how actively I should attempt to get it syndicated.  There are a lot of potential aggregators out there.  They have a lot of different practices.  It’s really part of trying to Amplify Your Blogging. talks to various pros and cons for syndication.  MORE >>

Mike Sansone asked me if there was a hashtag for Social Media Informer.  Of course I cheated and used pages from Social Media Informer such as hashtag , hashtag marketing , and B2B hashtag and the B2B Marketing Zone hashtag page. 14 Quick Tactics to Encourage Corporate Social Media Adoption , February 5, 2010. Ways Businesses Should Use Social Media , April 7, 2010. The Four Primary Types of Social Media Strategy , September 1, 2010. Great idea came from a different conversation.  But I hadn’t really considered a hashtag. MORE >>