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5 of the Best Content Curation Tools for Social Media Managers

Hootsuite

In the dog-eat-dog world of social media content, many marketers and creators will do anything to stay ahead. They’ll work long hours into the night, dragging content, kicking and screaming, into existence. Content curation tools can help. This comprehensive guide examines the top contenders for content curation software.

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Here’s the Difference Between Content Marketing and Social Media

Convince & Convert

What is the difference between content marketing and social media? Jeff asked several other content/social thinkers and consultant-types to weigh in as well. Jeff asked several other content/social thinkers and consultant-types to weigh in as well. The goals of social media are participation, then behavior.

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The One Tip That Took My Blog To New Levels. Stop Caring.

SocMed Sean

Not just from researching and writing articles, but form the comments/feedback that I have received and the conversations that have been sparked with others via social networks like Twitter. I was so focused on what other people thought about my blog that it is evident that my content wasn’t as good as it could have been.

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Brands: It’s not enough to be liked

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Yet some brands are terribly underutilizing these pages, making them basically brochureware repositories — essentially inviting customers in but not engaging them or giving them an incentive to return. A “like” is a passive response to content, while a comment is engagement. Because there is nothing going on that interests them.

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Hootsuite Hacks: 19 Tricks and Features You Probably Didn’t Know About

Hootsuite

Bonus: Download our free, customizable social media calendar template to easily plan and schedule all your content in advance. It’s the easiest way to repurpose and edit content to make a post appropriate across your various social channels. By selecting your post in the Content tab or the Planner tab.

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Instagram Does the Two Step - And Steps In It

Social Media Marketing

Instagram was all the rage, and I've even heard from a number of sources that it is now one of the definitive social networks for the teen and tween demographic. It's not too long ago (okay, in social media terms, it was eons ago) that Flickr was one of the major social networks. So what happened? Backed by Yahoo!,

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #155

Twist Image

You may not know other open services like openstreetmap.org (an open version of Google Maps ) and CommonCrawl (an open repository of the web''s contents), but collectively, tools like these create a ''shadow'' version of the Internet tools on which we rely (think OpenOffice versus Microsoft Office ). million Japanese users (vs.

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