Tools for Finding Great Content Online !
Do you sometimes struggle to find good relevant content online?
Are you always on the lookout for great articles to share with your friends, followers and your fans?
Sometime looking for good industry related content can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, with all the blogs and article sites how do you know the good from the bad. In this blog post I will show some of the best content curation tools that I use every day which allow me to manage and aggregate various forms of social media from all over the web.
Google Reader:
Perhaps my favourite tool, this is the first thing that I open along with my email every morning when I come in to the office. Many people think that RSS is dead but I still think there is life in the old dog yet. Google reader allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds from all over the web and aggregate them all in to the one place. You have the ability to share on various social platforms and create folders which allows you to manage all the sites you have subscribed to by category.
Google Alerts:
This is another great tool from Google that not too many people know about. Google Alerts provides email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, social media, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic which you have set up. Below is just some of the ways that you can use Google Alerts.
Twitter Lists:
Twitter rolled out this feature in 2009, like Google Reader the lists feature allows users to create, organize others into groups, or "lists". When you click to view a list, you'll see a stream of Tweets from all the users included in that group. Once you have created a list other Twitter users can then subscribe to your lists. This means lists have the potential to be an important tool for discovery of news and relevant tweets.
Twitter lists are best taken advantage of when using applications such as Tweetdeck, Hootsuite or Seesmic as all these platforms allow you to create columns, which will make managing your lists much easier.
Do you sometimes struggle to find good relevant content online?
Are you always on the lookout for great articles to share with your friends, followers and your fans?
Sometime looking for good industry related content can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, with all the blogs and article sites how do you know the good from the bad. In this blog post I will show some of the best content curation tools that I use every day which allow me to manage and aggregate various forms of social media from all over the web.
Google Reader:
Perhaps my favourite tool, this is the first thing that I open along with my email every morning when I come in to the office. Many people think that RSS is dead but I still think there is life in the old dog yet. Google reader allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds from all over the web and aggregate them all in to the one place. You have the ability to share on various social platforms and create folders which allows you to manage all the sites you have subscribed to by category.
Google Alerts:
This is another great tool from Google that not too many people know about. Google Alerts provides email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, social media, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic which you have set up. Below is just some of the ways that you can use Google Alerts.
- Monitoring a developing news story
- Keeping current on a competitor or industry related news
- Get the latest news and updates on a brand, product or service
- Keeping tabs on who is talking about you online.
Twitter Lists:
Twitter rolled out this feature in 2009, like Google Reader the lists feature allows users to create, organize others into groups, or "lists". When you click to view a list, you'll see a stream of Tweets from all the users included in that group. Once you have created a list other Twitter users can then subscribe to your lists. This means lists have the potential to be an important tool for discovery of news and relevant tweets.
Twitter lists are best taken advantage of when using applications such as Tweetdeck, Hootsuite or Seesmic as all these platforms allow you to create columns, which will make managing your lists much easier.
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