information analyst

This a great blog post from Rian van der Merwe , describing the noise you can find on the web now, and especially content just created for SEO purposes or advertisers. As many, Rian is tired of it.

 

Rian speaks for many of us who are overwhelmed, overloaded with content that gives us no value at all. This is the problem

 

"I used to believe that if you write with passion and clarity about a topic you know well (or want to know more about), you will find and build an audience. I believed that maybe, if you’re smart about it, you could find a way for some part of that audience to pay you money to sustain whatever obsession drove you to self-publishing"'

 

Here's what caught my attention:

 

****The wells of attention are being drilled to depletion by linkbait headlines, ad-infested pages, “jumps” and random pagination, and content that is engineered to be “consumed” in 1 minute or less of quick scanning – just enough time to capture those almighty eyeballs[2]. And the reality is that “Alternative Attention sources” simply don’t exist.

 

The Scoopit team agrees!

 

My input:

 

****The Opportunity: This is the time for all good curators to come forward - 2012 will be the year of the content curator -

 

**Know your audience

**Know their pain points

**Find and select the best content, add your own opinions, information or anything that will provide more value for your audience

**Select only the best content, don't just aggregate links that add to the noise

**Become a trusted resource - many opportunities will come to you, it's your time to shine

 

Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond"

 

Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/tF0opI]

 

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This  very informative article was written by Shobha-Atre for Fulltraffic blog

 

"Content curation can and WILL  play a vital role in advertising your business and providing greater exposure to your products in the market."

 

Here's what caught my attention - a few takeaways:

 

Content curation helps in defining a niche target audience and providing content relevant to their needs.

 

It is a smart and an inexpensive marketing tool that can help in achieving amazing results for your online business.

 

In addition, it can assist in refining your content and sharing valuable information to provide greater online visibility to your company.

 

Brand building can be a huge exercise and also challenging for many companies at the same time.

 

However, with the use of content curation tools, it has become a lot easier to achieve successful branding results.

 

It saves valuable time and effort of the online users in searching for enormous amount of information on the web.

 

Content curation is the best method of providing purposeful information that may be extremely useful to the readers in addressing different issues.

 

Rather than looking at a variety of sources, they can get all the valuable information under one roof that can be immense value for companies.

 

Besides, it helps them to discover and find all the latest information about your products and services and encourages them to make a final purchase easily.

 

Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond"

 

Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/s1py23]

Via janlgordon