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This guest post is by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics. Google+ had a hot start, but has since cooled down. For ...

 

Lots of good suggestions - here's the takeaway:

 

Whether Google+ takes off or not, you can still use it to accomplish many productive and profitable things for your business. Besides, in the long run I believe that Google+ will play a large part in Google’s search algorithm, and when it does you’ll be ahead of the game!

 

What productive ways are you using Google+ to promote your business, your blog, and yourself?

 

Selected by Jan Gordon covering "Google+ Watch"

 

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I posted this a few weeks ago, I'm sure not everyone saw it and it is definitely worth posting again. Lots of information and strategy.

 

Nine ways to make curation work for your brand.

 

Become a Content Curation King

 

Sean Carton | August 29, 2011

 

"Curation" is a buzzword (even if it isn't technically a word…unless you count the 14th century French definition meaning "to cure") that's smokin' up the interwebs these days. Launching into the blogosphere virtually from nowhere in 2009, it's now one of those terms that's essential to any digital marketer on the cutting edge (or for anyone who wants to sound like one).

 

Curation has now come to mean the act of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a coherent way, organized around a specific topic(s). However, unlike automated services (such as Google News), the essential difference of curation is that there's a human being doing the sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing. Just as a museum curator must decide which artifacts to display during an exhibition, an online curator decides what information available online is appropriate and relevant to her audience.

 

Making curation work for your brand is a lot easier said than done. As countless would-be content curation kings (and queens) have found out, just gathering a lot of links together doesn't guarantee anything except that you'll spend a lot of time curating links. You need to commit resources to both curation and promotion if you're going to be successful. And that's just the first step. To truly succeed as a curator, you need to think like a curator (not just an aggregator) and keep the following in mind:

 

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2104954/content-curation-king

 

 

 

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Interesting statistics from Media Bistro

 

 

Key Takeaways -

 

*Twitter is the all-time champion of sharing, with growth of some 35,356% over the last five years, leading Facebook (5,809%) and LinkedIn (3,226%)

 

*Over the past year, Facebook’s Send button has seen growth of 756%, beating Tumblr (532%) and Google’s +1 button (418%)

 

*The peak hour for sharing each day is 9.30am EST (Wednesday is the peak day)

 

*Most users click 2 minutes after content is shared

 

*The bulk of sharing takes place via copy and paste

 

Curated by JanLGordon covering "Content Curation, Social Media & Beyond"

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