Top Social Media Tools

Robin Good: Curate.me is a customizable personal news briefing service that allows you to define up to ten specific interests/topics you want to monitor, and to schedule which days and what time your news brief is to be delivered.

 

The generated custom news brief are delivered to you via email (each email includes 10-12 links from the topics you've selected) and can be read also in your preferred browser or iPhone.

 

For each one of the up to ten topics selected you can specify the degree of importance to you.

 

As a user you can create as many custom news briefs as you like, each one with a specific set of topics and delivery schedule.

Free to use.

 

Try it out now:  http://curate.me/ ;

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Robin Good: the Content Strategy Generator Tool (CSGT) by Daniel Butler of SEOgadget is a Google Docs-based spreadsheet that allows you to input a specificic keyword or search-phrase and to find rapidli trending news articles from a number of relevant sources.

 

These include:

Bing News Google News Digg Reddit Topsy Twittorati Redux Helium Cracked Fark Blog Catalog Yahoo Answers Uber Suggest Google Insights How Stuff Works

 

"That’s not all, though—the Source and Place tab will tell you how to find the top Twitter experts, bloggers, and editors in your niche. Use this to figure out who you can follow—and start new relationships with."

 

Highly recommended. useful. 8/10

 

Review from ProBlogger: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2012/05/12/the-must-have-blog-post-topic-generation-tool/ ;

More info: https://seogadget.co.uk/content-strategy-generator-tool-v2-update/  ;

 

https://seogadget.co.uk/using-google-docs-to-generate-hot-content-strategies/ ;

 

CSGT Tool: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj4U6wmYE1X6dDB5S1lDUXFzaTUxME5IRmJqZ2ozZGc 

 

(Thanks to Alessandro Murra for discovering it) 

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Robin Good: If you are curating a specific topic you may find yourself often wading through tons of useless content and wondering where you can find some good stuff. 

One option is to start using some good news discovery tools which can greatly help you filter out some of the useless spammy content that fills in most unfiltered searches and feed streams.

Here is my mindmap on news discovery tools which can help you in finding your best crop of interesting stories on the specific topic you are interested in.

It contains over 30 news discovery tools and services all with a direct link. 

Direct map link: http://bit.ly/bestnewsdiscoverytools  

(Thanks also to Beth Kanter for featuring me and this list in her recent live presentation in NY - find out more in her curated report here: http://storify.com/kanter/what-can-nonprofits-learn-about-content-curation-f )

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