Digital Marketing - What Is Content Curation?
By Alice S
Ever since it first appeared on the blogosphere in 2009, the term "content curation"
continues to be an important buzzword in digital marketing circles. All Internet
marketing professionals who wish to excel in their field should consider including
content curation within their online marketing strategies.
Content curation is the task of sorting through the huge amount of content on the
Internet, and presenting selected pieces of content in a coherent manner, organised
around different topics. Or in other words this is organizing and sharing the most
relevant content on a particular subject.
Though content curation seems like a news service, like Google News, there is one
major difference. Rather than a computer doing the automated sorting, there is a
designated human being who will be doing the searching, sorting and publishing.
A person engaged in content curation is similar to a museum curator. Just as a museum
curator decides which paintings should make it to a particular exhibition, an online
curator chooses which pieces of information are likely to be relevant to their audience.
Then again, most digital marketing professionals who have been around for a long time
would wonder how this differs from what individuals have been doing online for years.
For example, everyone's initial homepages contained a page of 'links'. Even in the 90's,
most major "portals" contained content collected from across the web.
So, what's so great about content curation? The main difference between content
aggregation today and content aggregation in the 90's is social media. According to a
leading digital marketing expert, curation comes into the picture only when search stops
working, and when individuals become conscious of the fact that they are not only seeking
information, but seeking information within a community. The central part of the content
curation movement is the "community", which can be a really powerful way to draw
attention to one's digital marketing efforts.
Just as a carefully-curated exhibition is sure to get art aficionados talking about
it, carefully-curated online content is sure to attract the attention of the targeted
audience, and generate a response (like comments, blog posts and messages). However,
doing effective content curation for a digital marketing brand is not as easy as it
seems. Just because you happen to collect many digital marketing links that are relevant,
does not mean that your targeted audience will find your collection of links. Instead,
to be successful, you have to invest in both curation as well as promotion.
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