Zemanta for Recommended Links, Photos, Articles What do we mean by ‘free media’? While much content on the internet is subject to copyright laws, there are increasing numbers of websites that provide copyright-free content you can use on your blogs at no cost. To make a blog post more interesting and increase views and reader engagement, you might consider including some of this copyright-free content, including photos or artwork to illustrate your blog. You might even consider enhancing your blog posts by adding other types of media like audio files, movies and even books. Much of this content will either be classified as being in the public domain, meaning it is old enough to no longer be subject to copyright laws; it has been explicitly labeled as copyright-free (also sometimes referred to as copyleft); is licensed GNU Free Documentation; or carries one of the Creative Commons licenses for use and redistribution under one of several different license options. Below are some of the many options for free media. ↑ Table of Contents ↑
Content curation Content curation is the process of collecting, organizing and displaying information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest. Services or people that implement content curation are called curators. Curation services can be used by businesses as well as end users. Concept[edit] Content curation is not a new phenomenon. Methods[edit] Content curation can be carried out either manually or automatically. Collaborative filteringSemantic analysisSocial rating Collaborative Filtering[edit] Collaborative filtering is a method of forecasting often used in recommendation systems. Collaborative filtering can either be based on votes and views of a given social community, as it's done on Reddit and Digg, or the end user's own prior activity, as it's done on YouTube and Amazon. Semantic Analysis[edit] This approach has been successfully implemented by services like Getprismatic, Stumbleupon, My6sence, and LikeHack, which break up content according to topic, subtopic, and category.
it for Marketers Curate Your Brand Put content to work for you. Convey your brand message with relevant content that speaks the right language to every individual in your audience. Trapit gives you the tools to curate compelling high quality content from around the Web and from your own archives of original content that will keep your audience coming back for more. Your Content, Anywhere Deliver your content wherever your audience is. Simplify Sharing Information Easily build and manage dynamic and captivating collections on whatever topics are most relevant to your audience by using one simple interface to publish to apps, email, social networks or webpages in real time or on a schedule. Focus on Your Audience The Trapit Content Curation Center uses advanced artificial intelligence to automate the discovery and personalization of media and content from the Web to augment and support your brand's story.
15 top-notch content curation tools Content curation tools play an important role in the content planning and publishing process. Before we provide you with our picks for the Web’s best content curation tools, let’s go back a step revisit the origins of content curation and the specific role it plays. The role content curation plays across the social Web Content curation has risen in significance for a number of reasons: 1. There are associated benefits of curated content, including the ability to serve up frequent content and increased opportunities for interaction, which can help exposure over time. How content curation works Content planning varies by channel. The best forms of curated content are evergreen, as opposed to news-based content, which has a shorter shelf-life. Examples of evergreen content include FAQs, how-to guides and tutorials, industry definitions, and resource lists (such as this one). Imagery also plays a key role in the curated content you locate and repurpose (as images don’t have to be time sensitive).