Janus
I admit, sometimes I find it hard to come up with a topic that I think is worth writing. I mean, practically every topic, every angle on anything is being written by so many great bloggers.
While those posts are really educating and inspiring, it’s somehow discouraging for me, thinking that “how am I going to write another intelligent post that’s not repeating what others are writing?”
Sometimes I got so unmotivated that I just take a break from creating another blog post.
Recently I came across an interesting infographic from CurationSoft which couldn’t explain my situation better.
The internet is full.
“We don’t have an information shortage, we have an attention shortage.” – Seth Godin
It seems that it’s more valuable to find, organize and share excellent content in a way to add value to people. And that’s call content curation.
“A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule.” – Robert Scoble
Here are some highlights of the infographic:
WordPress Sites: 57,931,222 WordPress sites written in over 120 languages
Yourtube: 48 hours worth of playtime in videos uploaded per minute with 3 Billion views per day
Google: 20% of searches each never been performed before
Flickr: More than 5 Billions of photos uploaded
Facebook: 3.5 Billions pieces of content shared every week
Wikipedia: 17 Millions of articles
Blog Posts: 1.4 Millions of new blog posts are created everyday
As you can see, the web is flooded with information. People are searching. But chances are they may not find what they really want, something that’s useful, valuable, relevant, and outstanding.
So it’s becoming more important for people to use trusted and specialty sites to find curated content.
Check out this neat infographic.
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Image credit: CurationSoft.com, b2binbound.com
Good Post, I have recently started curating some sites and although it can take time to set up and get running the effort required once everything works is much less than a normal blog.
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Thanks Mark for your comment, wonderful to see you here! I ‘ve read a number of articles by Jack Humphrey about content curation and think it really makes sense. I agree with you that curation takes time and efforts but is really worth it because you’re creating value for people!
Have a great week!
Hi,
Nice post and really beautiful infographics.
I started use content curation last month with nice results.
Duplicate content does cause problems, but its NOT the appearance of duplicate content, it is the absence of unique content. Your site can contain lots of duplicate content, but as long as a page contains enough unique content Google is happy.
Today I just discover a new “amazing” software that automatically create curated posts. I already did a small review in my blog.
Regards
Karlos
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Thanks Karlos for your comment. The essence of curation is to create value through finding, choosing, organizing, commenting and sharing of contents related to a specific topic. So when done properly, curation already creates unique content.
Will check out the curation software you mentioned in your blog.
Have a great day!
Wow – brilliant. I had to go through that infographic over and over again to digest how crazy the amount of content has truly become.
Readers’ Digest had the right idea all those years ago, and yes, curation is certainly on the rise. Just look at Pinterest – curation with images meets social networking.
Great post!
Dee recently posted..Managing Work, Personal and Moonpreneur Communications
Exactly, Readers Digest and Pinterest are great examples of content curation, only in different ways. Thanks Dee for your comment, really appreciate it!
Nice post! I’m thinking of starting some curated blogs, and also to maybe start curating some info for my current ones. I have one that’s kind of boring and in an extremely competitive niche – insurance. I wonder if it could benefit from curated content. It’s languishing right now. I guess I don’t have anything to lose! It’s http://findinsurancecompanies.org. What do you think?
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Thanks Matt. I think as long as your curated content provides value to your readers, it will benefit your blog as well.
Your FindInsuranceCompanies site looks pretty good to me. I came across this site which I think provides some good idea for you.
Very informative post. Thanks for sharing this! I am not done yet doing a curated blog but I am planning to make one, I am still looking for more information about it and I found it here. Nice share!
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No problem Emelia. I’m glad you find this useful. Welcome to my blog!
Have a nice weekend!
hey may thanks, for your post. with your help, i have launched my blog. i read your complete article and then it really helped my to opt my niche. i really want to put many thanks for such informative content. i already stared my own blog, and now open to accept the guest, i’d be glad if you like to guest post on my blog TheDiaryMad.com. many thanks
Congratulations on your new blog. It looks like a huge site covering a variety of topics.
I appreciate the opportunity to guest post and will consider submitting when I finish my current project on hand.
Wish you all the best and success on your blog!
Hi Janus, thanks for this article. Now I know why we need for content curation. I will try this to my blog. Thanks once again!
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