10 Powerful Tools for the Busy Content Curator
Posted by Christine Parizo on Mon, Sep 19, 2011
Content curation doesn’t have to be a time-suck. Sometimes it’s difficult to build 
your own content, and with the proliferation of Tweets, blog posts, Facebook status updates, content curation can be an effective solution – sharing information posted by others.
Content is extremely important in reputation-building and gaining the trust of followers, and being able to effectively share information makes your own content more valuable. Here are 10 tools for that make content curation easier and make it worth your while.
1. Curated.by allows users to organize Tweets into collections by topic, known as “bundles,” by using a simple Google Chrome extension that displays a “Curate” button below every Tweet on Twitter.com. These bundles can be subscribed to or shared by other users.
2. Storyfy shares more than Tweets – it allows users to search multiple social media sites and share photos and videos as well. With Storyfy, you can reorder elements and create a story from various social media channels to share with followers.
3. Redux is content curation specifically for videos. Use Redux to find exciting and relevant videos, create your own channel, or go off on a Stumble-like tangent into different topics that interest you and your followers.
4. For web content, choose BagTheWeb, which allows you curate content from around the web in a “bag” and build networks of those “bags.”
5. Blog readers can curate RSS feeds with BlogBridge, a robust tool for voracious information consumers that searches through thousands of blogs and pulls out the best content.
6. Paper.li is a widely used Twitter content curator. It pulls relevant Tweets into a virtual “newspaper,” then can automatically Tweet out the newspaper to your followers. You choose the topics or hashtags that would be most relevant, and Paper.li does the rest.
7. Pearltrees displays a hub-and-spoke diagram of content, presenting it visually. It collates content that you search for and collect and presents it the diagram. You hover over the pearls to get previews of the content.
8. Bundlr does what the name implies: bundles Tweets, videos, article clippings and other content and allows you to share it easily with others.
9. Want to store and share content from your social streams? Trunk.ly does that easily. It also indexes the web page where the content is coming from so that you have your own personal search engine.
10. YourVersion lets you choose keywords based on your interests, then scours the web and presents the information on a dashboard – everything from news, blogs, web pages and Tweets – organized into different tabs.
These are only 10 of many content curation sites that are available. There are also plenty of robust, paid content curators that will let you turbo-charge your social media efforts, should you want to take your efforts up a notch.