#curating content

Keep Your RSS Fresh With Keyword-Based Feeds

Over the weekend I found an interesting article at The Verge. In Your internet life needs a Feeds Reboot — here’s how to do it, David Pierce explores the ways you can give your algorithmic timelines a bit of a reset to make your social media better. He even, to my vast appreciation, mentioned RSS feeds! But that’s all it was: a mention. RSS appears precisely once in the article, in the phrase…

Your Options for Saving Yahoo Groups Content

As you may have heard by now, Yahoo Groups is deleting lots of content. It’s not shutting down, you understand, it’s just restricting all ability to upload content as of October 28, and deleting all existing content as of December 14. The Yahoo announcement about this notes: “The Yahoo Groups site will continue to exist, however, all public groups will be made private or restricted. Any new group…

Stop sharing and start selling

You know how they (the digital marketing gurus) say that you have to write content and then distribute it on your social media properties so that you can get click throughs to your website?

And, if you can’t write your own content, they suggest you curate other people’s content (in your field) and send your followers to read their stuff.

Supposedly, this is helpful to your followers and positions…