It's a scoop

With content curation being high on the social media agenda at the moment, a new platform for helping with this task has just been introduced. It's called Scoop.It and is a great big advance on other social bookmarking sites such as Delicious or Digg in my opinion, as it presents the saved or curated content as a picture/feature window rather than as a set of URL's. There is a tagging facility to aid searching, but the killer feature which puts Scoop.It ahead of it's rivals is the suggested content feeds. You select the search keywords and sites and Scoop.it trawls the web for you, suggesting content for your site. You can even put their Scoop.It button on your toolbar for ease of capture whilst you are working or browsing, and it can be set to post directly to Twitter, Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn if you want this. Have a look at my Scoop.It site

What do you think?

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It was Facebook wot done it, m'lud...

This morning's trawl of the social media web came up with this Interesting article on the increasing use of social media sites as evidence in courts. Despite many folk protesting that the scribblings of members us private and therefore protected, increasingly such objections are being overruled by judges.

I guess that the moral of this story is be very careful what you post. Google+ appears to have factored this into their design by allowing you much more control over who sees what on your pages than rival Facebook with the clever use of their circles concept. Perhaps this is the answer, but a note of caution; do you really trust those in your closest circles not to fall out with you and reveal all? Choose wisely when populating yours...


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This is essential for your business

I came across a great infographic on the TechCrunch blog recently. It came with an article detailing why business leaders feel social media is now an essential part of their business strategy. The blog post is here but I've produced the infographic below..

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