I do quite a bit of curation, and I find that people like it so far. My advice from trial and error is to keep things brief. When I did some longer synthesis curation–handling multiple articles within the same entry–people were turned off. The like to have their info. one piece at a time it seems.

Also, I would highly recommend doing critique, review, and comment about the articles. Readers from my experience like to hear what you have to say about the article, not just a summary.

Let me know what you think as well. I can always use advice.

Darin

@darin-hammond @socmediacurator 

Hello Darin and Jim,

Thanks for the advice Darin about not just keeping things short but also making sure we add some real value with an opinion. This is something I need to do more work on. Jim like you I am also using Page One Curator and Ninja Curation Profits for video blog posts had some initial problems with the WP plugins but now OK).

I am also using Instant Content Creator Pro as its great for using highly quality content from Ezine Artilces. In addition I use Video Shadow and Ninja Tube Spy software to identify quickly details I am looking for re YouTube videos but I have not finalized a video curation post yet – that will start next week for me. 

Really enjoyed your post about the “local police” Jim – very well done and very enjoyable. Liked the way you curated both video and text together in one post.

But I have only just started the curation process – just wish I could get more regular blog visitors. For your interest here is our Thai Silk Magic Blog

Stay in touch guys as i think we can really learn, share and help each other.Amnuai