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using scoop.it for your blog? (19 posts)

Topic tags: magazine, scoop it, tools

Dea Irby said
1 year, 5 months ago:
Just wondering if anyone has started using scoop it? I’m going to investigate it. I don’t know how new it is, but it looks great.
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Russell Allert said
1 year, 5 months ago:

@deairby I have played around with it a little but was pretty underwhelmed. Especially considering there are paid versions! Not sure why you would pay money for that.
I can see that it would benefit some people but personally I don’t think I will be using it.
Let us know how you go, Dea.
Russell Allert
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Dea Irby said
1 year, 5 months ago:
Well, I only spent a short time working with it and decided the learning curve was not worth what I was getting. I really don’t want to just have a collection of copied content. Original writing may take longer but makes you the authority! @russellallert
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Kristi Hines said
1 year, 5 months ago:
@deairby I’m not a fan of the formatting personally. I think http://paper.li is a better looking system. It allows you to manually curate information or automatically builds a paper for you based on your Twitter followers, hashtags, or Twitter lists.
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Dea Irby said
1 year, 5 months ago:
Kristi, I have to finally step up and ask: what’s a hashtag and how is it used? Embarrassed to post it as a forum question, think I’m supposed to know what it is. @kristi-hines
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Kristi Hines said
1 year, 5 months ago:
@deairby No need to be embarrassed. Hashtags are a good way to caetgorize your tweets. If your tweet is a link to a post on SEO, just add #seo to the tweet. Then it will be included when anyone searches tweets about SEO like this - https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23seo.
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Debbie Hemley said
1 year, 5 months ago:

@deairby @kristi-hines @russellallert
Funny, I hadn’t heard of it before or http://paper.li  the one @kristi-hines mentioned.
But coincidentally I had come across a link today while doing some research that was a scoop.it page and maybe it was because I was biased because I really liked the curated content there. I then realized that I had seen this topic this earlier today about scoop.it.
Guess it was just meant to be.
Here’s the link I liked.
I am going to look into both of these resources now, more out curiosity than anything else!
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Kristi Hines said
1 year, 5 months ago:
@deairby @debbie-hemley Summify is another one (http://summify.com/).
I think I like Paper.li best, and Summify after that. Here is my latest “news” via both networks based off of the people I follow.
- http://paper.li/kikolani/1326339477
- http://summify.com/kikolani/2012/01/11/1/
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Terry Doherty said
1 year, 5 months ago:
I’ve played with Scoop.It a little bit … like it for its Pinterest-like format. I use Summify a lot more, though, and really appreciate the daily digests when I haven’t had time to get on Twitter myself.
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Debbie Hemley said
1 year, 5 months ago:
@kristi-hines
Thanks for sharing these here. Very nice. I like this whole concept of curated content.
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Dave Doolin said
1 year, 5 months ago:
@deairby – in a surprising twist of irony, the inventor of the Twitter #hashtag now works at Google: http://infodocket.com/2011/06/13/meet-the-inventor-of-twitter-hashtags-chris-messina-a-googler/
Worth reading up on hashtags, as much for how the meme propogated as anything else.
Here: http://chrismessina.me/b/photos/13368507
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Janis Friesler said
1 year, 5 months ago:
@debbiehemley
The link you liked has terrific sources for content. Thanks so much for sharing.
Another one to try is Storify. I used it to write a blog about Storify. You can find it in my archives on http://www.assistingauthors.com/
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Don Purdum said
1 year, 5 months ago:
@deairby Never heard of it before this morning when a bunch of visitors showed up from it on our analytics.
I went to the site, but it seemed cumbersome to me.
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Dea Irby said
1 year, 5 months ago:
that’s the word I’d use, too, cumbersome, I’ve seen a few other “in kind” programs that might work better @donpurdum
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Gregg Breward said
1 year, 5 months ago:
@kristi-hines thanks for the link to this topic
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Kristi Hines said
1 year, 5 months ago:
@gbreward You’re welcome. It’s hard to know what’s out there, so I try to redirect! :)
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Ian Blair Hamilton said
1 year, 5 months ago:
Had a look at paper.li. Looks good. Anyone here had experience of actual increased traffic using it?
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Charlotte (Charlee) Hanna said
1 year, 4 months ago:
I use Scoop.it to see what other people are writing about the topics I am tracking. Most of the time the sources are coming from articles on twitter. I think that is interesting.
I also use Google Alerts for the same purpose. I prefer Scoop.it.
I need to look at the other suggestion all of you have given.
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dawnbarclay said
1 year, 4 months ago:
@deairby Hey!
I’ve started using it about 4 weeks ago. Paper.li I do use also.
Why I’m ‘liking’ scoopit – I set it up to return me content from places around the web where I don’t usually go or visit (I popped in a hashtag ie #career), so it returns me career info. The benefit is I’m ‘curating’ or finding a lot of really interesting information, I share the scoop (the paper), but it’s more like a ‘holding place of cool stuff’ that I can read, retweet, share out over time. For that reason I like it.
Maybe not in the inventors intentions, but it’s saving me time, and I’m coming across new blogs, people to follow, items to share with. All good.
Paperli no doubt is better in that it mentions people who are included and the hastags (took me ages to get head round those to, so worth learning that, Twitter became fun!
Oh, and I only use the free version.
Dawn
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