Successful people curate knowledge and use it to improve their own performance. As Issac Newton once said: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. By carefully selecting, commenting and sharing valuable content, you are demonstrating your own thought leadership. You are also participating in a trend that by …

Do you have a tab problem? You are not alone.  There is hardly anyone working with the Internet today, without a tab problem. Tab problem is part of the larger challenge of “information overload” for today’s information worker. Reasons are numerous, but simply put, you are swamped by interesting articles, insights and fun things on …

Backlinks are a strong indicator of popularity for search engines. In order to rank for the top 10 searches (SERP) on google, you need a well crafted backlink strategy. Depending on the keyword you want to rank for, you will need anywhere between 15 to over a hundred backlinks, per post. To get that many …

A recent study by Infodesk shows that poorly curated and hard to find content is costing you valuable time! Even the most conservative estimates suggest that the average information user spends a minimum of two hours per week looking for information. So, stop searching and start organizing. You will be a lot more productive if …

One way to boost your SEO is to make it easier for search engines to crawl your website. Back in 2009, Google introduced “Rich Snippets”, in order to make it easier for search engines to organize and classify information.  Here is a direct quote from the “Markup your content Items” page on Google’s website

Content Curation simply defined is when you organize highly relevant content from the Internet along with your own content. Content Curation is now outpacing Content Creation.  In this excellent article “Why Sharing Other People’s Content is Essential to your Own Success”, Aaron Orendorff says:

This is the story and inspiration behind our news curation tool. We started working on ways to curate and share information back in 2001. Before browsers had tabs, we released a multi-tab browser called “optimal Desktop” that allowed users to curate and manage access to hundreds of web destinations with ease. The curated information was …

Two studies, one by “The online Journalism Review” and the other by “Pew Research” investigate how users interact with news online. We want to investigate how these findings make the case for news curation, and how news curators can benefit from these findings.