Paul Gillin

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Content Curation on Steroids

Paul Gillin

In the process, it’s creating some compelling new ways to derive value from content. Content curation is about filtering the stuff that people really need from out of all the noise around it. Keyword filtering has all kinds of shortcoming and RSS feeds are little better than headline services.

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My Favorite Productivity Apps – Multimedia & Web

Paul Gillin

You can also take a snapshot (essentially a cached image) of a page, which is useful for content that goes behind firewalls after a few days. Another useful service that I initially dismissed when I saw a year ago is dlvr.it , an RSS syndication service. I also have all my most important feeds organized into Google Reader.

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Mail Bag

Paul Gillin

An RSS feed is a great way to be notified when a new post has been made. Attractive section of content. My RSS feed count just ticked up by one, so I can tell you meant what you said! I have subscribed to your feed which must do the trick! Have a nice day! Darin Hookano. Asked and answered, Darin! in Las Vegas!

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The Other Social Network

Paul Gillin

You can subscribe to questions in your domain using an RSS reader, which ensures that you will never miss one that matters to you. LinkedIn recently gave group owners the option of making their content public so that all activity from that point on would be visible to search engines. Summarize your content and ask a question.

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The End of ‘Social Media’

Paul Gillin

We used cell phones primarily for voice calls and content management systems less functional than WordPress cost a half million dollars. Much of this change will be brought about by a few elegantly simple tools: Ethernet, the Internet Protocol, hypertext, RSS, HTML and a handful of others.

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How to Promote an Event with Social Media

Paul Gillin

This enables you to assemble photo galleries by stitching together tagged content from a variety of sources. Content from past events is your best promotion for future events. Be sure to provide an RSS feed so that potential attendees can subscribe to new content as it’s posted. Create an event blog.

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Stop Talking! I’m Trying to Listen!

Paul Gillin

Three years ago I routinely advised clients to spread their content around liberally through multiple channels as a way to reach the largest possible audience. In “Stop Sharing Without Consumption,” he scolds Guy Kawasaki by name for openly advocating the practice of sharing headlines without actually reading the content.