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Stolen Thought Leadership / The Ethics of Aggregating Content (alt title: Stolen Goods: The Dangers of Plagiarized Content)

Contently

Almost three years later, FuckJerry weathered the storm to continue aggregating memes to an Instagram flock of 16.3 A few years later, the New York Times’ adoption of RSS was seen as a “tipping point” for the format. RSS feeds are still popular today.

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The 6 best RSS feed plugins for WordPress in 2020

Rock Content

Do you know why to use the best RSS feed plugins? Although WordPress comes with a built-in RSS resource, the widget does not allow the user to customize appearance and information, such as social buttons and thumbnails. The 6 best RSS feed plugins for WordPress. Feedzy RSS Feeds.

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The Nine Best Reputation Management, RSS, and Social Search Tools

Webbiquity

RSS Readers. Create a curated stream of news and posts from any number of RSS feeds, including publications; blogs; YouTube channels; topics, competitors and brand mentions (through Google Alerts); and internal business content. Sample review: “Digg is my go-to RSS reader and social bookmarking tool.” Feedspot is a modern RSS Reader. Privately aggregates webpages by keyword and domain.”

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The Marketer's Guide to Content Aggregators in 2020

Hubspot

One thing that makes that easy is content aggregation. For me, I use a specific content aggregation site dedicated to travel blogs to find the best information. For marketers, content aggregator sites can be a useful strategy to reach new audiences. Blog Aggregators.

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HiveFire Curata Cuts the Work in Content Aggregation

Customer Experience Matrix

Sources can include social media, news feeds, patent registrations and RSS subscriptions. Content on the Web site can also be published through RSS subscriptions, email newsletters, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. So even in its current state, Curata is worth a look if you want to sail the seas of content aggregation. Tags: software as a service demand generation marketing automation natural language processing artificial intelligence content aggregation

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Boycot of Overwhelming RSS Feeds

Smashmouth Marketing

I LOVE reading Lifehacker , Treehugger , Engadget and Wired RSS feeds, but over the years they have migrated from blogs with fantastic posts 8-12 times per day, to massive media sites that publish 30+ posts per day, at least a third of which are drivel. Wasn't the whole point of aggregating good feeds together so that one could sit down without surfing, without having to wade through piles of pages and having everything at our disposal, organized and ready to read?

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Boycott of Overwhelming RSS Feeds

Smashmouth Marketing

I LOVE reading Lifehacker , Treehugger , Engadget and Wired RSS feeds, but over the years they have migrated from blogs with fantastic posts 8-12 times per day, to massive media sites that publish 30+ posts per day, at least a third of which are drivel. Wasn't the whole point of aggregating good feeds together so that one could sit down without surfing, without having to wade through piles of pages, and having everything at our disposal, organized and ready to read?

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Sales Leads Via RSS via Salesforce.com

B2B Lead Generation

« Give Lead Generation Some Respect | Main | Podcast: How Trigger Events improve Lead Generation » Sales Leads Via RSS via Salesforce.com Otter Group CEO, Kathleen Gilroy , pointed me Charlie Woods, Moonwatcher Blog , and his intriguing post on the subject of distributing sales leads via RSS. Woods is VP of Enterprise Solutions for NewsGator.com , a leading news aggregator. RSS is still bleeding edge especially for non-bloggers. Bloggers over-hype RSS.

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100 Cool Things You Can Do With RSS " Accredited Degrees

Buzz Marketing for Technology

100 Cool Things You Can Do With RSS. 100 Cool Things You Can Do With RSS. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) allows you to get information sent directly to you, eliminating the need for you to that information individually. Using a reader will allow all the RSS feeds to come to one spot for you to read at your leisure. While reading news and blogs has been a traditional use for RSS feeds, there are also tons of fun ways to use these feeds. RSS Mix.

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100 Cool Things You Can Do With RSS

Buzz Marketing for Technology

100 Cool Things You Can Do With RSS. 100 Cool Things You Can Do With RSS. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) allows you to get information sent directly to you, eliminating the need for you to that information individually. Using a reader will allow all the RSS feeds to come to one spot for you to read at your leisure. While reading news and blogs has been a traditional use for RSS feeds, there are also tons of fun ways to use these feeds. RSS Mix.

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Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More.

Industrial Marketing Today

Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. The practice includes aggregation (gathering) and curation (sorting, categorizing, art directing, and presenting) such that material from multiple sources creates a unique editorial experience for readers/visitors. Creators, distributors, aggregators, and curators are all economically essential parts of the value chain.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: 2 New RSS Feeds for the B2B Lead Generation Blog

B2B Lead Generation

« Blueprint for Personal Lead Generation Success | Main | Tips for better webinars, webcasts and improved ROI » 2 New RSS Feeds for the B2B Lead Generation Blog I just added 2 new RSS feeds. See my complete list of RSS Feeds Full posts with comments This is the most information-rich feed. Handy for tracking discussions, especially after a post no longer appears in any of the three primary RSS feeds. Dont know what a RSS feed is yet?

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Search isn’t about search anymore, it’s about social

Biznology

As a result, if you’re able to woo them with your message or pitch, they’ll spend an inordinate amount of their own sweat equity promoting their own content across their own social media platforms and profiles such as their own Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, and even sites like Reddit and digg and whatnot — including cross-posting onto LinkedIn, Medium, and other aggregator sites like Business2Community, Google News, and Yahoo!

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My social media marketing posts from 2011

Biznology

I am traveling this week so I have decided to spend my blogging time aggregating some of my favorite Biznology blog posts. Read more… Blog so you can be taken completely out of context — In a world of excerpting, RSS –reading, sharing, retweeting, and sharing shares, simply all of the breadcrumbs required to bring a reader down the road back to you, your brand, and your sales channel needs to be contained not only in that blog post but also in that tweet, if possible.

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The Future of Content Is Not Destination but Identity

B2B Memes

Founded by Joshua Topolsky and several other former Engadget staff, it’s been praised for its dynamic design and for features like StoryStream, which aggregates the site’s content into timelines. ” How he and many others now read content, he argued, was in aggregation: “So if there’s a great Verge article on the Jawbone Up , I will see it in my Twitter stream or in my RSS feed, I’ll read the article, but then I’ll leave the site.”

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How to Maintain Great Content Curation

The Effective Marketer

Be Careful How You Aggregate. When you have a site or service that seems perfectly relevant to your topic, it might be tempting to grab everything that it posts by RSS or another automated tool. Anyone can subscribe to a site via RSS, and no site is going to be 100% relevant. Content Marketing Marketing ROI community content aggregation content curation content marketing content plan lior levin Marketing AutomationA guest post by Lior Levin.

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Blog so you can be taken completely out of context

Biznology

In a world of excerpting, reading, sharing, retweeting, and sharing shares, or decontextualized via RSS or auto spamblogs, simply all of the breadcrumbs. Abraham Harrison and not just to get an aggregation of the latest social media marketing news. Internet Marketing Public Relations Social Media Marketing Abraham Harrison Blog brand Corporate blog derrida derridian Facebook how to blog IBM LinkedIn RSS TwitterImage by quinn.anya via Flickr. by Chris Abraham.

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The 21 Best Content Curation Tools

Webbiquity

This works much like the highlighting feature in Kindle…it acts more like a news curator than a compiler — and there are plenty of aggregator apps out there — but it’s a fast way to check out what others are reading, too. Discover, review and curate content from blogs, news sites, Google Plus, Facebook, Amazon, Ebay, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, Wikipedia, or any RSS feed. Sample review: “You can get access to 200,000+ RSS feeds. A personalized news aggregator.

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How to Get More Blog Traffic – Real World Data

Webbiquity

But it makes sense: the more often your blog is “seen&# on other sites, the more people will bookmark it, subscribe to your RSS feed, and type in the URL directly. Three of the top 12 traffic sources for this blog were syndication or content aggregation sites: B2B Marketing Zone , Social Media Informer and Social Media Today. Every blogger wants more traffic. How to get it?

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Top ten external traffic referral sources of October 2018

Parse.ly

Apps that aggregate content like Google News, Flipboard, SmartNews, and Apple News all fall in the top ten referrers. In general, we’ve noticed the rise of news aggregators (such as SmartNews and Google Discover), which were influential along with apps and RSS feeds in sending traffic to politics articles in the last six months. Where were readers discovering articles and what were some of the top stories of the month?

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How to Increase Blog Traffic (in 10 Steps)

seo.co

Preparing your blog for RSS. RSS is one feature that every newbie blogger should take advantage of for better exposure. Enabling RSS aggregator for your blog helps readers follow it conveniently. Most blogging platforms have a built-in RSS feature.

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Should B2B Companies Invest in Content Marketing Tools?

Launch Marketing

Feedly – RSS feeds are still one of the best ways to monitor your industry for news and content. Feedly is a news aggregator application that has emerged as one of the best ways to subscribe to RSS feeds.

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How To Build An Army Of Volunteer Contributors For Your Blog

Marketing Insider Group

I asked them simply for permission to allow me to syndicate their existing blogs through an RSS feed. Step 3: Using the WordPress RSS Aggregator Plug-in, I added their existing RSS feeds and all their posts started coming in as new, full-length article drafts I could post on our site.

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The Ultimate Social Media Information Destination: Social Media Informer Launches

Webbiquity

Want to stay up-to-date on the latest social media news and thought-leadership commentary without visiting a gazillion different sites, relying on an RSS feed (or someone else’s filter) that inevitably misses important news, or following aggregation sites that regurgitate the same over-exposed content from a handful of popular sites?

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10 Ways to Generate More Leads from Your Business Blog

The Point

But if the only way to subscribe to the blog is through RSS, or email, you’re missing out on a large subset of leads who may prefer other channels. That’s why it’s important to offer as many subscription options as possible, including RSS, Email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and aggregation services like Flipboard.

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My customers don’t use social media

Avitage

This simplifies listening to many different bloggers by aggregating their RSS links into a. This post is for my current and future clients who think they won’t deal with social media because their customers don’t “use” it. This thinking is the first cousin to the “we’re different” thinking that every vendor encounters when they try to bring proven solutions to new prospects. Both limit easily achievable possibilities.

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Who Needs a Personal Brand?

Biznology

Building a strong personal brand is an aggregate process that builds upon itself. I use Google alerts and a few different rss aggregators to keep myself up to date on new happenings in my industry. A former boss once told me that I should spend as much time talking about the work I do as I spend actually doing that work. It didn’t really make sense to me.

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What Are The Differences Between The Plus and The Enterprise Plan?

Scoop.it

Sometimes, you need to collaborate with teammates to aggregate quality content on a topic. These sources include RSS feed, Twitter users and lists, YouTube channels, and more. Aggregate white labeled curated content across multiple websites and blogs through Scoop.it

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Micro Persuasion: Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader

Buzz Marketing for Technology

For knowledge worker ninjas, RSS is your shuriken. I have been using various RSS readers for nearly five years now - Ive tried them all. Some of these may work with RSS readers from Newsgator, Bloglines and others but they are written with Google in mind.). Most people who use RSS readers do so with the intent of subscribing to an aggregated river of news feeds, persistent searches and blogs. Steve, this is a very clever way to leverage RSS!

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Announcing our newest product?—?News Data Feeds

Contify

Organizations that need news updates on companies, business topics, and industries at scale, can now get them as a ready-to-consume feed through our APIs or as RSS/XML. The content we aggregate, clean, and tag has enabled thousands of professionals to track their competitors, engage with their key accounts, keep on top of changes in their industries. And a competitor intelligence software aggregates marketing materials of companies using our Marketing Content feed.

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What the Death of Google Reader REALLY Means

Hubspot

For those of you who didn't catch wind of the news last week, Google has made the decision to retire its RSS feed reading platform after eight years, effective July 1. And to tell you the truth, RSS readers were never going to be a mainstream tool for information consumption. But I'll admit that even though Google Reader was a staple for me, lately even I'd found that my sources of the latest news and information were social networks like Facebook and Twitter -- not RSS feeds.

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12 Filtering Tips for Better Information in Half the Time

Buzz Marketing for Technology

7 Reasons to Subscribe Subscribe via: ( Email / RSS ). 12 Filtering Tips for Better Information in Half the Time: RSS, Del.icio.us 12 Filtering Tips for Better Information in Half the Time: RSS, Del.icio.us This comes as a shock to everyone in the tech crowd, but most people don’t use RSS. RSS does to your web habits what Tivo did to your television—utterly revolutionizes it. Tips for Using RSS Effectively: 1) Don’t Use Categories.

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4 Timesaving Tools Even the Busiest LinkedIn Networker Will Love

Marketri

Tool #3: RSS Reader Dashboard. Though Google Reader will soon be kaput, other RSS readers such as Feedly , The Old Reader , and Scoop.It For those that don’t know, an RSS reader is an online application that crawls websites of interest to you and collects new content published by those websites in one place, making it easier to scan material from across the internet quickly and without any hassle. LinkedIn is more than just Facebook in a business suit.

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Announcing our newest product — News Data Feeds

Contify

Organizations that need news updates on companies, business topics, and industries at scale, can now get them as a ready-to-consume feed through our APIs or as RSS/XML. The content we aggregate, clean, and tag has enabled thousands of professionals to track their competitors, engage with their key accounts, keep on top of changes in their industries. And a competitor intelligence software aggregates marketing materials of companies using our Marketing Content feed.

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Work Literacy Launch

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Some ways to Participate : Subscribe RSS Feed for the Work Literacy Blog RSS Feed for an aggregation of related content. When you blog, include the term workliteracy or better yet a link to www.workliteracy.com and we'll do our best to aggregate these posts for access by the community.

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Are you a social media marketing trapper?

Biznology

It always benefits a social media trapper if they can secure a place on Google News , the trendiest of all news aggregators on the web. The email list, of course, a Feedburner RSS subscription , or maybe signing up for a free white paper, a sign-up form, or even just a contact form.

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What Are Your Target Audience’s 5 Top Web Sites?

Writing on the Web

Do you access web content via RSS feeds? Alltop blog aggregation site: My Alltop page. If you want to create content that engages readers, you have to know their online habits and interests. Yet how many of us scramble to post on a blog or upload a video to YouTube without taking time to survey our target audience ? Here’s a quick list of survey questions for your target audience: What are the five top web sites you visit frequently in your work?

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Information overload: beyond better filters

Biznology

Flipboard and Zite showed that news curation and aggregation can be done above the level of individuals picking their own RSS feeds. Six years ago, NYU professor and author Clay Shirky, affirmed that “the problem is filter failure, not information overload.” ” The problem of having more information around than what we can possibly process has been with us since ancient times.

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Work Literacy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Week 4-- Aggregators and RSS Feeds. Im going to introduce concepts like tagging and RSS readers to our Education group. RSS View Archives. Search. Work Literacy. Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals. Main My Page Members Forum Videos Photos Groups Events. GETTING STARTED. Welcome to Work Literacys Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals. Heres how you can get started in this course. Sign up and create your profile. Introduce yourself to the rest of the community.

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Jive Talkin for B2B Marketing & Sales Demand Gen Experts

Smashmouth Marketing

Here are some use case scenarios I see for the b2b executive: Competition - Aggregate feeds from multiple buzz sources. allow you to create RSS feeds on specific searches. Today at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston, Jive Software is rolling out a new agenda for social business that is worth a close look. We all wake up on Mondays to a mountain of data, feeds, and emails.

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