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Newsletter Curation: Top 6 Tools and Tips To Curate Your Own Weekly Newsletter

Newsletter Curation: Top 6 Tools and Tips To Curate Your Own Weekly Newsletter | Content Curation World | Scoop.it
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Given the amount of news, stories, tools, events and services that are being announced on a daily basis it is very difficult for anyone to resist the time-saving benefits of subscribing to a newsletter that finds and collects the most relevant items in the specific topic area he is interested into.


If you are a subject-matter expert, a coach, trainer or consultant, you need to monitor and track your field of interest anyhow, and if you learn to put aside, organise and properly collect the good gems you find during your scouting time, you can provide a really useful service to your readers and followers.


Furthermore there is no lack of tools web services that can help you carry out this task without needing to learn new or difficult skills.


Here are my personal six tips of advice and my favorite top six tools you need to check out, if you ever decide to start curating your own weekly newsletter:



Tips


a. Limit the number of curated items. Less is more. Three is plenty. Five is a lot. 

b. Provide concise but useful, tangible info.


c. Offer always as much context as possible. Why you are presenting this info. Who can use it, for what purpose. 


d. Find a thread and follow it. Have a strong focus. Don't mix too many different things without a clear focus or direction.  


e. Add your own voice. Make it heard. Comment. Express opinions. Take a stand.


f. Be timely and consistent. Choose a day and time and respect it.




Tools


1. FlashIssue

Perfect Gmail integration. Use existing contacts as mailing lists. Drag 'n drop design editor. Content discovery, and search and instant import. Free trial. Then starts at $10/mo for 500 contacts. 

2. Goodbits

Friendly, elegant and simple to use. Integrates well with other services. Free to start.


3. Handpick

Handpick your favorite resources and share them with specific groups of interested people. Free trial. $2.99/mo


4. Curated

Everything you need to start a curated newsletter. Starts at $25/mo for 500 subs and 6 newsletters


5. Refreshbox 

Allows you to pick up 5 tools or content resources per issue. Free.


6. Curator

Collaborative curation for professional teams of up to 25 people. Starts at $199/mo



For more content curation tools please see: https://contentcuration.zeef.com/robin.good 


Image credit: Flashissue.com



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Pali's curator insight, March 10, 2015 8:35 AM

Newsletter marketing is a ploy that is being successfully used by many industry tools and these tools can help you setup your newsletter. 

LibrarianLand's curator insight, March 11, 2015 8:48 AM

Might make a good project for students; create your own newsletter.

Nedko Aldev's curator insight, April 5, 2015 12:21 PM

 

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Distribute Your Curated News via Newsletter: Scoop.it Integrates Mailchimp Functionality

Distribute Your Curated News via Newsletter: Scoop.it Integrates Mailchimp Functionality | Content Curation World | Scoop.it



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This is great news for Scoop.it curators: a newsletter functionality is now available in all Scoop.it accounts which allows instant integration with Mailchimp and the ability to select which of your curated news you want to distribute via email.


The new "Create a newsletter" feature allows you to decide also how many stories to include in each email, if to link directly (bypassing Scoop.it) to original articles curated, whether to show social sharing buttons, and an option to personalize the look of the newsletter with your own logo.


To try this new feature out, go - once logged in your Scoop.it account, go to "Manage" -> "Create Newsletter" or go to the equivalent of this URL: http://curation.masternewmedia.org/exportByEmail


A very welcome addition.




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antonbundle's curator insight, March 12, 2013 4:00 PM

L'intégration mailchimp et scoop it... Que du bonheur !!!

Luciano Giustini's curator insight, March 12, 2013 8:46 PM

Distribute Your Curated News via Newsletter: Scoop.it Integrates Mailchimp Functionality

Kim Flintoff's curator insight, March 31, 2013 8:01 PM

An effective way of distributing reading lists - for focussing students attention on current/relevant/conected issues... a range of uses for creative educators.

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A Great Way To Curate Your Newsletter: Handpick

A Great Way To Curate Your Newsletter: Handpick | Content Curation World | Scoop.it

Handpick is a great new service which allows you to curate a set of selected links to send out each day/week to your favorite groups of fans.


Though the use of a simple browser bookmarklet you can easily pick and save all of the most interesting resources and then have them sent out to your relevant subscribers.


How it works: "When you find a link you want to share, you click it, and it pops up a simple form for a title, link, description and a checklist of recipient groups you've created.


When you click 'share,' it doesn't buzz all your friends' phones right away. It collects links for you all day and sends an email digest to each group in the evening."


"Recipients of your Handpick links only get one message, and it arrives late in the day, when there's more time for thinking.


You create groups of contacts using whatever criteria you choose, and each group gets one message around 5 p.m. Pacific Time.


It has support for desktop and iPhone browser bookmarklets, a Chrome extension, and it can link with Instapaper."


Read the full review from ReadWriteWeb here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/handpick_selective_social_sharing_without_the_nois.php 


Sing up for the beta here: http://handpick.me/ 

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Aggregate, Curate and Publish Across Web, Social and Email with OpenTopic

Aggregate, Curate and Publish Across Web, Social and Email with OpenTopic | Content Curation World | Scoop.it
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OpenTopic is a news curation service which allows you to aggregate, monitor and filter any number of sources and to publish and share your selected ones to you selected outlets: from your WordPress site, to your social media channels and to your email newsletter engine.


Within OpenTopic you can create one or more "Topic" dashboards. These are essentially display pages that aggregate incoming fresh content from the sources you specify.  You can jump from one Topic dashboard to the next at the click of your mouse.


To curate stories you simpy select the ones that are relevant to your audience and you are provided with an editing module to modify and personalize the story content. At this point you can also select on which one of your outlets (Channels) that story will be published and you can customize the story differently for each one of them.


There is even an option that allows you to set-up some form of automated curation, by giving you the option to set up a set of simple rules, which when match, will trigger the publishing of a news story.


OpenTopic allows you to hook up to an extended number of possible Channels, making it easy for you to post from one location to your web site, RSS feed, social media and newsletter.


Last but not least, OpenTopic integrates a full analytics service, capable of reporting and showcasing the performance of your curation work across stories and distribution channels.



My comment: Excellent tool for social media and community managers, as well as web marketing specialists in need to support effectively the finding of relevant news on a topic and the easy publishing to different channels from a centralized platform. Easy to use.


Request an invite here: http://www.opentopic.com/




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Jose Jordan's curator insight, June 28, 2013 1:48 PM

OpenTopic es un servicio de curación de noticias que te permite agregar, monitorizar y filtrar cualquier número de fuentes para publicar y compartir tu selección en los sitios que prefieras desde WordPress,  canales de Social Media o boletín electrónico.

 

Dentro de OpenTopic puedes crear uno o más cuadros de mando "Topic". esencialmente muestra las páginas que donde se agregan nuevos contenidos y el contenido entrante de las fuentes que se especifiquen. Puedes saltar de un panel a otro topic con el clic de su ratón.

 

Para curar historias simplemente tienes que seleccionar los que son relevantes para tu público y se les proporciona un módulo de edición para modificar y personalizar el contenido de la historia. En este punto también se puede seleccionar en los (canales) que la historia será publicada y se puede personalizar la historia de manera diferente para cada uno de ellos.

 

Incluso hay una opción que te permite configurar algún tipo de curación automática, dándole la opción de establecer un conjunto de reglas sencillas, que cuando coincide, dará lugar a la publicación de una noticia.

 

OpenTopic te permite conectar a un mayor número de canales posibles, por lo que es fácil enviar de un lugar a tu sitio web, RSS, redes sociales y newsletter.

 

Por último, pero no menos importante, OpenTopic integra un servicio de análisis completo, capaz de informar y dar a conocer los resultados de su trabajo de curación a través de historias y canales de distribución.

 

 

Mi comentario: Excelente herramienta para redes sociales y community managers, así como especialistas de marketing web que necesitan el soporte eficaz para descubrir noticias relevantes sobre un tema y la publicación fácil de diferentes canales de una plataforma centralizada. Fácil de usar.

 

Solicitar una invitación aquí:http://www.opentopic.com/

 
Ness Crouch's curator insight, July 4, 2013 5:36 PM

I'm going to try this out! I could have everything in one place! I'm not sure if it will be as effective as my other tools but I'm willing to experiment.

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Pinterest Launches Curated Newsletters

Pinterest Launches Curated Newsletters | Content Curation World | Scoop.it
Pinterest has rolled out a newsletter that emails users curated content.


From Mashable: "Users on Pinterest usually have to seek interesting content for themselves, but a new feature quietly rolled out today drives them to even more personalized content.


...many users are sure to appreciate Pinterest’s new weekly email newsletter, making it easier to find even more great pins and helping them keep tabs on how their own pins are doing.


Mimicking the website’s pinboard style, each pin or board in the email is linked to the website, but users are unable to re-pin or like a post directly from the newsletter.


The newsletter lists a few popular boards, pins from friends that might be of interest and a useful feature for brands especially: your most popular pins of the week."


Full article: http://mashable.com/2012/06/02/pinterest-curated-newsletter/ 


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