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Curating top content from around the web is a great strategy to increase your social media reach. For example, we grew our Facebook reach tremendously with high-quality content from third-party sources.
But where do you start with curation?
There are many great websites on all sorts of topics. With our community’s help, we put together an ultimate list of content curation sources across multiple industries. From design to education, marketing to remote work, and beyond.
I hope you’ll find some great websites for your content curation strategy.
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The big list of content curation sources across multiple topics
When we put out a tweet asking for help, suggestions poured in immediately. I was blown away by the responses. To keep the list manageable, I’ve picked only some of the bigger websites and blogs. Do check out the replies to our tweet here for all the great recommendations as the list here is definitely incomplete.
Also, as I’m not familiar with many of the topics, I’ve included lists of blogs created by the awesome people in the respective industries.
Here are all the categories covered in this list:
How to curate quickly from your favorite sites
Just a quick aside: my favorite method of curating content quickly is to use an RSS reader like Feedly.
First, I set up my feed by finding popular sites with Feedly’s search engine. If I know the sites I want to add to my Feedly, I would enter their URLs and follow their RSS feed.
Feedly also makes it easy to search for top sites for various topics. You can either search using keywords or browse the topics they’ve curated.
I’ve added a Feedly follow button () by each of the sites below so that you can easily subscribe to its feed in Feedly.
When I’m curating content to share, I would open up Feedly, scan through the latest posts from the sites I’m following, and read only those that stand out.
If you are strapped for time, you can quickly spot the viral articles in your feed by switching to “Title-Only View” and looking for articles with a huge number by its title. Articles with a number in the hundreds and thousands or an orange number are those that are trending and more popular than the rest of the articles from that site.
Once I’ve found the articles that I want to share, I’ll use the Buffer extension (or the Feedly Buffer integration) to add them to my queue.
Here’s a GIF of how this step looks like:
70+ content curation sources to check out
Business
Ecommerce Marketing Blog by Shopify: A blog about ecommerce marketing, running an online business and updates to Shopify’s ecommerce community.
First Round Review: Liberating the powerful, untapped knowledge out there that can transform the way people build technology.
Think Growth by HubSpot: Stories, insights and ideas to help you and your business grow.
Smart Passive Income Blog: Smart ways to live a passive income lifestyle on the internet.
For those in small businesses, you might like The Best Small Business Blogs of 2017 list by Fit Small Businesses. It covers blogs in categories like retail, accounting, insurance and legal.
Career, recruiting, and hiring
Hired blog: Your one-stop-shop for technical career guides, as well as hiring and recruiting expertise.
The Muse: Expert advice to answer your career questions.
For more blogs on this topic, Credit Donkey put together a big list of career blogs and resources and shared why each of them is a top career resource.
Data, Data Visualization, and Data Science
Information is Beautiful: Dedicated to distilling the world’s data, information and knowledge into beautiful, interesting and, above all, useful visualizations, infographics and diagrams.
Visual Capitalist: Rich visual content for the modern investor. Visual Capitalist is a new way to discover business opportunities and learn about investment trends.
Flowing Data: Flowing Data explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization and exploration to understand data and ourselves.
No Free Hunch: The official blog of Kaggle, the home of data science and machine learning.
Simply Statistics: Ideas that the authors (three biostatistics professors) find interesting, contributing to the discussion of science/popular writing, linking to articles that inspire them and sharing advice with up-and-coming statisticians.
Data — O’Reilly Media: Our take on the ideas, information, and tools that make data work.
For more data science blogs, check out this popular Quora thread, which has been viewed over 270,000 times.
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