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Curation Tips
 

• Always be very picky about what you curate. Only the best of the best should show in your curated posts. It will reflect on you as a curator and information source and you will get more links and buzz for keeping your quality very high.
   

• Be creative with your post construction. Come up with a goal for each post, like what you really want the readers to get out of it, and how you're going to make it super valuable to them. Sometimes this will require that you post something from all sources, while other times you will just want to post the top YouTube videos on a topic. It all depends on the goal you set for the outcome of each post.
   

• Professional curators provide commentary and their own thoughts and ideas in each curated post in order to "make sense" of the post topic and everything they've curated into it. You must not just drag and drop a whole bunch of stuff into a post without tying it together with your own commentary!
   

• Use other tools, like Zemanta, to beef up your curated posts even more. Zemanta uses a different source for blogs and gives you even more links to curate into your posts as "Related Articles." This gives your readers even more great choices and gives you the ability to get even more trackback links. It's like a cherry on top of an ice cream sundae!
   

• Make it fun! Even if your blog covers relatively dry topics, there's no reason not to seek to entertain your readers. Experiment with your commentary to make your curated posts more engaging and fun. Sometimes you can curate just the most entertaining infomration you find spice up what would normally be a dry list of links to more dry information. You want people to say things like this about your curation: "I love the way they deliver this information." or "I love the style of this curator." This is how you stand out among other people who are just aggregating content without regard for the way the information comes off to readers.
   

• Go big: create large posts that are exhaustive resources of information and links to convey huge value in the amount of research that must have been done to create a great post.
   

• Go small: create posts that curate only a few different sources to convey a sense that the reader can quickly consume and learn about new things around a topic without a ton of reading.