Summary: <br> What is a Curation Commentary and what is the right approach to an effective commentary?<br> This is the 4 part in a series on Content Curation. You can find the other posts at the below links:<br> <br> * <a href="https://dkspeaks.com/tools-for-an-effective-content-curation-strategy/">Episode 44 – Content Curation Tools</a><br> * <a href="https://dkspeaks.com/what-is-content-curation/">Episode 45 – Content Curation Types and Strategy</a><br> * <a href="https://dkspeaks.com/common-content-curation-mistakes/">Episode 46 – Common Content Curation Mistakes</a><br> <br> By now I am sure you would have understood what curation is all about and also about the importance of commentary in an effective content curation strategy.<br> Curation is all about engaging your readers by providing them all the content that they are looking for, at one place and in one simple readable format.<br> And commentary is the value add that you do to the content that you are presenting to your readers.<br> What is an effective method of writing a curation commentary?<br> In this episode of the DKSpeaks Podcast, we will be discussing about the different types of curation commentary.<br> Effective Curation Commentary Styles<br> Curation is content aggregation. You are finding the best content from around the web and posting it at a single place for your readers. This is not a very difficult thing to do and there could be many others who will be doing the same thing.<br> So how do you stand out from the crowd?<br> Another aspect is about adding value to the content that you have curated. Your readers are not coming to your site just to read a bunch of links that you might have added to a post.<br> They would be interested in knowing what is so special about that link and what is your thought about the information in the post that the link leads to.<br> This is what commentary does in curation.<br> Commentary is about adding your thoughts about the content that you have just curated. And in this episode that is what we are discussing.<br> Here are some of things that we will be discussing in today’s episode –<br> <br> * 4 different commentary styles for effective content curation<br> * Adding value and standing out from the content curation crowd<br> * How to ensure your commentary is effective<br> <br> Resources mentioned in the episode<br> We did not discuss a lot about tools and resources in this episode. But there are some tools that we already discussed in our earlier episodes which are essentials for content curation.<br> Here are some of those tools –<br> <br> * <a href="http://blogcurationblueprint.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Blog Curation Blueprint</a><br> * <a href="http://feedly.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Feedly</a><br> * <a href="http://contentgems.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Content Gems</a><br> * <a href="http://www.rightrelevance.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rightrelevance</a><br> * <a href="http://Drumup.io" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Drumup.io</a><br> * <a href="http://scoop.it" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Scoop.it</a><br> * <a href="http://paper.li" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Paper.li</a><br> * <a href="https://workflowy.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Workflowy</a><br> * <a href="http://evernote.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Evernote</a><br> * Onenote<br> * <a class="thirstylink" title="CurationSuite" href="https://dkspeaks.com/get/curationsuite/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CurationSuite</a><br> <br> Thank you for Joining<br> Thank you for joining today’s show and I hope you all enjoyed the show today.<br> Here are 3 things to do, if you really enjoyed the show today –<br> <br> * <a href="https://dkspeaks.com/dksp-podcast/">Subscribe to the podcast</a> and get access to an exclusive episode on “creating effective content” and ...
