My “Scoop” on Scoop.it
The skinny on Scoop.it
Scoop.it was launched to the public in 2011 as a tool ( publish-by- curation-platform) that allows anyone to create and distribute curated content in a magazine style format – in effect you become your own online publisher. The founder and CEO of Scoop.it is Guillaume Decugis and here is his short YouTube video explaining why he built this curation platform.
During the beta phase, Scoop.it was a free platform but that changed recently where you now have four options to upgrade to the different plans according to what you need. ( I am using the free version at this time and find it good enough for now, but would like to upgrade at some point in the future)
To use Scoop.it you can use their web browser bookmarklet to collect news, articles. You can also create custom scoops from the different social neworks and to show you an example of a custom scoop, I created this scoop to show you a tweet that I collected as you can see here -> Scoop.it post
Now lets go into the usage of Scoop.it and how to really make it work for you!
Scoop.it is not just another ..lets collect a bunch of links and hope people will notice you and its not always about YOU! It truly is about curating related articles that you find and adding value to what has already been said via that article. Even when you are scooping your own blog post, put yourself as a reader and offer an insight to why you are scooping this post to add value to that post you are sharing.
I read an awesome explanation about being a good curator ( and I wish I could remember who said it!)
“As a curator, the ultimate compliment to give is to properly share and cite all of the content you’ve created, add your insight while giving due credit to the creator and presenting their content in a meaningful way.”
To start using Scoop.it you need to think about what your theme is going to be about and you need to give it some thought. Even on the free account you have a lot of room to work with as you can see by the scoop.it theme I have created its all about what people on Adlandpro will be interested in ( and hopefully others lol). You can add a header and make your Scoop.it as unique as you are.
As you are wanting to become an authority on your topic keep in mind these pointers:
1. While the posts you curate ( even yours) come with images and I hope you are understanding the value of images lol, sometimes you can add more value by adding your own image to the post especially posts who are sadly lacking in an image.
2. When you think about the post that you are curating, think about why you want to share it? On the description part of anything you are sharing you can change the description and you can choose the wording you want people to see
3. Do not ever copy the whole post..did I mention ever? Not only is that boring, but it is stealing a persons hard work and never to be done
4. Going back to number 2.. why you are creating/curating a post add a good insight to what this post means to you. Some of the best Scoops I have seen offer something of value where I want to read the whole post. Sometimes I have also read scoops where people dont agree with the original content and that will get me curious to want to know more.
5 remember your keywords and add them to your post so that people withing the Scoop community can find you
6. After you have created a Scoop, then you need to share it! Even though under the free version you can only share with two social networks, You can use tools such as Hootsuite to share a post to your networks. I have my scoop.it hooked up to LinkedIn as well as buffer, which is a good way for me to get my scoopsto other networks.
Scoop.it is a valuable tool and as it is also a community, you can find people to follow and the more value you add, they will follow you!
One last point to Scoop.it is that if you are stuck on what to curate, there is the nifty feature of scoop suggestions from other people that will give you many ideas on what to scoop.
I hope this blog post has given you some ideas on Scoop.it, what it is and how it can be used, now my question to you is..how could you see this tool being used for what you are doing?
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Feb 09, 2014 @ 13:33:40
Excellent, I use Scoop-it as well. As you’ve written this is a great content driven platform
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Feb 09, 2014 @ 15:34:15
When you have time, maybe put in your Scoop.it URL so that I can follow you? I think people go wrong when they try to just copy text from a scoop, instead of putting their own unique thoughts or insights as to “why” they liked or even disliked something they read. It should always be about value and it should always be about something related to what a person is doing.
Nice to see your feedback Lawrence
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Feb 11, 2014 @ 06:20:23
ok this sounds really great. Thanks for the info I’ll be checking out Scoop.it real soon. Sounds like a great marketing tool and another resource for sharing quality content fast. Cheers BG
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Feb 11, 2014 @ 15:49:20
I hope I explained Scoop.it easy enough where you would see the value of using this as a tool to reach out to others. I know some people who use Scoop.it as a blog and it works well for them. The community is very cool and you can learn a lot of interesting topics and not just marketing ( although I have noticed people can share the most amazing things). Have an awesome day Brett.
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Feb 11, 2014 @ 16:34:30
I have never used Scoop.it. Actually never joined i think. But in this short online life, I have joined thousands of site and forgot most of them. lol. So now i am choosy about joining any new site. I think this is the cause why I have not joined yet in Scoop.it. I am not in a position to maintain any new site or community membership.
By the way, here is a nice explanatory post about ‘how to start’ this great tools. I think i saw a scoop of Branka
Hope it will be helpful for them who are searching such great tool!!
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Feb 11, 2014 @ 16:58:26
Hi Hafiz:-)
Branka was one of those special people that you meet rarely and you treasure forever. Branka wanted to learn everything she could about being online and I remember only too well when she started to use Scoop.it and then she proceeded to teach others ( messaging me with questions lol)
Is there such a thing as having too many tools? yes there is, but I will say that Scoop.it is great for creating content and its great to brand yourself and as a bonus it is good for SEO.
I’m glad that I could explain this resource/tool to you and hope one day you will have a chance to try it out.
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Feb 11, 2014 @ 17:11:49
Thanks Diane for prompt reply. 100% agreed with you about Branka!
I will have a look on scoop.it and if feel interest, i will try. and if decide to try, i think you will also get few questions from me 😀
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Feb 13, 2014 @ 09:18:12
Thanks Diane for sharing this great information.. I didn’t even know about Scoop it.. I am going to check it out soon..
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Feb 13, 2014 @ 17:14:22
I was thinking about how you personally could use this “tool” keeping in mind that the purpose is to curate topics.
If (for example) you created a topic on “Retro” and found or added Your different items from your store and gave a history of the item..then I could see this being a popular topic for people. If (and this is something you should also do..then find other retro history or stuff that others are sharing and pull them to you so they will be interested in you) It truly is about sharing!
It does take work and it does take time, but I feel it is time well worth spent.
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Feb 17, 2014 @ 03:36:54
hi diane. in your post you men tion you are using a free scoop.it, but your scoop.it page appears to have a custom header Adlandpro. When I try and get custom hearder on my scoop.it page it keeps directing me to the pro upgrade…please advise thanks
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Feb 17, 2014 @ 16:10:11
Good morning Brett and apologies for the late reply.
I had to play with everything to get a header done, which was fun lol
What I did was go into settings and clicked on branding and then I clicked on “header”.
you have a few choices:
header on left, header on Center, header on Right, choose your image (964px x 115px).. that is what I chose and after creating an image I uploaded it and saved.
low and behold it worked!
I hope this will help you
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