I think, using content curation tool is perfect to "social marketing strategy". Not only allows to collecting many ideas for your next projects but you can connect to the large targeted audience too.
relevant topic : best marketing apps for freelance marketers
Ok. Here are top content curation platforms as "a market research tool" to helps your freelancing work in next projects.
I've compiled adjust to your interests, and other multi-function both as a writer, journalist, product creator, web designer, web developer, programmer, blogger or internet marketer.
hopefully assist you, please enjoy ... :)
1. Scoop.it : a content curation and content marketing software. Allows you to discover, curate and publish great content to get visibility online. You also find relevant content and share it to your social networks. Integrated with MailChimp make it easier to deliver newsletters with curated content.
2. Feedly : lets you organize all your favorite publications, podcasts or YouTube channels into collections and receive updates.
3. Storify : create stories using social media, Turn what people post on social media into compelling stories. Collect the best photos, video, tweets and more.
4. Curata : enables marketers to scale content marketing to grow leads and revenue.
5. ByPeople : curated network for developers and designers.
6. Y Combinator : find large tech news or hacker news.
7. Medium : a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you.
8. Slashdot : source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.
9. Reddit : an entertainment, social networking, and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links, making it essentially an online bulletin board system.
10. Alltop : Find all the top headlines from popular topics around the web.
11. Digg : a news aggregator with a curated front page, aiming to select stories specifically for the internet audience such as science, trending political issues, and viral Internet issues.
12. Delicious (formerly del.icio.us ): a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks.
13. Designernews : a community where design and technology professionals share interesting links and timely events.
14. Technorati : a real-time search for user-generated media (including weblogs) by tag or keyword. Also provides popularity indexes.
15. oozled : the largest curated list of creative resources online.
16. Pinterest : a visual discovery tool that you can use to find ideas for all your projects and interests.
17. Quora : a question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of users.
18. iFlow : discover, create, curate, and follow Flows on any topic.
19. Flipboard : is a social-network aggregation, magazine-format mobile app localized in more than 20 languages.
20. devshelf : a collection of best links for developers by developers. with community rating.
21. Codeproject : a free source code and tutorials for Software developers and Architects.
22. Dzone : programming, web development, and devOps news, tutorials and tools for beginners to experts. Hundreds of free publications, over 1M members, totally free.
23. Github : where people build software. More than 10 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 26 million projects.
24. ContentGems : helps marketers find, curate, and share engaging content so they can build their company's thought leadership and increase qualified website.
25. Netvibes : the dashboard of everything, integrating your social media feeds, favorite blogs, news, email, weather and more--all in one dashboard.
26. Kuratur : provides a content marketer for freelancers, allowing them to assemble a page of of targeted relevant content onto their website.
27. PublishThis : helps businesses produce better content more often for the web, email, & social so they can achieve content marketing & digital publishing goals.
28. Disqus : a blog comment hosting service offering a platform for social integration, social networking, user profiles, analytics and more.
29. PearlTrees : a place to organize all your interests. It lets you organize, explore and share everything you like.
30. Google News : comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
31. Pocket : you find something you want to read or watch later, save it to Pocket and view on any device, any time.
32. inboundli : helps content marketers increase reach and engagement on social media through relevant content and optimized publishing.
33. Sniply : allows you to share other people's content and still easily bring them back to your own content.
34. Listly : a free service that let's you easily create lists of the things you want and share them with the people you love.
35. Spundge : makes it easy to track the best information, distill knowledge, form compelling ideas, and create influential content.
36. TrapIt : a comprehensive content curation service for business that offers content discovery, curation, and publishing to web.
37. Bundlr : a new and free tool to collect everything about your favorite topics.
38. Triberr : a community of talented bloggers and influencers come together to read and share great content.
39. BuzzSumo : find the most shared content and key influencers.
40. Opentopic: brings your content and transactions together for measurable marketing results.
41. Learnist : Learnist is a knowledge social network. Save and share everything you're learning from around the web.
42. BundlePost : helps you curate unique content, post marketing messages, hashtag and schedule them for 3-5 days in 20 min so you can get social media results.
43. Paper.li : you can become a publisher by turning Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or any web content into an online newspaper.
44. Thinglink : an interactive media platform that empowers publishers, educators, brands, and bloggers to create more engaging content by adding rich media.
45. Waywire : an effort to create more efficiency around video curation.
46. Kapost : provides content marketing software that enables companies to manage their content marketing as a structured business process.
47. Pressly : a content curation platform helping top brands own the conversation their customers are interested in.
48. start.me : create a personal startpage with your most important bookmarks and RSS feeds. Easy to use, reliable and completely (ad) free.
49. About.me : makes it easy for people to learn about you and find your content.
50. Themeefy : allows you to create and publish your own e-Magazines.
51. Symbaloo : you surf with one click to all of your favorite websites. Symbaloo is an easy to use app and best of all, it's free.
52. The Tweeted Times : automatically find, publish and promote content to engage and grow your community. Read your Twitter as a personal newspaper.
53. Addict-o-matic: Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images.
54. Hashtags : tracks the frequency that a hashtag is used on Twitter and provides details about the hashtag.
55. ClipZine.me: a new powerful styling tool for content curators.
56. Kippt: makes it easy to save, organize, search and read information you find on the web.
57. LiveBinders : you can create a central hub full of resources on a topic that you choose.
58. Socl by Microsoft : lets you create, collect and share stuff you love. From rich visual collages to short animated media, express yourself through posts that take seconds to create, collect and share.
59. webdesignernews : a curated collection of the best news for designers each day.
60. Publicate : generate leads by publishing curated content. Create curated newsletters, resource hubs, lead magnets, branded social shares, and more in minutes.
61. TagBoard : tagboard uses hashtags to search for and collect public social media within seconds of being posted to networks like Twitter and Facebook, just to name a few.
62. FlashIssue : a Gmail newsletter creator that helps you find content, create mailing lists and get reports & analytics for emails sent with Gmail.
63. utopic.me : provides the fastest one-click bookmarking with auto-tagging.
64. PopUrls : the premium aggregator to the best of the web, available on every major platform and device.
65. SurfMark : a tool that lets you manage your web-based research more effectively and share/collaborate on it easily.
66. BagTheWeb : designed to help you find great content, place it into your topic bags and share those bags with communities of interested.
67. Spredfast : an enterprise social media marketing platform that helps marketers manage audience experiences and monitor brand engagement.
68. EverPost.me : everypost enables you to customize your content to suit the audience of each social media platform.
69. LinkedIn Pulse : award-winning app puts relevant professional content at your fingertips and makes sharing with your network.
70. Newsle ( a part of LinkedIn Company ): when your friends & colleagues make the news, we make sure you know. Never miss an article about someone who matters to you.
71. YourVersion : a real-time discovery engine that discovers new, relevant content for you based on your interests and makes it easy to bookmark or share.
72. Prismatic : providing solutions to machine learning problems like topic classification and content recommendation.
73. Keemix : allows you to gather loved content from the web, mix it into your own custom-designed pages, and share it to inspire your friends and colleagues.
74.Gimme Bar : take the content that you’ve been saving and tell a story about yourself or the world. Gimme Bar collections make great wishlists, favorites, inspiration, research.
75. Zimilate : a free web service to save and organize your favorite web content, images, notes etc.
76. StumbleUpon : a discovery engine that finds and recommends web content to its users. Its features allow users to discover and rate Web pages, photos and videos that are personalized to their tastes.
77. Youtube : share your videos with friends, family, and the world.
78. Huzzaz : discover and share videos that educate, entertain, and inspire.
79. Zeef : a curated directory, passionate people create top lists of links about their favourite topics. They have sifted and ranked the best results for you.
80. Eventful : find upcoming events near you, with listings, tour dates and tickets for concerts, festivals, movies, performing arts, family events, sports and more.
81. BoingBoing : news directory include technology, futurism, science fiction, gadgets, intellectual property, Disney and left-wing politics, etc.
82. GoodBits : create newsletters from the best links on the web.
83. postano : a social media aggregation and display platform.
84. curationsuite : allows you to easily publish content from any market or niche.
85. sociuslive : a social curation platform for live events.
Have experience or other recommendations? glad to know it...
happy freelancing, keep working, keep healthy, and good luck for all :)
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