2015/09/13

80+ Comprehensive Content Curation Tools for Your Next Marketing Project

content curation tool
With a content curation platform, allows you to find your related interest industry for an effective business idea from a trending topic day to day. Build your personal brand into specific interest, promote your self by distribute it to any marketing channel, and much more you get it.

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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2015/09/09

Best 8 Free Transcription Software

Best free Transcription Software
This tool useful to transcribe your audio & video files into text. Obviously... this would be very useful for various needs of your project either for business, medical, journalist, digital product, research, education, and so forth.

relevant topic :
From many best transcription software, I decided to review the free version, and I want a completely free tool but powerful. You do not need to spend money ... :)

To complete your reference, some premium versions of transcription software, can be found on Wikipedia ( list of speech recognition software ), or transcription (software)

Here are best free audio or video transctription software, which I sorted according to your needs both cloud-based app or desktop app.

Hope it useful. please enjoy ... :)

1. oTranscribe : a free open source HTML5 app to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews. Useful for journalists, academics and anyone else transcribing audio.

features : no more switching between Quicktime and Word, Private - your audio file and transcript never leave your computer, Pause, rewind and fast-forward without taking your hands off the keyboard, Export to Markdown, plain text and Google Docs, interactive timestamps to navigate through your transcript with, video file support with integrated player, automatically saved to your browser's storage every second, Open source under the MIT license.

2. Express Scribe : a free transcription Software for Typists to assist the transcription of audio recordings.

features : free version supports common audio formats, including wav, mp3, wma and dct. Variable speed playback (constant pitch), supports audio and video playback, plays most formats including encrypted dictation files. Supported with professional foot pedal controllers, uses 'hotkeys' to control playback when transcribing into other software (e.g., Word), dock both analog and digital portable voice recorders to load recordings, works with Microsoft Word and all major word-processors, automatically receives and loads files by internet (FTP), email or over a local computer network, automatically sends typing to those who dictated the work, much more.

3. Listen N Write : a freeware transcription software. This tool can be used to play and transcribe ordinary audio and video recordings (WAV, MP3, OGG, WMA, AVI, MPG, WMV, OGV, FLV, VOB, TS, etc).

features : you can control via keys (while using its integrated word processor) and insert time markers (bookmarks), automatically rewound a few seconds when pressing the Pause key.

4. Advene Project : an annotate digital video, It aims at providing a model and a format to share annotations about digital video documents (movies, courses, conferences...), as well as tools to edit and visualize the hypervideos generated from both the annotations and the audiovisual documents.

features : full text transcription of the talk, enriched with titles and links, as well as a short summary built from excerpt of the talk. Moreover, a RDF version of some data is available (automatically generated). 

5. TranscriberAG : a tool for segmenting, labeling and transcribing speech.

features : provides a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) for segmenting long duration speech recordings, transcribing them, labeling speech turns, topic changes and acoustic conditions.

6. ClipFlair : a European-funded project for foreign language learning through interactive revoicing and captioning of clips. Revoicing refers to any interaction between speech and image, such as dubbing, audio description, karaoke singing and reciting. Captioning refers to any interaction between writing and image, such as conventional subtitling, same language subtitling, transcription, video annotations and comments.

features : zoomable container, captions component, text component, audio recording and playback (WAV/MP3 playback, in-memory recording, WAV export), image component (ZoomImage + MultiScaleImage - DeepZoom), gallery component (PivotViewer), Standard Caption Formats support (CaptionsLib - SRT, TTS, Adobe Encore, FAB), much more.

7. Easytranscript : an easy to use transcription-software with a high feature volume.

features : easy to use editor for text; media player for audio and video files; save your project, export your project, export transcript, print transcript; undo/redo function; play with the text formatting; search and replace function; automatic work time monitoring; shortkeys and hotkeys; insert time stamp; change spokesperson.

8. GenScriber : a free desktop application, for transcribing genealogy documents from images of census registers, church/parish records etc.

features : clipboard filters, column options toolbar, GenScriber validation, the image viewer, importing and exporting, language support, language translation editor, main menu bar, preferences, help index, templates, textpad area, worksheet area, worksheet column options, worksheet toolbar.


have other recommendations of transcription tool?

Happy to share with you ...

Happy freelancing, keep working, keep healthy, enjoy your life :)

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2015/09/08

Top Online Data Entry Job Sites for Freelancers

best online data entry jobs
Data entry is one of popular home base jobs as well as a favourite make money online way by simple typing work. You are free to decide when and where you work with only internet connection, laptop, PC, or Smartphone.

I think, if you have a basic as an administrator or operator, this offer is very simple but is required to be patient for doing.

There are many jobs curator sites that offering data entry services like Elance, Upwork (oDesk), Fiverr, Guru, Freelancer, FlexJobs, PeopleperHour, and more.

But this time, I only choose 3 best online data entry jobs marketplace according to my personally analysis.

related topic : best virtual assistant jobs marketplace

1. Axiondata : Axiondata is a full-service data entry and forms processing service bureau serving a national market. Established in 1996. Have a global workforce located in the US and India. You will be paid on a per-piece basis. Each of projects is different, varying in complexity. For some projects, the amount of data to be entered is small and people are able to input anywhere from 2-4 forms per minute. Compensation for these projects ranges from 4-8 cents per form. Other projects are complex, requiring 30-60 minutes per document, with compensation ranging from $5-9 per document. All contractors working on the same project are paid the same per-piece rate. There is a small administrative fee for joining as a member/employee.













 2. HEA : HEA has been in business since 1998. Have been members of the Better Business Bureau since 2000, the World Wide Chamber of Commerce since 2008 and NetCheck since 1998. There are monthly, quarterly and yearly membership options. Have full-time, part-time, permanent, contract, temporary and freelance jobs that pay weekly, bi-weekly or monthly.













3. Time ect : Time Ect has been supporting business owners and entrepreneurs all over the USA and UK Since 2007. You will be working as a Virtual Assistant to complete a wide variety of personal assistant and administration tasks, such as schedule management or document editing, for a number of different people. Pay you with starting rate of $11 per hour.













Hopefully helpful ...

Have other recommendations for best online entry jobs? Glad to know your experience.

Happy freelancing, keep working, keep healthy, and enjoy your life...:)

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2015/09/07

Top 9 Online Transcription Job Sites for Freelancers

Online Transcription Job
Work at home with voice-to-text jobs. Yeah... You can earn money online throught transcription audio or video service. You can get paid per audio transcription ( hourly or minute basis ).

There are many online transcription jobs you can choose on their offers. Usually medical, legal, audio - video music transcription are most popular transcription jobs that I know.

After you apply your application, most of them will reviewing and then make an exam for their qualified transcriber.

Okey...below there are some online transcription services for your additional freelance project. If you are a skilled transcriptionist, hope them helps your extra income :)

1. Scribie : provide general transcription. You'll get $10/audio hour pay rate, USD, Short files, 6 minutes or less, 2 hours TAT for each file, there is monthly bonus of $10 for every 3 hours completed. withdraw your earnings to your PayPal account anytime. No obligations, no monthly commitments or withdrawal limits. International membership.

2. Casting Words : transcription for MP3 audio or video format, price per minute of audio, support with transcription in English, France, Spanish language. You can request payout for minimum $1. International member accepted.

3. Transcribe Me : You can choose English or Spanish exam to join as a transcriber. Transcription with specializations like legal, medical. Pay per audio hour with $20. You can request payment on weekly basis. International member accepted.

4. Transcribe Team : You'll get $0.40 - $1.25 range of pay per audio minute. Pay weekly. International membership.

5. Get Transcribed : provides audio to text transcription and video captioning service for business, academic or personal needs. Pay transcription $1 per audio minute. Payment monthly with $100 minimum.

6. Rev : a new growing online transcription service. There are 3 service offered with online audio transcription, video captions, and document translation services. If you joining as transcriber, you'll get range of pay per audio minute $0.40 - $0.65. Weekly payout. International membership.

7. Way With Words : there are 4 types of transcription offered such as audio transcription, video transcription, custom transcription, and budget transcription. At this site, there are transcription jobs on different countries such as Canada, Australia, UAE, Brazil, Hongkong, UK, USA, European Union, South Africa, Singapore. There is no rate to pay, but all depend upon your own availability and skills and work available.

8. QuickTate : provides transcribe voicemails, personal dictations, call recordings service. The rate of pay for Quicktate general transcription is 0.0025 per word, that is ¼ cent per word (this is equal to 1 cent for every 4 words.), medical transcription is 0.0050 per word, that is 1/2 cent per word (this is equal to 1 cent for every 2 words.), iDictate transcription is 0.0050 per word, that is 1/2 cent per word (this is equal to 1 cent for every 2 words.). Payment weekly.

9. Transcribe : have some basic requirements such as you must have transcription experience with a good comprehension of the English language, ability to meet deadlines, experience using transcription hardware and software. All transcriptionists will pay based on your perform. Calculated based on several variables, including turnaround time and task complexity, as well as the required accuracy. Payments via PayPal every day.


Have an experience with the service above?

Happy freelancing, keep working, keep healthy, good luck for all :)

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2015/09/05

Best 15+ Online Tutoring Job Marketplace for Freelancers

online tutoring
Whoever you are, if you have any specific skill, you can share your knowledge to all people of the world anywhere and anytime through online tutor marketplace.

Many fields that you can choose in the online course/training marketplace such as technology information, web development, Photoshop skills, writing, selling, motivator, and so forth.

relevan topic :

In this way, everyone else will be helped through your skills well as an extra income for you as a freelance.

Below... I have chosen from the many online tutoring job sites, you can join to become a teacher/author/mentor/instructor... and all registration is free of charge.

Please enjoy, and good luck ...:)

1. Udemy : reach millions of students worldwide in the largest online learning marketplace, and deliver your course on any device, at any time. Build your courses on your own time using free and easy-to-use course creation tools. Udemy handles all customer service, payment processing and hosting fees, all at no cost to you.

Course categories : General such as IT & Software, marketing, business, personal development, academics, healthy & fitness, design, music, language, lifestyle, much more.

2. Udacity : industry credentials for jobs in tech.

Cources categories : front-end web development, full-stack web development, mobile development, data analyst, programming.

3. General Assembly :  a computer programming school. Become an author with full-time, part-time, or spare-time position.

course categories : Web development, UX design, product management, data analysis, digital marketing, mobile development, business foundations.

4. Pluralsight : an unlimited online developer, IT and creative courses.

course categories : All IT solution courses such as security, networking, sql-server, mobile, 3ds-max, windows-server, java, game development, programming, etc.

5. Learnable ( is now SitePoint Premium ) : library for web developers and designers.

course categories : programming, design, mobile development.

6. Digitaltutors ( a part of Pluralsight) : a professional creative tutorials & training.

course categories : all creative software includes Photoshop, affer effect tutorials, maya, Cinema 4D, Softimage, 3ds-Max, Zbrush, illustrator, etc.

7. Skillshare :  a learning community for creators. Anyone can take an online class, watch video lessons, create projects, and even teach a class themselves.

course categories : general topics such as crafts, culinary, design, diy, entrepreneurship, film, fashion, gaming, music, photography, technology, writing, and creativity.

8. Infinite Skills ( now a part of o'Reilly ) : high quality training in HD Video.

course categories : web development, business & IT solution includes animation/3D, CAD/BIM applications, graphic design, web design, video editing, audio editing, business applications, Microsoft Office, operating systems, networking, programming, mobile development, much more.

9. Frontendmasters : expert front-end training. master building quality web interfaces.

course categories : front-end web development with HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, UI framework, etc.

10. Lynda ( a Linkedin company ): online video and training solutions for businesses, schools, government, and more.

course categories : general in business, web development, web design, photography, other creative tutorials.

11. Tuts+ ( a part of Envato ) : a creative professionals community.

course categories : general in creative work like coding, design, illustration, photography, web design, etc.

11. Thinkful : community of programmers, designers and data scientists.

course categories : general in front-end or back-end web app development solution like Node.js, UX web design, programming, mobile app development, etc.

12. Treehouse : an online interactive education platform that offers courses in web, mobile and business development.

course categories : Wordpress learning, mobile app development, web design, programming.

13. o'Reilly :  technology books, online services, and tech conferences.

Topics : general in IT programming, mobile app development.

14. Code School ( a part of Pluralsight ) : teaches web technologies in the comfort of your browser with video lessons, coding challenges, and screencasts.

course categories : angular.JS, sass, rails, jQuery, Objective-C.

15. Bloc.io :  online coding bootcamps for web designers and web developers.

course categories : UX/UI design, mobile app development, front-end web development, full-stack web development.

16. Simplilearn : a provider of professional certification training.

course categories : Android development training, Big-data and Hadoop, PMP, PRINCE2, ITIL, CFA, FRM, Six Sigma, Cloud Computing, CISA, JAVA, more.

17.  Mijingo :  web development and web design from training videos, books, ebooks, screencasts and tutorials.

course categories : general in web design, development, and CMS/Publishing.

18. HackHands ( a part of Pluralsight ) : Instantly connect with a qualified expert and get hands-on help 24/7.

course categories : Java, Node.js, Android, C#, .NET, PHP, Ember.js, iOS, Javascript, Angular.js, Golang, Meteor.js, SQL, Ruby on Rails, HTML & CSS, CoffeeScript, Haskell, Python & Django, Scala.

19. WizIQ : a cloud based learning platform which helps you build your own online academy.

course categories : general learning such as mathematics, accounting and finance, analytics, English language, business, leadership, lifestyle, programming online, much more.


You have any other recommendations?

happy freelancing, keep working, keep healthy, good luck for all :)

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