Here are some steps and tools we recommend for getting started with content curation.

1. http://www.oneforty.com
Getting Started With Content Curation
1. Use PostPost to search by keyword in your Twitter community and identify
who Tweets about your topic the best and the most.
2. Use Cadmus to identify trending Tweets and community members who
seem to be on top of them.
3. Retweets are the simplest form of content curation. Create a private
Twitter list of your “best Tweets” community members and monitor that list
in a client with column functionality (Tweetdeck, Seesmic, Hootsuite, etc.)
4. Research who from your community has a blog. Use Website Grader to
identify the best websites.
5. Create a Google Reader folder of all their RSS feeds. Share your RSS
folder with team members: http://bit.ly/fklIrw.
6. Do weekly “Link Roundup” style blog posts to give links/recognition to
those community members who blog in your industry.
a. Examples: Blueleaf: http://bit.ly/dSZjBo
b. HubSpot: http://bit.ly/hefjyG
c. oneforty: http://bit.ly/fiaoy6
7. Tweet and share the content on Facebook, including the @name of the
community members whose content you are showcasing to spark
engagement.
8. Measure and iterate: run a weekly Tweetreach report and see your most
clicked links in your Bit.ly account. Pay attention to what language and
content resonates the most with your community and iterate your content
curation as you go.
For more tools to help with content curation, see my Toolkit on oneforty:
http://bit.ly/enM30s.