Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

Where do you find new valuable content for your area of interest? Here a few selected tools that can help you out.

Via Robin Good, jaynalocke

Robin Good: the Content Strategy Generator Tool (CSGT) by Daniel Butler of SEOgadget is a Google Docs-based spreadsheet that allows you to input a specificic keyword or search-phrase and to find rapidli trending news articles from a number of relevant sources.

 

These include:

Bing News Google News Digg Reddit Topsy Twittorati Redux Helium Cracked Fark Blog Catalog Yahoo Answers Uber Suggest Google Insights How Stuff Works

 

"That’s not all, though—the Source and Place tab will tell you how to find the top Twitter experts, bloggers, and editors in your niche. Use this to figure out who you can follow—and start new relationships with."

 

Highly recommended. useful. 8/10

 

Review from ProBlogger: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2012/05/12/the-must-have-blog-post-topic-generation-tool/ ;

More info: https://seogadget.co.uk/content-strategy-generator-tool-v2-update/  ;

 

https://seogadget.co.uk/using-google-docs-to-generate-hot-content-strategies/ ;

 

CSGT Tool: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj4U6wmYE1X6dDB5S1lDUXFzaTUxME5IRmJqZ2ozZGc 

 

(Thanks to Alessandro Murra for discovering it) 

Via Robin Good

Robin Good: If you are looking for new RSS feeds of quality news sources to curate your own newsradar, the RSS Search Engine by Digital Inspiration may come to the rescue.

This free and easy to use RSS search engine, makes it very easy to search for your preferred keywords-keyphrases and it spits out instantly a selection of ten RSS feeds covering, at least in part, that very topic.

 

From the official site: "The RSS search engine will help you discover the most popular feeds on the web around your favorite topics. You may find blogs, news websites, podcasts, Twitter accounts and more."

Try it out now: http://ctrlq.org/rss/  ;

 

[Very useful content research tool - JD]

Via Robin Good

Robin Good: Curate.me is a customizable personal news briefing service that allows you to define up to ten specific interests/topics you want to monitor, and to schedule which days and what time your news brief is to be delivered.

 

The generated custom news brief are delivered to you via email (each email includes 10-12 links from the topics you've selected) and can be read also in your preferred browser or iPhone.

 

For each one of the up to ten topics selected you can specify the degree of importance to you.

 

As a user you can create as many custom news briefs as you like, each one with a specific set of topics and delivery schedule.

Free to use.

 

Try it out now:  http://curate.me/ ;

Via Robin Good