…that are using their blogs for content marketing and ‘thought leadership‘ marketing:

Here are some of the big takeaways:

• Use Windows Live Writer or [MarsEdit if you’re a Maccie] to curate good content…
• Use Zemanta to find related pictures, articles and metadata tags to engage readers…
• Spend the money to get your own domain and apply it to your site…
• Use the sharing feature to automatically post your new content to your Facebook profile or page, Twitter, etc.
• Don’t forget the sharing buttons on every post and page if you want people to disseminate your content…
• Put Twitter and Facebook widgets in your sidebar if you are using those tools [and you should be!]…

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• [Almost] everything I think I know about the mechanics of curation (e1evation.com)