Here are 20 Tools that curate content online. With all the information we have at our fingertips, how do we decide what is good info versus worthless drivel? Through curation.

If you use Pinterest, you’re already curating content. In this post you discover other tools that allow you to curate in interesting ways.

So, are you curating content, and if so….what tools are you using? Obviously, I use Scoop.it as wells as a FireFox Addon, ScribeFire. Check it out and let me know what you think.

My client, Judie Keyes sent this link to me. Laura Rubenstein, Transform Today, interviewed Judie on how Judie used LinkedIn to market her business.

Take away tip… when Judie receives an invitation to connect on LinkedIn, she checks out the profile. If the person contacting her is in San Diego, she suggests they get together in person.

The other tips is that Judie keeps in touch. She reaches out regularly through email and offers information to her connections.

How are you using LinkedIn to further your business?

My client, Judie Keyes sent this link to me. Laura Rubenstein, Transform Today, interviewed Judie on how Judie used LinkedIn to market her business.

Take away tip… when Judie receives an invitation to connect on LinkedIn, she checks out the profile. If the person contacting her is in San Diego, she suggests they get together in person.

The other tips is that Judie keeps in touch. She reaches out regularly through email and offers information to her connections.

How are you using LinkedIn to further your business?

This is a blog post by David Meerman Scott on SocialMediaToday.com. In this post he refers to a study by HubSpot on BRB customers. It shows that the coversion rate of visitor to lead is 2.6%, which is four times higher than Twitter and seven times better than Facebook.

There’s a link on the post to a free ebook from HubSpot on Learning Linkedin From the Experts: How to Build a Powerful Business Presence on Linkedin.

Are you leveraging your business at LinkedIn?

You all have them. They are the friends who no longer participate in social media. For some reason they’ve abandoned their Facebook Profile.

You need active friends on Facebook to make it fun and to help share your message. After all, you’re using Facebook to help promote your business right?

This is a great tutorial on how to remove friends from Facebook. The tutorial walks you through putting them into a list and deleting the list. However, Penny Butler shares some cool tools that help you handle the task efficiently.

Let me know if this helps.

If you read to the bottom of Mitch Joel’s blog post, Watching Me Blog, then you know he issued a challenge to many of his blogging buddies. This post answers the challenge.

Brass Tack Thinking’s Amber Naslund, shares her philosophy and how she puts a blog post together. I admire her process.

What I really learned from this is that our blog posts have a shelf life of about 48 hours.

I just had to share this post from Twist Image. In fact, I just finished his book, Six Pixels of Separation, which is an excellent book. Go buy it, or get it from the library.

First of all, I’ve never seen a “blogging philosophy” so that was refreshing and made me stop and think about why I blog.

Then he follows up with the steps he takes to pull together research and notes, then writing the post. You’ve got to see what he thinks about tagging too. Love this post.

I love WordPress. I’ve been building WordPress websites for a long time. This is a great infographic on how popular WordPress is as a CMS (content management sytem).

The three top self hosted WordPress sites are Think Progress, TNW, and of course, Mashable.  22 of every 100 domains created in the US run WordPress.

Is your site a WordPress site? It could be. Most hosts offer a one button installation of WordPress. You could be up and running in no time at all, and in complete control of your content! Check it out.

It seems like a match made in heaven, Pinterest Video boards. Grant Crowell goes through a step by step process for preparing your videos for pinning on Pinterest using Vimeo.

Of course, I love tip #5, Curate Fresh Videos with Fresh Descriptions. #9, Create a Pinterest Specific Video Campaign is another great tip.

Feel free to share how you’re using Pinterest to leverage your business.

Podcasting is about vocal audio. After all, it’s usually the host either sharing content or interviewing someone.

Chris shares some really great tips for using Audacity to clean up your podcast.  Some of these tips are advanced, but explained well.

My favorite tip is the Noise Removal tip. Let me know what you think? Are you podcating yet?