Having flowing relevant content to post to your social media can be hard to find and take up valuable time that you could be spending doing something else. That’s why Feedly & Pocket are my favourite content curation tools when managing my clients and my own social media.

Feedly & Pocket Are A Content Curators Godsend.

Once you have both programs set up to your liking you can expect to spend at least 2 hours a week curating content, depending on how many posts you want to send out.

Both of these programs are free to use and although you can pay to upgrade the free versions give you more than enough to work with. As with most programs these days they come with an App so you can access them on your phone or tablet making finding, saving and sharing articles easier.

With Feedly the free version allows you to have

  • Up to 100 feeds
  • Organize feeds into easy-to-read collections (up to 3 collections)
  • Save the best stories into boards (up to 3 boards)
  • Is available on Mobile and desktop
  • Share to Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook

This is a screenshot of what Feedly’s dashboard looks like.

Down the Left hand side you can see the different feeds that I want to monitor and you can organize them into folders. To view the most recent content you have the option to view the content ‘today’ and can also save them to read later, however you can’t add any tags.  You can also notice that on my toolbar I have the Pocket extension downloaded in Chrome, this in a fantastic little icon especially when you are surfing the web and want to tag/save something just click on this and it will be saved to Pocket.

Pocket also gives you recommended articles based on what you have previously saved. Although both these programs are similar Pocket is as the name suggests more for storing your content as it allows you to add multiple tags and lists, which is especially great if you are managing more than one business.

This is a screenshot of Pocket, there are a couple of different views for your list but this is my preferred view.

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts Social Media Marketing has grown over the last few years and in order to join other businesses in this day and age you need to make your presence known online, and it’s about having that steady flow of content to keep your followers engaged. Hopefully by sharing these little gems with you, you can be on your way to managing your Social Media more effectively and getting noticed more online.

If you would like some assistance setting up your social media accounts and also these fantastic programs you can reach me at tammy@tlbadminsupport.com.au.