Never Run Out of Content: More than 70 Places to Curate Great Content

It’s a full-time job to build and maintain your brand, so check out these go-to places to share content.

By Alfred Lua | Dec 07, 2017
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is a great strategy to . For example, we with high-quality content from third-party sources.

But where do you start with curation?

There are many great websites on all sorts of topics. With our community’s help, we put together an ultimate list of content curation sources across multiple industries. From design to education, marketing to remote work, and beyond.

I hope you’ll find some great websites for your content curation strategy.

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The big list of content curation sources across multiple topics

When we put out , suggestions poured in immediately. I was blown away by the responses. To keep the list manageable, I’ve picked only some of the bigger websites and blogs. Do check out the replies to our tweet for all the great recommendations as the list here is definitely incomplete.

Also, as I’m not familiar with many of the topics, I’ve included lists of blogs created by the awesome people in the respective industries.

Here are all the categories covered in this list:

How to curate quickly from your favorite sites

Just a quick aside: my favorite method of curating content quickly is to use an RSS reader like .

First, I set up my feed by finding popular sites with Feedly’s search engine. If I know the sites I want to add to my Feedly, I would enter their URLs and follow their RSS feed.

Feedly also makes it easy to search for top sites for various topics. You can either search using keywords or browse the topics they’ve curated.

I’ve added a Feedly follow button () by each of the sites below so that you can easily subscribe to its feed in Feedly.

When I’m curating content to share, I would open up Feedly, scan through the latest posts from the sites I’m following, and read only those that stand out.

If you are strapped for time, you can quickly spot the viral articles in your feed by switching to “Title-Only View” and looking for articles with a huge number by its title. Articles with a number in the hundreds and thousands or an orange number are those that are trending and more popular than the rest of the articles from that site.

Once I’ve found the articles that I want to share, I’ll use the (or ) to add them to my queue.

Here’s a GIF of how this step looks like:

70+ content curation sources to check out

Business

by Shopify: A blog about ecommerce marketing, running an online business and updates to Shopify’s ecommerce community.

: Liberating the powerful, untapped knowledge out there that can transform the way people build technology.

by HubSpot: Stories, insights and ideas to help you and your business grow.

: Smart ways to live a passive income lifestyle on the internet.

For those in small businesses, you might like list by Fit Small Businesses. It covers blogs in categories like retail, accounting, insurance and legal.

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Career, recruiting, and hiring

: Your one-stop-shop for technical career guides, as well as hiring and recruiting expertise.

: Expert advice to answer your career questions.

For more blogs on this topic, Credit Donkey put together and shared why each of them is a top career resource.

Data, Data Visualization, and Data Science

: Dedicated to distilling the world’s data, information and knowledge into beautiful, interesting and, above all, useful visualizations, infographics and diagrams.

: Rich visual content for the modern investor. Visual Capitalist is a new way to discover business opportunities and learn about investment trends.

: Flowing Data explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization and exploration to understand data and ourselves.

: The official blog of Kaggle, the home of data science and machine learning.

: Ideas that the authors (three biostatistics professors) find interesting, contributing to the discussion of science/popular writing, linking to articles that inspire them and sharing advice with up-and-coming statisticians.

: Our take on the ideas, information, and tools that make data work.

For more data science blogs, check out , which has been viewed over 270,000 times.

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Design

: Thoughts on users, experience and design.

: Inspiring stories about innovation and business, seen through the lens of design.

: Actionable insights on productivity, organization, and leadership to help creatives people push ideas forward.

: For professional web designers and developers.

: Handpicked code snippets of web design inspiration you can use in your web projects.

: Tips, tricks, and techniques on using Cascading Style Sheets.

I learned that there are so many different areas in design. The list, by Inkbot Design, did a great job compiling blogs from several different areas such as web design, branding and typography.

Education

: Innovation in education.

: Decoding patterns of success by author and professor Cal Newport.

: MindShift explores the future of learning, covering cultural and tech trends and innovations in education.

: Lessons worth sharing.

Here are by TeachThought.

Food and cooking

: Your one-stop-shop for everything Jamie Oliver including delicious and healthy recipes inspired from all over the world, helpful food tube videos and much more.

Here’re (from vegan blogs to Paleo blogs, to baking blogs) to check out.

Marketing

: Seth Godin’s riffs on marketing, respect and the ways ideas spread.

: HubSpot’s Marketing blog — attracting over 2 million monthly readers — covers everything you need to know to master inbound marketing.

: HubSpot’s blog of expert inbound sales content for today’s sales organization.

: The Moz inbound marketing and SEO blog provides tips, tricks, and advice for improving websites and doing better search, social, content and brand marketing.

by Campaign Monitor: Email marketing tips, growth hacks, industry updates and more from Campaign Monitor’s email marketing experts.

: The latest tips and advice for email design pros.

: Resources on digital marketing and media monitoring.

: Digital marketing and technology news covering Martech, Social, Search, Mobile, Display & Programmatic Advertising, Retail, Email, Video, Analytics and more.

by Contently: Contently’s industry-leading publication for content marketing news and analysis.

: How technology is shaping the way we live with each other.

: A blog about marketing, analytics and testing.

: Expert advice to help you crush your next online marketing campaign.

There are so many great marketing blogs out there! If you liked this list, you might also like our lists for , , and .

Personal finance

: Living large on a small budget.

: We talk about money because we know you don’t want to.

: Daily blog updates on living a rich life, how to make money and practical financial management advice.

For more personal finance blogs, check out Wise Bread’s . You can filter the chart by categories such as investing, debt, insurance and more.

Product

: Find out how great products are built.

: Your product team needs these habits to grow the business faster.

: Get more people to use your product, by Nir Eyal, author of Hooked.

: The ultimate source for User Onboarding teardowns, tips and thoughts.

: The best new product, every day.

Check out this popular Quora thread for .

Remote work

by Nomadlist: Stories on life, work, and travel as a digital nomad.

by Workfrom: Your remote work resource for everything—from leading remote companies, growing virtual teams, to the must-have products, services and inside information needed to thrive as a mobile professional.

by Remote.co: Are you starting, building or managing a remote team? Learn how to successfully grow remotely.

: The blog for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and other hustlers.

: Land your dream remote job.

For more resources on remote work, here’s , compiled by Wade Foster, Co-founder and CEO at Zapier.

Self-improvement

: Mastering the best of what other people have already figured out.

: More than living. Thriving.

: Stories, videos, and podcasts that make smart people smarter.

: Writing about time management, life, careers and family.

: Tim Ferriss’s 4-Hour Workweek and lifestyle design blog.

: Finding simplicity and mindfulness in the daily chaos of our lives.

: Honest strategies and proven science for living healthy.

: Science-based insights on how to be awesome at life.

For more blogs on self-improvement, you might like this list: by Brendan Baker.

Startup

: Thoughts, tips, and lessons learned on marketing, product management, customer support, design and startups from five years of product building.

: Strong opinions and shared thoughts on design, business and technology.

by Groove: Groove’s journey to $10M in annual revenue.

: Getting from $0 to $100M ARR faster, with less stress and more success.

: Daily, data-driven blog posts about key questions facing startups.

by Help Scout: Discover applicable ideas for how you can delight customers and build/measure true customer loyalty.

: (A tiny shameless plug here!) Our journey to great productivity, more transparency and a happier work culture.

There are many aspects to running a startup, from fundraising to growth, to customer support. Here’s , which covers several of the aspects.

Tech

: International technology news, business and culture.

: The latest technology news and information on startups.

: How technology is changing every aspect of our lives — from culture to business, science to design.

: The intersection of technology, science, art and culture.

: Get the latest independent tech news, reviews, and analysis from Recode with the most informed and respected journalists in technology and media.

: Innovation in technology, leadership, world-changing ideas, and design.

: A news aggregator for “things that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity.”

Others

: A popular long-form, stick-figure-illustrated blog about almost everything.

: Fashion news, analysis, and business intelligence from the leading digital authority on the global fashion industry.

: DSLR Video Shooter and Caleb Pike help you master video production at any experience level – camera tutorials, video gear reviews, filmmaking tips and more.

: Official Olympic News from the Rio 2016 Summer Games, plus top stories on Pyeonchang 2018 & Tokyo 2020, host city elections and the world’s best athletes. ( posts some of the most inspiring sports stories.)

is a great strategy to . For example, we with high-quality content from third-party sources.

But where do you start with curation?

There are many great websites on all sorts of topics. With our community’s help, we put together an ultimate list of content curation sources across multiple industries. From design to education, marketing to remote work, and beyond.

Alfred Lua • Community and Marketing at Buffer

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