I am going to be writing a future post with some thoughts on how an ordinary job seeker could use curating tools, but, today I wanted to show you what they look like. There are tons of options out there and below you will see the ones I’ve been experimenting with.
How They Work
You specify the post, articles or content you want to appear in your summary. It can be your content or other great information you find online. You do not need an account to view them. They operate sort of like a webpage. Just click on any of the images below and you can see how they work and what they look like live! These are all free at the basic level at this time. One other thing to note, these work because they focus on images and summarized content. Data suggests we love images and are more likely to click through to content with images we like!
Career Sherpa’s Twylah Summary Page
Twylah is great for Twitter lovers. It only pulls from the tweets you (or others) share. And if you like someone’s Twylah page you can share it with your favorite social network!
Career Sherpa on RebelMouse
RebelMouse is pulling the content I share from my Twitter account, Facebook, Pinterest, and LinkedIn (because I asked it to). This is a great way to summarize content.
Career Sherpa on Scoop.it
I’ll admit, I don’t use this as much because I have to manually curate the content. In other-words, I have to select the articles I want to publish (at least I haven’t found a way to make that happen automatically). Th Scoop.it paper shown below is specifically designed for attendees of Career Navigator, a job search program offered through One-Stops in New York State.
What do you think?
Each tool has its own set of features and unique offerings. The best way to learn about them is to try them!
As a job seeker, how do you think these might help you?
[...] Putting content on your page may seem overwhelming. You don’t have to build a website from scratch. Why not link a WordPress site to your domain? Or maybe you can demonstrate your social prowess with a Flavors.me page linked to your domain name. You could also use a content aggregator such as Twylah or Rebelmouse to summarize what you say and share online. These are free tools that create a summary of online content (articles and images) and looks very much like a newspaper. You specify what you want pulled into the summaries. You can learn more about them and see what they look like in my post about creating a summary of stuff you share. [...]
[...] Create a summary of what you are sharing online with Twylah, RebelMouse, Scoop.it, Paper.li or others! [...]
[...] See on careersherpa.net [...]