So you’ve set up your Twitter, your Facebook, Youtube, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Instagram and are ready go. And nothing. What do you put? It’s as frustrating as staring at a blank piece of paper with a deadline looming.
Even the best of us can’t think of amazing content for every second of every day and frankly that’s not the point of social media. It’s meant to be social. So you’re meant to share other people’s content, but this is the thing that eats up the hours – trawling through feeds and profiles to find something relevant and interesting.
Well, no more! Stumble Upon is here to take the stress away! If you’ve ever seen Reddit – Stumble Upon is similar but better. Reddit marketed itself as the front page of the internet, listing popular videos, images and content and working on a similar share and comment system like Facebook and Twitter.
Stumble Upon is tailored. When you set your account up you choose from a list of interests – as many as you want- and hit go. Stumble Upon then trawls the internet for you pulling up some really interesting, original and insightful content that in turn your audience will enjoy. You can give Stumble Upon feedback as you go, liking or disliking their recommendations which they take into and alter their results accordingly for you.
There are have been some pretty positive comments about Stumble Upon including “the entire Internet, all in one place,” ”an epic journey” and “a map to an adventure you wouldn’t otherwise have found out about.”
Similar to Twitter you are able to follow other users, create lists and see what’s trending. You have a profile which you can customise and most importantly you can share what you find on other social media sites.
Website Crunchbase says: “StumbleUpon is the easiest way to discover new and interesting things from across the Web. More than 25 million people turn to StumbleUpon to be informed, entertained and surprised by content and information recommended just for them. In addition, more than 80,000 brands, publishers and other marketers have used StumbleUpon’s Paid Discovery platform to tell their stories and promote their products and services.”
There is of course a down-side…Our Pinterest boards are going to get ridiculously full!
Kate Tyler is the founder of Shake Social and our long time social media expert. A regular speaker at events, Kate offers consultancy and training on a range of digital marketing topics, in particular safeguarding and using social media in an educational setting.