Introduction

If you're new to curate.us, or you need a quick refresher on us, you've reached the right place. This guide contains some general information about curate.us, and it can help you sign up with us and login to your new account. Read on or click one of the following links to skip ahead:

• What is curate.us?
• Signing Up
• Logging In
• Frequently Asked Questions

What is curate.us?

We give end users a simple and visually compelling way to repost content, instantly boosting the impact of blog posts, e-mail, websites, and social networks. The visual clips and formatted quotes generated by curate.us drive a 5x greater click-through to the original publisher than content distributed via traditional links. For publishers, curate.us helps turn pirates into partners, leveraging the 20 billion online sharing actions a month to dramatically expand audience and site traffic. Not only do the clips maintain brand and context, but also carry attribution and backlinks driving a high volume of incremental traffic. In addition, the data produced about what content is being clipped, in which context it is being placed, and where clicks are coming from provide valuable insights for driving higher profits from online advertising.

Signing Up

You're free to use curate.us to create clips and quotes without registering for an account, but if you want to track how well your clips and quotes are doing, wish to curate.us enable your site or manage your existing clips and quotes you will have to register for an account. Don't fret though, sign up is absolutely free! 

You can sign up directly from our homepage.  Look for the "Register" button in the header.

1. Click the register button
2. Select a username (spaces are allowed; punctuation is not allowed except for periods, hyphens, and underscores). 
3. Enter a valid email address (a valid e-mail address. All e-mails from the system will be sent to this address. The e-mail address is not made public and will only be used if you wish to receive a new password or wish to receive certain news or notifications by e-mail).
4. Choose a password and confirm it (we recommend using a password that's at least 7 characters long and uses a combination of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and at least one symbol).
5. Tick the box to accept our terms of service
6. Enter the text you see in the CAPTCHA box
7. Click "Create New Account"

You can also create an account by "Signing in using Facebook." Simply click the facebook connect button and enter your account information to.

Logging In

It's easy to log in, simply go to curate.us and find the "Login" tab in the header and click it.  

1. Click the login button
2. Enter your username or email address associated with your account 
3. Enter your password
4. Click "Log In"

Alternatively, you can also sign in using Facebook.  Simply click the facebook connect button and enter your account information to.

Frequently Asked Questions

Don't forget to check out our FAQ page for more information about curate.us! Also remember to check out the rest of the guides in these forums!