When I received the first Paper.Li daily, I groaned and thought about yet another resource to review, read and keep track of. I’ve been forever curious about how these are put together and who has the time to make it so, and I’m encouraged by @JodyKoehler “What? You don’t have one? It’s automated!”
Apparently, it really is. I went to investigate and grabbed this content from Paper.Li website:
- From Twitter, the newspaper will be created using all the links (articles) shared in the past 24 hours by yourself (editor in chief) AND the people you follow (contributors)
- From a Twitter #tag, create a paper using all the links (articles) shared in the past 24 hours by all Twitter users that have associated the selected #tag
- From Twitter links create a paper using all the links (articles) shared in the past 24 hours by all Twitter users on the selected list
- From Facebook create a paper based on a search of all public posts on Facebook.
You can even customize your own paper with more options coming soon:
- Title it
- Select tweeps (Twitter people) who can contribute or restrict those you don’t want on board
- Define a topic you want people to be talking about on Twitter
What’s even more interesting to me is that people have about as many subscribers as my blog; an average of six. The wow factor is how many views the papers are notching – 4,000 to 5,000 for the more established and branded papers.
What this says about influence, is that it’s not the number of followers, it’s what you’ve got to say, apparently. Take a look:
- The Location Based Daily has 129 views and 3 subscribers
- The Marketing/PR/SocialMedia Daily by Monyelle Mingo has 1,187 views and 5 subscribers
- The PR Post by Jody Koehler has 4,320 views and 7 subscribers
- TCSocialMediaSmarties by Top Rank Marketing has 6,535 views and 7 subscribers
- Fraser-Valley Daily by Owen Greaves has 5066 views and 5 subscribers
So, do you Paper.Li? Subscribe, pop in and scan, use as resource for blog fodder? I’d like to know if yet another resource is worth the attention.
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I have to admit it – I cannot get into paper.li. I’m hoping someone else can chime in to tell me why I should try harder!
I’m with you, Jenn!
Jayme, I don’t – yet. I’ve seen a number of them and often they are excellent at curating some good info I may have missed earlier in the week. But that’s all set by the “editor” and sometimes it is a free-for-all of their shares and follows, not always with rhyme or reason. My other problem for me is the automated nature of it, even w/ my editorial controls. If I was gonna go to that much work to create an aggregate post on topic X, I’d just do it and blog it myself. IDK it’s just another thing to add to the mix and I am already working the Twitter more, trying to share more on LinkedIn, when I remember I give Amplify a whirl. Let me know what you decide. FWIW.
I cannot honestly fathom doing one of these; while automated, it is aligned with Twitter activity in re RTs and #. I’m not a huge RT’er as generate a lot of own content and perhaps that’s not the best use of my time. I’ll scan someone elses; am honored to be included as that’s happening for me, but my resources are so thin to publish more content aggregated from others without true monetization.
I wrote an article almost exactly as excited as that one a few months ago. I used to have one, and thought it was a nice way to at least bond with my followers, but found out differently when Laura Spencer ran a quick poll on Twitter. Here’s how it went down: https://deliberateink.com/paper-li-a-clearer-view.
Maybe I’ll try it again later…
Thanks for sharing what may just be consensus! I’m not certain of the ROI, either and am seeing fewer productions, too.
Thanks for sharing that post, Taqiyyah!