
I am a visual person, which means I retain information better/more readily when I see it as opposed to hearing it or working within it. So, although my twitter lists are words scrolling past my eyes, a service called Paper.li caught my attention and I'm loving it. You can see a bit of the daily headlines down at the bottom right of my PSBDelegation website
Paper.li by Small Rivers will take your twitter or facebook feeds and turn it into a daily or weekly newspaper. It took some tweaking, but I now have a daily 'newspaper' that focusses mainly on procurement & supply chain, with some fun stuff, education, & science thrown in. My feed comes from a twitter list of procurement tweeple I built & continually adjust to include those tweeple I find provide me with the best content/access to breaking news in my area of interest.
How does it work?
- First, I have my twitter list - I have 79 tweeple on it that I adjust depending upon their content.
- I setup my first Paper.li PSBDelegation Daily after 10:30pm at night, so inevitably, my daily is produced by paper.li at that time - so its a recap of the day's links to those of us in the North American timezones, and a morning read in the UK.
- Only those tweets with a link are considered in their algorithm (see their faq here) - the paper is made up of the visuals from the links people put into their tweets.
An additional benefit is my paper.li daily tweets who the 'top stories' were contributed by, so in essence, I'm RT'ing a select number of tweets from that list/twitter stream at the end of the day. I hope it helps people seek out and follow some of these tweeples - I wouldn't be following them if I didn't enjoy reading their tweets!
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