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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

What is the PSBDelegation Daily??


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.
That's what I love about this - I'm getting a quick view of the links twitter people post without clicking unless the 'headline/photo' grabs me - much like reading a newspaper.

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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