Move over Mr Murdoch, now everyone can produce a daily newspaper based on a topic of their choice.
The millions of twitter topics are easily collated around a central theme using the paper.li platform. In the newspaper creation above a populist topic of "Organic Food
" was used.paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or hashtag.
The archive functionality is a welcome addition and a platform such as this could be used as an adjunct to a twitter-based marketing campaign.
Schools can use this media approach this classroom projects and blog publishers can do likewise, as demonstrated in these three topic "dailys".
- The Digital Consultant - Marketing
- The Digital Consultant - Media
- TheDigitalConsultant - Social Media
Alternatives
There are other options. Twitter Times is similar to paper.li but presents content in a two column format, in the order of how many followers and followers of followers have re-tweeted a story.
Flipboard is available for iPAD users so if you don't own one you have a problem!
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