When you accumulate a decent size network there comes a time where you just don’t have the time to wade through the spam, opt-in offer pages and junk to try and glean the value buried inside. Well guess what, you’re not alone – so does everyone else. In fact, this task just got easier for those that take on the valuable role to be a source of value within the spam storm (and it’s a value added role that establishes an awesome online identity brand btw).
But taking full advantage of valuable information tweeted by your
network can be daunting. For this reason, Paper.li is a welcome
application offering to help users organize their social media
marketing efforts and be a true twitter connector. Paper.li creates a
familiar, daily- newspaper-like format from Twitter and tweeted links.
It is then automatically tweeted out to your followers.
People who are trying to easily gather content and provide value in
the links they tweet find this free (yes I said FREE) service helpful
and refreshing. It can also help the new Twitter user to stay on top of
all the news and information being shared. The part I liked the most is
that Paper.li can be customized allowing you to easily create an online
newspaper for any of your Twitter network, using any list or even any
niche related hashtag (for example #onlinebiz or #smallbiz ) and create
a useful document for followers.
Here are the specific types of information that Paper.li compiles and organizes for you:
- It can extract all tweets that include URLs.
- It will then pull the content found on these URLs. This can be:
o blog posts, newspaper articles
o Flickr or Twitpic images
o YouTube video - When selecting a specific keyword or hashtag, it will analyze the text for that topic.
- It then amazingly finds the day’s most relevant articles for your newspaper (they wont let us know how, only that it is the “paper.li magic.)”
You are able to customize the headline of the newspaper as well.
(The custom editing is only possible of course for a newspaper that is
based on your own Twitter username or list.) Paper.li says your paper
will be updated once a day, but I’ve seemed to notice it updating more
often.
The detractors of Paper.li (mostly heavy twitter users) pose the
criticism that it is creating spam however I feel that it actually is
generating the opposite effect, gleaning the value from the noise,
allowing you to compile and RT to all. In my opinion, just because it
takes very little time after you set it up, does not mean it’s spam.
It’s merely the time efficient compiling of valuable information to
your network. The program is then sent out to your followers with your
newspaper’s authors @names included in the tweet so they get PR for it
too. That’s a win-win in my book.
You can set your twitter newspaper to automatically promote itself
to your followers or you can do it manually as well. You are limited to
using the same Twitter avatar that you use on Twitter, so if you don’t
prefer that profile image you have to change it on Twitter first.
I looked for a way to subscribe outside of Twitter and finally found
it on the “Alert Me” button at the top of each paper (once you’ve
clicked through to the actual Paper.li page for that Twitter user). You
get an e-mail when the new edition comes out. Pretty darn cool I must
admit.
So if you desire to become a “trust agent” by easily bringing high
value content to your network, paper.li is the real deal. This is
especially true for anyone looking to brand themselves as they start an
internet business, work to build an online home business to earn money
or an online network marketing business.
Its strong ROI makes it just too easy not to set in motion and let
it perform your value added work for you. It’s like having an assistant
to review tweets and publish a newsletter with the best stuff every
day. For those of you working to earn money online, trust me, you just
can’t beat it!