George Moen Launches Daily Newspaper
by George Moen
George Moen Launches Daily Newspaper Jan 2011Kinda a catchy line don't you think and totally real. I have some of the best reporters
in the world. They write everyday about some of the coolest and intelligent topics 24
hours a day 7 days a week - It's Free to Read and it's Free to produce..What it is!
The George Moen Daily Guru.
It is produced on a new platform from paper.li they describe their platform like this:
"Read Twitter and Facebook as a daily newspaper" and it's true. You can take a
couple of approaches with it. What I did was took my "Guru List" on Twitter and
have their posts ( tweets ) organized in a online Newspaper format. It brings in
online content in the form of text, photo's and videos. It quite unique actually.
You can schedule as many issues as you want , track views and even allows you
to develop a subsciber list. Once it is generated you can have it post to your Twitter
account and this is all done automatically once you have set it up and that only takes
a few mins. After the initial set up your done. ( unless you want to change frequency ,
reporters etc .)
I was not sure at first and wondered if it was just more spam. Then a funny thing
happened. I started to read it. When I caught a headline I liked I read it. I found that
it quite useful to track the content produced from the list of thought leaders I have
put together. ( See Guru list link below ).
Then I found that it started to get views and a couple of people have already
subscribed. I get to build my brand awareness while at the same time organize the
news the way I want. Kinda like PointCast if you remember back to the late 90's
( I miss that platform...this is not the same but has elements. ).
I have no idea where this goes but I like it.
I also find that links to stuff I post on Twitter is starting to show up in other people's
Newspapers, if can call them that. So I again is an extension of my posts on Twitter
gaining yet more reach.
Anyway, it's all good and I suspect there will be a wide range of opinions about this
new strategy but you just have to appreciate the creative mind of man.
More About The Platform Here:
Made it to my list of social media tools I use here:
So who made my Guru list?: Guy Kawasaki , Ryan Holmes ( Hoot Suite ) ,
Shane Gibson, Gillian Shaw ( Van Sun ), Nouriel Roubini , ( He's Very Cool )
David Chalk , Pete Cashmore ( Mashable ) , Rich Patterson and a few more
very intellegent people worthy of a follow. Check out the complete list here.
( or you can read them everyday if you subscribe to the feed ).
So, the only resolution I kinda made was to post more to my blogs..so Jan 2, 2011
I get started. Let's see how I do. Got lots of cools stuff in the hopper including one
using Social Media in a Blenz Valentines Day Promo...stay tuned and I hope 2011
finds you well.
George Moen
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