Ahh Twitter. Everyone has heard about it, yet it still sends ripples of fear and frustration through many. It remains seen as a tool for people to blast others with useless information about what they ate, what they’re doing and where they’re going. Since February of 2009 I’ve been trying to convince people about the power of Twitter and how it’s been used to build a community of thousands of Meetings & Event Professionals from around the world who share useful and timely information about our industry (aka #eventprofs). But alas, still many scoff because of that darned 7 letter word…Twitter.
Recently I saw a tweet from Michael McCurry about Paper.li. Paper.li basically takes links shared on twitter and organizes them by popularity and tags into a newspaper format. In a matter of seconds, Michael input the #eventprofs hashtag and out popped a real-time industry rag all about Meetings & Events. How exciting is that?! This should be a great solution for those people who want to stay up to date on the latest & greatest in our industry without having to go over to Twitter.
Click here to read the Eventprofs Newspaper.
Now, if you don’t want to have to remember to go over to this website all the time, simply click on the ‘notify me’ link and they’ll email you when the next paper is available. (Just keep in mind that this function will not work in Safari)
Happy reading!
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Lara:
I really like the daily #eventprofs paper and hope that Paper.li contiunes to provide some upgrades to their tool.
Here's my challenge with Paper.li, it is not a true reflection of a 24 hour period. It only pulls tweets from a specific timeframe, usually between one to two hours, so if you're using it to read archived tweets from eventprofs, you're going to miss about 90% of what is being shared.
I'm also curious of the algorithm that they are using to select tweets listed in the paper. It seems very haphazard and sometimes a RT'd tweet shows up from several different people in various forms. It's odd to me.
Great comments, Jeff. As I've been living with paper.li over the past few days I too have questions how they aggregate the information. However, I wasn't aware that they only pull information from a 2 hour period.
The paper is currently in Beta and the developers have sent out a call for comments/suggestions. I've sent a message to them asking them for further clarification on a few items and will be sure to post the responses.
Thanks!!
Lara
Update
…and I never heard back. It's really too bad – they were pretty easy to answer questions. Oh well, I do hope that the paper will prove to be useful for some.