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Eric Hippeau joins Guy Kawasaki on Paper.li Advisory Board

Posted on 19 May 2011 by tibtv

It gives us tremendous pleasure to announce the second addition to our advisory board, Eric Hippeau!

Eric’s reputation in the digital media and publishing world needs no introduction… former Managing Partner at Softbank, an early stage investment VC for technology and media start-ups, CEO of Ziff-Davis and most recently, the CEO of the Huffington Post. Eric is attributed with the knack for recognizing potential early on in a company and then leading them to success. Eric is currently partner at Lerer Ventures.

Eric joins Guy Kawasaki on the board and we are looking forward to their guidance , perspective and wisdom as Paper.li continues to grow and evolve its services in the curation space.

In joining the paper.li Advisory Board, Eric Stated ” In a world awash with information, well-curated content is increasingly important and I’m excited to advance the industry through working with the Paper.li team. Paper.li opens up a whole new way for people to consume information and engage in news that matters.”

We see this as a significant step in taking Paper.li to the next level in social publishing and further shaping the role of individuals as curators or “Editor-in-Chiefs” of their own news sites.

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What’s new at Paper.li

Posted on 19 May 2011 by tibtv

We are excited to share with you new features and functionality that will provide our publishing community more content selection and editorial control! Your feedback is what inspires features and functionality. We appreciate the great communication and feedback – keep it coming.

More Editorial Control

3 easy ways to reposition or remove content on your Paper.li

Make this my featured article : Move an article from section of your paper to the Featured Article Position

Remove from headlines : Remove an article from your headline area on any page down to the main body
Delete: Permanently remove content for that Edition

Enhanced Curation

Add up to 5 multiple content sources for one Paper.li

Combine Twitter timelines, lists, queries and #tags as well as Facebook queries
Filter individual Twitter users or Twitter List for key words

Improved Newsstand Search

Improved Key Word contextual search

Search results for matching Paper.lis , Publishers, News Spotters

Improved Article and Source Discovery

Additional information icon linking to an article profile page

Discovery of other articles from the same source
Direct link to the source of content

Introduction of Publisher Profiles

Direct link to a Publishers profile page

Discovery of other Paper.lis created or favorited by the publisher
Easy connect via Contact Info

Introduction of News Spotter Profiles

Direct link from News Spotter avatar to their profile page

Discovery other Paper.lis where their shared links shows up
Easy connect via Contact Info

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Paper.li at BlogWorld Expo New York

Posted on 19 May 2011 by tibtv

Since our launch a year ago, Paper.li has grown from a service of just a few users turning their Twitter timelines into daily newspapers, to one that analyzes over 12million links a day in 8 languages for publishers and viewers world-wide.

A large, and growing portion of that content comes from bloggers around the world. So in our quest to get to know our community better ( and in person ) we are headed to the BlogWorld Expo, at the Javits Convention Center in NYC, May 24 – 26.

For those of you who are not familiar with BlogWorld, it’s the largest new media conference world-wide that brings together social media thought leaders, bloggers, entrepreneurs, podcasters and content creators all under one roof. 3 days of workshops and panels take place where bloggers and new media peers and professionals get together to learn, share and exchange ideas.

We are proud to be a Bronze sponsor again this year and look forward to meeting, and seeing our community and industry peers there.

If you are attending the conference, stop by and see us at Booth 510. You can check out what is happening on the BlogWorld Daily Daily throughout the expo and you can stay up current on the BlogWorld blog.

For those who have not yet purchased passes, use the below codes and register on line for discounts on your conference passes.

PAPERLI20 : 20 % off Conference Pass

PAPERLI50 : 50 % Exhibits Only Pass

See you in New York!

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Paper.li Partners with HBO on Branded Fan Newspaper for Game of Thrones

Posted on 19 May 2011 by tibtv

Paper.li announced today that it is partnering with HBO to deliver a daily, branded newspaper for fans of the network’s new series, Game of Thrones (http://paper.li/GameOfThrones), based on George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy books.

The partnership represents a first step towards Paper.li’s brand partnership strategy which aims to help brands engage, discover and communicate with their audiences through highly targeted and relevant content.

Paper.li, a website which enables individuals to become publishers and editors-in-chief of their own online news site, will facilitate the analysis of thousands of Twitter links posted by Game of Thrones fans, offering the most popular and shared content on a daily basis. Presented into an easy to read, newspaper-style format, users can access the branded broadsheet by visiting the website or choosing to have it sent to their personal e-mail account.

“As the volume of social media content on the internet grows, curation tools such as Paper.li offer an immense value to consumers” said Sabrina Caluori, director of Social Media & Marketing, HBO. “We are excited to use this innovative platform to deliver a branded, highly relevant, daily Twitter newspaper to Game of Thrones fans.”

The Game of Thrones daily newspaper provides a sneak-peak to Paper.li’s much anticipated new branding and skinning functionality, as well as advanced curation and management features that Paper.li will soon release to their publishing base.

About Game of Thrones

Based on the popular book series “A Song of Ice and Fire,” by George R.R. Martin, the fantasy series Game of Thrones chronicles an epic struggle for power set in a vast and violent fantasy kingdom. The ensemble cast includes Mark Addy, Sean Bean, Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Fairley, Lena Headey, Kit Harington and Aidan Gillen. The show was shot at the Paint Hall Studio in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as well as at various locations in Northern Ireland and Malta.

About HBO

Home Box Office, Inc. is the premium television programming subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., providing two 24-hour pay television services – HBO® and Cinemax® – to approximately 40 million U.S. subscribers. The services offer the most popular subscription video-on-demand products, HBO On Demand® and Cinemax On Demand® as well as HBO GO® and MAX GO®, HD feeds and multiplex channels. Internationally, HBO branded television networks, along with the subscription video-on- demand products HBO On Demand and HBO Mobile®, bring HBO services to over 60 countries. HBO programming is sold into over 150 countries worldwide.

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Keep Those Papers Publishing!

Posted on 19 May 2011 by tibtv

Have you ever run across this button and wondered why it is there? You’re not alone. In fact about 30% of questions from users revolve around this button and how it got there.

Here are the two top reasons that your paper is most likely not updating, and what can be done about it.

No Page Views:

A peek a day, keeps the update button away!

When a paper is created we will ensure that it updates automatically for the next 48 hours for daily papers, and for the next two editions for weekly papers.

If there have not been any page views after 48 consecutive hours, or two consecutive weeks, papers will switch from automatic update to manual update.

When this change occurs you will see an “Update Paper Now” button at the top of the page. Click on it, and get your presses rolling.

Depending on the amount of content we need to retrieve and analyze, the refresh can take anywhere from a few seconds up to a couple of minutes.

Twitter List Changes:

Are you the owner of a list based paper? List’s can change. Take a minute to verify that your Twitter list matches the list under your Daily’s settings.

Now your thinking… “but I haven’t made any changes!”

Take a quick look anyway. We have publishers report that indeed “something” has changed on their twitter list and a trailing digit or letter of a list name is no longer there.

A change on a list, means a change under your paper’s settings. Your changes will be reflected the next scheduled update for your paper.

Good weekend and good publishing.

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Paper.li Interview Series

Posted on 19 May 2011 by tibtv

One of our goals at Paper.li is to connect like minded people. One way we can do this is through adding a whole lot more stats about other publishers, contributors, viewers and subscribers… which are on the way.

Another way is through an old fashioned interview. We tried this a couple of weeks back with Paper.li contributor Mel Young and received great response from the community.

Over the coming weeks I will conduct more interviews with our community and highlight the people behind the Paper.lis. If you would like to be a part of our interview series, drop me a line at info@smallrivers.com with answers to the below questions:

You: (work, personal, interests)
The name of your Paper.li(s) / Paper.li you contribute to
Why you created your paper.li(s) / Why you think the service is cool
Things you like/ Things you don’t/ Things you’d like to see
Best discovery through the service (content, Twitter user, vacation spot, )

Publishers, bloggers, contributors, subscribers…we look forward to hearing from you.

Interview notes will be used solely for the purpose of creating our upcoming Interview Series and input to product development.

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Tips from the Team – Modifiers and Hyperlinks

Posted on 19 May 2011 by tibtv

This week I stumbled across a couple of value add ons for your Daily that I wanted to share :

adding a textile modifier to your Daily title
adding a hyperlink to your Editor’s note

Textile Modifiers for Your Title Line

You are most likely familiar with the standard modifiers; italic, bold and bold and italic. How about trying a sub or superscript modifier like the one below?

superscript : make it ^_high_^ = make it ^high

subscript : make it ~*_low_*~ = make it _low

_italics_ = italics

* bold* = bold _

* bold italics*_ = bold italics

Hyperlink in the Editors Note

The Editor’s note is a good tool for providing additional information about your Daily to your viewers. Most of our users don’t know that a hyperlink can be added.

Insert the html code seen below into your note, replacing the example URL and description/ name with your own.

The final result will be a hyperlink as seen below.

Good weekend, and good publishing!

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Another kind of World Cup

Posted on 19 May 2011 by tibtv

Back in December our team met Social Entrepreneur Mel Young at LeWeb conference in Paris. Mel was looking for opportunities to promote his organization, The Homeless World Cup, and international football tournament that uses the sport of soccer as a catalyst to encourage homeless people to change their lives and beat homelessness.

Mel’s cause is inspiring and a story worth sharing. So this week, no features or functionality. It’s a post about an interview with a member of the Paper.li community.

Q: How did the Homeless World Cup begin?

Mel: In 2001 I was attending the International Network of Street Papers conference in South Africa. Another delegate, Harold Schmeid, and I went for beer afterwards and started brainstorming about the need for a conference that included the homeless, not just spoke about the issues surrounding them. But the language was always an issue. How could we invent an international language that we could use to communicate the issues of homeless around the world? Then it dawned on us that one already existed with football.

One thing led to another and by morning it was agreed that we would organize a one-off football tournament for the homeless. 18 months later the first Homeless World Cup was played in Graz, Austria, hosting 18 nations. The Austrian team won and their centre forward Angus Okanume went on to play for a professional team.

Q: What opportunity did you see for the Homeless World Cup?

Mel: There are huge issues and system failures today in supporting the homeless. We don’t know how to fix them, but we can do some things – simple things -to facilitate change. Just the hope of a good moment can change a person. Sport unites people and sport is inclusive, which combats the social exclusion that the homeless feel.

Q: How do you get the word out?

Mel: Through partner organizations such as the homeless papers, local shelters and word on the street.

Q: What are your thoughts on the role of social media?

Mel: More and more we see the homeless reaching out for phones, before food. Social media is a way for us to reach out the them, and them to others and us. The homeless can quickly connect and build communities through technology.

Q: How do you use paper.li?

Mel: Currently we contribute to the #homeless Daily. We use this to keep current and as well as educate and inform partners on the global issue of homelessness. We are looking into setting up local papers for each country in the future so we can focus on the issues close to the people.

Q: What is your goal for the Homeless World Cup?

Mel: Ultimately, not to have the need to raise awareness for homelessness through events such as a Homeless World Cup.Until then, to inspire and mentor our players into making positive change for themselves and put on a world class homeless tournament each year.

80% of people who participate in the Homeless World Cup change their lives forever. It is proud moment when someone can talk about their involvement in the training or that played in the tournament itself. It gives them the confidence to go out and apply for a job – and land the job. We try to identify leaders and they come back as coaches and brilliant ambassadors.

Our head coach, David Duke tried out and played on the team in 2004. Afterwards he went on to get his Scottish Football Association coaching badges and in 2006 became the head coach of the Scottish Team.

There are David Dukes in every city of every country.

The next Homeless World Cup will take place at the Champ de Mars, Paris August 21 – 28.

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Advanced Queries

Posted on 19 May 2011 by tibtv

A couple of weeks ago we published a blog post on Publishing a Paper.li. Afterwards I received numerous requests to highlight best practices in searches and queries for Twitter based paper, and there was a clear trend in users requesting assistance on contextual searches. In other words, searches that would make their content more relevant to their viewers.

Structured and well thought-out queries will help you to get the most relevant content for your audience.

Queries for Context

Mastering queries in order to add contextual relevance can take some time. But they pay off. More effort = better end result.

The #tag is used to give context to a tweet. In terms of Twitter search and the creation of a Custom Paper with a focus, take the time to get familiar with the way users are expressing themselves around a topic and understand the context before creating your paper.

This can be done by searching Twitter for a topic that you are interested in and viewing what key words, #tags and other @users comes up around it. From there you can begin to learn the language around your topic and narrow your search.

Example: Education

#education. I am interested in the topic of education in general. I start a search on Twitter with one word to see what it brings back.

I have found a few key words that are standard in the general conversation, and I build stronger queries: #education OR #schools OR #teachers or #education OR #schools OR #teachers -#students

I have discovered a query that I really like, and now I want to localize.I add a location: #education OR #schools + #teachers near:”california”

I decided I want to know exactly what is happening around education, educators and schools –not involving students, in San Francisco:#education OR #schools OR #teachers OR -#students near:”san francisco” within:15mi

Note:

The first three queries have been performed with Twitter search . If you create an OR statement, or an + (this means “and”) statement, with the standard search feature, you will need to insert either OR, or, + between the words.

Query number four was performed with Twitter Advanced Search. Here you do not need to add the OR, or ,+ in between key words. Once you feel comfortable with your topic, the Advanced Search option works very well.

Character limit: A custom paper focus will only support 200 characters.

Let us know how your query goes. Good publishing!

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Keep the Presses Rolling!

Posted on 19 May 2011 by tibtv

Yes, it happened. Yesterday for a few hours we actually had to say no to new paper creation.

Due to a surge in demand, we had to ask users to “hold off” on creating papers so we could ensure the overall quality of service for all of our publishers. Consequently the updating of existing papers needed to be halted as well for a few hours.

By today all presses were again rolling, papers were updating and the service was fully functioning. We thank you for your patience and appreciated the support of all of our publishers, new and existing.

Good publishing and let the presses roll!
The team at Paper.li

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