What is Paper.li? ( pay-per-lee)

Paper.li is content curation service that enables you to become Editor-in-Chief of your own news site and publish topic based newspapers from content you find anywhere on the web. 

What is online content curation? 

Simply put, online content curation is the organizing, filtering, presenting and sharing of the most relevant digital content for a specific audience. To surface content that means something to you, and your audience, requires both technology and people working together. A content curation platform can never replace the expertise of the human content curator, so we do our best to make the gathering part of curating content easy so you can filter and edit. 

 

We believe that people (and not machines) are the ones qualified to make that final selection of content needed in order to identify the content that matters most to them, and for their audiences. We also believe that these same people can greatly help their own communities to find their way through this “massive content world” we live in. 

 

Why should I make a Paper.li? 

Paper.li is used by tens of thousands of people, business, and organizations on a daily basis for

Monitoring

Paper.li is easy to set up and extremely effective in surfacing the most relevant content being shared around the topic you choose. Use Paper.li to

• monitor industries, track competition

• surface trending topics and content

• identify experts, sites and sources

Niche Publishing

• to promote an event

• for a community newsletter 

• to build community

Content Marketing

• deliver relevant, fresh content daily
• attract the right audience
• build thought leadership
• engage community 

To get more ideas of how the Paper.li community is using the service, visit our
Community blog.

So how does Paper.li work? 

Anyone with a Twitter or Facebook account can log-in and create a paper. We provide you with easy to use tools to select your content. You choose your content streams and can create queries and searches based on Twitter users, #tags, keywords, Facebook, your own Twitter timeline, Google+ users, RSS feeds and more.

 

After you have chosen your sources, we go to work. Behind the scenes, it goes something like this: we extract all tweets that include URLs based on your content selection we extract the content found on these URLs:

• text, e.g. blog post, newspaper article

• photo, e.g. Flickr, yfrog, Twitpic, ...

• video, e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, ...

• analyze the extracted text for language ( EN, ES...) and for topic, e.g. Politics, Technology, ...

• surface the day's most relevant articles (using paper.li magic)

• construct a newspaper frontpage using the filtered articles, photos and videos

Please note: Currently Facebook and Twitter are seen as two separate accounts by Paper.li. This means papers created under one account will only show under paper settings for that account. If you create a Paper.li under your Facebook account, it will not be visible in your Paper Settings when you are logged in under your Twitter account. And vice versa. We are working to change this.


I’ve created a Paperli, now what? 

Publisher: the publisher ( curator of the information) gets recognized for their work each time they tweet, post or share their paper with the world. 

 News Spotter: is recognized for the great content they shared, or pointed out each time their @user is mentioned in a manual or automatic promo tweet. We also show for each article on your paper the news spotter responsible for sharing that information for your edition.

A note regarding retweets (RTs): we attribute the 1st news spotter that shared the link for your edition period, not the 1st person who ever shared that link since this is not possible to reproduce depending on when the original tweet has been posted!  

 

Site or Author of content: We always link the reader back to the original source content so that site and author gets the traffic driven back to their site. 

 

Two ways:

1. Any News Spotter that does not want to be mentioned can send us a tweet @newscrier. They will automatically be blacklisted and will no longer be mentioned in promo tweets. 

2. If a news spotter wants to be mentioned in general on Paper.li, but not for a specific Paper.li, they can contact the Paper.li owner and ask to be placed on their "blocked news spotters" list. Or they can contact us and we can do it for them. 

What does it cost?  

 

A desire for discovery! Our base service is free.  For marketers who would like total control over their advertising space, notifications and extended branding, we offer a 9$ per paper/per month service: Pro.