Karen Woodham of Blazing Minds was gracious enough to answer a few questions so you, the Blogger, can decide if Paper.li is for you and, if so, how to gain the most from it.
Today’s interview with Karen is directed at her success using Paper.li publications for her Twitter followers. Paper.li has been around for while, founded in 2008, and many have published their own papers using content from their Twitter and Facebook feeds. Few have enjoyed the success that Karen has with both Twitter and with her papers.
BlazingMinds publishes five papers including these three very popular publications:
- The Celebrities on Twitter Daily 3127 views
- The Bloggers Daily 4115 views
- The Music Daily 2449 views
Interview With Veteran Blogger Karen Woodham
Q: You have papers in a few different niches. From following you for several years, I know you are a music lover. Would you encourage others to publish multiple papers of their interests or are there other factors?
I would have to say yes, by introducing your followers to some of your other interests shows that you have the ability to not be just stuck in one niche and that you can bring your followers something that they may have not read or found in the past.
Q: Paper.li. has gained a lot of popularity recently and many people on Twitter have jumped in and created their own papers but you have been able to create a significant following. What do you attribute this success to?
Q: Other than the tweets, which can be setup in the paper’s settings page, do you do anything to help promote your various papers?
Q: Users can add up to five content streams on each publication, including Twitter (both hash-marks and keywords) and Facebook. Do you have any recommendations as to what a new publisher should feed into their paper in order to get the most of it?
Q: Here’s the big question. What is the biggest benefit to publishing a Paper.li. newspaper? What is the incentive, even though it doesn’t take up a lot of time?
I would like to thank Karen for taking the time to answer these questions for us. I hope this interview helps a few fellow bloggers to blend the mix of blogging, tweeting and various interests into a unique brand as Karen has accomplished.
What about you? Do you publish a Paper.li? Feel free to leave a link to it in your comment. Did you find this interview helpful? Let Karen know by leaving your comment below and subscribing to her blog at BlazingMinds.co.uk. Follow Karen on Twitter.
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Hi Brian, many thanks for giving me the opportunity to do this interview with you
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My pleasure Karen, I appreciate you taking the time to do it and you did a fantastic job.
Hi Brian, Hi Karen,
Brian, thank you for dedicating a blog post to Paper.li . We really appreciate the support of the Paper.li service. And welcome to the Paper.li service. I see you are a new publisher with us. That’s great! Let us know if there is anything we can help you with.
Karen, thank you for your appraisal and insights on how Paper.li can benefit bloggers. There is a lot of great value through curation for the entire value chain: bloggers, curators, content sources, news spotters and readers of Paper.li alike.
Good curation leads to great discovery and it looks like your viewers and followers agree.
Thanks again to the both of you.
My pleasure Kelly, it’s nice of you to take the time to comment. I’d love to interview Paper.li in regards to how it can benefit bloggers sometime.
Thank you Kelly, I’m still using Paper.li and it’s a great source of traffic for Blazing Minds, specially now that the blog, twitter etc have become even more popular
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I use Paper.li too to produce my Claude Nougat Daily, and I’m amazed to see how fast it’s growing! Like you, I’mnot sure why it’s performing so well and I certainly rarely promote it: I jet let it promote itself using the settings that come along with it.
I think the keywords and #columns are essential to give a shape to the paper. But I found it even useful for myself, catching up on tweets I missed. Basically it collects a lot of articles I would have missed otherwise (can’t be on my Twitter stream all day long!) And it has the advantages of providing news often faster/sooner than printed papers. I also like the format, where you click on titles to get to the full article: very digital savvy.
Only one drawback: being computer-generated, there are glitches (like repetitions of certain articles, plus a few articles that I don’t really want to see there). So curation-wise, it’s not perfect. But I’m told they’re working on providing us with a chance to curate before the daily is published. I hope they do, because that would solve a lot of problems and improve the quality of the papers! Because, as you know, now you can only correct after the paper is out, and I always wonder how many of my readers come across the glitches before I catch them!
Anyway, thanks Karen and Brian, for an excellent interview: I Google plused it!
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Thanks Claude, that’s a great point on seeing tweets that you would have otherwise missed. That’s a nice paper The Claude Nougat Daily, I subscribed.
Brian and Karen, How did you come up with this idea and bring out the best in making conversations and stories about mastered paper? I want to interview my friend who is master in Link building.
I just asked and Karen said okay. I was impressed about her success with paper.li and knew she had a lot to offer other bloggers. I really appreciate Karen for taking the time out of her busy schedule to help everyone out.
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I have such a busy schedule these days that it’s took me this long to answer comments here, on a serious note though, all my “success” in these maters is down to trial and error and seeing what works the best
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Brian, I absolutely LOVE Karen and I like Paper.li too. Nice to see them both featured here in this post. I follow just about all of Karen’s paper.li’s and twitter accounts. She always grabs your attention with her positive attitude and exciting stories.
Nice legs too Karen!
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Hi Ileane, Karen is great and has a ton of talent. And I’m glad I wasn’t the only one liking those legs. lol
BTW, thank you very much for all those retweets and diggs.
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Thank you Ileane, I do hope that my Tweets etc are still as appealing and fresh as they have always been
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Hi, Brian,
I will make sure to check Karen’s blog in more details after this interview.I see she managed to build a big community of followers in a short time…and the best of it is that she started it all for fun, without realizing how many benefits can she make, all thanks to the paper Ii.
Great one!
It is always good to hear advices and experience stories from veteran bloggers.
Thanks Kristina, Blazing Minds is a must read for sure. Don’t forge to subscribe.
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Thank you Kristina, it’s been a really fun ride with Twitter, FB and the blog since this interview was originally published and you’ll be glad to know I’m still enjoying every moment of it
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Brian,
I really liked this interview. I tried out paper.li a while back and was not satisfied with the product. It seemed spammy and with results I wasn’t happy with.
But now I see a lot of that was because of the way I set it up. I think at some point in the near future I may try it again. Thanks for a great interview with karen.
I think that Paper.li is a great tool and has a lot of potential, but I also think it has some bugs to work out before it achieves that potential.
Hi there I liked your informative article on Blazing Minds Tells How She Mastered paper.li. This is really helpful. Thanks for sharing this information.
Well I got my hands on paper.li somewhere in 2009 and I never paid attention but now I realize it was a wrong decision to ignore such a handy internet tool. Anyways this interview motivates me to put my thinking caps on and make something worthy over Internet.
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