Montana State assistant sports information director Chris Syme is the 2010-11 Chair of the CoSIDA New Media/Technology Committee. She has an well-read blog entitled "New Adventures of an Old SID" where she thoughtfully focuses on social media and new media trends for collegiate athletic communicators.
read this post online at Syme's blog:
New Adventures of an Old SID
One of the biggest objectives people have about Twitter is the fact that important tweets get flushed by newer important tweets and just plain disappear into the oblivion of the status page. I've tried listing people, using aggregators, notifiers, and whatever means I could, but there are still days that go by without one significant visit to Tweet Deck. Nature of the busy beast.
Recently, I ran across a tweet by
@kamichat (Kami Watson Huyse) promoting a new feature called the Kami Huyse Daily. Since she is someone I follow on Twitter regularly, I clicked and read. Kami, by the way, was an awesome presenter at the CoSIDA national convention two years ago in San Antonio and that is where her name first flashed across my screen. (CoSIDA.com editor's note: see Huyse's blog,
www.communicationovertones and company website,
www.zoetica.media.com).
Turns out that the Kami Huyse Daily is a product of paper.li (that's the URL as well), which is a free (currently anyway) tool that aggregates your daily twitter feed into a slick-looking online newspaper. Yes, they do add some of their own ads and such, but it is a great personalized visual.
For now, you can't control the content per se in your daily paper. After some messing around and messages to Kami (which she graciously answered), I found that the paper pulls from you and your followers only, and the prominence of messages are based on what you re-tweet and how many reads URLs get. I'm still learning about the tool, but I think it's a great way for tweeters and followers to get a summary of the day's tweets at times when following Twitter attentively is not possible.
Thanks to paper.li for the fun tool. Try it out--it's free and you control who sees it. There is a public/private option when you set it up. Have fun. Let me know what you think.