Category Archives: Interviews

Part II: Mindful Curation with Judy Gombita
Published on March 27, 2014 by Kelly Hungerford
Judy publishes the daily paper @PRConversations Champions and is a member of the Paper.li Business Heroes program; a program dedicated to promoting and recognizing outstanding individuals in the Paper.li community. Continue reading

Part I: Global Public Relations with Judy Gombita
Published on March 25, 2014 by Kelly Hungerford
Judy publishes the daily paper @PRConversations Champions and is a member of the Paper.li Business Heroes program; a program dedicated to promoting and recognizing outstanding individuals in the Paper.li community. Continue reading

Alice Krueser: For the Love of Art and Curation
Published on October 9, 2013 by Magda Alexandra Torres
Alice Krueser is a passionate art lover who carefully crafts her Paper.li to promote artists and museums. She’s a true Paper.li champion, get to know her! Continue reading

Case Study: Using Paper.li to Monitor News (in the Jungle)
Published on September 23, 2013 by Magda Alexandra Torres
Meet Olga, a twenty-six year veteran Costa Rican tour guide who is leveraging content curation to maintain her colleagues informed and connected. Continue reading

How Traditions Build Community
Published on September 4, 2013 by Magda Alexandra Torres
Jonathan Smith started the Lighted Christmas Balls tradition with his family seventeen years ago, little did he know he would make a change in his community – learn about how a community got together to help those in need. Continue reading

Robin Yearsley: The Next Generation in Content Communities
Published on July 24, 2013 by Magda Alexandra Torres
Paper.li ambassador, Robin Yearsley, shares his knowledge on content marketing with our community and gives us the scoop on his new company, Contenteur! Continue reading

Fireball Tim: Growing your brand out of passion
Published on July 20, 2013 by Magda Alexandra Torres
Fireball Tim Lawrence designed more than 400 movie theme cars including the Batmobile. Nowadays he works on his personal brand, hosting TV shows and authoring children’s books. Find out how he did it! Continue reading

Crowdbrewed: crowdfunding the craft beer industry
Published on July 2, 2013 by Magda Alexandra Torres
Travis Benoit, a former Wall Street employee decided to test the waters in the crowdfunding industry by founding Crowdbrewed, a niche crowdfunding platform focused on the craft beer market. Continue reading

Auctionata: When Social meets Online Auctions
Published on June 18, 2013 by Magda Alexandra Torres
Auctionata is disrupting the traditional auction-house model and social media is powering it. We caught up with Jef Kalil to learn more about pioneering online auctions, and what we can expect when the bidding begins on June 21 at 1 million Euro for an Egon Schiele masterpiece! Continue reading

Reinventing yourself in the digital age
Published on June 5, 2013 by Magda Alexandra Torres
Louise Wightman decided to reinvent her life and her career. Learn some tips on changing and keeping up to date during the times of social media. Continue reading

Publisher Spotlight: Brona O’Connor
Published on May 21, 2013 by Magda Alexandra Torres
According to the 2013 Content Marketing Budgets and Benchmark report, social media is the most popular marketing tactic used by B2B marketers. With over 600,000 newspapers published by and for the B2B industry, I thought … Continue reading

Cocoworking: An alternative workplace for freelancers
Published on May 15, 2013 by Magda Alexandra Torres
In the era of hyper-connectivity, not only are we able to easily communicate with people from across the globe and have all kinds of information readily available at any time, but also, our jobs and professional careers … Continue reading

Natasha Younge: Taking Hollywood to the Shorty Awards
Published on February 5, 2013 by Kelly Hungerford
Last year ” The Younge Hollywood Blast” stole the spotlight away from traditional publishing giants at the Shorty Awards. Continue reading

Social Media Helps Keep Travellers on the Road
Published on December 24, 2012 by Liz Wilson
Want tips on how to use social media for your public sector organisation? Russel Lolacher and the communications teams at the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure in Canada can help. The teams, of which Russel is Social Media … Continue reading

Speed Up Your Sales With the New Social Selling
Published on December 18, 2012 by Liz Wilson
In part one of her interview, Barbara Giamanco, President and Social Sales Strategist of Social Centered Selling, set out the basics of ‘social selling’. Here Barbara, a leading thinker on the evolution of selling, co-author … Continue reading

Get Started with Social Selling
Published on December 17, 2012 by Liz Wilson
Have you been wondering how to up your sales? Barbara Giamanco is President and Social Sales Strategist of Social Centered Selling, and a leading thinker on the evolution of selling. Co-Author of The New Handshake: … Continue reading

Social Media in the Legal Classroom
Published on December 10, 2012 by Liz Wilson
Paul Drury teaches EU law at Sunderland University in the UK, is writing a textbook on the subject, and publishes the Students’ Guide to #EU Law in Action on Paper.li. He uses it inside and … Continue reading

Marketing Real Estate: Tips From A Pro
Published on December 3, 2012 by Liz Wilson
How do real estate firms market themselves on social media? Molly Heyen, Executive Coordinator of Chicago City Estates, has some useful tips, including using Paper.li to be noticed by power tweeters like museums and city … Continue reading

Independent Publishing For A Worldwide Market
Published on November 19, 2012 by Liz Wilson
Guy Boulianne founded his own internet-based book publisher, Éditions Dédicaces, which makes extensive use of the latest publishing technology and social media, including Paper.li. He’s also marketing his own eBook reader. He talked to us about … Continue reading

New Ways to Break the Humanitarian News
Published on November 5, 2012 by Liz Wilson
How do you get ‘forgotten’ humanitarian stories seen in a world where so much news conflicts for attention? For Julie Mollins, a senior journalist with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters … Continue reading

Be Human, Be Likeable, Be Successful
Published on October 22, 2012 by Liz Wilson
Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor, author and speaker, talks about his new number one marketing bestseller exploring why we want to do business with people we like. Continue reading

Sisters Pioneer the Art of Digital Mags
Published on October 8, 2012 by Liz Wilson
If you love high-quality magazines, you will adore SisterMAG. It is produced with passion by Toni and Thea Neubauer, who are showing the world how a digital-only magazine can be not only a thing of beauty but also a viable business. Continue reading

WaterAid Shows the Power of Content
Published on October 4, 2012 by Liz Wilson
WaterAid is innovating on social media to tell ‘the story of water’. Joe Downie shares some experiences and tips, including using a Pro Paper.li to build authority and Instagram to increase engagement. Continue reading

Whoever Tells the Best Stories Wins
Published on October 1, 2012 by Liz Wilson
There’s a difference between a story, and a story that moves people to action. Karen Dietz explains how you get to tell the second type of story by asking the right kind of questions and listening. Continue reading

Why Marketing Pros are going Paper.li Pro
Published on September 27, 2012 by Liz Wilson
Want to know who’s using Paper.li Pro and how? Here we go! In the first of our interviews with Pro publishers Alastair McPheat of Zein Marketing shares how to take the pain out of newsletters. Continue reading

Take Your Blog to the World
Published on September 24, 2012 by Liz Wilson
Renée Blodgett has been blogging for 15 years and she has much, much more than basic tips to give away. Learn from her insights how to think like a business and make your blog the center of it. Continue reading

Advice for Startups: Take Risk, Think Big
Published on September 20, 2012 by Liz Wilson
What makes a successful entrepreneur and a killer startup? Professor Shivaram Malavalli, who mentors cross-border startups between India and the US, shares his experience. Continue reading

Nigel Cameron: Time for Leaders to ‘Get’ Twitter
Published on September 17, 2012 by Liz Wilson
What’s Twitter to you? Something for customer service and marketing to worry about? Or a pathway to a different kind of knowledge sharing and learning? Nigel Cameron believes strongly in the latter. Agree or disagree? Continue reading

How to Connect With Journalists on Twitter
Published on September 10, 2012 by Liz Wilson
If you’re a PR, you need to know how to reach out to journalists on social media. Natan Edelsburg has some tips for you. Continue reading

How to Monetize Curated Content: Robin Good, Part 2
Published on September 6, 2012 by Liz Wilson
In Part 1 of his interview, Robin Good talked about how to create a revenue-earning micro-business. In Part 2, he tells us specifically how content curators can monetize their work using free online tools. Robin, … Continue reading