Have You Created Your Social News Magazine Yet?

If you haven’t, try Flipboard, Paper.li, Zite, Currents or NewzSocial. These publishers allow you to create your own Social News Magazines in minutes. Your Social News Magazines help you discover, subscribe / curate and share content of your interest with your social network. A quick look at the frequently asked questions on this topic.

Does it help? Assume you are a financial analyst who loves travelling and Football. To keep yourself updated, you have downloaded various apps such as WSJ online, Fox Traveler, Ten Sports, Discovery, among others. For day-to-day news, you also follow TV and radio channels. Just try and calculate the time you must be spending to keep yourself updated. Didn’t think that way, right?

What if you could create your own social news magazine that helps you discover and curate content from various publishers on the topics of your interest? What if the magazine could allow you to post interesting content to various social networking sites? With these Social News Magazine publishers you can do it all.

What all topics do they cover? The social news magazines curate content on a wide range of subjects such as travel, politics, business, jazz, animal love, etc. Collectively, they are curating content from over 100,000 publishers. You can discover, curate, and share information channels based on your interest areas.

Which one should you choose? Try any of the ones mentioned above. Since they are all trying to establish themselves in this area, they all do more or less of the same thing with some unique variants. For example, NewzSocial allows you to create your own channels whereas others ask you to subscribe to topics. Through Flipboard you can share the content with your friends on Twitter, Google+ and Facebook whereas NewzSocial provides options to share content with your Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin connections. Besides, Flipboard offers another interesting feature such as “Flip it” that permits you to add any content that you like from the web into your magazine. Isn’t that cool! I have used NewzSocial in the past, and I liked it. One of my friends who happened to be a marketing automation guy is an advocate of Paper.li.

What should you do next? Try it if you are a knowledge buff. Or, take your time to evaluate these tools for you business or personal purposes before you sign up for one.