More than just blogging.... or the usual social media suspects. It's about content: auto-aggregated by feed, custom curated and annotated.
Newsletters: Once set in motion and pointed at sources or specific topics, online newsletters created with
Paper.li use designated twitter, topic (hastag) or Facebook feeds to do all the heavy lifting. The software handles layout, updates and scheduling tweets (which then show up on Facebook). "Creations" include
The #NM Daily,
Mountainair Online Digest (weekly) and
Chez Vanessa (
excessif? bien sûr). Paper.li newsletters not mine but subscriptions, that I occasionally Facebook to profile, groups and pages include
The #gardening Daily,
The #writing Daily,
The #poetry Daily, and
Local Food and Farmers Markets
Start your own if you can't find one on a topic that interests you. For example (not an offer), the
Manzano Mountain Art Council could put together one for
Mountain Arts on Broadway that combined news from selected feeds, keywords and tags about the art world, New Mexico arts, art and museum exhibits, Mountainair, murals, mosaics, pottery, public art, art centers and so on. It might take more time and thought to set up than the Facebook page, but once set up, would be more or less maintain itself. Although unlikely, the
Town of Mountainair or the
Chamber could create custom pages
Speaking of sunflowers and newsletters, I invite you to visit
sunflowers (
“celebrating sunflowers in all forms and any manifestation, real or imagined”) the most recent entry in my long standing hobby/habit of collecting sunflower images is aggregating them along with local Festival links and sunflower stories from around the world that catch my eye. I've neglected the
original Sunflower page (since 2000), but a sunflowers slide show (widget) along with the basic update could give it a boost. Unlike Paper.li's auto-generated newsletter,
Scoop.it pages are curated and more visual. I select items and images, add copy, comment. Look for the picture of Gorden with his sunflowers in it.
Mountainair 87036 is taking a spin on Scoop.it too, along with
to market to market (about farmers and other local informal markets around the world),
flanerie (my personal favorite) and
A is for Adjunct. I can't help thinking about other pages but better lose the losing days habit and maybe a few pages before adding others. On the other hand, I succumbed to temptation this morning and applied to
Pinterist, an exclusively visual virtual pin board still in Beta... and already a selection of
sunflowers for the
Sunflower Festival
view of Mountainair
