As you may or may not know I "publish" or "host" or whatever it is a couple of Paper.li newsletters;
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Now that you have clicked on the above two
links I trust you will click "share" or "subscribe" or,
ideally, both!
The reason I started these two papers was, of course, in an attempt to promote my writing and my blogs but they do seem rather
random and even reading my own issues I have learned a lot! In fact in one of my earliest editions of
Lush Ice Cream News was this headline ...
Cat Snores Into Glass Of Orange Juice For No Apparent Reason
... and it doesn't get much better than that,
does it?
If you are unfamiliar with Paper.li then,
briefly, what happens is you set up a newspaper thingy concerning your area of
interest and then you designate various websites, twits and facebook pages plus
some appropriate keywords and every day or week, your decision, Paper.li collect together
relevant items into a new edition of your paper, email it to subscribers and
mention it on Twitter.
This method means that unless you are very
stringent with sources and keywords some interesting stuff crops up. I subscribe to a number of Paper.li papers:
~ The Food Stuff Extra Daily This recently linked to a
version of Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic".
Well what a treat! I love Mr. Morrison and, I kid you not, I once had
dinner with him, just him and me, at his invitation! Anyhoo my point is - what has this to do with
food?
~ The British Cheese Daily Often very interesting but frequently not about cheese.
~ The FoodiesSW Daily - don't tell
Olive Magazine, "foodie" is one of their banned words! They recently linked to a story about this
rather attractive older gentleman who at 50 still gets asked if he's old enough
to buy booze. Weak link but pleasant!
~ The Click Cornwall Daily - because I live here.
You get the picture, I'm often tempted to
sign up for more but reading them takes up so much time every day; they can
be fascinating.
And why am I telling you this? Well 3 reasons ...
1. Another
attempt to promote myself, I have no shame.
2.
In case you have not heard of this way of getting your work out there.
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So that you too can waste hours reading all sorts useful info, plus irrelevant but
interesting stuff.
I have a favour to ask of you!
FOOD - the South Wests favourite food magazine have just launched their third Food Reader awards. Please go to my foodie blog Sudden Lunch
and click this logo in the sidebar to nominate your favourite chefs,
restaurant, retailers and more in the South West. May I suggest Sudden Lunch as the Best Food Blogger?
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After that browse their site, you won't be disappointed.
Thank you,
Suzy
