Hi newsletter crew,
Looking to start a newsletter in the African and Diaspora tech and innovation ecosystem as there are currently 3 I know off.
What tools do you use to curate news and your experience Witt them? Quuu,flip board?
I use Airtable to organize my newsletter content section by section. Incl. links, images and people I need to tag when I re-post on social.
You can read my bi-weekly digest here.
Great awesome!
Is this similar to @gill_works workflow in Zapier?
Does the news come to you or you go to it?
Michael's better :)
Both - my contributors will submit content and I will scout content from a few credible sources.
OG :)
Ok great awesome thanks for your that!
I publish my newsletter with Revue, so to curate content I use their Chrome extension that works like a read later link saving tool. I shared more details on my newsletter publishing process.
Thanks very helpful
So you go looking for the news ...
It doesn’t come to you?
Eg. A workflow where all feeds come to a specific place say slack via automations .
Or a mention on the web sends it to a dashboard ready to be selected?
My workflow upstream of the Revue Chrome extension is largely manual and spread across a number of news aggregation tools and sources like Feedly, Twitter, Gmail (for newsletters), and my own web surfing.
Very helpful @PaoloAmoroso
Thanks a million.
Also great English 😉
You're welcome.
I read extensively (50+ newsletters or more per week and 150+ articles) so I have plenty of content that I'm constantly saving.
I use a mix of Pocket, Google Sheets Bookmarklets to capture the data and directly input into MailerLite
Amazing feat !
150+ articles.
So you go to the content.
google sheets coming up a lot in the 🧵 thread.
For https://bootstrap.email I keep a text file where I add things I like during the week. Nothing fancy :).
Simplicity , the ultimate sophistication!
Great ,how do you ensure you haven’t missed anything juicy?
BTW lovely landing page!
Thanks!
I probably miss some stuff. But I think I do a decent job finding gems. There are only so much you have time to read/listen to :).
I use Roam to organize content for It's Past Midnight
While not exactly the same end result, I think it's the same concept - I use a mix of Zapier and Feedly to automate content for myself, and have used it to automate websites built around specific content (ie: https://blog.myarcade.games/ ) - This is a more raw example that I definitely don't have perfected in any way, but you can use the tools to automate the grabbing of content, sorting it into buckets/categories, and then organizing it however you see fit to prep it to be exposed in a newsletter, etc.
Thanks for the contribution.
Yes ! The same concept.
Has it improved SEO ?
I mean content curation like what you do for arcade games?
I don’t really use any tools per say, but I do have a a google sheet template that I use to organize my newsletter with, and for links, I just save everything I potentially want on my newsletter to the Bear App.
I’m not a big browser extension person, I absolutely hate clutter, so I keep a very minimalist chrome browser, and I prefer sheets.
Got you on that!
Organized in themes I guess?