Turning Noise into Shared Knowledge with Paper.li

I’ve poked at it a few times, even started making my own “newspaper” with their free service, but today a new use popped into my head for Paper.li. It’s a powerful tool for staff education and collaboration. Instead of selecting content for your twitter followers, a company can select content specifically for their staff. Take some industry news, some local announcements, some funny photos from a recent BBQ, video tutorials from competitors, and the like and you’ve got a truly interactive and relevant communications piece that everyone can find value in. The days of the weekly static PDF built off a MS word template might be numbered.

We all know there’s a A TON of information across the internet, but it can also be a major time suck to wade through what’s useful and what’s not. It’s also impossible to have a large staff always be on the same page when news and new best practices are constantly coming to light. Paper.li is free, allows you to cull the info you want from all over the net into one easy to read or scan newspaper format accessed from one click.

To date I have witnessed primarily B2C or B2media formats, but for companies trying to keep a large staff on the cutting edge – there may be opportunities here.