Step 2: Find a Flipboard post about your topic that you want to share in your magazine. Thanks to Google+ user +Paolo Amoroso for that tip!) ( Pro Tip: You can also create a new Flipboard magazine in a web browser with Flipboard’s Web Editor. Tweet this: “Subscribe to Mark Traphagen’s online marketing Flipboard magazines” How to Create Your Own Flipboard Magazineįlipboard magazines must be created in the Flipboard app. You can also subscribe to any of them there, if you have a Flipboard account. As of this writing, they have a combined subscribership of over 700 readers. Now you can create and curate your own Flipboard magazines!

Here’s what a typical Flipboard page looks like on an iPad:Ī few months ago Flipboard moved from being just a place to passively consume content to becoming a self-publishing hub. See something you want to share? With one click, you can share any post to any of your social networks or email contacts. You can also subscribe to numerous curated topical feeds right inside Flipboard, including feeds from major print publications like the New York Times and The Atlantic magazine. Tapping on any item opens up the full original post. And the content is attractively presented, usually with an image, headline, and a brief excerpt. It takes feeds from your social networks and your (now legacy) Google Reader RSS feeds and turns them into attractive, magazine-style “flipboards.” You browse through each flipboard by turning pages, much as you would in a real magazine. But that’s what I’ve done, and you can too!įlipboard is a popular app for Android or Apple smartphones and tablets. I never dreamed that someday I’d be able to create my own magazines. Life, Look, National Geographic…whenever a new one arrived I loved nothing better than to flip through their beautiful photos, and once I learned to read, their articles became my best classroom for learning about the wider world.

When I was a kid I loved that my parents subscribed to lots of magazines. A Flipboard Magazine Is Content Curation Made Beautiful

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