If you really suck at writing or doesn’t have any time to write your own stuff, but still wants to have your own website. Then you should probably consider turning to this awesome website called Paper.li.
There was a time when we had to pay a lot of money for web-hosting and domains to get some personal space in the world wide web. Now things are different. These days you can get your own blogs, cloud storage or email accounts for free. Paper.li is one of those great services that allows you to create an automatically updating online newspaper for free.
How to create a free online newspaper
Creating an online newspaper at Paper.li is like eating a piece of cake. You just need a Facebook or a Twitter account to sign up to this website. Once you’re all signed in, you can choose a topic to start your own newspaper and customize it in any way you want. Like adding a background image, changing color schemes fonts and many other things.
Then you need to select sources for all the posts that gets published on your paper. You can select from any famous Facebook or Twitter profiles. And set your paper to automatically update on daily or weekly basis. Whenever some interesting links, photos or videos adds up to those Twitter or Facebook sources, your paper gets updated. It’s simple as that.
Check out my own Paper.li newspaper for an example. Currently it’s curating from my own tweets.
This is how a Paper.li newspaper looks like in moderator view
If you plan to improve your newspaper with advanced customization’s or plan to monetize it, you will have to go pro. It will require you to pay few bucks. But it’ll be worth it. Although, you can still make your name out there with your own online newspaper with a free Paper.li account.
Head over to Paper.li website to start your own free online newspaper.
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Roshan Jerad Perera
