Forbes told this week that AOL is launching weekly magazine “Huffington” for iPad. According to Forbes, Huffington combines “Huffington Post’s mix of original journalism and aggregated news, possibly with a small number of stories commissioned specifically for the magazine”.
iPad publishing is a hot topic - Flipboard and Pulse are growing fast, AOL already launched “Editions” and CNN bought Zite. Interesting to see, how this story continues..
Is visual storytelling future of journalism and editorial design? In this great interview by Gestalten, Francesco Franchi (Art director, IL-Intelligence) talks about innovative design and non-linear storytelling.
We believe visual storytelling to be the future of web and we’re working on to enable you to create and publish visual stories for iPad in a magazine-style format. Sign up, If you want to test our current beta version and give us feedback.
We are proud to present a new Flockler Magazine for Social Media Week London 2012
Subscribe to receive the latest issue via e-mail or follow @SMWLDN on Twitter
Thank you for the feedback and support during the first few months of Flockler Beta. Today we are introducing new powerful features to help you stand out from the crowd: Customize Pages, Easier Cover Selection and Editor’s Letter.
Customize Pages
You can now personalize your magazine by changing the layout of pages. This helps you to stand out from the crowd and create unique & personalized magazines. To change the layout of page, simply click “Change template” on the top left corner.
Easier Cover Selection
You gave us feedback that adding cover for magazine could be easier. We listened your feedback and now you can select one of the article images in your magazine to be used as a cover. If you want, you can still upload your own photo.
Editor’s Letter
Editor’s letter is a new way to tell your readers why these articles in the magazine made the cut and add a personal touch to each issue! Writing editor’s letter is optional, though.
We are excited about these new features and would love to hear your feedback! And do not forget to share your new beautiful magazines on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks!
To create your beautiful magazine, Sign in or Sign Up for Beta.
This is a sneak peek of one of the new layouts and design - we’re so excited and hope to be live soon!
To create your own magazine, Sign up for beta!
This a short tutorial on how to use Flockler Bookmarklet and add your favorite stories to your magazine.
1. Go to Bookmarklet page to install it to your browser:
2. Simply drag and drop “Add to Flockler” button to your bookmark toolbar
3. When reading something you like on the web, click “Add to Flockler”. You can customize the title, select and upload photos and add your opinion. When you’re ready, hit “Save for Later” -button.
4. All the articles, tweets, photos and videos you have saved can be found on the “Saved” tab in your Newsroom.
5. Final step: click “Add to issue”
Hope you like it - We would love to hear your feedback!
If you have not created your first magazine yet, Sign up now!
As the year is coming to an end, we want to thank our editors-in-chief for playing around with Flockler Beta and publishing beautiful magazines! This is our gift for the holidays: Bookmarklet to save stories for later, Statistics and Editing.
Bookmarklet
Bookmarklet lets you save news, tweets, videos and more while you’re browsing the web. Once you find something that makes the cut, simply open bookmarklet and hit save. Saved stories are waiting to be added to your next issue in Newsroom.
Statistics
You can now keep eye on pageviews of your magazine. Go ahead and sign in to Flocker to check out your statistics!
Edit posts
Sometimes even best editors-in-chief make mistakes - now it’s easy to fix them. You can edit posts before and after publishing your issue.
We hope you enjoy new features and they help you to publish beautiful Holiday Edition of your magazine ;)
If you have not already signed up for Flockler Beta – do it now at http://www.flockler.com/
We wish you happy holidays,
Team @ Flockler
One of the key reasons for startups to be in London compared to dark and cold Finland (where Flockler was born) is the amount of high quality events and meetups between marketing pros, social media gurus, developers etc. Yesterday I joined “monthly” HackerNews meetup to hear some interesting presentations and do some networking. Although presentations were slightly geeky for me (don’t blame them, I’m the business guy…), I recommend you to take a look at their Meetup group and join one of their future events!
-Toni-
This is our brand new blog where we will share the latest news about the development of Flockler.
Flockler is your personal magazine publisher. Flockler makes it easy to find the content you’re passionate about, add your personal opinion and create your very own magazine. Once you’re ready to publish Flockler does all the hard work, making sure your magazine looks great and allowing you to easily share your magazine on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other online platforms for all the world to see. Your magazine will display perfectly to your audience every time, whether that’s online or on iPhone, iPad or Android devices.
We are currently in super secret alpha, but will be inviting first users soon. To get your invitation go to Flockler.com
