The Metropolitan Museum’s Flipboard showcases Flipboard as a tool to merge one institution’s content into a singular stream, or the ability to divide articles into “magazines,” that cover specified topics. While all of the publishing end of the Flipboard platform is “self-service,” it is easy to use and upkeep. This is an excellent feature for platforms who might have multiple types of content. Under their platform, publishers may make multiple “magazines” under their singular website, allowing them to potentially separate disparate topics. Publishers can publish their content directly through Flipboard, and they ensure that content will transfer to their platform correctly. However, because it is a free program advertisements are built into each publisher’s platform directly, and organizations may wish to inquire as to what adds will be places along their flipboard.

In fact, every aspect of Flipboard is free to use, and there is no premium paid version. Promoting itself as a more “selective” source for news and content suggests an alternative for users who may be frustrated by getting content from social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter.įor publishers, Flipboard makes publishing content easy and free. It can act as an RSS feed for websites a user may follow, or users may choose to follow indexed topics and keywords, or create their own “magazines,” from filtered or selected content.įlipboard has a large user-base, with 145 million users and 11,000 publishers as of August 2018.

Flipboard acts as a digital magazine, with content arranged by source or topic.

There are many available content-feeds, but one of the longstanding companies to streamline content is Flipboard. In the age of “fake news,” and seemingly endless internet content, aggregators and RSS platforms become a great way to consume the news we trust.

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