Just like any physical magazine, you are collecting stories on one particular topic, whether they are personal or sourced from others. We started using the Flipboard app recently and created our very first magazine.

Now that we are content creators, we’re constantly looking for fresh, new ways to share our travel guides and stories. I had little connection to the creators and couldn’t fathom becoming one myself. I watched what was on and read the books and magazines I bought. There was no creative manner in consuming content. I think about what I spent my time consuming when I was growing up and can boil it down to TV, movies, books, and magazines.

Flipboard displays self-created and co-curated magazines which you can access by going to the By Our Readers section on the iOS or Android app.It’s so interesting to see how content creation and consumption have changed in our lifetime. Users can subscribe to you magazine from the Flipboard apps. Contributors also add content with the same Flip It button on their browsers or the + button on Flipboard. Creating an open magazine with others who share your interests can help to ramp up content curation from the web. The Invite contributors button wasn't working at my end, though it is probably a temporary glitch. You can make the magazine more open by inviting other contributors. After you are finished with adding pages and articles, you can share your magazine via the usual channels of Twitter, Facebook, and email. You can set any of the articles as a cover story. Remember, readers will be flipping through the articles, so it pays to give some attention to how the articles will flow from one to the next if the topic so demands. You can go back to your Editor and rearrange the order of articles for a better flow. The Flipboard Editor is where it all comes together.

Flipboard magazines