Episode 83: Unleashing the Power of Curation with Mia Quagliarello

Mia Quagliarello, Flipboard's head of creator community, is an advocate for creative people and loves nothing more than helping them find audiences and inspiration. On her podcast, “The Art of Curation,” and in her Substack interviews, she celebrates and discusses the importance of human taste in a tech-driven world. She believes that even smaller creators can make an impact by tapping into Flipboard’s community and ecosystem.

Mia runs the Flipboard Creator Programs, which are full of opportunities for creators via initiatives like the Newsletter Takeover Program, Residency Program, Sponsor Referral Program, Promoted Stories Program  and more. In the newsletter initiative, experts can guest-curate around food, travel, tech, climate, personal finance and photography. Creators with advertiser relationships will want to check out the sponsor referral program, where they can keep 100% of the first campaign’s earnings. Select participants are invited into the Creator Collective — which, by the way, is my favorite — where members can get Flipboard's red check for free.

We also discuss Flipboard’s recent leap into the Fediverse with its own Mastodon instance. Mastodon is a decentralized, open-source social media platform that’s gaining popularity as many look for a Twitter alternat