Web Publishing News & Articles

This week web publishing brings collaboration among countries, an examination of pay walls, big and small and a French women's blog aggregator.

Only a few months after they consolidated their business divisions under the SDL (news, site) brand, another major announcement is coming from the global info management organization: a new General Manager is set to lead the North American operations for their Web Content Management Solutions division, formerly known as Tridion.

Canada is taking back the news. A leading Canadian news provider, CNW Group (news, site) has launched a new service that serves to combine many different communication metrics and actions into a single platform.

Whether you are an entrepreneur, a venture capitalist, a developer or a social media start up, chances are that you’ve become more involved in building local applications and sites that focus on serving local needs. After all, investing in your local community can reap big rewards.

Though community interest abounds, most don’t always have the marketing and sales experience to secure local deals and discounts. Enter Adility.
 

Media publishers want to control their entire print and digital advertising workflow — from order entry to delivery, billing and receivables, analytics and real-time performance measuring. The result is a better customer service experience, higher revenues, and a lower cost of technology ownership.

Atex (news, site) and BLOOM Digital Platforms have inked an agreement that will give online and mobile media publishers that sort of control.

Today, we're catching up on recent reports, studies and white papers that seek to enlighten us about searching the mobile web, web advertising via YouTube and other online portals, as well as the hashtag rivers that connect people with the news.

Scitable is an open online teaching/learning portal, which combines educational articles authored by editors at Nature Publishing Group with technology-based community features, all aimed at helping teachers, librarians and students.

This week, we look at how web publishing can help children and Google's new push for the ad dollars of local businesses.

When Adobe released its Creativity Suite 4, it was designed to make it easier to design websites that combine different types of media. With the recent launch of Adobe’s Creativity Suite 5, the aim is to improve creative editorial workflows and analytics; while offering some cool new design, video and photography tools.

Let’s take a look, shall we?

WordPress 3.0 (news, site) is just around the corner and, as per usual for the popular blogging and content management system, a very rough beta version was kicked out earlier this month. Let's take a look at what team WordPress are -- and are not -- working on this time 'round.

Acquia, the commercial company founded by Drupal (news, site) project lead Dries Buytaert, and Phase2 Technology have joined forces around the OpenPublish (news, site) content publishing platform. OpenPublish combines the open source Drupal Web CMS framework with OpenCalais (news, site), a free semantic web metadata service provided by Thomson Reuters.

This year for Drupalcon, the organizers felt a little cross-pollination was in order. There are multiple talks that don't in fact feature Drupal (news, site) at all. Instead, the topics revolve around things that the Drupal community can learn from.

One of those talks was offered by Ben Sandofsky (@sandofsky) of Twitter (news, site).

This week in web publishing, online publishers get tools for leveraging social media, while the Pulitzer Prize awards online news organizations.

And so it was written, on Thursday, April 8, Steve Jobs said, “…we think most of this mobile advertising really sucks,” thus giving way to the creation of iAd, Apple’s debut mobile advertising platform. The mobile web will never be the same again.

As many American newspapers and news agencies close down news desks scattered strategically around the world, citizen journalism is filling the gap. By offering local journalists and concerned citizens a platform from which to offer their perspectives on local and global events, coverage of world news is showing signs of life again.