The RSuite User Conference kicks off tomorrow morning, September 20th, in Philadelphia at the Hub Cira Centre. The agenda is packed with a fantastic lineup of speakers and presentations.

John Blossom, President of Shore Communications will keynote the event and outline the cutting edge of content technologies that he has defined as "The Second Web" and how they are yet again redefining successful models for high-margin publishing businesses.

Can't be in Philadelphia? Join us via Livestream! Catch us on Twitter!

Breakfast...lunch...happy hour...all served with a healthy dose of content management for publishers.

See you tomorrow!

Case Study: Automating Content Distribution at SAGE Publications

SAGE's publications include titles for scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students in the areas of business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology, and medicine. SAGE is the premier service source for societies who need to compete effectively in the online academic market but lack the publishing infrastructure.

SAGE uses RSuite CMS to push content and related assets through multiple workflow routines and delivery processes. Using RSuite CMS, SAGE is now producing more than 600 journals without addition of staff to its journal publishing technologies team. To date, SAGE has more than 700,000 articles in RSuite CMS.

Come learn the business drivers that led SAGE to select RSuite CMS and hear the astonishing gains that have been achieved over the past 5 years.

I am a fan of Flipboard.

I use it for personal news consumption and was thrilled when The New York Times became available. I still find myself flipping through content that I read (and subscribe to!) in print. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Flipboard has 21 publications that it is working with along with many tech websites, blogs, and Twitter feeds.

Flipboard is making a push to reach out to publishers and advertisers. The company hired five "evangelists" to make its case to publishers who are looking for new digital revenue sources (and who isn't btw?!).

I see Flipboard as a great venue for STM and educational publishers to tap into new revenue and I wonder why I don't see these types of publishers on Flipboard yet. Granted the company is evolving its publisher pitch. Digiday had a great article on this and addresses some concerns that publishers may have.

If you're an STM or educational publisher, I'm interested to hear your thoughts. Share your comments, concerns, opinions.

Throughout the day at the 2012 RSuite User Conference our engineers will be available to you. We'll have a dedicated room where your technical staff can dive deep with RSuite's technical staff to understand the code behind the CMS.

How does the latest version change the data storage model? What search improvements are available? What are best practices regarding custom UIs? What are the appropriate patterns for URL resolution for assets stored in plugins and elsewhere?

We'll have these answers and more! Come, ask an engineer.

DETAILS
WHEN: September 20, 2012
WHERE: The Hub Cira Centre | Philadelphia, PA
WHO: Publishing professionals interested in content management, digital distribution of content, content reuse, and ebooks

While using internal resources to develop a homegrown content management tool or convert your backlist to XML sounds like a cost-effective approach, the reality is that most IT projects fail. Focussing internal IT resources on experimenting with new technologies and applications (R&D), vendor selection, and vendor management is the trend most publishers are following. Capitalizing on external resources can increase time to market, offer scalability and expertise, provide consistency and quality, and ultimately improve your ROI.

Join RSI Content Solutions and Data Conversion Laboratory for the latest webinar in the Reality Check Series:

Truth About DIY CMS and Content Conversion
featuring Pat Sabosik, Elm City Consulting
August 29, 2012 | 1:00 to 2:00 pm
Register here

Leading publishing consultant, Pat Sabosik, leads this conversation and will discuss

• Life cycles and leveraging investments
• Evolution of content use and complexity
• ROI and profitability

She'll provide concrete examples from STM and educational publishers that detail how content management and XML are the building blocks for the next generation of content and how vendor selection and alignment is a good use of corporate IT resources vs DIY when it comes to content conversion and content management.

According to a Pew Internet and American Life study, the number of adults who own tablets nearly doubled between mid-December 2011 and early January 2012, jumping from 10% to 19%. Coincidentally, according to the same study, the number of adults owning e-book readers also doubled from 10% to 19% in the same period, and the number of adults owning at least one of those devices leapt from 18% to 29%. There is simply no denying it—we find ourselves in the midst of a fundamental change in the way information is presented and consumed across all sectors of publishing.

From trade to children’s books, from STM to legal, from education to association publishing, the very rules of how we do what we do are being rewritten (and likely being read on a PDF or EPUB). And the rewriting of these rules is happening so quickly—to an industry that’s done things more or less the same way for centuries—that lots of publishers are struggling as their print revenues shrink faster than they can grow digital revenue.

In this free white paper you'll learn how to manage and refine your content—then, sell it quickly, efficiently, and in more forms than you ever imagined possible.

SAGE Open is a new open access publication from SAGE Publications. It publishes peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.

SAGE recently won its first award, the 2012 APEX Award for Publishing Excellence. SAGE Open recently published its 100th journal article after winning the prestigious APEX Award. The success of this journal has lead to the recent announcement of three new open access journals for SAGE: SAGE Open Engineering, SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, and SAGE Open Medicine.

SAGE Publications has been using RSuite CMS for automated content distribution for the past 5 years and has recognized impressive gains in the organization:

• SAGE is now producing more than 600 journals – double the output of 2 years ago – without addition of staff to its journal publishing technologies team
• 5years ago, SAGE had fewer than 100 digital assets online. By the end of 2012, SAGE is expecting to have more than 5,000 online digital assets.
• with the improved searchability and metatagging provided by RSuite CMS, SAGE is now able to provide its clients with precise figures regarding the number of articles in their archive related to specific topics, along with the ability to provide controlled access to its library of content.

Congratulations SAGE Publications!

Want to learn how RSuite CMS can help your publishing organization?

At the 2012 RSuite User Conference on September 20th, Christopher Hill, VP of product management at RSI Content Solutions, will present the RSuite product road map.

The award-winning RSuite CMS has been the choice of scholarly publishers, global information, and media companies to create, transform, and deliver a digital future. At the 6th annual RSuite User Conference, Christopher Hill, vice president of product management at RSI Content Solutions, will detail what’s in store for upcoming releases. He'll also illustrate how RSuite CMS is used at various organizations. While some publishers focus RSuite’s strengths during content creation, others use RSuite solely for distribution to licensing channels. Content creation, editorial, production, distribution---RSuite CMS manages content through the entire life cycle.

Register today!

At the 2012 RSuite User Conference, Lisa Bos, CTO at RSI Content Solutions, will present "How Metadata Management is the Key Component of Findability:"

The origin of most online customer experiences is search---it’s a natural and productive first step. In publishing, making content findable and visible means managing metadata. If you don’t have metadata on your content, you won’t find it efficiently.  This presentation details how metadata management is the foundation to new product development, content discovery and re-use, and content enrichment. Lisa references customer use cases who harness RSuite’s metadata management tools as the key to unlocking content from siloed departments and repositories.

RSuite is a CMS for publishers that manages the entire content life cycle.
The RSuite User Conference is a forum for publishing and media professionals interested in learning how strategic content management and an XML-based workflow help deliver content in any format, to any channel, at any time.
You are invited to join hundreds of publishing professionals for this 1-day event.

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Thanks to the 2012 sponsors!