Lisa Bos shares her thoughts on content mangement trends for the coming year. Lisa is CTO and co-founder of Really Strategies, with primary responsibility for the RSuite CMS product vision and engineering.  RSuite is a content management system used by some of the world's leading publishers to manage content assets from creation through multichannel publishing and distribution.

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The 5th Annual RSuite User Conference welcomed more than 150 publishing executives on Tuesday, October 25th in Philadelphia at the Chemical Heritage Foundation Conference Center. There were 41 distinct publishing organizations in the house as well as a handful of companies who service publishers.  The overwhelming consensus among presenters and keynote speakers was that content management should be used strategically in an organization to gain success in the digital publishing world.

We'll highlight other key takeaways over the next few days here. In the meantime, you can revisit the confernence via the Twitter hashtag #RSUC11.

Of course, if you're ready to learn how strategic content management will help you accelerate revenue and navigate the digital publishing environment...just click the button below!

Really Strategies’ CEO and Co-Founder, Barry Bealer, credits a renewed interest in content management with the company’s 92% revenue growth. “The revenue that publishers are finally recognizing from digital products and delivery of content has spurred a renewed interest in content management,” stated Bealer. “Successful publishers recognize that content management is a necessary foundation and the world’s leading publishers are using RSuite CMS by Really Strategies.”

“Really Strategies, like all 2011 Greater Philadelphia Fast 50 companies, have excelled in fostering innovation and channeling it into spectacular growth -- against the backdrop of one of the most a challenging economies in history,” said Tara L. Weiner, managing partner, Greater Philadelphia region, Deloitte LLP. "Deloitte recognizes Really Strategies for its remarkable accomplishment.”

[Pictured above L to R: Barry Bealer, CEO and Co-founder; Marianne Calilhanna, Marketing Manager; Steve Quirke, Vice President of Operations; Lisa Bos, CTO, EVP Publishing Solutions, and Co-founder]

At next Tuesday's 5th Annual RSuite User Conference in Philadelphia, Diane Burley from MarkLogic Corporation will moderate a panel, "Getting to the Core of a Digital Publishing Strategy."

Publishers have been working hard the past few years plotting their organization’s digital publishing strategy. Yet there are still so many questions and the landscape is indeed vast. In this panel session, digital information specialist Diane Burley will question RSuite customers about their digital publishing strategy. We'll hear how RSuite is helping with dynamic content creation, streamlined delivery to licensing channels, and the emerging world of apps. Diane is a strategic visionary and understands the technology that is needed to leverage great content.

Panelists include Anthony Allen, director of digital media at the American Society of Training & Development. Anthony is a dynamic industry speaker who is known for translating how well-managed and structured content results in increased revenue. Linda Baker, VP, IT & web development at SLACK Inc. will share how transforming its entire wealth of content into XML enables them to repurpose content in an agile way. Dave Moreau and Joan Robinson from Wolters Kluwer Health detail how RSuite enables the Nursing Practice to produce and deliver a 21st century product in a 21st century manner.

Don't miss this important event. With 1 week remaining, limited seats are still available!

October 25, 2011
The Chemical Heritage Foundation
Conference Center
315 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Robert Methven, CTO at Triumph Learning, will speak at the RSuite User Conference and demonstrate how RSuite is a key component of Triumph’s long-term digital publishing strategy. Triumph Learning serves instructional materials to more than 25 million students across America. More than three brands serve up a range of curriculum needs, including test prep resources, digital curriculum, and classroom kits.

“RSuite has become the center of Triumph’s CMS strategy and is the foundation that allows Triumph to respond to changing market needs,” stated Marianne Calilhanna, conference organizer and marketing manager at Really Strategies. “Whether you are an educational publisher, STM journal publisher, or trade publisher, to be successful today, you need a solid digital publishing strategy and that includes proper content management and tools.”

The RSuite User Conference is a forum for publishers who want to learn how content management is the key to building a successful digital publishing strategy. All publishing executives are welcome to register. Attendees will hear case studies from some of the world's leading publishers, learning what works and what doesn't work when developing and implementing a CMS.

Digital editions of cookbooks have been on the slow cooker for some time now. But with the release of Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child and published by Alfred A. Knopf, digital cookbooks are gathering steam. Judith Jones*, retired senior editor and vice president at Knopf and the person responsible for bringing the book into our homes, insisted the digital publication wait until the technology could properly display the beauty of Julia's writing and recipes.

Well, that time is today. Knopf released the digital edition of this classic tome on October 5. Because no electronic files of the book were available, production staff had the book re-keyed and images scanned.

With the impending release of Amazon's Fire in November and the impressive metrics stewing for digital cookbooks, the time is ripe for cookbook publishers to go digital.

Check out our latest whitepaper "Best Practices for a Long-Term Digital Publishing Strategy" so you too can get cooking.

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*Judith Jones also saved The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile. And for that too, I thank you Ms. Jones.

EPUB is the widely adopted format for digital books and the new specification provides features and functionality that are important for publishers to understand.

RSuite Cloud is the industry's first hosted, end-to-end content management and automated publishing system that produces EPUB files as well as other critical formats that publishers require. Import MS-Word manuscripts into our system and our "XML-first" workflow tools will automate your publishing process to create print-ready PDFs, web pages, and ebooks in more than 200 languages.

If you're going to the Frankfurt Book Fair, register for a free consultation with our Digital Publishing Strategists. We'd love to see you there. Aufwiedersehen!

When people have questions, they turn to the Internet and search for answers. For technical publications, having content accessible is imperative. Put online help documentation on the Internet and your users can access your content.

CHMs, Robohelp, MadCap Flare, Adobe Air, Eclipse Help, and some WebWorks formats use architectures, plugins, and web services that restrict search access to the valuable content they contain. However, an HTML help system doesn’t rely on these technologies.

This is why TechProse, a consultant company specializing in technical writing, selected HTML5 and DITA, managed by DocZone.  DocZone is a SaaS XML CMS that can deliver help content to the Internet. HTML5 is designed with accessibility in mind, and DITA enables us to reap the benefits of single-sourcing and automated publishing.

By switching from FrameMaker and MadCap Flare to DITA and HTML5 help, TechProse was able to help its global international shipping customer:
•    reduce publishing costs by 15%
•    increase the quality of the user experience
•    make help topics accessible from any web-ready device

Learn more on September 28th at 1PM EST by joining us at our webinar entitled, "Don’t Hide Your Content in a Traditional Help System: A Case Study from TechProse Featuring DocZone."

Don't miss the opportunity to see what's in store for the RSuite CMS next generation user experience at the 5th annual RSuite User Conference. Conference attendees can also take part in an "ask-an-engineer" session to understand the implications of architectural changes in upcoming releases.

RSuite User Conference | October 25th

            

Really Strategies, Inc., provider of RSuite, a content management system for publishers, will host 150 publishing executives at the 5th Annual RSuite User Conference to be held October 25th 2011 at the Chemical Heritage Conference Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The RSuite User Conference is a forum for publishers who want to learn how content management is the key to building a successful digital publishing strategy. Attendees will hear case studies from some of the world's leading publishers, learning what works and what doesn't work when developing and implementing a CMS.

“We are very excited to be hosting our 5th User Conference and have presentations planned from some of the industry’s leading publishers and analysts, including Bill Trippe from Outsell and Evan Schnittman from Bloomsbury Publishing,” stated Barry Bealer, CEO and co-founder of Really Strategies.

The RSuite User Conference acknowledges the generous support of its sponsors Data Conversion Laboratory, ITC InfoTech, MarkLogic Corporation, Scope eKnowledge Center, and YuxiPacific.

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