RSI Content Solutions is pleased to announce the return of the RSuite User Conference on Tuesday, May 5th (Cinco de Mayo!).

During the RSuite User Conference, you'll see publishing automated through:

• Customer presentations
• Product roadmap
• New feature reveals
• and more!

Tuesday, May 5th will be a day for the RSuite community to come together to listen, learn, and participate in shaping the future of RSuite. In addition to the user conference, Wednesday, May 6th will be reserved as a technical training day and is limited to the first 25 registrants.

Please reserve Tuesday, May 5th on your calendar to join RSI and your fellow RSuite Community members in Philadelphia at The Hub Cira Centre and see why customers say that RSuite reduced their production time for their flagship product from 12 weeks to 4 days. Space is limited and registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.

MarkLogic is the exclusive gold sponsor of the RSuite User Conference.

RSuite CMS is powered by MarkLogic

Human Kinetics provides high quality informational and educational products in the physical activity and health fields. RSuite has been instrumental in changing the way Human Kinetics publishes over the past 3+ years. Join Steven Calderwood, Director of Content Engineering and Digital Delivery as he reviews:

• Initial business case to justify the investment in RSuite and content management overall
• Short-term wins by automating the publishing process with RSuite
• Current production metrics and how they have evolved over 3+ years
• New uses of RSuite and the future ahead

Please join us at this year's RSuite User Conference on Tuesday, May 5th (Cinco de Mayo!) learn more about the future of RSuite, client case studies, and product demonstrations. In addition to the user conference, Wednesday, May 6th will be reserved as a technical training day and is limited to the first 25 registrants. MarkLogic is the exclusive gold sponsor of the RSuite User Conference.

New Capabilities Unveiled at RSuite User Conference Today

RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, announced today at their annual user conference in Philadelphia the availability of new management dashboard features.  The new features include custom report and search widgets, drag and drop widget building, and flexible configuration and display.  These features are now available to all RSuite 4 clients.

“The vision behind the new management dashboard was to provide a way for individual users to monitor a host of actionable items in RSuite,”  explained Christopher Hill, Vice President of Product Management at RSI Content Solutions.

Last Thursday, publishing professionals met in Philadelphia for the 6th annual RSuite CMS User Conference. Brian Howard from Book Business highlighted a number of the key takeaways, including the following:

In Lisa Bos’ talk on metadata, she used the example of Oxford University Press, whose Oxford Index provides customers tools to drill deep for the content they’re seeking. She noted that OUP captures “twenties of items of metadata for each product,” clarifying that by product she didn’t mean books, but chapters of books. The richer your metadata, the more opportunities there are for your customers to find your products.

On the issue of what publishers’ products are called in the digital age, Evan Owens of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) said: “We’re an ‘article’ publisher; ‘issues’ are an artifact of the past. It’s article first.” Discussing the benefits of implementing a strategic CMS, AIP’s Owens noted that implementing RSuite was “an opportunity to step back, clear the deck and think about what we want to achieve.” He noted that early adopters — AIP was online early — can get in a rut, and that like lots of early Internet adopters, “everything was in a file system and there wasn’t an infrastructure to manage things.” As with publishers using file systems, there was “no version control; anyone in the building could change a file at any time, and I couldn’t do anything about it.” Implementing a CMS allowed AIP to protect its most valuable asset.

The complete review is available here.

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!

RSI Content Solutions, makers of RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, will host over 150 publishing executives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the 6th annual RSuite User Conference on September 20^th.

Now in its 6^th year, the annual RSuite User Conference provides a forum for members of the global RSuite community, and those considering RSuite, to interact, learn about content management, and network with other publishing professionals. RSuite CMS manages the full life cycle of content. From content creation through multi-channel distribution of print, ebooks, and licensed content, RSuite CMS is used by some of the world's leading publishers.

“We are always thrilled to host our RSuite clients in one location to communicate upcoming product plans, provide a forum to exchange ideas, and show through both case studies and demonstrations how clients are leveraging the power of RSuite,” stated Barry Bealer, CEO and co-founder at RSI Content Solutions.

RSI Content Solutions would also like to acknowledge the generosity of our sponsors---SPi Global, MarkLogic, Scope eKnowledge, Yuxi Pacific, and ITC InfoTech.

To learn more about the conference and register, please visit www.rsicms.com/rsuc2012.

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.

Keynote Presentation:
Curation, Collaboration, Cross-Platform, Cloud: Profiting From the "Four C's" of The Second Web

Publishers continue to express their prime value points through electronic media, but not always with the profit margins that they would have hoped to retain. Tools such as text analytics, the Flipboard news-viewing application and highly successful publishing business models pioneered by O'Reilly Media put pressure on publishers to be ready to innovate in both how content is produced and when and how it can be experienced for maximum value.

Veteran content industry analyst John Blossom, President of Shore Communications Inc., outlines 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.