The News Publishing portal provides an easy way to professionally publish an online news publication, corporate press releases, or manage other content without technical expertise. It is most often used as an online newspaper.
Writers enjoy its easy to use content development submission forms. Editors applaud its content management ease and speed for editing, approving, and placing stories.
Related links and a photo gallery can be published with a story. Links to news sections and stories can be featured in appropriate areas throughout the site. Publish the most recent stories with an RSS feed.
Archive stories and provide a searchable news archives using the News Archives portlet.
Benefits
- Content management software return on investment is maximized by minimizing content management and site operations costs while increasing revenues.
- Professionally publishes and manages an online news publication quickly and easily
- Full-featured and ready to go today - right "off-the-shelf"
- Low Total Cost of Ownership - Low start up & training costs with continuing low operating costs
- A versatile content management tool that can be used to publish a wide variety of information, such as online newspapers, press releases, reports and papers, dissertations, etc.
Revenue Opportunities
The News Publishing software can generate a number of revenue streams.
- Sell Sponsorships that prominently feature the sponsor in page headers
- Sell targeted advertising by page location and by news section using the Ad Server portlet
- Restrict viewing of content to paid subscribers
- Restrict use of optional Archives to paid subscribers
Features
Our News Publishing system provides flexible, easy-to-use content management focused on minimizing administrator involvement and cost. It combines content creation, graphics, and publication controls into one turn-key portlet.
- A story features a photo along with author, byline, brief, and publication information
- Unlimited number of dynamic news sections
- Publishes related Web links and descriptions with a story
- Publishes a photo gallery with a story
- Simple, dynamic front page and section page publication presentation controls
- Authorized contributing writers can submit stories for editorial review and publication
- Links to sections and stories can be featured in appropriate areas throughout the site
- Schedule the activation/display date of a story
- Date sensitive stories are removed from the site automatically
- Site visitors can email stories to others
- Provide an RSS feed of the latest listings
- Includes a graphics directory for sharing and archiving graphics
- Optional story archives portlet with powerful search capabilities
- Stories can be rated and reviewed by your audience with the Ratings and Reviews portlet
- Restrict viewing to authorized users/subscribers only using the Restricted Content Viewing portlet
